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In an old room in an abandoned building, Neo finally meets Morpheus. Morpheus tells Neo that Neo has always been a slave and offers to reveal the Matrix to him. Morpheus presents two pills, red and blue. If Neo selects the blue pill, hell wake up again at home and remember nothing. If he selects the red pill, Morpheus will allow him to see the trut...
Morpheus speaks in koans, or paradoxes, and tells Neo that he can show Neo the door, but Neo will have to open it himself. He plugs Neo into a test program in which he must leap from the top of one skyscraper to another. No one ever has enough faith to succeed on a first jump, yet the crew hopes that Neo might, since they believe Morpheuss predicti...
Agent Smith, along with his subordinates, Brown and Jones, transports Morpheus to a secure skyscraper for interrogation, where he is hooked up to electrodes and given drugs. Smith hopes that this torture, combined with the wear from the beatings, will force Morpheus to reveal Zions access codes. Morpheus remains silent. Smith begins to explain the ...
Neo and Morpheus drop onto a roof. The helicopter crashes spectacularly into a nearby building, with Trinity leaping out just in time, grabbing onto the rope bound around Neo. Neo lets himself be dragged to the edge of the building, stands upon the edge calmly, and reels Trinity to safety, after which Morpheus proclaims that Neo is the One. Neo pro...
Link and the Kid leave Neo and Trinity alone in an elevator, where they begin to kiss. They look forward to a few hours alone together. When the doors open, Neo finds that the sick and destitute of Zion have come to him for guidance and salvation, treating him as a Christ figure. Trinity leaves Neo to do his work. Link returns to his wife, Zee. Zee...
Meanwhile, in the Matrix, two renegade hackers flee from Agents. One man makes his exit, but another, Bane, is intercepted by one of the two Agent Smiths. Smith slices his hand into Banes chest, infecting Banes body with the same type of fluid Neo first saw after he took the red pill. Smith exits the Matrix into Banes body, aboard Banes ship, in th...
The Architect gives Neo two choices, which explain Neos visions of the falling Trinity. Walking through one door will lead to the death of Trinity but the salvation of humanity for yet another cycle. Zion will be rebuilt from scratch and, essentially, the program will repeat with its previously acceptable levels of instability. Walking through the ...
The Tempest (1979) Director: Derek Jarman. Notable Cast: Heathcote Williams, Toyah Wilcox, Jack Birkett. The queer, avant-garde filmmaker Derek Jarman made this adaptation on the heels of his cult classic, Jubilee (1977), which also featured the character Ariel and text from Shakespeare’s play.
The famous Globe Theater was built in 1599 under duress. Shakespeare’s company, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, had long been performing in a facility known as the Theater. In 1596, however, the lease on the Theater’s land expired. James Burbage, who was the father of the company’s leading actor, Richard Burbage, built a new theater at ...
The Dumb Waiter Full Play Summary. Previous Next. In a basement with a kitchen and beds Ben reads a newspaper while Gus ties his shoelaces. Gus walks to the kitchen door, then stops and takes a flattened matchbox out of one shoe, and a flattened cigarette carton out of the other. He puts both items in his pocket and leaves for the bathroom.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, written by Lewis Carroll and first published in 1865, is a whimsical and fantastical tale that takes readers on a surreal journey through a magical world.
Jay Gatsby Character Analysis. The title character of The Great Gatsby is a young man, around thirty years old, who rose from an impoverished childhood in rural North Dakota to become fabulously wealthy. However, he achieved this lofty goal by participating in organized crime, including distributing illegal alcohol and trading in stolen securities.
