Matrix
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure was created in 1989. It starred Alex Winter as Bill and Keanu Reeves as Ted. This movie has grown to be a cult classic of the 90s and a movie that sarcastically recognizes the strengths and foibles of youth. In a movie parallel to this, Keanu Reeves stars as Thomas Anderson, a.k.a. Neo, in The Matrix, made in 1999; it is a movie that uses science fiction to create an irony about how mankind's greatest achievement, artificial intelligence, will become its enslaver. The first was rated PG while The Matrix was rated R. The star in both movies, Keanu Reeves, has dramatically changed in the 10 year period between these films. The character he plays in both accurately portrays the attitudes of a person in that age and the society they lived in...