Brief Summary Jenkins 'Convergence Culture'

I have never seen The Matrix. It never really appealed to me. I’ve heard about it, but when my friends tried to explain the movie to me, I became really confused. In chapter three of Henry Jenkins’s book, Convergence Culture, Jenkins uses The Matrix movie to define transmedia storytelling and calculate its rise in America media culture. Immediately Jenkins classifies The Matrix as a cult file, which plays an important role in making The Matrix a transmedia film. Jenkins cites the two important characteristics in defining a cult film. First, the film as to arrive to consumers as a fully fleshed out world so that consumers are able to quote episodes and lines to others and easily recognise the world those lines come from when they are said to consumers. Secondly, the film has to create an encyclopedic knowledge of its world that consumers can practice and apply over and over again.
However, these two characteristics do not have to be seamlessly melded together. Jenkins argues that the cult film is made to be quoted. As
Since the story of The Matrix is told through different mediums, such as videogames and comic books, along with the actual movie, one has to know the content covered in the other media sources in order to understand the story of the movie. The appearance of certain scenarios only appear in other media and are not repeated in the movie such as the “lost transmission of the Osiris” on page 104 of Jenkins’s book. The line “last transmission of the Osiris vetenences a bunch of scenes taken from surrounding media content, but to the casual movie gear, lines like the one quoted above will not elicit the same reaction as hard-core fans of the series. The casual moviegoers lack of reaction to certain lines and references throughout the movie are due to the film’s refusal to follow traditional Hollywood film