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Neo vs. Paul Atreides: What it takes to be the one

There’s a moment in certain stories when fate corners our hero and tells them to rise to the occasion, or reality falls apart. Often, it's a leap of faith without a safety net. Cinema loves those ...
1999's The Matrix is a milestone in dystopian and cyberpunk fiction, which plays with references to classic literature to emphasize its themes and harrowing futuristic setting. As nearly everyone ...
The Matrix has always been about more than red and blue pills and Keanu Reeves’ Neo dodging bullets in slo-mo. Across four films, an animated anthology, and other tie-in stories, the Wachowskis built ...
Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Keanu Reeves’ Neo from The Matrix films has always been super powerful. Time and again, he has ...
Neo, born Thomas A. Anderson, is the reluctant hero of The Matrix (1999), created by the Wachowskis. Neo leads a secret life as a hacker, but his ordinary reality is shattered when he discovers that ...