May 24, 2003
Potential Late Addition to the third Matrix movie…
Silicon.com’s Weekly Roundup Newsletter posts the following ‘advisory’ to Microsoft:
“with the third Matrix film due for release later this year, the film makers might yet be persuaded to include a scene showing Trinity using Windows to connect to a printer without having to reinstall the damn drivers four times“
One thing that amused me about the original Matrix movie, is the role of Agent Smith, played by Hugo Weaving. Weaving also took the role of Douglas Jardine in the 1984 mini-series, Bodyline, a role not completely dissimilar to that of Agent Smith!
Jardine became possibly the most hated man in Australia after he took an England cricket team there in 1932 in order to win back The Ashes. Jardine’s team utilised a new fielding tactic named ‘Leg Theory’, that soon came to be referred to as ‘Bodyline’.
Put simply, the goal of this tactic was to have the bowler deliver a short pitched bouncing ball on a line on or outside the leg stump. On the leg side there would be almost the entire fielding team, and thus the only option for scoring was to hit the ball to the leg side where there was quite a good chance of being caught if you got the shot even slightly wrong. Added to this, the English bowling attack contained two extremely good bowlers - Harold Larwood and Bill Voce - with Larwood being able to bowl at 90mph. As you can imagine, this ever-so-slightly dangerous tactic unnerved the Aussies a little!
Anyway, I find the Weaving connection between these two characters quite amusing:
“Mr…..Anderson. I am…..not here to win friends……I am here….to win the Ashes. Do you hear that…….Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of…….inevitability.“
