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EVERYTHINGISAREMIX.INFO

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EDITED BY Robert Grigsby Wilson
PRODUCED BY Kirby Ferguson and Robert Grigsby Wilson
WRITTEN BY Cynthia Closkey
VISUAL EFFECTS BY Blake Loyd
CROWDSOURCED AT erxprod.wordpress.com

FILMS:
0:27 - Fist of Legend (1994)
0:38 - Tai-Chi Master (Twin Dragons) (1993)
0:44 - Fist of Legend (1994)
0:48 - Tai-Chi Master (Twin Dragons) (1993)
0:53 - Drunken Master (1978)
1:02 - Fist of Legend (1994)
1:09 - The Killer (1989)
1:19 - Fist of Legend (1994)
1:21 - Iron Monkey (1993)
1:31 - Once Upon A Time In China (1991)
1:36 - Fist of Legend (1994)
1:41 - Tai-Chi Master (Twin Dragons) (1993)
1:45 - Philip K. Dick Speech (youtube.com/watch?v=jXeVgEs4sOo&feature=related) (1977)
2:18 - Strange Days (1995)
2:24 - Akira (1988)
2:30 - Total Recall (1990)
3:24 - Alice In Wonderland (1951)
3:42 - The Killer (1989)
3:53 - A Better Tomorrow (1986)
4:05 - Ghost In The Shell (1995)
4:32 - Akira (1998)
4:39 - Koyannisqatsi (1982)
4:49 - Dr. Who: The Deadly Assassin (1976)
5:10 - Ghost In The Shell (1995)

MUSIC:
(All sourced from The Matrix Soundtrack)
0:20 - Rob Dougan - Clubbed To Death (Kurayamino Variation)
1:44 - Hive - Ultrasonic Sound
2:30 - Lunatic Calm - Leave You Far Behind (Lunatics Roller Coaster Mix)
3:38 - Propellerheads - Spybreak
4:39 - Rob Dougan - Clubbed To Death (Kurayamino Variation)

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Ermitikos 4 months ago

well done! loved it.
Dimitris Kapakoulakis 4 months ago

My thoughts exactly...
Ermitikos 4 months ago

hahaha! in this occasion remixing the Matrix brings closer cousins from around the world!!!
mpared 4 months ago

great stuff up up up at thecuriousbrain.com/ :-) well done
Arne Schiek 4 months ago

amazing work! up @ droppingby.de/2011/10/04/everything-is-a-remix-the-matrix/ :-)
Martin Petersen 4 months ago

the examples are very random. everything is a copy of a copy of a copy. remix everything!

oliverlaric.com/vvversions.htm
ktx 4 months ago

Love this one!
voytek0k 4 months ago

pure awesomeness
1of best vids ive seen recently
!!!
Maurice Melchers 4 months ago

Nicely editted! I'm actually reading The Hero by Campbell atm. Good stuff.
Samuel Dayomi 4 months ago

ghost in a shell is considered the inspiration for the matrix, seeing how it mimics a lot of what made ghost in a shell, ghost in a shell.
Beekeeper 4 months ago

Yes, very true even i read that somewhere.
Lyle Young 2 months ago

If people are going to quote please don't claim it as your own at least take the time to place the persons name next to it as it is annoying when people try to act original and their like, well? like this video clip, everything is a remix or ripped off from the past. But I do like the video on this page.
Chepi Gimenez 4 months ago

Speaking of remix... how about making it available for download? ;) please?
jackstriker 4 months ago

Good job :)
Shane 4 months ago

Amazing editing skills. Your kung fu is strong ;)
Orin 4 months ago

Wow, really well compiled.
The Aggregate 4 months ago

Unreal Job!
The Aggregate 4 months ago

We've got it live on our channel and site:

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Semih Akalin 4 months ago

well done!

now on atbreak.com
Mike White 4 months ago

I can't say I'm surprised about those fight scenes. I believe Yuen Wo-Ping choreographed a lot of the originals and recycled himself for his work on The Matrix.
Jonathan Nausner 4 months ago

Geoff Darrow was a concept artist on Matrix, so the similarities to Hard Boiled come naturally.
jean luc Dushime 4 months ago

nothing is new
everything has always been there.Glad that you shared with us where other find their inspiration.Is bad to improve or to build on someone else foundation?
Claudio Hidalgo 4 months ago

amazing work!
Alessandro Migliore 4 months ago

it's true!!!
Aaron Moles 4 months ago

I wish this ended with Keanu's "Whoah" juxtapozed with Ted's "Whoah" from Bill & Ted.
Gabe 4 months ago

even this video is a remix of other videos that show the same thing (how other videos copied others SO ON AND SO FORTH) so I don't really understand why the need to upload something like that here
Dalaiman 4 months ago

And where are the comparisons with Dark City? electrolund.com/2004/10/matrix-city-a-photographic-comparison-of-the-matrix-and-dark-city
robgwilson.com 4 months ago

I was of the opinion that I should seek out the influences that the Wachowski Brothers drew from. While certainly there are comparisons to be made, if a film was released in the couple years prior or following the release of the Matrix, it was hard to argue that it was a DIRECT influence on the film, due to filmmaking production schedules. At the end of the 90's there was a heavy leaning on cyberpunk thrillers, and while it may have had an influence on the film being greenlit, it found it hard to imagine that the Wachowski brothers literally took their images from Dark City. See also: Blade, The Thirteenth Floor, The Truman Show, etc. This is why there is no mention of these films in our video.

Good point though!
Rob Lund 4 months ago

Dalaiman, thanks for the link to my site! You know, despite Matrix's obvious borrowing, it's such an entertaining melting pot.
Dimitris Christou 4 months ago

Ghost in the Shell ROCKS!
Suskis 4 months ago

Nothing new here: Once Upon a Time in the West is, in my opinion, the greatest western ever made. And it's entirely a remix of older masterpieces.
Daniel Reifenberger 4 months ago

Great video. One to add is The opening scene is a take on the beginning of Vertigo by Hitchcock
matthew sandvik 4 months ago

Nice work.

Also, the interrogation scene, where Keanu's mouth melts shut, is taken from "Un Chien Andalou" by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí.
omgshlol 4 months ago

awesome work
just reminded me how great of a movie The Matrix is
artus 4 months ago

Nothing special - this way you can prove that every movie has similar scenes as many other. There are plenty of Chinese movies where flying soldiers fight - this is their way of showing great warriors. Would you say they copy from each other?
Dimitris Kapakoulakis 4 months ago

"Simulacra and simulation" by Baudrillard gets a nod in the movie, since it's the book in which Neo hides the bootleg programs he's selling just before going to the nightclub where he meets Trinity for the first time.
Colin Hennessy 4 months ago

I love these!
Quique 4 months ago

Great job man!
You should see Matrix vs Dark City... amazing.
Check this out, screenshots side-by-side:

galeon.hispavista.com/cinerama/actu2/matrixdarkcity.htm

P.S. I don't know if it's ok publish this link, if not, my apologies.
Chris McQueen 4 months ago

Love reading some of the hissy fits from fanboys! Great work by the way...
J-tec 4 months ago

Wow
Viad.TV 4 months ago

this is real life? omg... all my life - copypast?
Official Hype 4 months ago

that is incredible (especially the Philip k. Dick part which blew my mind) we featured it on Official Hype ! thanks!
officialhype.org/2011/10/video-everything-is-remix-matrix.html
Niels Bohr 4 months ago

A bit too many of the examples were overkill - the shootout in the Killer is very different from the one in The Matrix for example. Some things the Matrix "copied" are actually just different takes on some basic unavoidable concept, like the computer linkup chair from Total Recall(also quite different). Ghost in the Shell, however - keep it all. And PKD. So much scifi would be impossible without him.
Ryan Jenq 4 months ago

Agreed!
lau 4 months ago

so many chinese flims！！
Chetan Aneja 4 months ago

Can't imgaine the effort gone in research
JIJ Segal 4 months ago

I'm assuming this is relative only to modern media, because the amount of references derived from both religious stories as well mythology (Greek/Norse) is HUGE!

Regardless, great video! :P
ross gaunt 4 months ago

Kudos!!
CHRIS LLOYD 4 months ago

Superb!
Rian McNamara 4 months ago

Fantastic job on the video, but just adding my two cents - there are many similarities between the Matrix and Fist of Legend/Drunken Master, etc because of the fact that the Wachowski's were a huge fan of Asian cinema (which proves their part of the remix...). So big was that influence that they actually brought the famed Yeun Woo Ping on board as the fight choreographer for the Matrix. He also did the same fights referenced from Fist of Legend/Drunken Master/Iron Monkey...so I guess my point is, is it really a remix if Woo Ping is referencing his own work for a new audience? Its not the Wachowski's referencing and repurposing his work, but rather the original fight director re-hashing his existing work...is that still a remix?
Nillerus 4 months ago

My point exactly. Not to mention Alice in Wonderland. Direct reference does not a remix make.
410 Garfield Films 4 months ago

Yes. Completely agree with Nillerus. So the point here is what? Stolen? Or influenced? Does it matter? Or is there such a thing as complete original thought? This is better left in the hands of philosophers. The augment of Chirmera... not new but only a compilation of what we can observe? In either case, "The Matrix" done very well, stands on its own as enjoyable film fair.
Nicolas Plaire 4 months ago

It's a remix of the original "Everything is a Remix"?
Peter 4 months ago

The whole Kung Fu bullet stopping thing is from an episode of the seventies tv series "The New Avengers", I think it's this one: imdb.com/title/tt0659326/.

It's been ages since I have seen it, but it not only features some asian guy trying to take over the world with "gladiators" he trained to be able to stop bullets with kung fu moves. It also features a central mainframe computer (located in an embassy in Canada), and I remember the shot of one of the twin's arms in the door with the gun from "Reloaded" being in there.
Andy Barbieri 4 months ago

I guess you could say that the Wachowski's Matrix is a 'homage' to Asian and Sci-Fi cinema! Good video!
Joseph Eulo 4 months ago

nice
Article19 4 months ago

so a film using martial arts movements feature some of the same martial arts movements? that's quite an impressive waste of time dude and it only took three of you to make it.
Nillerus 4 months ago

Very well made! But I do have to say that half of the films listed are quite explicit influences on the Matrix, so... what's the point of this? Alice in Wonderland? Come on. This is an awesome vid, if just missing the point a bit. Explicit is explicit.
qendorf 4 months ago

Unnecessary video. No remix, only inspiration and some similar pieces scene. In Transformers 3 is some scenes totaly exactly a same like a previous movie. This is a different thing
100% Halal 4 months ago

There have been other movies with kung-fu, shootouts, and alternate realities. yeeha. big discovery. So what's your point?
klemenjero 4 months ago

i really get what you mean. everything that we create is a remix of some components. but now i am wondering. what are the first ingredients of creativity. what is the first creation? is it nature?
Limberg Vidal G. 4 months ago

amazing deja vu with ghost in the shell
Paul 4 months ago

Fascinating. I'd been aware of the Ghost in the Shell similarities as I am a great fan of the film as well as the Phillip K. Dick's connection, being, again, a fan of his work, however not being familiar with Asian cinema, this has really been an eye opening experience. Thank you :)
Jose Cruz 4 months ago

Awesome video!,
With the way how cinema is now I days, it doesn't surprise that scene stealing happens. The cool thing about this is that now I have some more movies to had to my list.
Andri Egilsson 4 months ago

Calling this stealing is a very limited perspective.
Joe Crawford 4 months ago

Perhaps the most incomplete of the EIAR videos, but still well worth watching. The one brief addition would be one of the mentions of implanted, false memories from Blade Runner.

Keep up the great work!
Harold Escotet 4 months ago

Amazing!!!
t m 4 months ago

If you ever plan on doing the sequels, there is an episode of Eerie Indiana called "The Lost Hour" where Marshall gets pulled into a parallel dimension (kinda like the place Neo gets pulled into the beginning of Revolutions) and the milkman (who resembles the Train Man) even pulls up his sleeve to reveal his arm covered in wristwatches.
The Green Eclipse 4 months ago

Awesome work!
auodaF 4 months ago

Exceptional and surreal ! Well done !
Lucid Media 4 months ago

Epic...When are you doing the Matrix Reloaded!?
Oscar Falcón Lara 4 months ago

This is Brilliant!
Eric Iberri 4 months ago

Baudrillard has been paraphrased (and possibly quoted) to have said that any comparisons between his work and The Matrix are the product of misreadings of his work.

boston.com/news/globe/ideas/brainiac/2007/03/baudrillard_and.html
Philip Ashlock 4 months ago

Nice, though this seemed to mostly touch on stylistic influences. The allegorical connections to the allegory of the cave seem like they ultimately have more weight in terms of nearly subconscious shared ideas that we often confuse with originality. The Matrix was made during the dot-com bubble of reality and used the same set as Dark City... and ultimately a half dozen movies of this same theme were released within the last year of the millennium. What that says about society in a sort of Jungian shared consciousness way (as referenced in your other video) seems more interesting to me than reviewing typical stylistic influences. Just to list some of the common films in the sort of brain in a vat, reality is not what it seems, canon:

Ghost in the Shell
Abre Los Ojos / Vanilla Sky
The Truman Show
Dark City
The Matrix
Existenz
The Thirteenth Floor
Avalon
Inception
Tron
Adjustment Bureau

More listed at: simulism.org/Movies and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality_in_fiction#Film
Philip Ashlock 4 months ago

Sorry, by "as referenced in your other video" I was referring to Kirby Ferguson's videos. Now this gets confusing :)
mx wein 4 months ago

ofcourse everything is a remix.
everything is a remix of a remixof a remix of a remix.

Fist of Legend is a remake of Fist of Fury, and I cant believe you put a remake on your list of the original inspirations.
The most unforgivable thing though, is that you showed Jet Lee doing the palm thing on 0:33 instead of Bruce Lee. C'mon!!! Everyone knows that's Bruce's signature gesture. C'mon!!!
Glauber Caetano 4 months ago

can't believe there's not Gunsmith Cats in this. There's even a scene where the character "walks"/steps on the wall and keep shooting.
enmimente 4 months ago

Ghost in the Shell Pirates!. :P
Awesome.

Just a little correction: it´s Koyaanisqatsi.
cinema undressed 4 months ago

this is great, I cant' stop watching it.
Marzouq 4 months ago

Amazing! Love it! Awesome!
Directors Notes 4 months ago

Really enjoyed that.

Added to vimeo.com/channels/wearedn
John Gottschalk 4 months ago

Basically you're saying the Matrix was influenced by Kung Fu and Gunfights. Those specific movies just also have those.

Of course you were spot on with Philip K Dick and Ghost in the Shell, but doesn't everyone know those already?

Surprised no Dark City here though, that's the one everyone always goes on about.
Matczuba 4 months ago

Great stuff!

Amazing quality of the "Matrix" footage, is this from a blu-ray edition?
Varoken 4 months ago

Old anime is awesome!
Heather Ferreira 4 months ago

Wish you'd do one on Steven Prince's adrenalin-needle-to-the-heart story from Martin Scorsese's "American Boy", and then compare it to Tarantino's adrenalin-needle-to-the-heart scene in Pulp Fiction.

Hmmmm.
LBX 4 months ago

The temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence of a video that is without meaning or purpose.

Apropos, review the films from the imdb pages of Shun-Yee Yuen & Woo-ping Yuen.

Concordantly, while your first video may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.

Which brings us at last to the moment of truth, wherein the fundamental flaw is ultimately expressed and the anomaly revealed. Vis-à-vis... Why do you think this film and its influences are different from any other ever made?

Read Issac Newton, there's the door... you know the rest :)
Tom Lee 4 months ago

Wow. Thanks. It was great to see all those jet Li films again. Shared on my blog.
theswagger.co.uk/2011/10/12/everything-is-a-remix-the-matrix/
camilo sanchez 4 months ago

wow! this is massive work! Is extremely interesting stuff. Good work Rob. Thank you!
DJ EEEEEASY 4 months ago

Mind blowing
David Uloth 3 months ago

Excellent work. I really enjoyed the film Ghost in the Shell and after seeing how much the W. bros. cribbed from it I kind of liked The Matrix a little bit less than before.
Michael Heilemann 3 months ago

Love it, but can't help notice the lack of Hackers in there.
Crynma Jang 3 months ago

Cool video, very good job. Actually, I think Matrix was mainly influenced by Ghost In The Shell and other Oshii's early works. But, from the perspective of a Chinese, the part of martial arts is not just a kind of mimicing in my opinion, in fact, that's how they fight. I would rather to say -the fight really follows the tradition but not only just mimicing.
Exuss 2 months ago

Many of those shots are influencied and the other shots are just stereotypes. Just like the close-up shot where car stops, door opens ant foot with fancy shooe steps on the ground.
Alejandro Huyro 1 month ago

and dark city great movie with more similar ideas!! great work!
Troy Callahan 1 month ago

Very insightful and interesting. Definitely enjoyed this.
Graham Paulsen 1 month ago

Superb. I knew Jet Li was the best.
Krišjānis P 2 weeks ago

Woow! I can't believe that Matrix is... like remix of many movies. But it is good MIX.
Nice video. Really good idea. ;)
Camilo Corrales 2 weeks ago

Check this out! youtube.com/watch?v=moW17YHl6B8
another example!
1984 Studios 1 week ago

This is great! You should also do one on all the Disney movies too, there are SO many recreations its insane....
guillermo castellanos 1 week ago

cool!! and thanks for sharing!!!