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Approach to the inmost cave examples8/1/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Trinity meets Neo at the club and tantalizes him with cryptic talk of the Matrix and Morpheus Trinity, the Herald (9:42) Neo is brought to a club by his clients. I’ve made note of this as a technique – have the hero searching for something related to the world of adventure (probably without knowing the implications of their search), so that they have a clear motivation for entering the world of adventure when it presents itself. He doesn’t know that’s what he’s doing, but his search for Morpheus (and an answer to his later question, “What is the Matrix?”) drives him out of the ordinary world. This scene reveals that Neo is on a quest to find the world of adventure.This implies that it’s not that hard to avoid obvious info dumps – even two techniques, properly contrasted, are enough. The Wachowskis alternate the exposition style, and just by swapping between visuals and conversations they avoid the dreaded info-dump. Half tell, half show seems to be the magic ratio, and any telling is done by conversation.His conversation with his clients fill in any other necessary details. The atmosphere and objects in Neo’s apartment tell us a great deal about the character. This part of the story continues to build the world, half with visuals and half with conversation.Some of Neo’s illegal clients arrive and, heeding Trinity’s advice, he goes with them to a club. Trinity makes contact with him through his computer. His computer screen tells us he’s searching for Morpheus. Trinity and Morpheus could have simply described the exits in and out of the Matrix, but instead we watch Trinity racing for the ringing phone and disappearing seconds before the hijacked truck pulverizes it.įollow the white rabbit (6:35) We see Neo in his normal life as a lone hacker. Worldbuilding is best done by using what’s being introduced.Don’t be afraid to start the story without the main character and introduce them later.Conversations are better expositors than description, especially if there’s an interesting social dynamic between the speakers.This scene finishes the work that the opening dialogue started, introducing the villains, superpowers, and key features of the world (such as the exits in and out of the Matrix).The Agents and police chase Trinity (1:27) The police and Agents find Trinity and she must fight her way to the exit from the Matrix It earns bonus points by having the conversation between people who disagree. The exposition is kept interesting by presenting it through a conversation.It avoids the film faux-pas of having a narrator drone out backstory (or even worse, making the audience read a summary), while still explaining all the critical story elements in less than 40 seconds. ![]() This is an extraordinarily elegant scene.Morpheus believes he is the One (0:44) Trinity and Cypher talk about monitoring Neo while the machines try to trace their location. The film follows the hero’s journey archetype to a T, so I’m using the hero’s journey model as outlined in my post here. The Matrix has 75 scenes and there are 5 major characters: Neo, Morpheus, Trinity, Agent Smith, and Cypher. ![]()
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