20 Things You Somehow Missed In The Matrix

At over 20 years old, The Matrix remains the standard-bearer for modern, boundary-pushing cinema, nothing since has changed cinema in the way it did, and while its sequels may have proven divisive and its tropes become overblown to the point of parody, it still holds up. Billed as an incredible action movie, the film considers the premise that humanity is secretly trapped in a global mental prison created and maintained by the machine race that overthrew them and now exists only as an emaciated and comatose energy source. Follow a group of freedom fighters. They attempt to liberate the human race through the arrival of a prophesied Messiah known as himself.

The soundtrack is incredible. It was released in 1999. The film was the last of the big box office hits to escape the constant Easter egg hunts on modern message boards and movie threads. which is a shame because Chow Ski filled it with philosophical references, narrative secrets and other lovely little

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for the audience to find during a rewatch and you won't believe what I just did with that in mind, my name is. Adam Cleary and these are 20

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at the Matrix fair warning here there is no spoon in this list but there is a pen that you will find particularly interesting the number 20 The Matrix is ​​​​Green wants to create a clear visual contrast between the real world and the

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itself, there were cows, the keys used clever cinematography to subtly create a distinction, specifically each scene that takes place within the

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was digitally given a subtle green tint to convey both its artificial nature and create a feeling of unease, the color was selected to give the feeling of seeing the scenes through old PC screens that specifically displayed information in that kind of phosphor green that you know in Fallout, the idea was also that, in addition to beings appearing artificial in this world, it should make you feel a little dizzy since 19 the real world is blue that attention to detail didn't stop there to better accentuate the putrid greens of the matrix cinematographer Bill Pope gave the real world a tone own contrasting blue speaking in an interview after the film, said since Nebuchadnezzar and the Pods, reality was given a colder, bluer, more normal, less sickly look, the future in the film is cold, the sun it's erased, there's no real heat unless it's artificial heat, that's why they chose the cool side, the Matrix should make you feel sick and you should actually feel a little more at home but never comfortable.

Finally, the training program where Neo and Morpheus fight is dyed yellow to represent the fact that it is neither the Matrix nor the real world Questions Number 18. Neos' character arc is easily split into two halves, eventually becoming the Warner. and, fully utilizing his power to control the matrix, rescues Morpheus, the human races begin to fight their maniacal overlords, and discovers Rage Against the Machine, but before This Neos's role in the film is to extract exposition from the others main characters, something done at the request of the studio who were worried that the audience would not understand the plot otherwise, therefore, in the film's opening, 45 minutes, 80 lines of dialogue from Neos contain a surprising 44 questions, this almost wears itself out by the minute and makes it one of the most subtext-heavy films in modern 17 Bruce Lee cinema despite being planned and written within an inch of its life.

The Matrix includes a number of unscripted or improvised scenes. Ironically, all of the moments tend to occur during the film's most choreographed moments even though the actors spent literally months training to ensure they had the routines down. One of the most notable concerns. A brief moment where Neo tries to recover during the training fight. With Morpheus preparing for the next fight, he quickly wipes his nose with his thumb in what Keanu Reeves would later reveal was an impromptu tribute to Bruce Lee. Even though it wasn't the best take, he successfully lobbied for it to stay on. the movie. 16 Walter Cronkite One of the most striking elements of The Matrix was Hugo Weaving's performance as Agent Smith.

It is a performance that perfectly encapsulates the undrajavaram that is neither entirely man nor entirely machine, yet retains the distinctive characteristics of both. However, when investigating the role in the construction of the matrix. The physical performance fabric began to model parts of his speech based on the dry matter-of-factness associated with newsreaders of the mid-20th century, specifically Walter Cronkite, the legendary American journalist and anchor of the CBS Evening News for nearly two decades after reporting on the moon and the Kennedy assassination, he was dubbed the most trusted man in America, giving a performance weaving like sinister familiarity and 15 drunken boxing.

What are his smartest Easter eggs in the entire movie? Refers to the very brief shots of Neo's intensive course in hand-to-hand combat while he sat. in a chair with knowledge and muscle memory uploaded directly to his brain, several different styles appear briefly on screen, including the funny name drunk boxing, this is a nod to the movies, fight choreographer, whooping urine, a man who partially made a name for himself working. as the choreographer of Jackie Chan's The Drunken Master, a film in which the main character sets out to learn Zoosh Wan's style of martial art or as it is translated into English, drunken boxing before adolescence, the cliff now, The coded green rain became an iconic movie image and indeed everyone's screen saver in 1999, but the way it was created is actually a lot less clever than it looks on screen, while the effect needed to make them fall across the screen required extensive work to get the characters themselves was pretty straightforward as I wanted to use both.

West, Japanese letters, numbers and katakana symbols, the film's production designer took one of his wife's sushi books and simply scanned all the recipes which they then chose to reverse all the characters to convey the idea that you are actually looking from the wrong side. Neo number 13 does not kick despite the rigorous months of training required to complete the film. Keanu Reeves finished pre-production while he was still recovering from severe neck surgery. This meant that while he could learn a lot from the choreography, he couldn't use it fully. of his legs and thus was left out of most of the kick training, this required some modifications in the movie and as a result, Neo uses far fewer kicks than the other characters in the movie; in fact, his only real burst of them comes in the construction training fight. with Morpheus, which was filmed near the end of production on September 12, 2001, in the film's opening scenes, Neo is interrogated by a trio of agents who, hoping to use him to arrest Morpheus, begin to interrogate him. on your criminal record while being told you are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for.

There is also a very brief shot of his passport, in addition to showing his birthplace as the capital city, it also shows that his passport expires on September 11, 2001, the same day as the horrible terrorist tax on heroin at the World Trade Center of New York, a coincidence that has caused a whole series of tin hat conspiracy theories online since meta crust number 11, as well as being the perfect name for a middle-aged company. Respectable turn-of-the-millennium software company Meta Cortex is also clever foreshadowing for the rest of the film. Breaking down the word gives us meta, which when used as a prefix means transcend, and cortex which, of course, refers to the neo brain.

A man literally on the verge of transcending the limits of his own brain he works for a company whose name means exactly that. His boss also tells them that you think you're special and that the rules don't apply to you, which of course is also true. Number 10 the last scene, finally awakened from his dream inside the Matrix Neo, is greeted by the horrible reality of the outside world, completely hairless, terrified and covered in goo, he faces a machine that implodes from its capsule and expels them of the system in these scenes. Keanu Reeves appeared much thinner, almost emaciated, as the reality of his confinement clashes harshly with the healthy, handsome man we had seen before this scene was filmed months after principal photography had wrapped to allow Keanu Reeves to lose his weight and muscle definition he had.

I got the rest of movie number nine Dark City, since they both deal with the premise that the world around you may not be real. The Matrix is ​​often compared to the movie Dark City. They have many similarities in terms of tone and atmosphere. and plot, but upon closer inspection, they have much more in common in wanting to keep an ever-growing budget under control. Warner Brothers declined the request to film the rooftop scenes on location, and instead the filmmakers used the existing dark city sets. A few tweets were made to disguise this, but overall they are almost identical drills and simulations of the number 8.

Before the casting stage, the filmmakers were determined that every major member of the cast should fully understand the story being told after years of having the idea rejected because it was too complex to have acted on board who understood both themes of the narrative was essential. Wachowski requires actors to read three books before they are even allowed to open the script Runaway Drills and Simulation and Evolutionary Psychology in a Small Homage to This Neo Hyde is the product of a hollowed-out Copy of Drills and Simulation at the beginning of the film number seven Alice in Wonderland, in addition to the reading required for this film, there was also another strong literary influence, specifically Lewis Carroll's Alice.

In Wonderland, which is referenced throughout the film and informs several of the main thematic points, Neo follows the white rabbit in the form of a Jewish tattoo and is asked by Morpheus himself if he feels like the main character. of the book as he falls down the rabbit hole. the choice between the red pill and the blue pill evokes caterpillars, one will make you bigger and one will make you small a choice from Chicago book number six, while The Matrix takes place in an unnamed American city, some guesses can be made About its location Now Sydney residents will no doubt recognize some locations and virtually everything was filmed there, but there are some hints that it was also set in Chicago, who would shout out hometown.

All of these street locations mentioned in the film are genuine intersections. from Chicago and during the underground fight scene between neo and Agent Smith several billboards can be seen in the loop, another hallmark of the city number five, the cookie when it comes to web browsing, everyone has heard of cookies , it is likely that you have been asked for your consent. They have already been sent to them about four hundred times today, but not everyone fully understands what they really are. In short, they are a small piece of important information sent by a website and retained by the browser to remember later.

It's a small visual motif, but the Oracle delivers neo a. A single cookie after being informed of Morpheus' impending death is an incredibly nuanced way to explain the scene. She's given him an important little piece of information and literally given him a number four cookie. I have no mouth and I must scream, possibly the strangest tribute. The source material that influenced the film is found in the Neo Smith interrogation scene at the beginning of the film, as well as in all the previously mentioned books Lost City and Alice in Wonderland, through which the keys of the house were also inspired by Harlan Ellison's science fiction story.

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, the book details how an artificial intelligence takes over the world and nearly eradicates smocking, except for a few survivors it keeps underground and yes, stop me when you've heard this before, as well as the obvious comparisons you can . Drawing on The Matrix themes, the film literally depicts Neo in this scene with no mouth and trying to shout the number three, Neo as Jesus, which attracted numerous complaints from religious groups after its release. The comparisons to us, Neo and Jesus Christ, run deep in numerous Neo is, of course, a messiah-like figure whose arrival has been foretold and is here to bring salvation to humanity at the beginning of the film, Joy greets him with hallelujah. and refers to him as my savior and towards the end he is declared dead, but through some guy. of the miracle finally comes to life, even the nameNeo's original, Anderson, has its own religious connotations, tracing its etymology to mean son of man, a common title given to Jesus in religious texts number two, you coppertop in another clever foreshadowing, though it's certainly not a very subtle change. calls neo a seemingly harmless but actually very appropriate name during their first meeting listen to me, carpet upstairs, we don't have time for 20 questions.

Coppertop may not initially jump out at you since neo has dark hair, but it's actually a common slang term for Duracell. branded battery given that at the time of this meeting neo is still plugged into the matrix and is therefore used as a live battery by machines, the name is absolutely spot on, I would have had no idea why the red number one and blue the decision between red and blue is ultimately the one that defines the entire Matrix story by offering you the two different colored pills. Thomas Anderson is forced to make one of the most profound decisions in human history: keep dreaming or wake up to the horrors of reality. world, however, is actually a decision that is subtly telegraphed early in the film when Morpheus receives the cell phone.

Anderson is given a form to sign and a pen to do so, specifically a pen that allows the holder to write in red or blue ink. You're clearly not ready to wake up but Neo chooses blue so you haven't. Those are 20 things you

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from the matrix read by a man for whom taking the red pill simply means checking the comments, let me know what you made of all this in the comments below and of course forget to like, share and subscribe while so much, though thank you very much. Lots to look at, of course I've been Adam Cleary and we'll see you soon.