Not necessarially. The EMP will fry any wires which are not capable of transmitting the load safely. Basically it induces voltage in the circuit by an amount relative to the capability for inductance in the circuit and the magnitude of the EMP. To be effective this should be a huge amount. If the wires are large enough to conduct that additional voltage then there is no effect. If the wires fuse when the voltage gets that high, then it fries it. Most EMPs, in the real world, work best on equipment with very thin and very short wires which are connected to longer, thicker wires. Even then it is best if the circuit is not already broken(turned off at the switch) because a short, thin wire doesn’t have enough mass to have significant current inducted in it unless the EMP is absolutely massive. Microprocessors, mainly made up of short, thin wires, are fried by EMPs because they are connected to longer wires in which significant current can be induced and then transmitted into the smaller wires in the microprocessor, thus overloading them. Inducing a current significant enough to fuse internal circuitry in a microchip when the longest conductor attached to it is in the milimeter range is quite difficult and requires one hell of an EMP. A close-range nuclear explosion may do it.**
I recall the Oracle stating that either Morphious or Neo would die (in the first movie), however neither does. That was a lie, regardless of whether it was Neo “needed” to hear or not.
Have u not seen the film!! Neo gets shot in the chest!! He dies then comes back from the dead, knowing that he is the one and kicking some serious arse!
Of course I’ve seen the movie. Rhetorical questions aside, Neo doesn’t really die, as he does come back to life (as people have in real life too, and surely one wouldn’t say they had died). Secondly, I had always assumed the Oracle was speaking of the immediate future, not after the point at which Morpheus had been rescued. Here’s a quote to further illustrate my point:
“Morpheus believes in you, Neo. And no one, not even you, not
even me, can convince him otherwise. He believes it so
blindly, that he’s going to sacrifice his life, to save
yours.
Neo : What??!
Oracle : You’re going to have to make a choice. In one hand, you’ll
have Morpheus’ life…and in the other hand, you’ll have
your own. One of you is going to die…which one…will be up
to you…“
The first quote alludes to when they’re escaping down the walls and Morpheus breaks through and occupies Agent Smith to allow Neo time to escape. Later, they rescue Morpheus, thus concluding the dilemma the Oracle alluded to, resulting in the lie I mentioned.
Sorry to bump, but I just finally saw this movie (on IMAX, which thankfully somewhat made up for the severely lacking philosophical component). Her statement ends up being true. I don’t know if the Wachowskis had planned to make #‘s 2 and 3 at that point, but it is internally consistent with the movies’ canon. Neo does end up sacrificing his life to save Morpheus. True, it is Morpheus along with the rest of humanity, but the only person Neo cares more about than Morpheus is Trinity, and he can’t die this time to save her.
You’ve got a point, though I don’t believe the double Ws wrote the first Matrix with 2 sequels in mind (at least, I hope they didn’t). Anyways, I’m essentially pretending the 2 sequels never happened, so whether they intended or not in irrelevant
I thought I’d have to see this in like 6 months or so whenever it came out on dvd, but luckily me and my husband got to see it last week.
I felt it was incredibly rushed. Instead of doing the 2nd two movies so they’d come out in the same year, they should have worked longer on the plot and maybe saved a little of the money they spent on special effects.
I was mostly disappointed with the seemingly total lack of any character development at all. We know the most about Neo but we never really find out what kind of guy he is. And as for Morpheus and Trinity?? They really never explored their personalities the way I hoped they would. Morpheus seemed originally like a philisophical leader-guy, but by the third movie he was just… there. Trinity, meanwhile, appears to have no purpose outside of loving Neo. In fact in watching the 2nd two films, I wondered why they were even in love to begin with. They have no romance and they never seem to talk and get to know eachother…they’re way too busy fighting bad guys all the time! Interestingly, the only characters who seem to have anything to them are the Oracle, Smith, and that Indian family in Revolutions. This led me and my husband to wonder if they were conciously trying to make a point that the characters who were programs were really more human than the characters who were human.
I’m glad I saw it, I’m sure my husband will want to own it on dvd, but I’m not really eager to watch it again for a long time. That battle for zion scene went on much longer than I had hoped it would, and I had heard beforehand that it was long.
