Originally posted by Vim😆 i remeber that!! i had to get loads of screenshots to try an prove them wrong... 🙄
Good one, the training programs are NOT in the matrix, newbies! helloooo!! a long time ago in this forum someone said that a hovercraft was flying over the scene, in M1, when morpheus shows neo the real world inside the construct! I hate when people try to talk about a movie, and the ideas behind them, and they didn't even listen to the dialogue!! 😠
Originally posted by priestjim
The destination label on the train the Trainman jumped onto to get away from Seraph and co. was "Loop"
That was the label on the train that ended ran Smith over in M1, too (I think).
Another thing I can't confirm, but that I think is in there, is during the Agent training program. When it freezes and we see Morpheus, reflected in his sunglasses is Smith's Desert Eagle pointed at Neo in the left lens, and it just pointing (at Morpheus' head) in the right. At the end of the scene, it shows just Neo in the left and Neo at the business end of Smith's DE again in the right.
I haven't seen this anywhere else, but I think it is foreshadowing Neo's choice between his life and Morpheus'. But that's just me.
The advertising board in Trinity's roof chase in M1 is advertising the same Guns that the agents use.
The ad board that is seen near the start of the freeway scene in M2 is advertising 'Steak' - a reference to Cyphers scene with Smith in M1.
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'The Matrix' Trivia
* Many claim to have invented the famous time-freezing photographic technique used in the movie. French director Michel Gondry used it for the first time in a commercial for an insurance company and then in a video clip for a Björk song. Graphics artist Matthew Bannister suggested that motion and time in video could be separated, and thus developed a way for doing it much like the methods used in The Matrix. He could not make it work at the time due to the lack of technology. Artist Tim Macmillan also could have invented it first when he demonstrated the technique on British television in 1993. The world may never know.
* A shot of the combat training exercises Tank is uploading to Neo's head can be seen. The first fighting style Neo learns is Drunken Boxing. The fight choreographer, Woo-ping Yuen, was also the director and fight choreographer for Jackie Chan's 1978 early hit, Zui Quan. In this movie, Jackie Chan's character masters the style of Drunken Boxing, or Zui Chuan.
* When Neo is calling to get extracted from the Matrix, he says, "Mr. Wizard get me out of here." This is a reference to the 1960's cartoon Tooter Turtle. In each episode, Tooter would wish to be something he wasn't and have his lizard friend Mr. Wizard use his magic wand and make him whatever Tooter desired. Tooter would quickly get himself into trouble and call out, "Help Mr. Wizard," and the lizard would say, "Drizzle, drazzle, druzzle, drome, time for this one to come home." Tooter would become his old self and be preached to by Mr. Wizard to be happy with who you are.
* When Cypher meets with Agent Smith, we learn that his real name is Reagan. He says he wants to be someone important, maybe an actor, and that he wants to remember nothing - a reference to actor/president and Alzheimer's sufferer Ronald Reagan ?!
* When Neo fights Morpheus in the construct, the three pieces of music that play on the score are termed the "Bow Whisk Orchestra" by composer Don Davis. It consists of a semi-improvisational piece with Asian instruments by Davis, the song "Leave You Far Behind" by Lunatic Calm, and another piece by Davis called "Switch or Break Show". Both "Bow Whisk Orchestra" & "Switch Or Break Show" are anagrams of "Wachowski Brothers". Also, when Neo, Morpheus, and Trinity return to the building after visiting the Oracle, the piece of music that plays is called "Threat Mix". Later, when in the same building Morpheus fights Agent Smith, the musical piece is called "Exit Mr. Hat". Both "Threat Mix" & "Exit Mr. Hat" are anagrams of "The Matrix".
* All of the references to street corners (e.g. Wells and Lake) are real intersections in the Wachowski brothers' hometown, Chicago, USA.
* Duke Ellington's "I'm Beginning to See the Light" is playing in the background when Neo meets the Oracle for the first time.
* When Morpheus explains what the Matrix is to Neo, he uses the phrase, "Welcome to the desert of the real." This is a paraphrase from Chapter One of Jean Baudrillard's "Simulacra and Simulation," the book where Neo stashes his illegal discs. In Chapter One - The Precession of Simulacra, page one, paragraph 2, the section reads "It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges persist here and there in the deserts that are no longer those of the Empire, but ours. The desert of the real itself."
* After Neo realizes he is The One, he uses the same blocking moves against Agent Smith that Daniel LaRusso uses against Mr. Miyagi in 1984's Karate Kid. The moves include "Sand the floor," "paint the fence" and "wax on, wax off."
* Before Reeves' final speech at the end of the movie, he never has more than five sentences in a row to speak.
* The anime "Ghost in the Shell" was also a major influence in The Matrix movies. In the anime, machines desired liberation and were wired into networks via ports through the skin. When the agent jumps buildings in chase of Trinity, his poses were influenced by this anime.
'The Matrix Reloaded' Trivia
* Two freeways were referenced in the movie. They were the 101 and the 303. Freeway signs during the freeway chase include "Whipple Ave," "Woodside Rd" and "Marsh Rd." These are three real consecutive exits on the 101 freeway, south of San Francisco.
* A tractor-trailer seen in the freeway chase has the words "Big Endian Eggs" written along its side. This is a reference to the story Gulliver's Travels. The Lilliputions were very small and had small political problems. The Big-Endian and Little-Endian parties were in disagreement on whether to open soft-boiled eggs on the big or little end. The term Big-endian has also been used as computer terminology.
* Keanu Reeves voluntarily offered to give up a claim of the ticket sales when producers thought that the film would never gross more than the cost of it's special effects. The said claim amounted to around $38 million.
* The movie script was code-named "The Burly Man." That code name is the title of the script that Barton Fink is working on in the film called Barton Fink.
* Morpheus sat in the same red chair when he is telling his plan on how to access the source as he did in the first Matrix, when he offered Neo the pills and explained to Neo what the Matrix really was.
* The Merovingians were the ruling class of France in the 7th Century A.D. and also the name of a type of Gnostic Church. Many elements from the church appear in the Matrix movies.
* All red and blue colors had to be removed when filming in downtown Oakland, thus sidewalk curbs were painted over, according to city officials. Also no plant life or greenery could be present, so it was filmed in the winter when the leaves had not sprouted yet.
* The role of Seraph was written exclusively for Jet Li. Once Li declined the role, the character was re-written for a female role offered to Michelle Yeoh. She later declined the role due to scheduling conflicts.
* Supposing that the "movie time" was consistent with "real time" and that he was flying at a constant rate, Neo was flying at 1875 miles per hour when he flew from the Merovingian's palace to the freeway to catch Morpheus and The Keymaker.
'The Matrix Revolutions' Trivia
* The final battle between Neo and Agent Smith is based on the final fight from the 1999 Korean film Injeong Sajeong Bol Geot Eobtda.
* It took the crew two months to design the device to make the perfect rain drop.
* The jazz song "I'm Beginning to See the Light" is playing when Neo is in the Oracle's apartment. A similar version of the song was played in The Matrix.
* The ship named Hammer was really named the Mjolnir after Thor's hammer.
* John Gaeta, the special effects coordinator for The Matrix series, had a cameo as an APU operator.
* In the first Matrix, Neo is getting out of the car and looks down a road in the pouring rain. Trinity says, "you've been down that road, Neo..." Neo fights Agent Smith in Revolutions on this same road.