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Associated Press dug-up some interesting background info on the elusive writers/directors of "The Matrix" trilogy.
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The Associated Press Reports: The realm of "The Matrix" is full of question marks, but here's a brain-twister from reality: Who are the elusive brothers behind the computer-phobic fantasy?
Larry and Andy Wachowski, the former carpenters and comic-book scribes from Chicago who dreamed up the parallel digital world of "The Matrix Reloaded," do their best to remain out of sight.
They have refused to be interviewed since the release of 1999's "The Matrix." Their official Warner Bros. biography mentions their only other directing credit, "Bound," before claiming: "Little else is known about them."
While these evasions makes them seem as shadowy as their sunglasses-at-night heroes, those who know the Wachowskis say they are slightly timid "regular guys" who love basketball, their parents and hiding from the press.
Keanu Reeves, who stars in the "Matrix" films as a man trying to save humanity from a counterfeit computer universe, says the brothers can be alternately intensely focused, prone to joking or deeply reserved.
Each also seems to know what the other is thinking.
"You can go to either of them and ask a question and much more often than not they'll agree and tell you the same thing," Reeves said. "They are independent and together."
Both are married, have thinning hairlines and favor backward baseball caps. Both are college dropouts who wrote comic books and horror scripts while supporting themselves through carpentry and house painting.
The bespectacled Larry, 37, is shorter and thinner than his sibling. He projects a professorial image that some say fits his bookish nature — although he sometimes likes to wear pirate-style hoop earrings.
"Larry reads everything. I mean everything," said Jada Pinkett Smith, who co-stars in "Reloaded" as the human revolutionary leader Niobe. "One thing I've learned from working on this film is that life is about research, and Larry, he's constantly researching and constantly reading."
Andy, 35, looks like he could be his older brother's bodyguard: taller, broad-shouldered and thicker, his mouth sometimes rimmed by a dark goatee. Most say Andy is the quieter of the two.
"The Matrix" films are a fusion of the brothers' biggest interests: Hong Kong kung-fu movies, gritty Japanese animation, computer games, fairy tales and Eastern mysticism. "They kind of cooked it all up and made a souffle out of it," said Joel Silver, who produced all of "The Matrix" films.
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