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Ep. 511 - The Matrix 20th Anniversary Retrospective (GUEST: David Sims from The Atlantic)

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4.73.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2019

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

It’s been two decades since audiences chose the red pill and entered the science-fiction world of The Matrix. The cast is joined by David Sims, film critic for the Atlantic and co-host of Blank Check podcast, to chase the white rabbit and discuss The Matrix’s lasting impact on film culture today.


Read David Sim’s writing in The Atlantic on why a movie like The Matrix might never be made again, Mark Harris's piece in Vulture on how The Matrix built our reality-denying world, and Emily Sandalwood's article in Vox on how the film influenced her own trans experience.


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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to the Slash film guest.

0:22.1

I'm David Chenin with me R, the Avenger Hardware, and Jeff Canada.

0:26.4

Welcome to the show everyone.

0:28.3

So at the end of the last week's episode, we said that we would kind of be leaving it

0:33.9

up to the listeners what would happen over the course of the next few weeks.

0:38.3

And in particular, there was a question about whether or not to include Avenger's end

0:45.7

game in the summer movie, wait you this year.

0:48.4

I think there was a question.

0:49.8

There was a very clear and well-enunciated, obviously a question that was so just so perfectly

0:57.5

framed that there left no ambiguity as to what we wanted to do or not do.

1:04.7

Yeah, yeah.

1:05.7

So first of all, I want people to be clear on a few things.

1:09.6

Number one, the conversation at the After Dark last week is a perfect representation

1:15.2

of how we organize the show.

1:18.6

If you're wondering like all the behind the scenes, that is how much work goes into every

1:23.4

minor decision.

1:24.4

Imagine that conversation happening for every what we've been watching that we discuss,

1:29.0

and you have a sense of what we do to make the show.

1:33.6

So just call that out.

1:35.8

But also, I got a lot of crap for basically that After Dark segment made everyone hate

1:42.4

me, I think, is really how it's going.

1:44.2

It did not go the way you expected it.

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