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I heard it was supposed to be using human brains essentially as processing power, but they thought audiences would understand "batteries" better I guess lol.
Yes, the Wachowski sisters originally scripted humans being used for neural networking, which was both much more realistic and incredibly ahead of its time. Executives told them that the audience would not understand it, and pushed the battery idea.
They should release a George Lucas style edit where the only edit is replacing the battery in his hand with a raspberry pi that has a huge copper heatsink on it, that way all the talk about btu's makes sense (kind of) and you can support the reference when people call each other "coppertop"
In the movie they used the word battery, but the explanation was more like chemical power plant. It wasn't about storing electric energy, but generating it.
But yeah, I remember that half of the people with which I went to the cinema (at release) didn't understand the movie. So I guess they needed to dump it down even if it creates inconsistencies.
Which also means, that a lot of the machines developed to kill humans and the computation to direct said machines is made by humans themselfes. Hell, the Matrix itself could be just a product of human "brain-calculations", which is also a nice metaphor for the world. We basically enslave ourselves and barely anyone notices or cares, because we are all caught in the system.