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[-] thantik@lemmy.world 47 points 7 months ago

I will always see him as Agent Smith. Always. Even in things he was in before he ever played the Agent Smith role.

[-] lingh0e@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 months ago

He'll always be Tick to me, the fabulous single dad from Priscilla.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago
[-] thantik@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Why is Agent Smith dressed up in a blue suit?

[-] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
[-] thantik@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

@thantik wrote "I will always see him as Agent Smith. Always."

[-] Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

That's clearly Jack Nicholson and that's not a suit

[-] GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Same here. I love that he blew up career-wise after that, but he was already an icon in my world!

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

He is one seriously incredible actor.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 8 points 7 months ago

Wasn't the Matrix his break out role? (I tracked down a short he did, it was ok.)

[-] thantik@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

Yeah, but then he was in things like LOTR - and it broke my immersion. I was like "wtf Agent Smith made it to the other franchises! He's spreading!"

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

You said in things he was in before the Matrix.

[-] thantik@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I said EVEN in things before the Matrix. That includes things he did after the matrix too.

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

In the West, yes. He's known in Australia.

[-] MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

Same. It's actually a thing that happens to some actors who got really famous because of a specific blockbuster and other directors don't want them because it would break the viewer's immersion. Daisy Ridley spoke about how for some time after her Star Wars role, she didn't get nearly as many offers as she expected.

[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 28 points 7 months ago

In Cloud Atlas he played the female, middle-aged, sadistic matron of a care home that imprisons it's residents. Honestly, ¹⁰/₁₀ movie just for that.

[-] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

He also played a Cajun devil in the post apocalypse

[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 3 points 7 months ago

And a prototype version of Agent Smith in the 1960s.

[-] yesman@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

Presenting the Desert Eagle as a practical sidearm is deep fantasy.

[-] onion@feddit.de 2 points 7 months ago

Isn't there a non .50cal version

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Yes...and it's not much better....357 still kicks like a bitch.

Source, I have said .357 DE and it collects dust and only comes out when someone wants to fire it. It's boring and a complete waste of money as a firearm, but it's a collection piece.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Right but if you're a superhuman sentinel program that only exists as subsentient code in a simulated reality, and you need to shoot through four inch concrete walls, well... Then you'll be glad to have one.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Exactly. Think of it like a video game, where the .50 DE is a practical weapon. Remember: we only see the gun in the matrix and not in the real world. 😌

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Am I in a program?

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Agents can punch through a brick wall.

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 19 points 7 months ago

What then is him in Priscilla or Cloud Atlas?

[-] holycrap@lemm.ee 14 points 7 months ago

And "family film" is when he looks like this

[-] neptune@dmv.social 11 points 7 months ago

Me on Monday VS me on Saturday

[-] swab148@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago

WHOA your hair grows really fast

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

In both cases he looks like a disappointed dad. "Why aren't you more like your brother?"... "When I was your age"... "Stop playing with your friend Morphius"... "Don't you dare put on that ring!", yatta yatta yatta.

Dad, it's all a simulation!

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

What is it when Hugo Weaving looks like Guy Fawkes?

[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

It's the 5th of November.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

What is it when he looks like a tall blonde woman with a sparkly dress, a massive flowery wig,and a strong jawline?

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago
[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Science fiction is a subset of fantasy. Fantasy is any work in which the setting is deliberately made different from the real world. Science fiction is when those differences are due to the presence of advanced science and/or technology.

[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

No, Sci-Fi and Fantasy are two distinct subsets of Speculative Fiction. Another would be Supernatural Horror.

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Counterpoint: Science fiction is fiction which shows a world different from our own, but different due to changes in culture or technology that plausibly could take place within our own universe, whereas the differences in fantasy are ones that are fundamentally incompatible with the known physical laws of our own universe.

Edit: How sharp of a division one wants to make out of that "plausibly could" clause is the dividing line between hard and soft scifi.

[-] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

This is a great definition. There's a lot of "sci Fi" that is much more firmly in the realm of fantasy (I say this as someone who kinda likes Dr Who). Being in space is not enough IMO to be called sci Fi.

[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

We need space elves with space magic like albator

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

What about sci-fi that's literally only different from the real world because of fictional technology? That makes up a bulk of the kind of sci-fi I am into. Cyberpunk and the like.

Star Trek technically takes place in the actual universe. Is it fantasy because it's almost never on Earth?

[-] foyrkopp@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

The genre is usually divided into "soft" and "hard" fantasy.

Cyberpunk is generally considered hard fantasy, as is stuff like The Expanse or Interstellar.

Star Wars is unabashedly soft SciFi, it's a straight Fantasy story in space.

Star Trek is a half-breed - it pays some lip service to scientific "plausibility", but much of it stretches that envelope beyond the breaking point. Scientific accuracy was never the point of the series to begin with.

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