18 Genius Pieces Of Movie Exposition

Tell it like it is...

By Matt ChapmanNov 10th 2011
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The Matrix (1999)

The Exposition: “This is the world that you know. The world as it was at the end of the 20th Century. It exists now only as part of a neural interactive simulation that we call The Matrix. You've been living in a dream world Neo. This is the world as it exists today.
 
Welcome to the desert of the real. We have only bits and pieces of information but what we know for certain is that at some point in the early 21st Century all of mankind was united in celebration. We marvelled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to AI.
 
A singular consciousness that spawned an entire race of machines. We don't know who struck first - us or them.
 
But we know that it was us that scorched the sky.
 
At the time they were dependant on solar power and it was believed that they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun.
 
Throughout human history we have been dependant on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.
 
The human body generates more bio-electricity than a 120W battery and over 25,000btu in body heat. Combined with a form of fusion the machines had found all the energy they would ever need. There are fields, endless fields, where human beings are no longer born, we are grown.
 
For the longest time I wouldn't believe it and then I saw the fields with my own eyes.
 
Watched them liquefy the dead so they could be fed intravenously to the living. And standing there, facing the pure horrifying precision, I came to realise the obviousness of the truth. What is the Matrix? Control.
 
The Matrix is a computer-generated dream world built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into this.” 
 
The Short Version: The world is a lie told by machines using humans as an energy source. 
 
Why It's Genius? Morpheus' explanation had to take place in 'the construct' - you can't have access to a completely unreal world and not use it as a demonstration tool.
 
If it can teach you kung-fu it can damn well show you the end of the world.

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    • Azazeal4eva

      Nov 10th 2011, 16:44

      Im shocked that the Harry Potter Deathly Hallows part 1 animation about the 3 brothers/ Deathly Hallows is not there! that is awsome and could be a short film in its own right!

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    • nkutzler

      Nov 10th 2011, 17:07

      I like the Incredibles newsflash montage.

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    • FBMWells

      Nov 10th 2011, 17:42

      I can not believe Back to the Future part 2 is't included. The Doc, a black board, a piece of chalk and an alternate 1985...classic!

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    • Murphy0806

      Nov 10th 2011, 17:55

      No it hasn't. No Indianapolis speech from Jaws? One of the greatest of them all.

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    • timbatman

      Nov 12th 2011, 10:43

      Ermmmmmmm freakshows - where on earth is the Prologue from the Lord of the Rings? The first 5 minutes of that is just stunning and sets up the trilogy perfectly! I also agree with Azazeal - The Tale of the Three Brothers is just a beautiful piece of cinema too!

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    • marc96

      Nov 12th 2011, 19:00

      i def agree about harry potter and lord of the rings, but i found Serenity to be a great one, finding out the history of the alliance and the war in an actual history class then Wham! straight into Rivers situation and her escape, which once again turns out to be exposition as well

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      Nov 12th 2011, 20:50

      Download films in HD http://hdload.blogspot.com/

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      Nov 14th 2011, 14:15

      No Watchmen opening credits? Scandelous!

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