The Matrix had a secret scene that rewrote everything we knew about Neo. So why was it cut? A twist that reshapes the ...

The Matrix is one of the best movie franchises of the 1990s ... While many audiences have taken this to mean that the Matrix's previous "chosen ones" were identical versions of Neo, it's more ...

The Matrix is a “chosen one” story about the singular hero who can lift humanity out of its oppression and into the glorious sunlight. It is about the handful of people courageous enough to ...

But what makes The Matrix shine is in its narrative structure, specifically the journey the Keanu Reaves' character Thomas Anderson goes through to become Neo, the chosen one. To better understand ...

The Matrix translated the resulting era of self-discovery into a vision of gun battles and the Chosen One narrative. But trans people weren’t the only ones it resonated with. I like all of these ...

Today, it's Neo, the "chosen one" at the center of "The Matrix," that has inspired devotion, sometimes too much, in his fans. That's what happened to 19-year-old Joshua Cooke, according to his ...

The Matrix took the world by storm and spawned ... Despite her playing a massive role in Neo's journey from no one to Chosen One in the original trilogy, the Oracle does not appear in The ...

Beyond that, they also make interesting choices with the ‘chosen one’ narrative, introduce some cool new characters (Niobe! Link!), and open up our understanding of both the Matrix and the ...

It takes The Matrix about three minutes to become the ... When, against all warnings, the Chosen One (writer, director, and star Steve Oedekerk) wanders into a meadow, he’s immediately ...

Maybe it’s because The Matrix was a perfect movie. Maybe it’s because the hype was simply insurmountable. Maybe it was all the Architect’s impenetrable techno-babble. Whatever it was, when ...