Ada Nicodemou is a Greek Cypriot-born Australian actress who was born on May 14, 1977. To the fans of The Matrix, she is also known as Dujour – the latex-clad girl…
Anthony Ray Parker is an American actor who was born on May 13, 1958 and, to fans of The Matrix, he is also known as Dozer, a role he played only…
Anthony Brandon Wong is an award-winning Australian actor who was born on May 12, 1965 (not to be confused with Hong Kong actor Anthony Wong!). To fans of The Matrix…
Exactly ten years ago, on May 7, 2003, the second installment in the Matrix trilogy, The Matrix Reloaded, premiered in California, in the United States. Just like its prequel, The…
“The books in a person’s house reveal an enormous amount of what’s going on in his head.” (Paul Theroux, My Other Life) Books on bookshelves Before coming to Thailand I…
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, together with its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, are two of the most puzzling books of all time, considered to be “the most popular…
Directed by Andy and Larry Wachowski, The Matrix (1999) is considered to be “a cinematic fusion of philosophical, literary, and spiritual allusiveness” (Greydanus 2004). In 2000, the film was nominated…
A more limited version of intertextuality has been developed in a number of theories, starting from the late 1960s onward. A very important representative of such a trend is…
The most eloquent theorist of intertextuality, who always attacked the notions of stable meaning and unquestionable truth, was Roland Barthes. He is associated with structuralism, post-structuralism, and semiotics. In his…
For Ferdinand de Saussure the relational nature of the word emerges from a vision of language seen as a generalized and abstract system which includes the spoken word and that…