Morpheus is the only one we ever hear the battery analogy from anyway. He might well be wrong about that interpretation, and the brain processors are what’s really going on.
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BlueLineBae@midwest.social 1 month agoI could be wrong, but I think the original idea for the matrix was that they were using human brains for processing power and not energy. But someone in the movie making process decided people wouldn’t understand that and instead went with the battery analogy.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 1 month ago
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 1 month ago
My headcanon is that he tried the more technical and correct explanation, but most people he told it to started to go a bit glassy-eyed during that part, so he simplified his pitch.
Default_Defect@midwest.social 1 month ago
The showing of the battery is a good visual to sell the explanation too, regardless of it not making sense “realistically”
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 month ago
I believe Switch refers to Neo as coppertop at some point which would be the battery analogy as well too.
XTL@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
They’ve probably all heard the speech at some point. Except those born at Zion.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Also there’s plenty of precedent for everyone being wrong, like everything revolving around Earth.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 month ago
The real reason is the machines are using all the human brains to fake generative AI responses to keep share prices going up in line with their original programming.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
The humans blocked out the sun, and probably dashed all other power sources available to the Machines. What you have left are self-replicating humans. Makes sense to keep them alive and farm them just enough to tide you over before their next breeding cycle
Klear@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
How do you farm anything without the sun?
sandbox@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They just eat the other humans remains, duh!
tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
that’s what they did, I guess got food from indoor farms?
Klear@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
That takes a ton of electricity. How do you power the indoor farms?
RustyShackleford@literature.cafe 1 month ago
Studio executives made the decision, you know… because there hasn’t be a long list of projects they’ve fucked over the years with their notes. 🙄
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I feel so bad for the people who remade The Thing because the studio executives literally forced them to make everything CGI.
SSJMarx@lemm.ee 1 month ago
And IIRC it was after they had made a bunch of practical effects, so it’s not like it was saving them money or anything. The execs literally just said “re-do these parts but worse”.
T0RB1T@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Sort of a remake, sort of a prequel.
SuperIce@lemmy.world 1 month ago
A premake