NEO
Hello?
ORACLE (WOMAN)
I know. You're Neo. Be right
with you.
NEO
You're the Oracle?
ORACLE
Bingo. I got to say I love seeing
you non-believers. It's really a
relief. All that pomp and
circumstances just plain tucker me
out. Almost done. Smell good,
don't they?
NEO
Yeah.
ORACLE
I'd ask you to sit down, but
you're not going to anyway. And
don't worry about the vase.
NEO
What vase?
He turns to look around and his elbow knocks a VASE from
the table. It BREAKS against the linoleum floor.
ORACLE
The vase.
NEO
Shit, I'm sorry.
She pulls out a tray of chocolate chip cookies and turns.
She is an older woman, wearing big oven mitts,
comfortable slacks and a print blouse. She looks like
someone's grandma.
ORACLE
I said don't worry about it. I'll
get one of my kids to fix it.
NEO
How did you know...?
She sets the cookie tray on a wooden hot-pad.
ORACLE
What's really going to bake your
noodle later on is, would you
still have broken it if I hadn't
said anything.
Smiling, she lights a cigarette.
ORACLE
You're cuter than I thought. I
see why she likes you.
NEO
Who?
ORACLE
Not too bright, though.
She winks.
ORACLE
You know why Morpheus brought you
to see me?
NEO
I think so.
ORACLE
So? What do you think? You think
you're the one?
NEO
I don't know.
She gestures to a wooden plaque, the kind every grandma
has, except that the words are in Latin.
ORACLE
You know what that means? It's
Latin. Means, 'Know thyself.'
She puts her cigarette down.
ORACLE
Well, let's have a look at you.
She widens his eyes, checks his ears, then feels the
glands in his neck.
ORACLE
Open your mouth. Say, 'ahhh.'
She nods then looks at his palms.
ORACLE
Hmmm. You sure got the gift, but
it's tricky. I'd say the bad news
is, you're not the one. Still got
a lot to learn. Maybe next life.
NEO
What's the good news?
ORACLE
Same as the bad news, you're not
the one.
NEO
Is that it, then?
ORACLE
No. Here.
She picks up the tray of cooling cookies.
ORACLE
You better take a cookie. Got a
big day ahead of you.
He eyes her, then takes a cookie.
ORACLE
Make a believer out of you yet.
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Thursday, October 31, 2013
" I love seeing you non-believers. It's really a relief.."
Check this out, from the original Matrix script. As you can see by my highlights in red, some intriguing lines about believers/non-believers were eventually cut. Also, it is so key to the movie that The Oracle never says Neo is not The One (she knows he is, so in the final film when he asks, she doesn't deny it). Here she does:
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