Mother of the Matrix

Today, I read a most inspiring email regarding the true creator of both The Terminator and The Matrix. If this email is correct, and I believe it is, the writer is a black woman. Imagine, a black woman impacting Hollywood that way? That is so amazing. Of course, they weren't trying to pay a sister, but it looks like she is going to win her copyright infringement case against the Wachowski Brothers, Joel Silver and Warner Brothers.

It makes me believe that now, more than ever, I need to work towards my own dreams.

Here is a copy of the email below:

Hey Everybody:

It seems that "The Matrix" and "The Terminator"
stories were created by a Black woman.
Check it out. I looked up "Sophia Stewart" in the
internet and it seems legit.

I always did marvel at how many Black characters
appeared in The Matrix. It's so unusual for a
blockbuster movie like that to cast so many Black
actors. Sci-Fi, too. I don't know if it's true or not,
but I read somewhere that Will Smith was offered the
role of Neo but turned it down. Maybe that's why Jada
is in the sequel.




Globe Link - Entertainment Issue: 10/28/04
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"Mother of the Matrix" Victorious By Martha Carter

Monday, October 4th 2004 ended a six-year dispute
involving
Sophia Stewart, the Wachowski Brothers, Joel Silver
and Warner
Brothers. Stewart's allegations, involving copyright
infringement
and racketeering, were received and acknowledged by
the
Central District of California, Judge Margaret Morrow
residing.

Stewart, a New Yorker who has resided in Salt Lake
City for the
past five years, will recover damages from the films,
The Matrix I,
II and III, as well as The Terminator and its sequels.
She will
soon receive one of the biggest payoffs in the history
of
Hollywood, as the gross receipts of both films and
their sequels
total over 2.5 billion dollars.

Stewart filed her case in 1999, after viewing the
Matrix, which she
felt had been based on her manuscript, "The Third
Eye,"
copyrighted in 1981. In the mid-eighties Stewart had
submitted
her manuscript to an ad placed by the Wachowski
Brothers,
requesting new sci-fi works.

According to court documentation, an FBI investigation
discovered that more than thirty minutes had been
edited from
the original film, in attempt to avoid penalties for
copyright
infringement. The investigation also stated that
"credible
witnesses employed at Warner Brothers came forward,
claiming
that the executives and lawyers had full knowledge
that the work
in question did not belong to the Wachowski Brothers."
These
witnesses claimed to have seen Stewart's original work
and that
it had been "often used during preparation of the
motion
pictures." The defendants tried, on several
occasions, to have
Stewart's case dismissed, without success.

Stewart has confronted skepticism on all sides, much
of which
comes from Matrix fans, who are strangely loyal to the
Wachowski Brothers. One on-line forum, entitled Matrix
Explained has an entire section devoted to Stewart.
Some who have researched her history and writings are
open to
her story. Others are suspicious and mocking. "It
doesn't bother
me," said Stewart in a phone interview last week, "I
always knew
what was true."

Some fans, are unaware of the case or they question
its
legitimacy, due to the fact that it has received
little to no media
coverage. Though the case was not made public until
October of
2003, Stewart has her own explanation, as quoted at
daghettotymz.com:

"The reason you have not seen any of this in the media
is
because Warner Brothers parent company is AOL-Time
Warner... this GIANT owns 95 percent of the media...
let me give
you a clue as to what they own in the media
business... New
York Times papers/magazines, LA Times
papers/magazines,
People Magazine, CNN news, Extra, Celebrity Justice,
Entertainment Tonight, HBO, New Line Cinema,
Dreamworks,
Newsweek, Village Roadshow... many, many
more!... They are not going to report on themselves.
They have
been surpressing my case for years..."

Fans who have taken Stewart's allegations seriously,
have found
eerie mythological parallels, which seem significant
in a case
that revolves around the highly metaphorical and
symbolic Matrix
series. Sophia, the greek goddess of wisdom has been
referenced many times in speculation about Stewart. In
one
book about the Goddess Sophia, it reads, "The black
goddess
is the mistress of web creation spun in her divine
matrix."

Although there have been outside implications as to
racial
injustice (Stewart is African American), she does not
feel that
this is the case. "This is all about the Benjamins,"
said Stewart.
"It's not about money with me. It's about justice."

Stewart's future plans involve a record label,
entitled Popsilk
Records, and a motion picture production company, All
Eyez On
Me, in reference to God. "I wrote The Third Eye to
wake people
up, to remind them why God put them here.
There's more to life than money," said Stewart. "My
whole
message to the world is about God and good and about
choice,
about spirituality prevailing over 'technocracy'."

If Stewart represents spirituality, then she truly has
prevailed
over the "technocracy" represented in both the
Terminator and
the Matrix, and now, ironically, by their supposed
creators.

Stewart is currently having discussions with CBS about
a
possible exclusive story and has several media
engagements in
the near future to nationally publicize her victory.

Source:
http://www.slccglobelink.com/main.cfm?include=subApplication&subApplicationName=quickRegister&fuse=registrationOrLoginRequired&thereferer=http%3A//www.slccglobelink.com/main.cfm/include/detail/storyid/785067.html




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Additional Excerpts:

http://asp.african-institute.org/articles.asp?Indeks=113

June 13th 2004. Sophia Stewart's press release read:
"The Matrix & Terminator movie franchises have made
world history and have ultimately changed the way
people view movies and how Hollywood do business, yet
the real truth about the creator and creation of these
films continue to allude the masses because the hidden
secret of the matter is that these films were created
and written by a Black woman... a Black woman named
Sophia Stewart. But Hollywood does not want you to
know this fact simply because it would change history.
Also it would encourage our Black children to realize
a dream and that is... nothing is impossible for them
to achieve!"