#sophia stewart

[lizardsfromspace]

Okay, Matrix plagiarism case postscript

One thing I didn't answer is how she got the Wachowski's timeline wrong. I still don't know, but it appears she essentially shifted their lives back a decade

She says less than a decade ago they were running a construction business, but actually, working at a construction company is what they were doing in 1986. In 1976 Lana and Lilly were eleven and nine years old respectively. I can't explain why she messed this up, beyond having to age them up a decade for the story to work

But this screencap also brings up another thing she mentions repeatedly that I didn't mention - the smoking gun in her claim is that...the Matrix ripped off her words verbatim for its opening crawl. The opening crawl...to The Matrix.

Huh?

So her story is - and unsurprisingly the timeline here is jumbled, for instance, citing production interviews from 1997 when the film wouldn't enter production until 1998 - the original version of The Matrix contained a Star Wars-style opening crawl, and this was the most directly plagiarized part of the film.

She claims this opening crawl was, in fact, in the theatrical release of The Matrix and only removed when it came to home media, because she. Because she called the FBI on the Wachowskis for stealing the idea of opening crawls from her

The theatrical cut does differ from later versions slightly - most infamously the Wachowskis made the green color filter much more green in the second DVD release, to make it consistent with the style of the sequels - but if there was a opening crawl mandated by the studio, nobody but her has mentioned it, and I find it hard to believe critics wouldn't mention it.

Because this is Dark City. She's clearly confused The Matrix with stories about the studio's meddling with the 1998 film Dark City.

Dark City was the dystopian sci-fi film that had a opening narration explaining the whole plot foisted on it by the studio, and critics mentioned it. Basically every review mentioned it (some even suggest covering your ears or muting the film the first time you see it, at least until the Director's Cut removed it). Meanwhile, reviews of The Matrix praised its opening from the very beginning: how it drops you right into things and lets you find out about its world as Neo does. It's just not possible that the theatrical release has a opening crawl no one mentioned when I can pull up full comparisons of theatrical vs first DVD vs second DVD vs Bluray. Whatever story she read either was about Dark City, or was a Wachowski saying in passing "yeah the studio wanted us to add one but we didn't".

Another thing I didn't touch on is just how much it hypes her up as a untouchable genius of cinema. For instance, she claims to have come up with the effects of The Matrix in 1983 too

(one funny part is how little she brings up The Terminator at all? She just threw it in as a bonus I guess)

I looked up how they did the bullet time effect in particular and...it would have been impossible in 1983. It's not just high speed photography; it's entire banks of cameras, placed in the right place by computer previsualization, their sequence programmed, and with all the elements composited together by CGI. Even stylistically - the true creator of the effects cited Akira as a influence, and Akira the movie didn't exist in 1983. Neither did the type of Hong Kong action film that heavily influenced it. I guess it would be possible to write down "someone goes really fast and we depict it like they slowed down time", concepts of a plan etc

But like.

She's destined to be one of the most profound master writers of the 21st century. This is a book proving she's never written anything. It has a pitch for The Third Eye, it has a second film treatment tacked on at the end, and it has copyright registrations for her sequels to Terminator and The Matrix. M. Night Shyamalan's character in Lady in the Water was destined to be a great writer too, but he actually wrote a book. He didn't put out a book with a decades-old synposis that was never finished & reams of legal documents and a bio saying, I'm one of the greatest authors of all time. Because who needs writing when you have destiny, God, and the ancient superrace living in the Pyramids on your side?

This is my for real last post on this since I ended up just depressed about it in the end. I think the worst part is, she knows she lost. But she still goes to the press telling a story she knows isn't true, and people believe her. Some of it is transphobic - "stop saying it's a trans allegory when they stole it"; some of it runs with the Christian oppression narrative (full disclosure, I was inspired to look for her book again bc while looking up another crank, I saw an interview with her in the sidebar of a religious website); but a lot of it is just people who innocently want it to be true.

One of the few pieces debunking her story is on a website called Black Excellence - it doesn't even have a byline - said this:

"There are many people, especially Black people, who wanted the story to be true. It symbolized a Black person, especially a Black woman, finally winning against the system. When Sophia Stewart spoke about how mainstream media would not give her the time of day because almost all of them were owned by Warner Brothers, some Black media embraced her. Blogs spread her story, especially the initial story on Globe that contained errors about the case.

"But the story is not true. Sophia Stewart did not become the richest Black person in the country. But that did not deter her from going on several shows and publications to tell her story."

She took advantage of people's urge to root for the underdog against a corporation - and seized on a lack of mainstream coverage to claim her story was being suppressed. But it just isn't true. Also yeah she ridiculously claims that Warner Bros owns every news website and newspaper and that's kind of funny I guess. Well, that's it. I'm never doing this again

[chaos-skeleton]

So was I supposed to learn all by myself that Terminator is actually the prequel to the Matrix?

[balimode]

Not loving the dress, but I love the Stewarts, so I do not care, lmao

[soovermyself]

At the US Open Men’s Final (September 8, 2024)

[ambivalent-mess]

i will never forgive descendants 2 for not keeping mal’s hair from ways to be wicked

[sassysophiabush]

[girlbloqqing]

Photoshoot for Chantal Thomass Lingerie

Worn by: Rosie Huntington-Whiteley & Ellen von Unwerth

[thevoyageurmoteplass-edits]

Name Meanings: Multiple Perspective Characters

Inspired by this.

Kelsey Stewart, Ria D'Lana and Detective Tomasz 'Tom' Wallace from my Crime Story; Roberto 'Robbo' Laverna, Ruby Lore and Sophia Laverna from my Superpowers Story; Alia Underwood from my Magical Entrepreneur Story; Darius Kilvert and Tristin Kilvert from my Across Stories Story.

[graceandfamily]

Grazia n. 19 of 2019

[aronlewes]

I just released the first part of Alien U this weekend, so I thought I’d talk about who I had in mind for each role. I won’t launch into a long-winded speech this time, I’ll just get right to it:

Reena: Sophia Lillis

Teeg: Owen Teague

Brayth: Booboo Stewart

Dru: Andrew Koji

Bjorn:  Björn Mosten

Obviously, Panda is a major character too, but I just started imagining her as my cover girl over time: https://www.amazon.com/Alien-First-Semester-Aron-Lewes-ebook/dp/B0BXFV31RD/

I actually kept it short and sweet this time (which, to be honest, is something I rarely do) 

[venusbloo]

2024 August Reading Wrap Up

**The links below are to the books’ StoryGraph pages for reference. I do not receive any compensation for clicking these links!!** Well, my August reading did not go as planned. I ended up being super busy at work all month, so I barely had free time for reading. Plus by the time I got home, I was too tired to do much other than zone out on my phone. I did manage to read four ARC’s in August,…

[lizardsfromspace]

I think I didn't make it clear enough how much of the book that "Inspired The Matrix" is conspiracy content. The pitch has nine chapters, and we don't formally meet the main character or start the plot until chapter five. The first four chapters are entirely lore & conspiracy rants: about pyramids, about the media, about pyramids, about how barcode scanners are the mark of the beast, about pyramids, and most incredibly, about how video games are a evil plot to corrupt children into nuclear warfare. Except it was 1983 so the evil games are like. Pac-Man

There's no explanation of how any of this would come across on screen

Meanwhile this is how the protagonist's story arc is described

He develops his power and is ready. The only reason he doesn't go to the final planet right away is entirely practical, the ship is damaged so they have to stop for a plot cul-de-sac involving an alien princess whose planet is destroyed for aiding the galactic rebellion, who isn't a Princess Leia ripoff bc she's taken prisoner and never mentioned again so she presumably dies in captivity. Who needs Luke Skywalker when you have heroes like this

[hitchell-mope]

Fancast for a Broadway version of The First Wives Club

Brenda Cushman. Idina Menzel.

Elise Eliot. Annaleigh Ashford.

Annie Paradis. Sutton Foster

Gunilla Garson Goldberg. Bonnie Langford.

Shelly Stewart. Emily Osment.

Morton Cushman. Adam Sandler.

Aaron Paradis. Patrick Wilson.

Leslie Rosen. Amanda Seyfried.

Bill Atchison. Cheyenne Jackson.

Phoebe LaVelle. Sophia Anne Caruso.

Catherine MacDuggan. Diane Keaton.

Cynthia Swann. Stephanie J Block

Chris Paradis. Olivia Holt.

Carmine Morelli. Mandy Patinkin.

[checkthefeed]

[ Ethan Morgan's Shovel n' Shred | Hintertux ]

We linked up with Ethan Morgan and a bunch of his homies for 2 days of shaping in a full blown snow storm at 3,500 meters on Hintertux Glacier. followed by half a day of shredding in sub-par conditions. This is the result.

Featuring: Ethan Morgan, Sparrow Knox, Lolo Derminio, Alex Stewart, Jake Simpson, Joe Simpson, Andy James, Zenja Potapov, Fanny Piantanida, Sophia Schroll, Nata Sanchez, Fabian Fraidl, Fridge, Nick Fox

Thanks: Tux Holiday Home, Proud beer, Hintertux, Machete, Peak snow Filmed and Edited: (Rusty Toothbrush) Alex Stewart, Francesco Zoppei, Federico Grego

[the-bi-library]

Happy bisexual visibility day! Here are bisexual books out in September!

Books listed:

The Lovers by Rebekah Faubion

Pumpkin Spice & Poltergeist by Ali K. Mulford and Elle Morrison

Love and Loathing in El Olvido by Sylvia San Sebastian

At the End of the River Styx by Michelle Kulwicki

We Will Devour The Night (The Essence of the Equinox, #2) by Camilla Andrew

The Hunter's Gambit by Ciel Pierlot

The Seemingly Impossible Love Life of Amanda Dean by Ann Rose

The Age of Larkspur by Aleighsha Parke

She Slipped Through the Cracks by W. Payne Sillavan

The Glass Scientists, Vol. 2 by S.H. Cotugno

The Shadowbearer's Curse by Jasmyn Morning

Nightstrider (Nightstrider, 1) by Sophia Slade

No One Does It Like You by Katie Shepard

Imbued (Imbued, #1) by Helyna L. Clove

Ménage à Claws (Wayward Déine Chronicles Book 1) by Amelia Lascaux

Spells to Forget Us by Aislinn Brophy

Not The Fainting Kind (Not That Kind Of Dandy Book 2) by Will Soulsby-McCreath

Old Wounds by Logan-Ashley Kisner

The Gods Below (The Hollow Covenant, #1) by Andrea Stewart

Gravity’s Fire by C.J. Aralore

Hating a Witch by Brigid Hunt

Stuck in the Middle With You by Frances M. Thompson

You and I Collide by E. A. M. Trofimenkoff

The Kings of Dusk & Dawn (The Heir to Moondust, #4) by Lou Wilham

[quasi-normalcy]

I just remember when I was working as an editor and someone sent me his pitch for a new television series and it was just ten pages of him talking about how much it would piss off conservative Christians. Like, no plot outline, no characters, doesn't even mention the genre, it's just "yeah, this will get conservatives nice and angry hoho".

And it's like...number one, I'm not sure if you've noticed, but conservatives are always angry; Star Wars makes them angry; Sesame Street makes them angry; if someone across the street painted their house a bright colour, they would probably rant for hours about the Woke mind virus and how DEI lie-berals were forcing colour down their throats now. Number two, just like...the arrogance of trying to assume the mantle of cultural provocateur while putting *absolutely no work at all* into it. Like, I bet this guy goes to bed each night thinking he's the next George Carlin.

Anyways l, this is what I think when I hear about this Sophia Stewart lady and her claim to be the true creator of The Matrix.