Bush equated with Hitler in 'Matrix' sequel?

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLLYWOOD VS. AMERICA Bush equated with Hitler in 'Matrix' sequel? Image of president shown with dictator in discussion of evil

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: May 22, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Joe Kovacs © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

Is President Bush equated with Adolf Hitler in the science-fiction flick "The Matrix Reloaded"?

The question is being asked in connection with a scene in the new movie where images of Bush and the German dictator are displayed during a discussion of evil in the world.

Adolf Hitler

"If they're saying our president is in the same league as Adolf Hitler, then I don't want to see this movie," says Mark Szorady of Rome, Ohio.

The 44-year-old cartoonist tells WorldNetDaily he has no idea if that's the intent of the filmmaker, but his curiosity has been piqued by reviews and online discussions of the blockbuster.

"The Matrix Reloaded" continues the story of mankind's struggle against machines which use artificial intelligence to enslave the human race in a dream world.

TV screens behind Keanu Reeves in 'The Matrix Reloaded' (Warner Bros.)

During the scene in question, actor Keanu Reeves – who portrays the hero "Neo" – is standing in front of a large bank of video screens as he discusses mankind's history with the designer of the computer-simulated world which is called "the Matrix."

Images of wickedness begin to rapidly flash on the monitors, including photos of nuclear warfare and notorious killers.

"When the architect of the Matrix describes the folly of man," Scott Bowles of USA Today says, "look at the screens behind Neo, which show images of a historical monster and a contemporary president."

The historical monster to whom he refers is Hitler, and the president is George W. Bush, as well as his father for a brief moment.

President Bush

"Discussion of evil in the world and flashing the picture of our president. Why?" asks Szorady. "Are they saying he's evil? ... I'd like to see this thing frame-by-frame."

The scene is also sparking chatter on the Internet about possible intended messages.

"If the Matrix films, the most philosophically challenging movies to be produced in a generation, reveal any obvious signs of the politics of its makers, then this subliminal equation (Hitler=Bush?) is it," writes the Today newspaper of the Philippines in an editorial about "Reloaded."

Messageboard threads on Yahoo and Free Republic.com include a host of reactions which span the political spectrum:

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[netmilsmom]

Huh?

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Bush Equated with Hitler in 'Matrix' Sequel

[evets]

Thanks. I did a search for "worldnetdaily", but didn't see it.

I'm gonna have to work on my 'powers of observation'!

[Zavien Doombringer]

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How to search

[Frank_Discussion]

Yes, again. We're starting to beat a dead horse WITH a dead horse, folks.

[jordan8]

This propaganda goes out all over the world, and yet there are still people stupid enough to join the army and go fight in wars of liberal imperialism for the very same forces that continually poke the bear with movies like this.

[Prodigal Son]

I saw the film. I saw the .25 seconds of this HUGELY controversial footage. (that's sarcasm btw) I didn't come away thinking Bush had been equated with Hitler. Not at all. My wife didn't think so either.

I'm going to see it a few more times most likely. Will buy the DVD as well. I'll research this topic some more.

Bottom line, if people don't want to go and see it they shouldn't go and see it. They don't need a paper like WND to sensationalize a quarter second of the flick. Just don't go to see it. Just like I would go to see it regardless of what WND or any other person says. The only opinion I trust is my own. I didn't see the Bush=Hitler thing and I was looking for it. I did enjoy the film immensely though.

Would I recommend it to someone? Depends. If you have often been accused in your life of being a tight a$$, you probably won't enjoy it. I would recommend people make up their own minds, though.

[ckilmer]

I saw the new Matrix last Saturday. I live in Virginia but lived more than 15 years on the upper west side of Manhattan.

The movie Matrix imho is starting to morph into an "escape from the New York" movie.

No way the good guys looked all that much like good guys. Zion didn't look like it was such a pleasant place. The party scene at the beginning of the movie looked like a party in hell.

It was fitting that that the quest would end up in a discussion with the architect, and the impefection in man. Those tall towers in New York, the skyscraper style were call the Bauhaus style in the early decades of the 20th century. Men as machines. You have to know something about German philosophy and Greek Mythology to follow the movie.

In the 19th century there was a belief in the perfectability of man that carried into communist and faschist ideologies. That belief died in the 20th century in the gulags and concentration camps.

Original sin is back.

Mr. Plisken was the name of the guy Kurt Russel played in the original "Escape from New York."

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Snake Plisken.

[Prodigal Son]

LOL! "The name's Snake"

[ckilmer]

a blip off the old chaulk