Article: 'Matrix' feeds need to control our destiny

'Matrix' feeds need to control our destiny

By GENE SEYMOUR Newsday

Monday, May 12, 2003

The media turns goggle-eyed and jelly-limbed at the sight of large quantities of currency.

So when "The Matrix" made off with millions of dollars four years ago and became the most talked-about movie in a summer despite such stiff competition as "The Phantom Menace," "The Blair Witch Project" and "The Sixth Sense," movie pundits only looked at the money and generally shrugged off anything else.

People, the media assumed, will buy anything, especially cool

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