Wachowski Brothers are fucking thieves

[Komido]

http://www.slccglobelink.com/news/20...s-785067.shtml

Monday, October 4th 2004 ended a six-year dispute involving Sophia Stewart, the Wachowski Brothers, Joel Silver and Warner Brothers. Stewart's allegations, involving copyright infringement and racketeering, were received and acknowledged by the Central District of California, Judge Margaret Morrow residing.

Stewart, a New Yorker who has resided in Salt Lake City for the past five years, will recover damages from the films, The Matrix I, II and III, as well as The Terminator and its sequels. She will soon receive one of the biggest payoffs in the history of Hollywood, as the gross receipts of both films and their sequels total over 2.5 billion dollars.

Stewart filed her case in 1999, after viewing the Matrix, which she felt had been based on her manuscript, "The Third Eye," copyrighted in 1981. In the mid-eighties Stewart had submitted her manuscript to an ad placed by the Wachowski Brothers, requesting new sci-fi works.

According to court documentation, an FBI investigation discovered that more than thirty minutes had been edited from the original film, in attempt to avoid penalties for copyright infringement. The investigation also stated that "credible witnesses employed at Warner Brothers came forward, claiming that the executives and lawyers had full knowledge that the work in question did not belong to the Wachowski Brothers." These witnesses claimed to have seen Stewart's original work and that it had been "often used during preparation of the motion pictures."
The defendants tried, on several occasions, to have Stewart's case dismissed, without success.

Stewart has confronted skepticism on all sides, much of which comes from Matrix fans, who are strangely loyal to the Wachowski Brothers. One on-line forum, entitled Matrix Explained has an entire section devoted to Stewart. Some who have researched her history and writings are open to her story. Others are suspicious and mocking. "It doesn't bother me," said Stewart in a phone interview last week, "I always knew what was true."

Some fans, are unaware of the case or they question its legitimacy, due to the fact that it has received little to no media coverage. Though the case was not made public until October of 2003, Stewart has her own explanation, as quoted at daghettotymz.com:

"The reason you have not seen any of this in the media is because Warner Brothers parent company is AOL-Time Warner... this GIANT owns 95 percent of the media... let me give you a clue as to what they own in the media business... New York Times papers/magazines, LA Times papers/magazines, People Magazine, CNN news, Extra, Celebrity Justice, Entertainment Tonight, HBO, New Line Cinema, Dreamworks, Newsweek, Village Roadshow... many, many more!... They are not going to report on themselves. They have been surpressing my case for years....."

Fans who have taken Stewart's allegations seriously, have found eerie mythological parallels, which seem significant in a case that revolves around the highly metaphorical and symbolic Matrix series. Sophia, the greek goddess of wisdom has been referenced many times in speculation about Stewart. In one book about the Goddess Sophia, it reads, "The black goddess is the mistress of web creation spun in her divine matrix."

Although there have been outside implications as to racial injustice (Stewart is African American), she does not feel that this is the case. "This is all about the Benjamins," said Stewart. "It's not about money with me. It's about justice."

Stewart's future plans involve a record label, entitled Popsilk Records, and a motion picture production company, All Eyez On Me, in reference to God. "I wrote The Third Eye to wake people up, to remind them why God put them here. There's more to life than money," said Stewart. "My whole message to the world is about God and good and about choice, about spirituality prevailing over 'technocracy'."

If Stewart represents spirituality, then she truly has prevailed over the "technocracy" represented in both the Terminator and the Matrix, and now, ironically, by their supposed creators.

Stewart is currently having discussions with CBS about a possible exclusive story and has several media engagements in the near future to nationally publicize her victory.

[Fadaar]

That would explain why 2 and 3 sucked so much.

[Samus Aran]

An online newspaper from Salt Lake Community College MUST have all the facts right!

Go fuck yourself.

[Komido]

Would you like to disprove my link with one of your own you fucking moron?

[Shogon]

Originally posted by Fadaar
That would explain why 2 and 3 sucked so much.

Lol.

[Samus Aran]

Would you like to disprove my link with one of your own you fucking moron?

Sure, why not:

From: http://www.slccglobelink.com/news/20...s-805777.shtml

In reference to the recent article entitled "Mother of the Matrix Victorious," some information has been deemed misleading. Ms. Sophia Stewart has not yet won her case against Joel Silver, Time Warner and the Wachowski Bros. The decision on October 4th enabled Ms. Stewart to proceed with her case, as all attempts to have it dismissed were unsuccessful. Ms. Stewart's case will proceed through the Central District Court of California.

Thanks,
The Globe Staff

I win.

[Komido]

Why didn't you post that in the first place instead of being a complete cock sucker?

[EnigmaticParadigm]

"There is no lawsuit..."

[Eomer]

All's I know is, the first Matrix was an amazing movie, and the second was so mediocre it hurt. Haven't seen the third, and I don't plan to. Am still trying to forget the second. They never, ever, EVER should have continued the movie after the first one. It was perfectly fine ending where it did. And it wouldn't particularly surprise me if it turns out they did steal or lift a fair number of ideas from someone else, that sort of shit happens all the time in Hollywood, music, art, everywhere. I guess it just depends on how blatant they were about it.

[Awanka]

I don't buy it because she's a woman. No way a woman could write a science fiction story that good. And there were too many anime elements in the movie for the movie not to have been written by hard-core freaks. If a woman had wrote it, the movie would have been about two sisters looking for the perfect man or some shit.

[Samus Aran]

Why didn't you post that in the first place instead of being a complete cock sucker?

The better question is: Why did you fall for the trap?

I think I know the answer to that one.

[Iannis]

Philosophical questioning and sci-fi novels such as the Matrix have been around even longer than her too.

Even if the Wachowski's used enough elements to constitute plagiarism, it's not like she was being revolutionary either. They just should've known better than to try to milk 2 more movies out of something they didn't write.

And she got some dough for Terminator? err...gah. She needs to be sued for plagiarism, if she is collecting from The Terminator. Why? O gee, maybe because...

Science Fiction author Harlan Ellison filed a lawsuit against Cameron, claiming that Cameron plagiarized several of his short stories, namely "Soldier"-(Outer Limits, The; 1963) and "Demon With a Glass Hand"-(Outer Limits, The; 1963). The concept of "Skynet" could also have been borrowed from an Ellison short story called "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream"-(1967). Newer prints of the film acknowledge Ellison.

She needs cockslapped.

and I should begin copyrighting everything I write in hopes someone makes a major motion picture out of something similar! Mu ha ha ha!

[Whyme]

That would explain why 2 and 3 sucked so much.

Seriously, that was the first thing I thought.

[Samus Aran]

This is complete bullshit, Terminator and Matrix are nothing alike .
Matrix is closer to being about Jesus Christ than a T-1000 sent back in time to kill Sarah Connor from giving birth to the son of the robot resistance.

If anything this dumb bitch ripped off her script ideas from Saturn V, Android, 2001: Space Odyssey or lost in space.

[Eomer]

I don't buy it because she's a woman. No way a woman could write a science fiction story that good.

Uh, hi, hello there! One of the Wachowski's has either undergone or will be undergoing a fucking sex change to a woman! Irony? Oh yes!