Whoa! The Wachowski brothers are lying assholes!
Check this out. I can’t beleive being a huge Matrix fan, that I never heard about this. But then again, that is explained in the bottom of this message.
From SLCGLOBELINK.com, a community college newspaper in Salt Lake City.
“Monday, October 4th 2004 ended a six-year dispute involving Sophia Stewart, the Wachowski Brothers, Joel Silver and Warner Brothers. Stewart’s allegations, involving copyright infringement and racketeering, were received and acknowledged by the Central District of California, Judge Margaret Morrow residing.
Stewart, a New Yorker who has resided in Salt Lake City for the past five years, will recover damages from the films, The Matrix I, II and III, as well as The Terminator and its sequels. She will soon receive one of the biggest payoffs in the history of Hollywood, as the gross receipts of both films and their sequels total over 2.5 billion dollars.
Stewart filed her case in 1999, after viewing the Matrix, which she felt had been based on her manuscript, “The Third Eye,” copyrighted in 1981. In the mid-eighties Stewart had submitted her manuscript to an ad placed by the Wachowski Brothers, requesting new sci-fi works.
According to court documentation, an FBI investigation discovered that more than thirty minutes had been edited from the original film, in attempt to avoid penalties for copyright infringement. The investigation also stated that “credible witnesses employed at Warner Brothers came forward, claiming that the executives and lawyers had full knowledge that the work in question did not belong to the Wachowski Brothers.” These witnesses claimed to have seen Stewart’s original work and that it had been “often used during preparation of the motion pictures.”
The defendants tried, on several occasions, to have Stewart’s case dismissed, without success.
Stewart has confronted skepticism on all sides, much of which comes from Matrix fans, who are strangely loyal to the Wachowski Brothers. One on-line forum, entitled Matrix Explained has an entire section devoted to Stewart. Some who have researched her history and writings are open to her story. Others are suspicious and mocking. “It doesn’t bother me,” said Stewart in a phone interview last week, “I always knew what was true.”
Some fans, are unaware of the case or they question its legitimacy, due to the fact that it has received little to no media coverage. Though the case was not made public until October of 2003, Stewart has her own explanation, as quoted at daghettotymz.com:
“The reason you have not seen any of this in the media is because Warner Brothers parent company is AOL-Time Warner… this GIANT owns 95 percent of the media… let me give you a clue as to what they own in the media business… New York Times papers/magazines, LA Times papers/magazines, People Magazine, CNN news, Extra, Celebrity Justice, Entertainment Tonight, HBO, New Line Cinema, Dreamworks, Newsweek, Village Roadshow… many, many more!… They are not going to report on themselves. They have been surpressing my case for years…”
There is a bunch of retarded Matrix fanboys over at www.matrix-explained.com who still say she was lying, and the Wachowski’s are right. Oh yeah, Kel, let me know if you read this, I want to see if you read through the whole thing, or just saw the long post and skipped it. 
Heh, not a free dodge ball, but possibly the next best thing!
I just got back from Best Buy. We didn’t get to break into a game of dodge ball in the DVD section like I hoped, but the DVD did come with a great free gift. A dodge ball headband! It’s fantastic. Red, with a white stripe down the middle, and embroidered on the front is “DODGEBALL”. Classic. Simply classic.
2 commentsDodgeball DVD and The Cheesy list
Today is Dodgeball day. You know what would be cool? If Best Buy gave out free dodgeballs with purchase of the DVD. Just think of the impromptu game that could break out in the DVD section of the store. All would be fine until it spilled into the plasma TV section. Then it would get ugly. The Bourne Supremecy comes out today also, although that’s a maybe purchase. I don’t know what the big deal was about the first one, I liked it.
This reminds me of a list I heard yesterday. The top ten cheesiest movie lines of all times. Hey Bonnie, pay close attention to number 2.
The list of big cheese moments:
1. “Titanic”: Leonardo DiCaprio’s “I’m the king of the world!”
2. “Dirty Dancing”: Patrick Swayze’s “Nobody puts Baby in the corner.”
3. “Four Weddings And A Funeral”: Andie McDowell’s “Is it still raining? I hadn’t noticed.”
4. “Ghost”: Demi Moore’s “Ditto,” to Patrick Swayze’s “I love you.”
5. “Top Gun”: Val Kilmer to Tom Cruise: “You can be my wingman anytime”
6. “Notting Hill”: Julia Roberts’ “I’m just a girl … standing in front of a boy … asking him to love her.”
7. “Independence Day”: Bill Pullman’s “Today we celebrate our Independence Day!”
8. “Braveheart”: Mel Gibson’s “They may take our lives, but they will not take our freedom!”
9. “Jerry Maguire”: Renee Zellweger to Tom Cruise: “You had me at hello.”
10. “The Postman”: A blind woman says to Kevin Costner: “You’re a godsend, a savior.” He replies: “No, I’m a postman.”
I’m not really sure what they consider “cheesy” for this list. On one hand, it looks like they took phrases from movies that really caught on, and everyone was mimicking (see number 1) and called them cheesy. Then on the other hand, their quoting the Kevin Costner flick Postman. I’m pretty sure I don’t know one single person that liked that peice of garbage. Now that I think of it, I don’t know one person that saw it. Also, looking back at the list, I would have put the classic “I feel the need, the need for speed” on there before the “you can be my wingman” line. And you can’t tell me that Showgirls didn’t make the list. Come on.
“Can you rock it like this?” -Run DMC on the iPod as I type
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