[William McKinley]

Apparently there is a scene where Morpheus gives a speech while there are walls of TV monitors flashing images. The monitors show Mussolini, then Hitler, and then Bush.

There is also a cameo by Cornell West.

Sadly, it does not appear that my one man boycott of the sequel will be effective.

[ewing]

Yep Cornell West is in the movie, thankfully not for long..

[smith288]

Sadly, it does not appear that my one man boycott of the sequel will be effective.

Perhaps not but your conviction still holds firm.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Sadly, it does not appear that my one man boycott of the sequel will be effective

Look at it this way, if it is just one frame out of the whole movie then it is was probably some whack-job FX guy in Hollywood that did this and not the W. brothers fault. If it was the W. brothers fault, they would have done it more openingly.

And I can forgive that one scene for an otherwise great movie.

Also from what I hear, the W. brothers are NOT part of the mainstream Hollywood leftest nut jobs. I am sure if 10,000 freepers asked NICELY and brought this to the attention of the W. brothers, they might change the scene from Bush to Clinton for the DVD release. ;)

[chouli]

There were no TV monitors when Morpheus was speaking - just a massive crowd with torches and the urge to dance. Almost like a Hitler rally. However, when Neo met the architect the room was surrounded with TV monitors which flashed Neo's life. Could have been some flashes of dictators in those scenes.

[Lorenb420]

There is also a cameo by Cornell West.

The reason for that:

But I did run into the very important and serious writer/philosopher Cornel West, who has a small role in Reloaded.

Dr. West, now at Princeton University, is renowned for his 30-year-old book called Race Matters, as well as many other books on race, religion and philosophy. So how did he get involved in a sci-fi movie about machines and humans fighting each other in the galaxies?

"They [the Wachowskis] called me up and told me the first Matrix was inspired by my writing. They'd read Race Matters. They're intellectuals," he said. "You can talk Schopenhauer with them for hours."

Dr. West was surprised by all this; he didn't even know about the first Matrix. But that's how stars are born, isn't it?

Source: FoxNews.com