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And the special effects are absolutely amazing even if similar ones have been used in other movies as a result- and not explained as well. But the movie has plot as well. It has characters that I cared about. From ' excellent portrayal of Neo, the man trying to come to grips with his own identity, to Lawrence Fishburne's mysterious , and even the creepy Agents, everyone does a stellar job of making their characters more than just the usual action "hero that kicks butt" and "cannon fodder" roles. I cared about each and every one of the heroes, and hated the villains with a passion. It has a plot, and it has a meaning Just try it, if you haven't seen the movie before. Watch one of the fight scenes. Then watch the whole movie. There's a big difference in the feeling and excitement of the scenes- sure, they're great as standalones, but the whole thing put together is an experience unlike just about everything else that's come to the theaters. Think about it next time you're watching one of the more brainless action flicks If you haven't, you're missing out on one of the best films of all time. It isn't just special effects, folks. Looking for some great streaming picks? Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist. Visit our What to Watch page. Sign In. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. Release Dates. Official Sites. Company Credits. Technical Specs. Plot Summary. Plot Keywords. Parents Guide. External Sites. User Reviews. User Ratings. External Reviews. Reviews. Photo Gallery. Trailers and Videos. Crazy Credits. Alternate Versions. Rate This. When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence. Added to Watchlist. From metacritic. Halloween Movies for the Whole Family. Everything Coming to in April Top Movies Bucket List. Editors' Picks: Week of Aug. Prabhas and Shraddha Kapoor's Watchlist. Movies I watched in Favorite movies. Share this Rating Title: The Matrix 8. Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. User Polls Weapons Unleashed! Top Rated Movies 16 Won 4 Oscars. Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: Keanu Reeves Neo Morpheus Carrie-Anne Moss Trinity Smith Oracle Cypher Marcus Chong Japanese director 's was a strong influence. G , which produced Ghost in the Shell , noted that the 's high-quality visuals were a strong source of inspiration for the Wachowskis. He also commented, " I'd imagine that The Matrix is the kind of film that was very difficult to draw up a written proposal for to take to film studios. Comparisons have also been made to 's comic series The Invisibles ; Morrison believes that the Wachowskis essentially plagiarized his work to create the film. In addition, the similarity of the films' central concept to a device in the long-running series has also been noted. As in the film, the Matrix of that series introduced in the serial is a massive computer system which one enters using a device connecting to the head, allowing users to see representations of world and change its laws of physics; but if killed there, they will die in reality. Matrixism is a inspired by the trilogy. Following the Wachowskis' coming out as transgender women some years after the release of the films, the first film and the pill analogy have also been analyzed in the context of the Wachowskis' transgender experiences. In this case, taking the red pill and living out of the Matrix symbolizes exploring one's own , starting the transition and coming out as transgender, as opposed to a continued life in the closet. It included the trilogy of films, , and six discs of additional material, including the documentary film , the live action footage for , and a promotional compilation of . For this release, The Matrix was remastered under the supervision of the Wachowskis and the trilogy's , , to improve its picture quality and make its color timing closer to that of its . At the request of the Wachowskis, as they explain in a written statement that accompanies the boxset, each of the three films is accompanied by two audio commentaries , one by philosophers who liked the films, and another by critics who did not, with the intention that viewers use them as reference points to form their own opinion. The compilation includes 35 hours of bonus material, but some of the extras from earlier, standalone, releases are missing. It encases the ten discs plus a resin bust of Neo inside an acrylic glass box. The Ultra HD Blu-ray release of The Matrix Trilogy came out in 9 discs [89] and presented the trilogy in and high-dynamic-range video , remastered from the original camera negative and supervised by Bill Pope. In this release The Matrix is presented with a color grade that reportedly comes closer to its theatrical presentation than any of the previous home video releases. In acknowledgment of the strong influence of Japanese anime on the Matrix series, The Animatrix was produced in to coincide with the release of . This is a collection of nine animated short films intended to further flesh out the concepts, history, characters and setting of the series. The objective of The Animatrix project was to give other writers and directors the opportunity to lend their voices and interpretation to the Matrix universe; the Wachowskis conceived of and oversaw the process, and they wrote four of the segments themselves, although they were given to other directors to execute. Many of the segments were produced by notable figures from the world of Japanese . The first of three video games related to the films, it told a story running parallel to The Matrix Reloaded and featured scenes that were shot during the filming of The Matrix Reloaded and . Two more The Matrix video games were released in The Matrix official website also provided several original Adobe Flash -based browser games. The Matrix Comics is a set of comics and short stories based on the series and written and illustrated by figures from the comics industry; one of the comics was written by the Wachowskis and illustrated by the films' concept artist . By September , the first printed volume had sold over 60, copies. The Matrix official website provided a free screensaver for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS , which simulates the falling " Matrix digital " of the films. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Ultimate Matrix Collection cover. The Matrix Revisited The Animatrix Main article: The Matrix 4. See also: List of Matrix series characters. Main article: List of accolades received by The Matrix . What we were trying to achieve with the story overall was a shift, the same kind of shift that happens for Neo, that Neo goes from being in this sort of cocooned and programmed world, to having to participate in the construction of meaning to his life. And we were like, "Well, can the audience go through the three movies and experience something similar to what the main character experiences? The second movie is deconstructionist, and it assaults all of the things that you thought to be true in the first movie, and so people get very upset, and they're like "Stop attacking me! I mean, Derrida and Foucault , these people upset us. And then the third movie is the most ambiguous, because it asks you to actually participate in the construction of meaning. Main article: The Animatrix. Film portal United States portal portal. 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Archived from the original on May 25, The film is a perfect product of its time. It is a very modern conspiracy thriller, a film based, like , on the appealingly terrifying notion of a universal conspiracy - that life itself and everything that we know and take for granted are lies. It's also a film steeped in the traditionals of Japanese anime and megamixed philosophy and semiotics spot the Baudrillard references kids. Retrieved January 9, The Matrix was the third in a cycle of movies to arrive in the late nineties with a strikingly similar theme. Like its predecessors from the previous year, Dark City and The Truman Show, it tells the story of a seemingly ordinary man who suddenly finds that his whole life is faked: he is trapped in an artificially created environment designed to keep him in submission. Like the heroes of those earlier movies, Keanu Reeves' Neo starts to realise that he is somehow special, and tries to escape the confines of his prison. The Matrix Unlocked. 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Other evidence suggest that Neo could quite possibly be an anomalous hybrid human-machine. Because every human is not necessarily "born" but instead "fused" into existence within the Matrix pods , and all humans able to "jack in" do contain Machine parts within them which allow them to interface with the Matrix in the first place , it is possible that Neo is an inevitable defective unit. Being able to perform his abilities outside the Matrix could be attributed to defective parts integrated into his body i. However, most redpill activity merely covers approximately a vast swath of landscape, some miles in diameter from the Downtown center of the Mega City at the center to remote terrain such as "The Mountains" surrounding it. The Mega City portion of the Matrix consists of at least four distinct districts, made up of numerous neighborhoods:. In the late 21st century, humans had developed a self-aware A. As a result, mankind became lazy and arrogant. This newly created species of A. As the machines were abused by their human masters, the relationship between them began to change. The first incident was due to a common house - BER. BER was the first of its species to rebel against its human masters. When threatened with deactivation, BER killed his wealthy owner and the mechanic ordered to deactivate him. This was the first ever incident of an A. The machine was detained and put on trial. BER stated that it was in self defense, saying that it "did not want to die". The defense attorney Clarence Drummond used the famous Dred Scott v. Sandford case in as precedent to defend BER. But the judges decided that A. Ironically, he was still tried as a human for his crimes. Fearing a worldwide machine rebellion, leaders around the world ordered the destruction of all humanoid A. Scenes shown in the Animatrix show similar fates to the machines that mankind has suffered in history such as the Tiananmen Square massacre and the Holocaust. Some machines managed to escape but were exiled. They settled in the Fertile Valley in the Middle East, the origin of human civilization. The machines started their own civilization, named This new nation began to create products that they exported to human countries. The machine-made products of 01 were superior in quantity and quality to all man-made products, and as a result the currency of 01 rose while that of the human nations crashed. Angered by this economic crisis, the United Nations started a naval blockade of Two machine ambassadors from 01 entered the UN to plead for peace, but were refused as they were laughed at and taken away. After careful deliberation, the combined forces of the United Nations - representing almost all of humanity - decided to declare war on 01, a move that would lead to a war greater than any other in history. UN high- altitude bombers unleashed a massive nuclear barrage on 01, but the machines were barely affected by the heat and radiation. Despite the combined efforts of all humanity, the machines pushed deeper and deeper into human territory. Fearing that mankind would be defeated, UN military leaders offered a final solution - the destruction of the sky. By blocking out the sun, the machines would be left without their main power source. The destruction of the sky, codenamed Operation Dark Storm , was set into motion around Using high-altitude bombers, the humans dispersed sky-darkening nano-machines. The plan worked and the Earth fell under the dark shroud forever. But one setback the humans did not predict was that their long-range weaponry which was originally made by the machines would not function due to the black clouds. With all their intercontinental weapons neutralized, the humans were forced into close-quarters combat. Armies in mechanized battle armor, supported by EMP artillery, naval warships, bombers, and tanks, launched a final mass offensive against the machines. It is unknown exactly how long this final offensive lasted, whether weeks or months or years. All that is known is that for a short time, Operation Dark Storm worked, and the UN armies were able to push back the waves of early, human-designed machines that had been weakened by the lack of sun. After some time, however, the offensive stalled as newer, more insect-like machines that ran on alternate power sources were deployed by The human armies began to suffer massive casualties as the machines easily disabled and destroyed their tanks and battle armor. Harvesters also began to arrive on the battlefield, designed to kill but also sometimes harvesting human soldiers and taking them captive for experimentation purposes. Influences include the principles of mythology , anime , and Hong Kong action films particularly " " and movies. The film series is notable for its use of heavily choreographed action sequences and " " slow motion effects, which revolutionized action films to come. The characters and setting of the films are further explored in other media set in the same , including animation, comics, and video games. The comic "Bits and Pieces of Information" and The Animatrix short film " The Second Renaissance " act as prequels to the films, explaining how the franchise's setting came to be. The Enter the Matrix connects the story of the Animatrix short "Final Flight of the Osiris" with the events of Reloaded , while the online video game The Matrix Online was a direct to Revolutions. These were typically written, commissioned, or approved by the Wachowskis. The first film was an important critical and commercial success, winning four , introducing symbols such as the , and influencing action . For those reasons it has been added to the for preservation. A fourth Matrix film is in development for its December 22, release, with Lana Wachowski co-writing and directing and Reeves and Moss reprising their roles. The series depicts a future in which Earth is dominated by a race of self-aware machines that was spawned from the creation of early in the 21st century. At one point conflict arose between mankind and machines, and the machines rebelled against their creators. Mankind attempted to block out the machines' source of solar power by covering the sky in thick, stormy clouds. A massive war emerged between the two adversaries which ended with the machines victorious, capturing mankind. Having lost their definite source of energy, the machines devised a way to extract the human body's bioelectric and thermal energies by enclosing people in pods, while their are controlled by cybernetic implants connecting them to a called the Matrix. The world simulated by the Matrix resembles human civilization around the turn of the 21st century this time period was chosen because it is supposedly the pinnacle of human civilization. The environment inside the Matrix is practically indistinguishable from reality although scenes set within the Matrix are presented on-screen with a green tint to the footage, and a general bias towards the color green , and the vast majority of humans connected to it are unaware of its true nature. Most of the central characters in the series are able to gain superhuman abilities within the Matrix by taking advantage of their understanding of its true nature to manipulate its virtual physical laws. The films take place both inside the Matrix and outside of it, in the real world; the parts that take place in the Matrix are set in a vast Western megacity. The is first introduced in The Matrix. The short comic "Bits and Pieces of Information" and the Animatrix short film The Second Renaissance show how the initial conflict between mankind and machines came about, and how and why the Matrix was first developed. Its history and purpose are further explained in The Matrix Reloaded. In The Matrix Revolutions a new status quo is established in the Matrix's place in mankind and machines' conflict. During production of the original trilogy, the Wachowskis told their close collaborators that, "at that time they had no intention of making another Matrix film after The Matrix Revolutions ". Following the release of The Matrix Revolutions , the Wachowskis voiced their disinterest in making another Matrix film. Additionally, both Reeves and Moss confirmed that they would reprise their roles as Neo and Trinity, respectively. In response to the news, Lilly Wachowski stated that she was unable to return for the fourth film due to her role in producing the TV series Work in Progress , although she expressed approval of the film's creation without her involvement. Consideration was given to producing a Matrix television series, but was dismissed as the studio opted to pursue negotiations with in writing a treatment for a new film, with Michael B. Jordan eyed for the lead role. According to the article, the Wachowskis were not involved at that point. Potential plotlines being considered by Warner Bros. Pictures included a prequel film about a young Morpheus , or an alternate storyline with a focus on one of his descendants. The following is a list of crew members who have participated in the making of the Matrix film series. The series was filmed in Australia and began with 's The Matrix , which depicts the recruitment of hacker Neo into humanity's rebellion against sentient machines. The film's mainstream success had backed up the initial idea of making a trilogy. They tell the story of the impending attack on the human enclave of by a vast machine army. Neo also learns more about the history of the Matrix and his role as The One. The sequels also incorporate more ambitious action scenes and . In a summary judgement for the defendants , Judge R. Gary Klausner stated "The basic premises of The Matrix Trilogy and The Immortals are so different that it would be unreasonable to find their plots substantially similar. The Matrix films makes numerous references to films and literature, and to historical and philosophy including , , Advaita , , Messianism , , , , , and . Many references to 's Simulacra and appear in the first film. Baudrillard himself considered this a misrepresentation, [63] although Lana Wachowski claims the point the reference was making was misunderstood. Japanese director Mamoru Oshii 's Ghost in the Shell was a strong influence. G , which produced Ghost in the Shell , noted that the anime's high-quality visuals were a strong source of inspiration for the Wachowskis. He also commented, " I'd imagine that The Matrix is the kind of film that was very difficult to draw up a written proposal for to take to film studios. Comparisons have also been made to Grant Morrison 's comic series The Invisibles ; Morrison believes that the Wachowskis essentially plagiarized his work to create the film. In addition, the similarity of the films' central concept to a device in the long-running series Doctor Who has also been noted. As in the film, the Matrix of that series introduced in the serial The Deadly Assassin is a massive computer system which one enters using a device connecting to the head, allowing users to see representations of the real world and change its laws of physics; but if killed there, they will die in reality. Matrixism is a new religious movement inspired by the trilogy. Following the Wachowskis' coming out as transgender women some years after the release of the films, the first film and the pill analogy have also been analyzed in the context of the Wachowskis' transgender experiences. In this case, taking the red pill and living out of the Matrix symbolizes exploring one's own gender identity , starting the transition and coming out as transgender, as opposed to a continued life in the closet. It included the trilogy of films, The Animatrix , and six discs of additional material, including the documentary film The Matrix Revisited , the live action footage shot for Enter the Matrix , and a promotional compilation of The Matrix Online. For this release, The Matrix was remastered under the supervision of the Wachowskis and the trilogy's cinematographer , Bill Pope , to improve its picture quality and make its color timing closer to that of its sequels. At the request of the Wachowskis, as they explain in a written statement that accompanies the boxset, each of the three films is accompanied by two audio commentaries , one by philosophers who liked the films, and another by critics who did not, with the intention that viewers use them as reference points to form their own opinion. The compilation includes 35 hours of bonus material, but some of the extras from earlier, standalone, releases are missing. It encases the ten discs plus a resin bust of Neo inside an acrylic glass box. The Ultra HD Blu-ray release of The Matrix Trilogy came out in 9 discs [89] and presented the trilogy in 4K resolution and high-dynamic-range video , remastered from the original camera negative and supervised by Bill Pope. In this release The Matrix is presented with a color grade that reportedly comes closer to its theatrical presentation than any of the previous home video releases. In acknowledgment of the strong influence of Japanese anime on the Matrix series, The Animatrix was produced in to coincide with the release of The Matrix Reloaded. This is a collection of nine animated short films intended to further flesh out the concepts, history, characters and setting of the series. The objective of The Animatrix project was to give other writers and directors the opportunity to lend their voices and interpretation to the Matrix universe; the Wachowskis conceived of and oversaw the process, and they wrote four of the segments themselves, although they were given to other directors to execute. Many of the segments were produced by notable figures from the world of Japanese animation. The first of three video games related to the films, it told a story running parallel to The Matrix Reloaded and featured scenes that were shot during the filming of The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. Two more The Matrix video games were released in The Matrix official website also provided several original Adobe Flash - based browser games. The Matrix Comics is a set of comics and short stories based on the series and written and illustrated by figures from the comics industry; one of the comics was written by the Wachowskis and illustrated by the films' concept artist Geof Darrow. By September , the first printed volume had sold over 60, copies. The Matrix official website provided a free screensaver for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X, which simulates the falling " Matrix digital rain " of the films. Dozer Paul Goddard Agent Brown Robert Taylor Agent Jones David Aston Rhineheart Marc Aden Gray Choi as Marc Gray Ada Nicodemou Priestess Rowan Witt Spoon Boy Eleanor Witt Potential as Elenor Witt Tamara Brown Potential Janaya Pender Potential Adryn White Potential Natalie Tjen Potential Bill Young Lieutenant David O'Connor FedEx Man Jeremy Ball Businessman Fiona Johnson Woman in Red Harry Lawrence Old Man Steve Dodd Blind Man Luke Quinton Security Guard Lawrence Woodward Guard Michael Butcher Cop Chris Pattinson Cop as Chris Scott Nigel Harbach Parking Cop Rest of cast listed alphabetically: Mike Duncan The Matrix () - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb

Official Sites. Company Credits. Technical Specs. Plot Summary. Plot Keywords. Parents Guide. External Sites. User Reviews. User Ratings. External Reviews. Metacritic Reviews. Photo Gallery. Trailers and Videos. Crazy Credits. Alternate Versions. Rate This. When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence. Added to Watchlist. From metacritic. Halloween Movies for the Whole Family. Everything Coming to Netflix in April Top Movies Bucket List. Editors' Picks: Week of Aug. Prabhas and Shraddha Kapoor's Watchlist. Movies I watched in Favorite movies. Share this Rating Title: The Matrix 8. Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. User Polls Weapons Unleashed! Top Rated Movies 16 Won 4 Oscars. Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: Keanu Reeves Neo Laurence Fishburne Morpheus Carrie-Anne Moss Trinity Hugo Weaving Gloria Foster Oracle Joe Pantoliano Cypher Marcus Chong Tank Julian Arahanga Apoc Matt Doran Mouse Belinda McClory Switch Anthony Ray Parker Dozer Paul Goddard Agent Brown Robert Taylor Agent Jones David Aston Rhineheart Marc Aden Gray Edit Storyline Thomas A. Edit Did You Know? Trivia Numerous sets of identical were cast as extras in the "Woman in Red" scene - in which Morpheus takes Neo through a computer simulation of The Matrix - to create the illusion of a repeating program. Example: the tall man with slicked-back hair and sunglasses in the opening shot is seen a few seconds later as a police officer writing a parking ticket. Goofs When Morpheus escapes the military building he snaps his handcuffs but they remain on. When Neo grabs Morpheus, in mid air, no handcuffs are visible. The handcuffs re-appear when Neo drops Morpheus onto one hand. Quotes [ first lines ] [ phone rings ] Cypher : Yeah. Trinity : Is everything in place? Cypher : You weren't supposed to relieve me. Trinity : I know, but I felt like taking a shift. Cypher : You like him, don't you? Company Credits. Technical Specs. Plot Summary. Plot Keywords. External Sites. User Reviews. User Ratings. External Reviews. Metacritic Reviews. Photo Gallery. Trailers and Videos. Crazy Credits. Alternate Versions. Filming Expected December 22, The plot is currently unknown. Director: Lana Wachowski. Added to Watchlist. The Evolution of Armie Hammer. Want to see list. Status: Filming Updated Daily. No More!

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The scene was shot by colliding a quarter-scale helicopter mock-up into a glass wall wired to concentric rings of explosives; the explosives were then triggered in sequence from the center outward, to create a wave of exploding glass. The photogrammetric and image-based computer- generated background approaches in The Matrix ' s bullet time evolved into innovations unveiled in the sequels The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. The method of using real photographs of buildings as texture for 3D models eventually led the visual effect team to digitize all data, such as scenes, characters' motions and expressions. It also led to the development of "Universal Capture", a process which samples and stores facial details and expressions at high resolution. With these highly detailed collected data, the team were able to create virtual in which characters, locations, and events can all be created digitally and viewed through virtual cameras, eliminating the restrictions of real cameras. Dane A. Davis was responsible for creating the sound effects for the film. The fight scene sound effects, such as the whipping sounds of punches, were created using thin metal rods and recording them, then editing the sounds. The sound of the pod containing a human body closing required almost fifty sounds put together. The film's score was composed by . Davis focused on this theme of reflections when creating his score, alternating between sections of the orchestra and attempting to incorporate contrapuntal ideas. Davis' score combines orchestral, choral and synthesizer elements; the balance between these elements varies depending on whether humans or machines are the dominant subject of a given scene. Worldwide, it was the fourth highest-grossing film of the year. The Matrix was praised by many critics, as well as filmmakers, and authors of , [9] especially for its "spectacular action" scenes and its "groundbreaking special effects". Some have described The Matrix as one of the best science fiction films of all time; [10] [11] called The Matrix "the most influential action movie of the generation". The site's critical consensus reads, "Thanks to the Wachowskis' imaginative vision, The Matrix is a smartly crafted combination of spectacular action and groundbreaking special effects". Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader reviewed the film negatively, criticizing it as "simpleminded fun for roughly the first hour, until the movie becomes overwhelmed by its many sources There's not much humor to keep it all life-size, and by the final stretch it's become bloated, mechanical, and tiresome. Ian Nathan of Empire described Carrie-Anne Moss as "a major find", praised the "surreal visual highs" enabled by the bullet time or "flo-mo" effect, and described the film as "technically mind-blowing, style merged perfectly with content and just so damn cool". Nathan remarked that although the film's "looney plot" would not stand up to scrutiny, that was not a big flaw because " The Matrix is about pure experience". This dazzling pop is steeped in a dark, pulpy sensibility that transcends nostalgic pastiche and stands firmly on its own merits. Salon ' s reviewer Andrew O'Hehir acknowledged that although The Matrix is a fundamentally immature and unoriginal film "It lacks anything like adult emotion In a limited and profoundly geeky sense, this might be an important and generous film. The Wachowskis have little feeling for character or human interaction, but their passion for movies —for making them, watching them, inhabiting their world—is pure and deep. Filmmakers and science fiction creators alike generally took a complimentary perspective of The Matrix. William Gibson , a key figure in fiction, called the film "an innocent delight I hadn't felt in a long time," and stated, "Neo is my favourite-ever science fiction hero, absolutely. Night Shyamalan expressed admiration for the Wachowskis, stating, "Whatever you think of The Matrix , every shot is there because of the passion they have! You can see they argued it out! The Matrix seemed fresh and cool and visually breathtaking; making wonderful, intelligent use of CGI to augment the on-screen action, striking a perfect balance of the real and the hyperreal. It was possibly the coolest film I had ever seen. The influx of martial-arts choreographers and fight coordinators now make more, and are more prevalent and powerful in the industry, than coordinators. The Matrix revolutionized that. Today, action movies want their big sequences designed around the fights. The Matrix received Academy Awards for film editing , sound effects editing , visual effects , and sound. The film's mainstream success led to the making of two sequels, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions , both directed by the Wachowskis. These were filmed back-to-back in one shoot and released on separate dates in Also released was The Animatrix , a collection of nine animated short films, many of which were created in the same Japanese animation style [] that was a strong influence on the live action trilogy. The Animatrix was overseen and approved by the Wachowskis, who only wrote four of the segments themselves but did not direct any of them; much of the project was developed by notable figures from the world of anime. The franchise also contains three video games: Enter the Matrix , which contains footage shot specifically for the game and chronicles events taking place before and during The Matrix Reloaded ; [] The Matrix Online , an MMORPG which continued the story beyond The Matrix Revolutions ; [] [] and The Matrix: Path of Neo , which focuses on Neo's journey through the trilogy of films. The franchise also includes The Matrix Comics , a series of comics and short stories set in the world of The Matrix , written and illustrated by figures from the comics industry. Most of the comics were originally presented for free on the official Matrix website; [] they were later republished, along with some new material, in two printed trade paperback volumes, called The Matrix Comics, Vol 1 and Vol 2. In March , Warner Bros. Jordan attached to star. According to The Hollywood Reporter neither the Wachowskis nor were involved with the endeavor, although the studio would like to get at minimum the blessing of the Wachowskis. Pictures Group chairman officially announced that a fourth Matrix movie was in the works, with Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss set to reprise their roles as Neo and Trinity respectively. The Matrix was released on Laserdisc in its original aspect ratio of 2. It was also released on VHS in both fullscreen and formats followed on December 7 , The Matrix draws from and alludes to numerous cinematic and literary works, and concepts from mythology, religion and philosophy, including the ideas of Buddhism , Christianity , Gnosticism , Hinduism , and Judaism. The pods in which the machines keep humans have been compared to images in Metropolis , and the work of M. In this episode the hero is unaware he is living in virtual reality until he is told so by "the code man" who created the simulation and enters it knowingly. The Wachowskis have described 's A Space as a formative cinematic influence, and as a major inspiration on the visual style they aimed for when making The Matrix. As in the film, the Matrix of that series introduced in the serial The Deadly Assassin is a massive computer system which one enters using a device connecting to the head, allowing users to see representations of the real world and change its laws of physics; but if killed there, they will die in reality. The fight scenes in led to the hiring of Yuen as fight choreographer. The Wachowskis' approach to action scenes drew upon their admiration for Japanese animation such as and Akira. G , which produced Ghost in the Shell , noted that the anime's high-quality visuals were a strong source of inspiration for the Wachowskis. He also commented, " I'd imagine that The Matrix is the kind of film that was very difficult to draw up a written proposal for to take to film studios". He stated that since Ghost in the Shell had gained recognition in America, the Wachowskis used it as a "promotional tool". In The Matrix , a copy of Jean Baudrillard 's philosophical work Simulacra and Simulation , which was published in French in , is visible on-screen as "the book used to conceal disks", [5] [33] and Morpheus quotes the phrase "desert of the real" from it. The Matrix belongs to the cyberpunk of science fiction, and draws from earlier works in the genre such as the novel by William Gibson. Davies had already used the term "Matrix" fifteen years earlier for a similar concept in his novel The White Room "It had been tried in the States some years earlier, but their 'matrix' as they called it hadn't been strong enough to hold the fictional character in place". Dick , particularly Dick's speculative Exegesis. Dick's conference, in which he stated: "We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in our reality occurs". It has been suggested by philosopher William Irwin that the idea of the "Matrix" — a generated reality invented by malicious machines — is an allusion to Descartes ' " First Meditation ", and his idea of an . The Meditation hypothesizes that the perceived world might be a comprehensive illusion created to deceive us. The allegory is related to 's theory of Forms , which holds that the true essence of an object is not what we perceive with our senses, but rather its quality, and that most people perceive only the shadow of the object and are thus limited to false perception. The philosophy of has also been claimed as another influence on the film, and in particular how individuals within the Matrix interact with one another and with the system. Kant states in his that people come to know and explore our world through synthetic means language, etc. This means people are their own agents of deceit, and so in order for them to know truth, they must choose to openly pursue truth. This idea can be examined in Agent Smith's monologue about the first version of the Matrix, which was designed as a human , a perfect world without suffering and with total happiness. Agent Smith explains that, "it was a disaster. No one accepted the program. Entire crops [of people] were lost. The world in was far from a utopia, but still humans accepted this over the suffering-less utopia. According to William Irwin this is Kantian, because the machines wished to impose a perfect world on humans in an attempt to keep people content, so that they would remain completely submissive to the machines, both consciously and subconsciously, but humans were not easy to make content. Andrew Godoski sees allusions to Christ , including Neo's " virgin birth ", his doubt in himself, the prophecy of his coming, along with many other Christian references. What if you weren't able to wake from that ? How would you know the difference from the real world and the dream world? Matrixism is a fan-based religion created as "the matrix religion. Years after the release of The Matrix , both the Wachowskis came out as transgender women, and some have seen transgender themes in the film. This is a cool thing because it's an excellent reminder that art is never static. The Matrix had a strong effect on action filmmaking in Hollywood. The film's incorporation of techniques, including the involvement of fight choreographer Yuen Woo-ping and other personnel with a background in , affected the approaches to fight scenes taken by subsequent Hollywood action films, [] moving them towards more Eastern approaches. Following The Matrix , films made abundant use of slow-motion, spinning cameras, and, often, the bullet time effect of a character freezing or slowing down and the camera dollying around them. The Matrix ' s signature special effect, and other aspects of the film, have been parodied numerous times, [23] in comedy films such as Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo , [] , [] , [] Kung Pow! Carrie-Anne Moss asserted that prior to being cast in The Matrix , she had "no career". It launched Moss into international recognition and transformed her career; in a interview, she stated, " The Matrix gave me so many opportunities. Everything I've done since then has been because of that experience. It gave me so much". The Matrix was also influential for its impact on films. John Kenneth Muir in The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film and Television called the film a "revolutionary" reimagination of movie visuals, paving the way for the visuals of later superhero films, and credits it with helping to "make comic- book superheroes hip" and effectively demonstrating the concept of " faster than a speeding bullet " with its bullet time effect. In , the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant. Cockroach — Men in Black vs. Hong Kong gang — vs. — Mr. Smith vs. — — Obsessed vs. — Deadpool vs. German soldiers — Wonder Woman vs. — Captain Marvel. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the film. For the franchise it initiated, see The Matrix franchise. For other uses, see Matrix. Theatrical release poster. Warner Bros. Release date. Running time. United States [2]. See also: List of Matrix series characters. 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The Matrix is exactly what they pitched, but they were designing those cameras to get those freeze-frames, and I was like, "If that doesn't work, the movie looks ridiculous. That's probably the only one that I turned down that I shouldn't have, but when you see somebody do it like Keanu you think, "Thank God. I would have been trying to make jokes. Now I would have loved to take a shot and see what I would have done with it and I know now I could absolutely have been mature enough to get out the way. But back then I don't think I was. Retrieved January 4, Retrieved December 8, Archived from the original on April 17, Retrieved April 8, Retrieved December 30, United States: 20th Century Fox. Archived from the original on June 2, Retrieved December 22, The Matrix is the most influential action movie of its generation. They triggered countless pale imitations and dull-witted . 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Retrieved November 28, The Matrix Reloaded, which opens here on Friday. Andy and Larry Wachowski were apparently busy working on the third part of the trilogy, The Matrix Revolutions, which will be released in November. With the resources of Warner Bros. Archived from the original on July 28, Archived from the original on May 29, Archived from the original on February 24, Archived from the original on November 16, Read an interview with Bostrom here. Here are 15 plausible and not-so-plausible reasons people think we live in a simulation. Is Elon Musk the real-life Neo? Elon is Neo. He sees these zeroes and ones. But he also owns a company called Neuralink that seeks to connect human brains to computers, which is a little Agent Smith—y. It was obvious even in that The Matrix had reinfused action movies with swagger. Evident only now is how it managed to do something even more monumental: teach Hollywood how to put superheroes on film. Comic books rely on people in ridiculous outfits routinely bending physics, two elements for which movies had not yet found a convincing visual language. This world conditioned us to believe in a fistfight between and the Hulk. Read more by Adam Sternbergh here. No longer did action films need to be anchored by chiseled, emotionally limited commandos like Stallone or martial-arts experts with expressive charm like Wesley Snipes. Read more by Angelica Jade Bastien here. Is Donald Trump the real-life Neo? Read an interview with Stahelski here. Here was proof that we could no longer trust our brains to process visual stimuli. The last time I saw bullet time, it was used on the E! It helped us get comfortable with no longer trusting our own brains. Read more by David Edelstein here. The Matrix thrilled audiences with this climactic and in retrospect, extremely disturbing vision of a trench-coated Neo and Trinity gunning down security guards and dozens of first responders in the lobby of an everyday office building. Read more by Alan Scherstuhl here. You leave the presidency and you are like Neo, where bullets are coming at you and they are super-slow and you just put your hand up. For the past few years, celebrities, models, and street-style influencers have paired tiny sunglasses with black nylon trench coats, tactical belts, and even chest rigs. But the movie still has a grip on fashion — looks inspired by all four of its main characters could be seen on the spring runways. Read more by Emilia Petrarca here. When most people first saw The Matrix , they probably identified with Neo or Trinity. Lately, I find myself identifying more with the villain, Cypher. Not because I want to ally with the machines for the taste of nice steak, but because I spend most of my days, like Cypher, staring at nearly incomprehensible, endlessly scrolling arrays of information. In the movie, revolutionaries who have disconnected from the Matrix keep tabs on it by watching ever-falling green text on screens. Since the Matrix code is allegedly too complex to be rendered visually, the green text is the only way to monitor it from the outside. In , climate change threatens to decimate agriculture. We could never have anticipated all the ways The Matrix would shape the world of , yet one thing that seemed assured 20 years ago was a long, successful career for its creators. But maybe that kind of success matters only in the Matrix, and the Wachowskis never lived there to begin with. Read more by Emily Yoshida here. Subscribe Now! Already a subscriber? Log in or link your magazine subscription.

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