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[–] thantik@lemmy.world 47 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I will always see him as Agent Smith. Always. Even in things he was in before he ever played the Agent Smith role.

[–] lingh0e@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

He'll always be Tick to me, the fabulous single dad from Priscilla.

[–] GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Same here. I love that he blew up career-wise after that, but he was already an icon in my world!

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] thantik@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why is Agent Smith dressed up in a blue suit?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] thantik@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

@thantik wrote "I will always see him as Agent Smith. Always."

[–] Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

That's clearly Jack Nicholson and that's not a suit

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

He is one seriously incredible actor.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wasn't the Matrix his break out role? (I tracked down a short he did, it was ok.)

[–] thantik@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, but then he was in things like LOTR - and it broke my immersion. I was like "wtf Agent Smith made it to the other franchises! He's spreading!"

[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You said in things he was in before the Matrix.

[–] thantik@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I said EVEN in things before the Matrix. That includes things he did after the matrix too.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

In the West, yes. He's known in Australia.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In Cloud Atlas he played the female, middle-aged, sadistic matron of a care home that imprisons it's residents. Honestly, ¹⁰/₁₀ movie just for that.

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He also played a Cajun devil in the post apocalypse

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago

And a prototype version of Agent Smith in the 1960s.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Presenting the Desert Eagle as a practical sidearm is deep fantasy.

[–] onion@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Isn't there a non .50cal version

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes...and it's not much better....357 still kicks like a bitch.

Source, I have said .357 DE and it collects dust and only comes out when someone wants to fire it. It's boring and a complete waste of money as a firearm, but it's a collection piece.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Right but if you're a superhuman sentinel program that only exists as subsentient code in a simulated reality, and you need to shoot through four inch concrete walls, well... Then you'll be glad to have one.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Exactly. Think of it like a video game, where the .50 DE is a practical weapon. Remember: we only see the gun in the matrix and not in the real world. 😌

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Am I in a program?

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Agents can punch through a brick wall.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What then is him in Priscilla or Cloud Atlas?

[–] probablynaked@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"The Dressmaker" Hugo approves.

[–] Squibbles@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago
[–] holycrap@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago

And "family film" is when he looks like this

[–] neptune@dmv.social 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Me on Monday VS me on Saturday

[–] swab148@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago

WHOA your hair grows really fast

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

In both cases he looks like a disappointed dad. "Why aren't you more like your brother?"... "When I was your age"... "Stop playing with your friend Morphius"... "Don't you dare put on that ring!", yatta yatta yatta.

Dad, it's all a simulation!

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

What is it when Hugo Weaving looks like Guy Fawkes?

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

It's the 5th of November.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What is it when he looks like a tall blonde woman with a sparkly dress, a massive flowery wig,and a strong jawline?

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago
[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Science fiction is a subset of fantasy. Fantasy is any work in which the setting is deliberately made different from the real world. Science fiction is when those differences are due to the presence of advanced science and/or technology.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

No, Sci-Fi and Fantasy are two distinct subsets of Speculative Fiction. Another would be Supernatural Horror.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Counterpoint: Science fiction is fiction which shows a world different from our own, but different due to changes in culture or technology that plausibly could take place within our own universe, whereas the differences in fantasy are ones that are fundamentally incompatible with the known physical laws of our own universe.

Edit: How sharp of a division one wants to make out of that "plausibly could" clause is the dividing line between hard and soft scifi.

[–] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is a great definition. There's a lot of "sci Fi" that is much more firmly in the realm of fantasy (I say this as someone who kinda likes Dr Who). Being in space is not enough IMO to be called sci Fi.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

We need space elves with space magic like albator

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

What about sci-fi that's literally only different from the real world because of fictional technology? That makes up a bulk of the kind of sci-fi I am into. Cyberpunk and the like.

Star Trek technically takes place in the actual universe. Is it fantasy because it's almost never on Earth?

[–] foyrkopp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

The genre is usually divided into "soft" and "hard" fantasy.

Cyberpunk is generally considered hard fantasy, as is stuff like The Expanse or Interstellar.

Star Wars is unabashedly soft SciFi, it's a straight Fantasy story in space.

Star Trek is a half-breed - it pays some lip service to scientific "plausibility", but much of it stretches that envelope beyond the breaking point. Scientific accuracy was never the point of the series to begin with.