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Article: 'Matrix' feeds need to control our destiny
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- May 12, 2003
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'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