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"Matrix" producer Joel Silver says he enjoys producing films that make audiences think.
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The Associated Press reports: Joel Silver is famous for making movies where things blow up, so he said it's nice to have produced some movies that make people think as well as jump from the big bangs.
Silver produced the "Lethal Weapon" movies and the "Die Hard" films during a career that earned him the reputation as one of the biggest action film producers in Hollywood. Now he's producing the "Matrix" trilogy, and he says it's nice to be making a movie that also makes you think for a change.
"I'm guilty of helping to dumb down the audience," Silver said. "I mean, I've made some pretty stupid action movies. What the Wachowski brothers have done is they've allowed us to look at this art of theirs, and they've allowed it to make the audiences think about it and talk about it, and what is it saying, and what is it all about, and what is choice, and what is causality, and what does this all mean? And I think that's great."
Not that he is giving up on making people jump from the big bangs. Grand plans are in the works for the opening of `The Matrix Revolutions.'
"We are trying to literally open at the same moment everywhere in the world. We want to pick a point of time in time and space, and that is the moment the movie opens everywhere."
But people won't have to wait until November for a peak at the final film. Silver said directors Larry and Andy Wachowski came up with the idea to give fans a sneak peek of the third installment, `The Matrix Revolutions' at the end of the credits for `The Matrix Reloaded,' but not everyone realizes it's there.
"If people want to see it, it's there. If they want to see it again, if they missed it, they can go see it again. It is just a treat. It was the boys' idea, and it was a good idea."
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