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Laurence "Larry" Wachowski (born June 21, 1965) and Andrew "Andy" Wachowski (born December 29, 1967) are American film directors and writers most famous for their Matrix series.BIOGRAPHYThe brothers were born and raised in Chicago. The Wachowskis jokingly claim to have begun their collaboration as toddlers. Their mother was a nurse and their father a businessman. They went to Kellogg Elementary School, in Chicago's Beverly Area. Both brothers graduated from Whitney Young High School, a public high school known for its performing arts and science curriculum, in 1983 and '85. They weren't seen as stand outs at Whitney Young - students recall them playing Dungeons & Dragons and working in the school's theater and TV program, but they were always behind the scenes. Afterwards, Andy went to Emerson College in Boston. He was a top student in his introductory film class but dropped out because of failing a test says former professor, Claire Andrade-Watkins. Larry went to Bard College in upstate New York. After dropping out of college, both entered the carpentry business, and began to develop their ideas for the Matrix Trilogy. Before entering show business, they ran a carpentry business in Chicago while creating comic books in their free time.STYLEThe brothers admit to a love for telling multipart stories. "Because we grew up on comic books and the Tolkien trilogy, one of the things we're interested in is bringing serial fiction to cinema," Larry explains. "If you could have a film where you don't get to the hour-and-a-half mark and know, 'Okay, here it comes, the big wrap-up,' but instead you have no idea how the movie's going to end, I think that would be very exciting." Andy puts his desire to shake up viewers a bit more bluntly. "We think movies are fairly boring and predictable. We want to screw with audiences' expectations."COMIC BOOKSPrior to working in the film industry, the Wachowski brothers wrote comic books for Marvel Comics' Razorline imprint, namely Ectokid (created by horror novelist Clive Barker) in 1993.In 2003, they created Burlyman Entertainment and have released comic books based on The Matrix as well two original bi-monthly series:* Shaolin Cowboy - created, written, and art by Geoff Darrow (with the Wachowski Brothers contributing an opening dialogue to each issue)* Doc Frankenstein - created by Geoff Darrow and Steve Skroce, written by the Wachowski Brothers, with art by Skroce.During Skroce's run on the Marvel Comics series Gambit, he helped create a pair of bounty hunters, the Mengo Brothers (Stanislaus and Gregori Mengochauschras), as adversaries, who resemble the Wachowskis.CONTROVERSYThe Wachowskis are often noted as borrowing very heavily from existing works, and are vocal about their inspirations, including comic book writer Grant Morrison and his series, The Invisibles. Morrison has gone so far as to claim that the Wachowskis have plagiarized The Invisibles.Sophia Stewart sued them claiming The Matrix was stolen from her book "The Third Eye". Her lawsuit was dismissed when she failed to provide evidence in a timely manner.FILMOGRAPHY* Assassins (1995) (story, screenplay credits) * Bound (1996) (written and directed) * The Matrix (1999) (written and directed) * The Matrix Reloaded (2003) (written and directed) * The Matrix Revolutions (2003) (written and directed) * The Animatrix (2003) (produced and written the original story) * V for Vendetta (2006) (produced and written, based on the graphic novel of the same name by Alan Moore and David Lloyd) * The Invasion (coming soon, 2007) (additional directors along James McTeigue) * Speed Racer, (summer 2008) (written and directed)-- from Wikipedia and others ...The Invasion - Additional directors Wachowski brothers along V for Vendetta director, James McTeigue. ...Have you ever had a dream that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world? You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain. But you feel it. You've felt it your entire life. That there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is but it's there, like a splinter in your mind driving you mad.... This profile was made at www.PimpmyWWW.com
