The binary universe of BLADE RUNNER and THE MATRIX film analysis by Rob Ager
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Examining shared themes between these sci-fi classics. Check out the full 66 min version of this analysis of Blade Runner and The Matrix at www.collativel...
I know I've seen this one but it definitely deserves a rewatch. Missed you Rob
I can never remember if Ive seen them or not because Ive been following for awhile now lol
probably just an implanted memory of watching it
This came to mind when you mentioned the neon in Blade Runner: Neon art is naturally vector-based while the screens that you mention are all raster-based technology.
Always look forward to another Rob Agar upload.
I've seen Blade Runner many, many times, and loved the complexity in its symbolism and themes.
You mean 2049?
I have so many fond memories of looking up analysis' of the Matrix online when I was a kid. I think its probably the first movie I ever did that for. I remember all the people talking about the green, and the Alice in Wonderland references, and philosophy. Its probably why I enjoy movie analysis so much now but I never realized it until now.
It's kinda sad it never developed into a proper franchise.
Rob, you’re back buddy!
Keep posting more frequently. I discovered your work in 2011ish and you have influenced me greatly
The city pic on the blimp is what the view of Los Angeles really looks like from Griffith Park observatory.
Im only just now realizing that they connect to the matrix through phones, which was at one point THE way to get on the Internet. Nearly 30 years old, and it just hit me after you said that
John Wash (Motion Graphics) did the billboard animation for Blade Runner. Other films he worked on included Escape from New York and Dark Star, Star Wars IV, notable for the 3d vector graphics and wireframe models. Early green and blue on black designs. Carpenter brought him in every time he needed stuff done on the cheap.
Remember the first time you played Battlezone at the arcades Rob? Blew everyone away by how futuristic it seemed to behold; a beauty in simplicity.
I loved that game sooo much , it used to swallow all my 10p’s on a Sunday afternoon while my parents had a few pints at the sailing club ! All pubs were closed on Sundays in North Wales when I was a youngster !!! You could only get a drink at a private club !!!
It's depressing how good movies aren't being made anymore
Im honestly trying mate but it's tough for us new comers tryna break in.
The worst part is that its often one character or one scene that ruins the whole movie these days. Its like they feel compelled to lecture to the audience. I watched Beekeeper a few weeks back and its was fun movie but the police woman character is so awful she ruins the rest of the movie.
@@DirectorHMAN You guys gotta do things yourself these days. If you can manage to pull that off you might get some funding or employment.
Since you brought up the color greeen, one of the songs on the Blade Runner soundtrack by Vangelis is called "Memories in Green"
I had thought that the scan lines on the video billboard were an unavoidable artifact of filming a cathode ray tube TV extremely close up -the whole cityscape being a miniature.
Fantastic video, what’s interesting is that both films were re-colorized after their initial theatrical releases. The first Matrix film was originally not nearly as green tinted (the very first dvd release has a different color palette) but the blu ray was given a more green look to better match Reloaded & Revolutions which had a much more green look to them. The same with Blade Runner, The Final Cut was given a cool blue look (probably to give it an even more futuristic feeling) while the theatrical & previous versions were not tinted in such a way
I've watched Matrix in the movie theater! At the time, it was such a revolutionary thing. It was completely new and different, and as if some long awaited truth was finally being revealed.
@@zogwort1522 Yea, it was the feeling back then.
Nowadays, I belong to Jesus Christ and I'm finally happy and with hope.
@@zogwort1522 Well, your smarty-pants reply says more about yourself than of anything else.
@@zogwort1522 Oh, I do realize that alright, I always did, thank you.
The insight I gained, though, is how petty anger governs your thinking, something I didn't know immediately; at first, I thought you were a serious, serene thinker.
But I should have realized those anger issues immediately, yes I should have, because your very first reply was a convoluted and anal-retentive way of just repeating what I had just said; after all, I did use the expressions "at the time" and "as if". Check it out, calmly, if those little modifiers don't make your reply completely redundant and unnecessary.
I love the lines in the interrogation scene of The Matrix.
Mirrors are green, you can see it if you have two mirrors opposite and look into the infinite reflections. There's a big mirror theme in the matrix, touching the Quicksilver mirror, sunglasses reflections, motorcycle rear view etc
Always appreciate your insight ❤
Two of my all time favorite films.
Do you know how excited I get when I see you post a video? And do you know how excited I get when I see a Blade Runner video now combine the two I was literally speechless 😂😂😂 why did you post on this channel though?
Love your content Rob! I've purchased many of your long analysis videos, and will definitely purchase more in the future. I would recommend uploading your videos on Inception and No Country For Old Men. Those movie are both very popular and pretty new, so I'd reckon those videos would get many views.
I buy Kellogg's cereal which is a green box with a red logo on it called 'Just Right'. It seems to clash and looks hokey because it doesn't follow the rules of tincture. That's probably the charm and why I buy it.
2 off my favorite movies
a lot of music videos that came out in the late 90s-2000 were jolly green. even before the matrix. video for "save yourself" by stabbing westward, as one example. i remember my friends who were into gothic stuffs reffering to overusage of green as meaning toxicity.
Red and green are also colors used for Christmas decorations as well.Blade Runner does have bright lights to back their world up perfectly.
There is a color-codified subtext in the movie EyeWideShut (that is even hinted at during the course of the story). I was never able to decode that subtext.
IN MY OPINION , if we take the movie at face value, the codification is manifested threefold:
No 1: The Colours of the rainbow, contextualiszed (purposefully revealed) in certain scenes of the movie (actually througout the majority of the movie).
No 2: The Medium, dominance and (sometimes) the object, the colours are attached to.
No 3: This is a big maybe: The colours are also attributed objectively attributed to Christmas(-decoration) and have a inherent Christmas-related meaning outside of the movie (i.e. in Western Culture of Christmas).
---> I think ALL THREE dimensions are interconnected (i.e. part of Kubriks vision). Since all 3 seem to flow together and since I am not culturally educated enough (and couldn´t find anything online about No 3), I was never able/ willing to decode the chiffre.
Do you think No 3 is actually part of the code?
Since Kubrik wasn´t able to finalise the movie, how can we read the whole movie as an unmitigated piece of art?
I just realised that the constant rain in "Blade Runner" is there to block out the sky and draw distance, so that the populace can't see the pristine countryside off in the distance.
I really love how all the green in the Matrix gives it an uncanny 'concrete jungle' atmosphere. Its a big city and everything is fake but green is everywhere like foilage. Then on the outside there's still no actual real green because it's post apocalyptic and the sun is blocked out. The only green they have is in computer screens and in the matrix.
Indian in the circuit board?
Are u Indian
@@iamaquastonethrone77I'm LoanRanger. Nice to meet you.
Looking back at the Matrix it was actually anachronistic for Neo's computer to have Green Text. By 1999 almost everybody had computers with color monitors. Green Phosphorous Monochrome Monitors were starting to be replaced commercially by color monitors in late 80's. By 1999 virtually everybody had upgraded to Color Monitors except broke college kids. Neo had a good job and was some kind of Computer Hacker he'd certainly have the latest and greatest in computer tech. I have to assume they used the Green Phosphorous as a stylistic choice.
Probably not related but every time I hear the name Cypher from the Matrix, it reminds me of Louis Cypher from Angel Heart which is a straight reference to Lucifer. In the Matrix, Cypher represents evil as he betrays the crew in the hope of becoming "someone important, like an actor"
notice how Morpheus' sunglasses have a very thing frame but tick dark lenses - this represents how he is solely focused on what is in front of him, even to his own detriment. - Rob Ager level analysis.
15:36 Isn't the mirror a reference to Lewis Carroll's book "Through the looking glass"? Neo also follows the 'white rabbit' in the beginning of the movie.
untill i watched yr apocalypse now vid i have never really made a conscious thought to as to colour in movies i just took what i was given and never thought about it the only thing i did into consciosusly thinking about was the the way the godfather and other movies used light and shadow so thanks for making me think a little bit more -on a side note are you looking forward to megalopolis coppolas next movie? a brilliant new trailer has been released i think it was 2 days ago
Nice work. Really enjoyed this. I think I need to re-watch the Matrix series again.
Only the first movie is worth watching. What do you think?
He's back!! 🕺🕺🕺
Brilliant, as usual. Kudos to R.A.
I think the green color in the matrix was added later , the first versions didn't have that color, there might be vhs tapes or even dvds with no green color added
For the best Matrix analysis check out the commentary on the boxed set by Ken Wilber and Cornel West.
If you have seen Excalibur(without equal) you may have noticed a green tint too.
Damn it Rob you always leave me wanting more!!! Guess i gotta pony up and head on over to the website 😅😭
Rob, do you think Syd Mead and HR Giger were great?
Yes, There's a one hr vid on mys site about themes in Giger's work. He was awesome. Haven't looked a lot into Syd Mead, but I had some books of his artwork in my teens.
16:19 that's really cool. I know january 1st 1983 is considered "the birthdate of the internet", so not long after Blade Runner's premiere (june 25th 1982)
(The first webpage by Tim Berners-Lee went online august 6th 1991)
ROB: I know that in general you're above this kind of stuff, but I was wondering if you could comment on the current Star Wars controversy. In particular, why there has been such a spectacular backlash against Disney Star Wars; especially the latest television show, "The Acolyte". I would love to hear an intelligent take on this form someone who has actually studied film in-depth.
Many computers in the 80's only had monochrome displays, usually green. When it was a colour display in Bladerunner, it probably was video editing which back then want computerised.
The green cast colors on Matrix footage is probably simply Color Grading. You can make a lot of things like that.
I have a good one for the Mandela Effect deniers. What was on the license plate of Mr Wolf's (Harvey Keitel) car when he pulls up the Jimmy's (Quentin Tarantino) house? Check what it is now.
Go on remind me
@@starwarsroo2448 It used to be Mr Wolf, but now it's just a normal plate
Have you watched the anime Ghost in The Shell which inspired the computer text of The Matrix?
8:12 it's the entrance to the Oracle's flat: the place where one learns their true nature and desires
Rob, have you seen ElJay English’s upload, ‘Matrix and North by Northwest falling green codes’? Interesting thoughts.
Loved the green connection with data and data analysis.
I loved 2049, original had iconic scene, but little bit too dated for me, 2049 is an improvement from my point of view.
15:37 it's another reference to Alice in Wonderland/ Through Looking Glass as a metaphor of a journey and revelations, can be interpreted as a major Matrix glitch when someone is liberates
Rob, you’re an absolute badass. Thanks for this.
13:19 Ridley Scott got convinced that The Matrix tint was the way forward for sci-fi's so that's why he color graded Blade Runner The Final Cut green rather than stick to the colors of the universe he created (with Philip k. Dick).
The Directors Cut is probably the correct version of Blade Runner.
I think green tint is hit or miss. It obviously works in The Matrix, but looks horrible in Ozark, although everything looks horrible in Ozark.
Thank God Ridley Scott didn't have anything to do with Lawrence of Arabia or else we would see "the platinum gold edition" with Lightroom LUT's forced upon it.
Rumor has it that BR is only successful because of all the special editions 😄
It's one of my favorite movies so it's OK to make fun the thing that you love the most, it's friendly bantering.
Interesting video I also want to know Rob is AI also apart of it given both movies reference A.I and I notice even back in the 80s and 90s technology wasn't properly done well like it is now so I wonder if the inventors might had studied both these movies and then made it to where it's accessible like it is now.
Bravo!
Ah man come on we gotta do a follow up talk on this!
I heard that they got rid of the Green sheen in the Blue Ray version of the Matrix but I could be wrong.
They did. They have been fucking up films as they digitally color grade and upscale them because it cost more money to rescan the film. It's a big problem.
@@janedoe3043 the green tint wasn't in the theatrical release. Had green present, but not the constant tint.
I'm quite convinced: Rob Ager for president!
Two videos in one day! I don't deserve this much goodness!
>rain code
Who is dhis pure Neophyte? Cometh he not in green, like Spring?
Dhe color red has dhe widest wavelength, while its compliment, green--on dhe opposite side ov dhe color wheel--has dhe shortest.
Nothing you see on televizion is real.
Green with red accents - primary colors for uniforms in a certain Eastern Hemisphere massive authoritarian military.
Anyone noticed in blade runner the screen with the Japanese woman where she swallows a pill. Maybe she’s taking the red pill
It’s got a little close encounters in it.
Can you imagine that the girl in red dress was only 16 when the Matrix was shot? Talk about jailbait!
Green cancels out red tones, also blade runner has memories of green
I'm sure you're aware that in interviews Philip k dick created the concept of the matrix, decades before they were made.
Green
A brilliant analysis, always a pleasure to visit your channel.
PS:
The warning you put on top of your videos (at 1:44) is over the top and not relevant for 99.99 % of your viewers. Just saying...☺
Speaking of artificial intelligence. Rob, ever wonder if there’s someone out there using your voice to create their own film analysis videos?
Look for the meta narative Rob.
Ok Rob.....😁
Green is a meaningful color. Nothing is what it seems. The green lion of alchemy that eats the sun. The Emerald City (The Wizard of Oz). The cult of green Ptah-Sekar-Osiris. Sekar - Socar - Oscar. The statuette. St.Patrick. Zelensky means green. He's always in green. The actor-president. And the red lion of alchemy. The transformation of the dragon.
Unix green, dullness is designed for cinema viewing.
I‘ve always felt “The Matrix” was overrated. Don’t he me wrong, I thought all the actors were great and the special effects were cool, but it doesn’t hold a candle to “Blade Runner”.
Must… fly… pan… am
Green and Red are Christmas colors which celebrate symbolic rebirth
Actually you and i along with all of your watchers thought all of this up. Since we all share the same mind
it's a shame the creator of The matrix is a curve who's obsessed with transhumanism. it's so weird to me that he makes something artful like this but emphasizes the importance of truly being human, when he himself has succumbed to alteration.
Matrix wasn't written by one person it was co-written by the Warchowski siblings who at the time or it's release were brothers. The last Matrix movie was only written by one of them and you can tell it's absolutely missing something compared to the other 3 films. Even though the Original Matrix was the only masterpiece the 2 sequels released in 2004 were decent movies while the 2021 Matrix Resurrections was a downright disaster.
@@Wallyworld30 "achkthually"
tldr yeah I'm aware it was technically written by two people.
If you can't respect the person who made the film, stop watching it.
@@janedoe3043 No, dummy
@@janedoe3043 are you boycotting all the movies from Hollywood? That's like saying you better not enjoy anything or watch anything because all of Hollywood is messed up
his STUBBLE looks green? Rob....you're so far gone man.
i just realized...you reach so much for meaning in minor details because you were never held as a child, which is also why you're so standoffish to contrary opinions which do not soothe you. (this is an example of your absurd type of analysis that draws a curved line between two points on different papers.
If you look carefully at the green writing you can see an aborted baby coming out of an elevator.
the matrix itself is just gnostic garbage with a great story(first) and amazing graphics(second) pills,zion,world prison,archaon etc I don't particularly like the guy but James Lindsays series on modern gnosticism explains it without even mentioning it directly..no wonder both of the directors are now completely self butchered parodies of a lady
Well, if you dig deeper, the Blade Runner movie is existential of who am i, why am i here enveloped in a dystopian world.
I hate to break it to you, kids, we are not free.
Never were... We are slaves as Scott tried to relay this message to you.
The Matrix is indeed everything you stated Rob but it parallels our reality.
The one scene that bothers to me to this day is when the Wachowski brothers emphasized an "accident" in the real world on the ship.
Was it an accident or a transcendent act of "God" of fate?
This is why the Matrix referenced Buddhism and Hinduism.
Is life "Fated" or just an accident wherein the individual is entrapped by the Universe just as we are trapped by Big Brother.
Our escape is to discard our need to be trapped by our carnal desires and hate and selfishness which represents destruction.
Doing so, we achieve a higher plane of existence.
Understand, our enemy is not Big Brother but ourselves.
The flesh is an illusion...
The only thing real is the values of good and evil.
We are flesh encoded with a free moral shapable "clay" of our soul like the dna code.
Our eye color is not important nor our hair color or anything of flesh but that which resides in our "soul."
Inadvertently, the Agent made a sly remark about this by comparing humans to viruses which are just vectors carrying the code of destruction.
If you believe in a God or whatever of life after death then truly our carnal lives are an illusion we must accept and strive for the Oneness of love.
Doing so, we escape the true enemy, "ourselves" and ultimately are able to experience:
Freedom...In the next life in our higher selves...
Also, kids, there is a God...
Marcus Aurelius stated it the best, a man of self-discipline like a Buddhist:
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.