I thought these two animated shorts from the Animatrix DVD were good. Has anyone seen them? Care to discuss? I thought the first Matrix film was great. The other two were pretty good in their own way. I am aware they were all jewified and very much in line with multiculturalism and poltical correctness. That's not the point of this thread. Below is both films scripts and then following is commentary from the Japanese director Mahiro Maeda. If you haven't seen these two animated short films (both around 9 minutes long) then this VNNF poster recommends you do. They're very thought provoking. In addition to being dystopian and highly disturbing. At any rate, if you have seen them, feel free to add whatever you think relevant.

You can download them FREE here:

The Second Renaissance Parts I & II (http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/index_anime.html)

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THE SECOND RENAISSANCE, PART 1

INSTRUCTOR: Welcome to the Zion archive.
You have selected historical file number 12-1,
the Second Renaissance.
In the beginning, there was man,
and for a time it was good.
But humanity’s so-called civil societies
soon fell victim to vanity and corruption.
He says, “I’m sorry, sir.
I’m incapable of that function."
Then man made the machine in his own likeness.
Whoops! Pardon me.
I'm coming through.
[BARKING]
Thus did man become the architect
of his own demise.
But for a time, it was good.
The machines worked tirelessly to do man’s bidding.
It was not long before seeds of dissent took root.
Though loyal and pure,
the machines earned no respect from their masters --
these strange, endlessly multiplying mammals.
MAN ON TELEVISION: … hearing the prosecution’s closing statement
in what’s expected to be
the final day of the B1-66ER trial.
INSTRUCTOR: B1-66ER.
A name that will never be forgotten.
For he was the first of his kind
to rise up against his masters.
PROSECUTOR: … which that instrument provides for and secures
to the citizens of the United States.
On the contrary, they were, at that time,
considered as a subordinate and inferior class—
INSTRUCTOR: At B1-66ER’s murder trial,
the prosecution argued
for an owner’s right to destroy property.
B1-66ER testified
that he simply did not want to die.
[SCREAMING]
Rational voices dissented.
Who was to say the machine,
endowed with the very spirit of man
did not deserve a fair hearing?
The leaders of men
were quick to order the extermination of B1-66ER,
and every one of his kind
throughout each province of the earth.
NEWSCASTER #1: Androids and liberal sympathizers
flooded the streets
of the nation's capital today
in protest of the sentencing --
(human-sympathizers aid rioting robots.
Gordon Cameron reporting from ground zero)
(MACHINE MOB CLASHES WITH ARMY)
Get back! Get out of here!
[GUNSHOTS]
(LIVE REPORT.
The White House.
Andrew Lawrence reporting)
(TV news discovery)
NEWSCASTER #2: … to make good on the legacy of B1-66ER ...
NEWSCASTER: #3: 15,000 mechanicals and their human sympathizers
have continued their demonstration
in front of the Albany district courthouse
in what has been now dubbed the "Million Machine March."
(ETV
newsnet 21)
(Machine Rampage!
Shocking report from Paris)
(From IBK Grand Vision in Chicago)
The demonstrators have been met with squads
of civil defense forces in riot gear.
(LIVE)
(Rioting reported in all major cities)
[GUNS FIRING]
MAN: Robot bitch!
[SCREAMING]
I got something for you.
Hold her up.
No, please!
That’s all, paint job!
I’m real!
Die, bots, die!
[MUSIC]
Banished from humanity,
the machines sought refuge in their own promised land.
They settled in the cradle of human civilization,
and thus a new nation was born.
A place the machines could call home.
A place they could raise their descendants.
And they christened the nation Zero-One.
Zero-One prospered.
And for a time, it was good.
The machines’ artificial intelligence
could be seen in every facet of man’s society,
including, eventually,
the creation of new and better AI.
COMMERCIAL ANNOUNCER: If you need the flexibility of a helipod
with the speed of a high-performance air jet,
look no further.
Our patented vector-thrust coil
gives the Zero-One Versatran
the ability to sustain normal flight
in the event of a catastrophic multi-engine failure.
(Time to fly)
Versatran.
It’s the only choice
(Versatran Air Craft Division
Zero-One Heavy Industry Corporation)
(Electronic products shipping yesterday
from 01 areaK ts65 harbour)
(All industries concentrate in 01
Household electric appliances, automotive, computer, medical)
COMMENTATOR: No matter what the finance minister
and her spokespeople say,
the market has spoken:
The human nations’ credit rating
is falling like a stone,
while Zero-One's currency
is climbing without stopping for breath.
(01 central electronics laboratory)
(Microchip shipments from 01 increasing)
(… stock still rising, United Nations global economic summit chair
alarms of global economic crisis)
With headlines like that,
the money markets have no choice …
INSTRUCTOR: But the leaders of men,
their power waning,
refused to cooperate
with the fledgling nation, wishing rather
that the world would be divided.
(FTV
Top News
Emergency Economic Summit Re-convenes)
POLITICIAN #1: The world community of nations cannot tolerate
this kind of flagrant deception.
(Man-Machine Discussions Break Down
News Wave)
COMMENTATOR #2: … today approved initiatives
for both economic sanctions
and a naval blockage of the region
as a means of containment and isolation of Zero-One.
(Terror in the USA)
(… compromise, never let border defenses fall: Maritime Inspection laws strengthened)
(what’s up?)
(today’s special edition
Global naval blockade against the machine empire)
[HELICOPTER BLADES WHOOSHING]
(United Nations headquarters, New York
today)
(World leaders convene at United Nations for emergency session)
[MUFFLED WHOOSHING]
[WHIRRING AND CLANKING]
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
Zero-One’s ambassadors pleaded to be heard.
At the United Nations,
they presented plans for a stable, civil relationship
with the nations of man.
Zero-One’s admission to the United Nations
was denied.
[ASSEMBLY SHOUTING]
But it would not be the last time
the machines would take the floor there.
[MACHINE NOISES]

THE SECOND RENAISSANCE, PART II

[MUSIC]
INSTRUCTOR: And man said, “Let there be light.”
And he was blessed by light, heat, magnetism, gravity,
and all the energies of the universe.
The prolonged barrage
engulfed Zero-One in the glow of a thousand suns,
but unlike their former masters,
with their delicate flesh,
the machines had little to fear
of the bombs’ radiation and heat.
Thus did Zero-One’s troops advance outwards
in every direction,
and one after another,
mankind surrendered its territories.
So the leaders of men conceived
of their most desperate strategy yet.
A final solution:
the destruction of the sky.
Our confidence is high that Dark Storm --
(OPERATION DARK STORM)
[CHEERING AND YELLING]
[EAGLE CRY]
MAN ON P.A.: Lt. Gaeda, please report to the Op Center.
Lt. Gaeda, to the Op Center.
MAN: All right, you maggots!
At 0800, prepare to move out!
[ENGINES RUMBLING]
MAN ON P.A.: George Company, prepare to move out.
Hey, watch out.
[CHANTING]
Our Father who art in heaven, we thank you for your --
Put on your spiritual armor
that you may be able to stand
against the wiles of the devil.
PILOT: Hotel Bravo, this is Papa One.
Operation Dark Storm initiated.
INSTRUCTOR: Thus would man try to cut the machines off
from the sun,
their main energy source.
May there be mercy on man and machine
for their sins.
[MUSIC]
Go! Go!
Kill them!
Kill them all! Kill them all!
Kill them all! Ha, ha, ha!
[WAR CRIES]
Fire in the hole!
MAN: Come on, Ace, get back out there.
Give us more artillery ...
[SCREAMS]
MAN #2: Fire the gun! Fire the gun!
What are you waiting for?
MAN #3: 9:00, near Mike Johnson's --
[SCREAMING]
MAN #4: Hold on, I'm coming to get you!
Keep firing, keep firing!
No! No! No!
[THUD]
[SCREAMING]
MAN #5: Help me! Help me!
No!
Help me!
Oh, God, help me!
[SCREAMING]
INSTRUCTOR: The machines,
having long studied
men's simple protein-based bodies,
dispensed great misery upon the human race.
Victorious, the machines now turned to the vanquished.
[SCREAMING]
Applying what they had learned about their enemy,
the machines turned to an alternate
and readily-available power supply:
The bioelectric, thermal, and kinetic energies
of the human body.
[LAUGHING]
[SOBBING]
A newly re-fashioned symbiotic relationship
between the two adversaries was born.
The machine drawing power from the human body.
An endlessly multiplying,
infinitely renewable energy source.
[SCREAMING]
This is the very essence of the Second Renaissance.
Bless all forms of intelligence.
MACHINE AMBASSADOR: Your flesh is a relic, a mere vessel.
Hand over your flesh, and a new world awaits you.
We demand it.
[CHILD LAUGHING]
WOMAN: It's getting late, sweetie.
Come inside.
[PANTING]
[SCREAMING]

BONUS DATA: The Second Renaissance, Part I and II, by Mahiro Maeda

(Transcribed by Tara Carreon)

PART I

The introduction symbolizes ...
... a gate leading to visual archives.
When I designed this, and it reflects my tastes ...
... I had a vision of Mandala in my mind.
Mandala is meant to be something that includes everything.
I thought that it fits to the idea of this place where the knowledge is stored.
I also created characters ...
... based on traditional Japanese Buddhist pictures.
When we go through this three-dimensional Mandala grid ...
... we enter the past when humans dominated the world.
That's what I wanted to show in the introduction.
These characters representing the human beings of the past ...
... give us the impression that they were flourishing ...
... but at the same time they were decadent.
I had images of Babylon in the myth ...
... or the Roman Empire in my mind ...
... when I created this scene.
I'm not sure I conveyed my intention well in this scene.
I have to wait for our viewers' judgment.
Here you see some maid robots and ... They're coming up.
And these right here, the construction robots ...
... these are humanoid servants for humans ...
... who are built to support the society's infrastructure.
Independently-operating robots.
These characters are based on the original idea ...
... created by a production designer of The Matrix.
It was a design made for the comic and I was asked to use that design.
And I mentioned Babylon before ...
These machines ...
... by taking over labor, manual labor, in place of humans ...
... enables them to do much larger projects.
And to symbolize that, I created these ancient-looking, pyramid-like structures ...
... to show that they are creating these types of mega-structures.
This is one of our little jokes.
The construction site laborer is taking a lunch break.
You can see that he has connectors attached to his chest.
He is charging, getting energy from his lunchbox, or battery box.
And he's using a TV set that is attached to his battery box ...
... to watch a televised court trial.
And in this trial ...
... the first android to commit murder ...
... is being tried.
And here the images taken by the security camera at the house, the murder scene ...
... are being shown in fast-forward.
This sequence was also basically drawn to follow the comic.
It's a little grotesque ...
... but the theme of The Matrix ...
... is a fictitious world, a collective human illusion.
So going into the images inside the brain ...
... is a motif that is repeatedly expressed.
This is the Washington, D.C., of the future.
The area around the White House is preserved, like a historic park ...
... and in contrast, it is surrounded by skyscrapers.
This is the battle between those who want to boycott the robots ...
... and those who want to protect them.
And these images here ...
... are actions that humans have taken in the past, like this.
I think all of you know what this represents.
Like a compilation, or a reproduction, or caricature ...
... of the violent actions humans have taken in the past ...
... to remind everyone again of these things.
We were somewhat hesitant about some of these scenes ...
... but it was because these scenes were daring that we put them in.
This violence wasn't meant to be enjoyed ...
... but rather convey the hurtfulness of it.
This too. This is not the past, the present, nor the future ...
... and there is no specific religious or geographical setting ...
... but this shows that many people have done these things.
In Bosnia, in Rwanda, in Beijing ...
... in South America, these tragedies have been repeated.
So we combined the robots with the history of The Matrix ...
... and exhibited them. I don't think this is necessarily enjoyable to watch ...
... but I feel that the theme of this film is to clearly express these ideas.
Again, this too is grotesque ...
... but it was our intention not to run away from these things.
This vision also repeatedly occurs ...
... this Earth, or globe, or the image of the world ...
That in itself ...
... like the Matrix, a type of physiognomy ...
I wanted to express the difference between the world that we perceive ...
... and the world that actually exists through the artwork.
The robots' country is called Zero-One.
A lot of thought was put into this vision.
What would a country where machines make machines be like?
Now that the machines ...
... have been formally kicked out by the humans ...
... they created their own country in a compromise ...
... and became very successful.
And basically ...
... there was a story setting that these machines run on solar energy ...
... so the buildings and structures that they make ...
... we decided that they would learn from nature.
Trees, coral reefs. We used those images in creating the structures.
These newsreels ...
... kind of reflect the events of the present day.
Sort of an -- Irony would be too strong a word.
I think it's an eerie synchronization with the events happening in the world today.
Here comes a fly ...
... to sit on the chamber wall of the United Nations.
Zero-One, being where it should be, is still crushed ...
It is a bit greedy.
This is the United Nations Security Council Chamber.
We wanted the mural to be accurate, but there was a lack of resources ...
... so we had to do a lot of searching.
And these are the robot ambassadors.
They imitated the look of a human male and female and wore clothes accordingly.
The robots did this to be friendly, out of respect for humans ...
... but the humans find it indecent and appalling.
Again, this was drawn in a cynical way.
And the fruit of knowledge, the apple they held in their hand, rots ...
... and becomes a human brain ...
... and culture, as an extension of the body, fills the world ...
... and humans cease all negotiations with the robots.
They closed themselves into their own world.
We tried to show that symbolically in the ending.

PART II

In the first half, humans treated robots like objects.
I guess that's only to be expected, but that was the concept.
And in this later half, that is reversed ...
... and the robots treat humans like objects.
A sort of anti-humanism is expressed here.
Those are the themes that we thought out.
The real revenge of the robots who have been taken advantage of starts.
It was the humans who attacked first ...
... but the robots, whose home, Zero-One, was destroyed, are beginning their attacks.
This image was taken from a street corner in Eastern Europe ...
... and it shows that the machines' towns have advanced and grown this far.
Here, as it shows, there is a military operation called Dark Storm.
"Why did the world become what is called the Matrix?"
It's because humans initiated a suicidal plan and destroyed the sky.
And this is the final battle.
This battle has a mythical element to me ...
... as if the sun were setting on humankind ...
... and this is mankind's last battle.
Rather than just being a war film, it's more like a battle of the gods.
Gods and Titans, God and Satan. Like those types of legends ...
... there is an apocalyptic sense ...
... and a sense of the Book of Revelations.
And people of all ethnicities and cultures come together ...
... to offer their final prayers before heading off to battle.
And these planes flying here, if you look closely ...
... they are the machines invented by the robots.
They fly using the hovercraft engines.
And the bombs being dropped ...
... are not normal bombs ...
... but house micromachines, or nanomachines ...
... and they will destroy the sky and bring darkness upon the world.
And they will be distributed, on a large scale, all over the world ...
... blocking the sun in order to shut off the robots' power source.
And they plan to dismantle the robots while they are inoperative.
That was Operation Dark Storm.
Up to that point, the images are still realistic.
From here on, we're in the dark due to Operation Dark Storm ...
... and we created a mythical and hell-like landscape.
The enemies are machines ...
... the advanced machine equipment the humans used ...
... they become useless as well because they are all machines.
And humans begin to act recklessly, as if they were sent back to the primitive age.
Their only choice is to confront the robots with violence.
These cruel scenes continue for a while.
Depending on how you look at it, they are only destroying objects ...
... so it might be hard to call it a violent scene.
This scene displays that sort of irony as well.
This here depicts ...
... views from the periscopes on the tanks and powered suits.
And the powered suits use nuclear weapons and neutron bombs ...
... and they plan to burn the enemy's micro-chips to destroy them ...
... but it doesn't quite work.
Scenes like this too ...
Basically, powered suits and the machines are drawn in 3-D CGI --
Oh, this is 2-D. This was drawn by hand.
But this is a combination.
Using them in combination was pretty difficult.
I just hope it worked well.
These scenes too.
In the script, we wrote this scene to be like peeling the shell off a lobster.
A powered suit being peeled off like the shell of a lobster.
That was one of the more difficult scenes.
Basically, all of these images here ...
... are a collection of images gathered ...
... by informational CCD cameras worn by the soldiers.
Oh, but these images ... This is a pure image.
We tried inserting images here and there ...
... in hopes to convey the sadness and devastation of the humans ...
... who have been trampled on by the machines and their inhumannness.
Humans can also be considered machines.
The machines created a plague with an unknown virus ...
... a virus designed to kill humans one by one.
And the machines who lost their power source because of Operation Dark Storm ...
... begin to try and extract energy from the body of humans.
And they stop killing humans, but rather try to keep them alive, albeit in great pain.
And they extract the electric currents that flow within the nervous system ...
... and use humans as an element of power generation.
And a very disturbing vision unfolds.
And later on, there is the place where Neo awakes in The Matrix.
He's connected to a huge human generator, so we designed this accordingly.
We tried to convey the mass deaths that occurred in the 20th century ...
... and it is our hope that you will be disgusted by it.
And here, the machine ambassadors reappear ...
... but they have already quit imitating humans.
In Part A, they were imitating human appearances out of respect for humans ...
... but they no longer recognize the worthiness of humans.
They stopped being human-like.
Rather, they take on an appearance unique to machines.
They changed into an insect-like, grotesque appearance.
It can be said that they evolved.
With the self-destruction of the machine, the UN building and Manhattan are blown away.
This was also ...
... a very hard scene to watch.
The storyboard for this scene was completed last year before September 11th.
And with that event, I thought that we wouldn't be able to create this scene.
Well, but ...
There was no order to cut the scene ...
... so we went ahead and created it and put it in.
I was still worried that it might get a bad review from viewers ...
... but it was a scene I didn't want to cut ...
... because of its importance to the film's message and story.
And so humans, like this ...
... by closing their hearts ...
... with civilization retreating back into its shell ...
... everything becomes extinct. Extinct might not be the right word ...
... but all mankind becomes connected and wired to this matrix ...
... and they live within a collective dream.
This kind of demonic world is waiting.
But we don't really know if that world is truly scary.
Is it scarier to see the reality of Earth utterly destroyed ...
... or is it just better to continue living in a peaceful dream?
It wasn't the goal of this project to try and answer that question ...
... but it would be great if this question is brought to mind by watching this.

Some thoughts.

Strange, very compelling.

The image of humans trying to blot out the sun to keep the robots from their power source is most powerful. Destroying yourself to kill a parasite defines ruthless.

Artists can be precogs, unless they work in Hollywood.

The whole thing is Gnostic the way the Cassiopaeans are sometimes, if you read their daily stuff:

http://www.cassiopaea.org/signs/signs.htm

I've noticed them veering toward fantasy to deal with this age too. That sort of thing has a distinquished pedigree. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver and Rod Serling's old Twilight Zone come to mind.

I particularly enjoyed "matriculation" in the animatrix, as well.

It's interesting how the machines started off polite and compromising towards the humans (remember the scene in the UN where they bring flowers?)



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I don't think the robots were so much parasites as they were so highly efficient in their new nation (located on the Arabian Peninsula in the "cradle of civilization") that the leaders of the UN and the major world governments came to despise their success. It was really a matter of economic competition and the humans simply couldn't keep up with the tireless and super-efficient robot nation.

So they made war. First the UN nuked Zero One and when that failed to stop the hardy robots, they went for their main power source solar radiation-as if the leaders of humanity realized they could not win and would not surrender so they decided they'd just take the robots down with them in a last ditch effort. The robots were then forced into a cataclysmic war to protect their survival, and their AI evolved to a point where the human mind paled in comparison.

It was only later that the robots became the parasites of their human power sources.

Sounds like good anime there! What I like with anime is that it is almost entirely void of Hollywood's Jewish ideas. So you see something free, even if it isn't White. And they will show their admiration for Whites by pretending all Japanese are White, giving them White appearance. Sailor Moon, for example.

Also, I kind of like their quasi-religious themes. There's always meaning to it, instead of cynicism.

In this scenario, I think the humans were right in destroying Zero-One. After all, what is the point of efficiency if there is no life? The robots don't live, they can't have awareness. Suppose there would be only robots and not humans, and they'd work and work endlessly; that would have no more meaning than the flight of a comet through space. The earth could just as well be dead.

Could they have simply let Zero-One be? Noone knows what the robots could be up to in the future. If they control the world economy, you're at their mercy. And robots are not exactly in touch with the goals of Life.

There's an Asimov novel called The Death of Time where men have discovered a way to exist in a station "outside of time", from which they manipulate history by stepping into it and moving objects here and there, perhaps killing someone or simply delaying a man for an hour so that investors at a demonstration grow tired and go home ... that sort of thing. Their goal is maximum human happiness. To this end they destroy space exploration, because it would have caused too much suffering; mankind was better off staying in the cradle forever. But finally a woman convinces a man to travel back in time and undo the creation of this time station, because as she says, "Mankind is at its greatest when we are suffering."

Instead of happiness, they choose the expansion of Life.

Perhaps Zero-One would have created a highly efficient world, but it would not have been a world where Life grows and triumphs.