An Armenian character gets a VERY poor Russian accent. Good news - all the rest of the female characters sound like that, too.Asian characters get an unironic 'chingchong'-style Chinese accent. That's right - the narrator thought that a half-cyborg killer should sound like a teenage boy impersonating his little sister.

That said, narrator Robertson Dean was utterly wrong for 'Neuromancer.' His voice is flat and without joy, he clearly does not understand quite a bit of the 'lingo' he is reading (and thus puts emphasis on the wrong words, which makes following the dialog a trial), and - most tiresomely - this is yet another clueless dude who just CANNOT deliver dialog for female or non-white characters.Molly Millions, one of the most stone-cold women ever put to print, gets a generic, high-pitched whispery voice with just a hint of a nagging whine. 'Neuromancer' is nothing less than a classic, and a story I've enjoyed re-visiting every five years - it's always a new experience. Here are 7 classic works of science fiction that helped to create the original program of The Matrix.I've loved this book for decades. Famously, the Wachowskis required all cast members to read Jean Baudrillard's philosophy text Simulacra and Simulation so that they would get what the movie was all about.īut, other than philosophy and religion, what were the specific sci-fi stories that had a direct or indirect influence on the Wachowskis when they crafted The Matrix in the first place? In fact, part of what makes The Matrix so enduring is that it's kind of a potpourri of all kinds of sci-fi. When The Matrix hit theaters in 1999, it was an aesthetically groundbreaking feat, but that doesn't exactly mean the movie was a new science fiction concept.

Not only is the original 1999 film enjoying a brief theatrical re-release, but the recent news that a fourth Matrix film from Lana Wachowski is happening, and that Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss are in it, is all enough to make you wonder if you're not living in simulation and that, really, it is still 1999. After 20 years, there's suddenly never been a better time to get into the cyberpunk world of The Matrix.