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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