Talk:The Matrix
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The subject of this article is a film, and as a result, there should only be: five quotes per hour (about one quote every 12 minutes). If you would like to add another quote to the page, you may first need to remove one that is already there in order to keep within the bounds of fair use of copyright material. |
Note on the reference to "Tasty Wheat": in The Matrix: Revolutions, there is a scene in which Morpheus, Trinity, and Seraph all chase after the Trainman. In one such scene at the second railwayt station (not the white tile one), they run past an billboard advertisment. This advertisment shows the text "Tasty Weete" I think. Perhaps the reference should be changed?
- "Tasty Wheat" has been changed now, to "Tastee Wheat". ~ Kalki 07:00, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)
A small modification
I've deleted "Trinity: Neo, no one has ever done anything like this. Neo: That's why it's going to work." from the dialogues, because it repeats at the very end, in "Tank: So what do you need? Besides a miracle. Neo: Guns. Lots of guns. Trinity: Neo, no one has ever done anything like this. Neo: That's why it's going to work."
Typo?
Towards the end of the "Dialogue" section, there's what looks like a small error: "Agent Brown: If, indeed, the insider has failed, they'll sever the connection as soon as possible. uUess..."
Should the last word be "Unless"?
220.239.146.60 13:42, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
Cleanup Notes
I am in the process of cleaning up this article (01 Aug 09). According to Wikipedia, this movie is approximately 140 minutes (almost 2.5 hours). As per WQ:Limits, that allows this article approximately 15 quotes. I will be as charitable as possible in trying to choose appropriate quotes based on the limits and all the Wikipolicies I have read.
- I'm also bolding significant quotes: quotes that were either especially significant to the movie, somewhat notable in the real world due to the movie (eg., "Dodge this."), or are particularly quotable on their own (eg., "There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path."). Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 00:50, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
- As of now there are 18 remaining quote "units" (i.e., quotes plus chunks of dialogue), not including taglines, as they don't fall under the same provisions for copyright. I estimated that 15 was fair for this article. Of the 18, 2 are taglines incorporated into the script, which I believe makes them fair game. That leaves us with 16, one above the value I estimated—I think this is safe for now. Anyone, however, who wants to add a quote: be careful when adding quotes, and consider their importance to the film, their quotability outside the film, and their context (eg., does another one of the quotes basically say the same thing). Also, if you add quotes, you must strongly consider appropriately removing another quote. Be especially careful with the dialogue section; I have only included sections of dialogue where the interplay of conversation is concise, meaningful, understandable and relevant--especially not dialogue wherein one of the lines would stand as a quote on its own. Too often on Wikiquote there is dialogue of a mundane conversation (full of speech fillers, like uh-huh, yeah, ummm, etc.) with one line which is quotable. I removed all dialogue which was redundant (i.e., having one quotable line within the dialogue was already quoted in this article). Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 01:37, 2 August 2009 (UTC)