2003年06月20日 金曜日

マトリックス in Shibuya

by Justin Hall

Movies, Religion

Fans of the Matrix in Japan took the legend and made it their own. Pictures and video clips have circulated the web quickly, showing brilliantly conceived Matrix movie enactments.

For sale in the United States, the Animatrix is a collection of Matrix-related anime shorts, commissioned from leading Japanese artists and directors. On the DVD is a short documentary on the profound impact of anime and manga on the Matrix films.

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International culture ping-pong - the Matrix borrows from anime, and then fans in Japan stage synchronized public performance of the black suited visual Agent Smith style. Young people claiming the Japanese salaryman conformist drone archetype for filmic spectacle. A flash mob with costumes. The Shibuya and Osaka spectacle was coordinated by ni channel, and I read about it on BoingBoing and Gen Kanai.

Posted by Justin Hall at 2003年06月20日 00:21

Comments

If you're a bit more theory bent, look for Slavoj Zizek's "The Matrix, Or, the two sides of perversion" (<a href="http://container.zkm.de/netcondition/matrix/zizek.html">http://container.zkm.de/netcondition/matrix/zizek.html</a>). Slavoj's is the next Lacan, it seems. I'm publishing a version of it in a handbook I'm putting together. Mimi's going to be in it too.

2- xaky

Hi,

I'm the one who started the thread at Rotten Tomatoes.

If you're interested, there's going to be the biggest, baddest and boldest Matrix re-enactment to date this Sunday in several locations throughout Tokyo, involving nearly 200 agents and of course, plenty of butt-kickin' choreography by Neo, Trinity, Morpheus and the gang.

So come on and check out the English version of the event website I provided here, and if you're feeling up to it, check out the "preview" commercial (flash player required) for the event:
<a href="http://cool-tag.com/swf/mxcm/mxcm.html">http://cool-tag.com/swf/mxcm/mxcm.html</a>

My thread at Rotten Tomatoes is still the best English website to check out the latest Matrix mayhem going down in all major cities of Japan this summer, so come on over!

Ja ne....

xaky

3- Damanda

wow. that takes nerddom to a new level. wish i was there!

4- xaky

This is a really funny video from the Matrix event in Osaka.
<a href="http://www.geocities.co.jp/Hollywood-Screen/5673/smith_e.html">Check it out!</a>



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