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November 17[edit]

Phrase: "I'm something I'm not" from The Matrix[edit]

Neo says to Trinity:
Neo: Morpheus did what he did because he believed I'm something I'm not.
Trinity: What?
Neo: I'm not the One, Trinity.

What does "I'm something I'm not" mean? Rizosome (talk) 00:18, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

In this context "something I'm not" is "The One".

Neo is saying that Morpheus acted because he believed that Neo is "The One" therefore Morpheus was acting on bad information.

(Of course, we later learn that Morpheus was correct, but at this point Neo believes otherwise.)

ApLundell (talk) 01:17, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

Nightwatching[edit]

The film Nightwatching

posits a conspiracy to murder within the musketeer regiment of Frans Banninck Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch, and suggests that Rembrandt may have immortalized a conspiracy theory using subtle allegory in his group portrait of the regiment, subverting what was to have been a highly prestigious commission for both painter and subject.

And its companion film Rembrandt's J'Accuse further pursues this notion.

1. Who is it that was supposed to be murdered? Neither film article says.

2. Was this murder theory a fictional invention for the films, or does it have some kind of historical antecedent, even a crappy one like Salieri poisoning Mozart?

Thanks.

2602:24A:DE47:B8E0:1B43:29FD:A863:33CA (talk) 01:23, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It seems that this theory is wholly Greenaway's invention, based solely on visible aspects of the painting, which he interprets as clues put there by the painter. The supposed victim is Piers Hasselburgh, the previous captain of the regiment.^[1] --Lambiam 10:32, 17 November 2021 (UTC) [name corrected 14:55, 18 November 2021 (UTC).][reply]

Thanks! Web search for the victim's name finds a bunch of attestations. I'll see if I can update the movie articles, unless you'd like to do it first. 2602:24A:DE47:B8E0:1B43:29FD:A863:33CA (talk) 01:43, 18 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]