"Matrix" movie

[Peter Kilander]

The other night in this thread, I guessed the writers stole from Kurt
Vonnegut - there's a throw-away line mentioning "Breakfast of Champions."
That book is about a car salesman in Indianapolis who comes to discover
everyone else in the world is a robot. Anyway, I checked out a book of
interviews with Vonnegut and turned up this nugget:

(This is Vonnegut's fictional character Kilgore Trout talking, while in the
middle of a made-up interview with Vonnegut)
"I once wrote a story entitled "The Dancing Fool." Like so many of my
stories, it was about a tragic failure to communicate. Here was the plot:

        A flying saucer creature named Zog arrived on Earth to explain how
wars could be prevented and how cancer could be cured. He brought the
information from Margo, a planet where the natives conversed by means of
farts and tap dancing.

        Zog landed at night in Connecticut. He had no sooner touched down
than he saw a house on fire. He rushed into the house, farting and tap
dancing, warning the people about the terrible danger they were in. The head
of the house brained Zog with a golf club."