Re: The Intellectual and 'The Matrix'

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: [PEN-L] The Intellectual and 'The Matrix'

There was a character based on Cornell West on LAW & ORDER. He was in conflict with higher-ups at "Hudson University" (a doppelganger of Louis Proyect's venue) because he had produced a "rap" record (which the character denied was such) while of course initially being the suspect in the murder.

West's dissertation (published by Monthly Review Press) was on Marxism. So is it a concidence that re-arranging the word "Marxist" produces the word "Matrix" (except the "s")?

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Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Hoover [mailto:hooverm@xxxxxxxxxx]
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> Subject: [PEN-L] The Intellectual and 'The Matrix'
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> Date: 20 May 2003
> Publisher: LA Times
> Subject: Matrix Redux
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> The intellectual and 'The Matrix'
>
> Princeton scholar Cornel West, featured in both of the sequels, talks
> about the films' deeper meaning.
>
> By Lynn Smith
> Times Staff Writer
>
> May 20 2003
>
> When the call came two years ago, Cornel West was still one
> of the elite
> professors at Harvard University. A bitter dust-up over his off-campus
> activities was brewing, but he hadn't yet decamped for Princeton.
>
> On the other end of the line was Larry Wachowski, the writer-director
> who, along with his brother Andy, created the worldwide movie
> phenomenon
> "The Matrix." He wanted to know if the high-profile scholar
> would appear
> as a character in the two sequels.
>
> "I said, 'Good God almighty,' " West recalled. "He said my
> writings had
> been influential in his writing the movie. He had read my first book,
> 'Prophesy Deliverance!,' and 'Race Matters.' I was flabbergasted. He
> said he had written a role for me, Councillor West, and he
> wanted me to
> play it. I said, 'You've got to be kidding.' "