The Art of the Matrix

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Summary: the matrix it will be one to remember
Review: this book will be the #1 bestsellar on any list and if not it should be and thats the truth.the movie was the best movie i had ever seen and now the matrix book is the best book i have every looked at. I watch the movie serveral times before i could stop and now this book is just like the movie it will be one you can't stop reading and once you have finished it you will want to read it again and again cause this book is just like the movie it'll be one to remember.

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Summary: How could'nt you like it?
Review: This is a book i've been looking for a long time!! This book is consited of not only the greatest comic art but the greatest story line from a comic book to be converted into a movie! Somehow people don't like it. Sorry they're wrong! 10 stars out of 5

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Summary: The Matrix movie IS art
Review: This is one of the best "Art of..." books. The drawings are simply fantastic, the captions are very informative and it really acts as a companion to the movie, rather than a separate book for people who like art. Awesome!

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Summary: The Matrix movie IS art
Review: This is one of the best "Art of..." books. The drawings are simply fantastic, the captions are very informative and it really acts as a companion to the movie, rather than a separate book for people who like art. Awesome!

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Summary: Beautiful.
Review: Undoubtedly this is the most lavish publication of a screenplay in the brief history of published screenplays, and it's hard to imagine it being topped any time soon. The title makes the book's priorities clear, this is a book about the art behind the film, and how it was used to bring the Wachowski Brothers' vision to life. In reading the book, it's made abundantly clear that The Matrix was a film with a vision first, and then a script. And, like it or not, the storyboards did more to tell and sell the vision to the money men and get the movie made, than the script could ever have hoped to. This is a lesson that those in the screenwriting community would do well to file away in the back of their brains. Sometimes (albeit very, very rarely) the story in your head simply can't be fully communicated in screenplay form to those who count, you might have to look to simple storyboarding to tell/sell the whole story. It should be noted that in the case of The Matrix, these were high-end storyboards by professional comic book artists. From the Wachowski Brothers's stick figures, to 700 scene-by-scene storyboards, to conceptual art, it's all in here, including scenes that were never filmed for safety or budgetary reasons, as well as the shooting script and ten pages of script notes and deleted scenes from the script. The one major flaw is the absence of any commentary from the Wachowskis themselves. And naturally, there is a bit of filler near the end, but on the whole, the book's deisgn reflects the attention to detail and high quality of the film-and repeatedly reminds you that there are two more Matrixes to come. Thankfully, unlike "Making of" film books, the emphasis is on the storyboards and script, and thus the story, rather than the technical effects wizardry that makes it all happen onscreen. This makes it much more appealing to a general audience, rather than simply to those entranced by effects. Sadly, the book is quite expensive and there is no paperback edition in sight, so you might want to wait for next Christmas.