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- Referencenod to comics or other movies
- Cameoa familiar face shows up
- Setupplanted now, pays off later
- Behind the scenesproduction trivia
- ReferenceSimulacra and Simulation, hollowed out
Neo hides disks inside a hollowed-out copy of Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation. The book was required reading for cast and crew before filming.
source ↗ - ReferenceFollow the white rabbit
The film is full of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: DuJour's white rabbit tattoo, Morpheus' rabbit hole and the choice between the pills.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe green code is sushi recipes
The digital rain uses a typeface by Simon Whiteley built from mirrored Japanese characters. He credits the design to his Japanese wife and likes to joke that the code is made of sushi recipes.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesWill Smith passed on the pill
Will Smith turned down Neo and later said he would have messed it up. Nicolas Cage also said no, and DiCaprio accepted before backing out. The directors' first choice was Johnny Depp.
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- CameoCornel West on the Zion Council
Philosopher and activist Cornel West plays Councillor West in the Zion Council scenes.
source ↗ - ReferenceTrinity hacks it properly
To cut the power grid, Trinity runs Nmap, a real tool, and exploits an SSH flaw that actually existed in 2001. British police even warned viewers not to copy it.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesA freeway built just for the movie
For the freeway chase, the production built a 1.5-mile stretch of highway on the old runways of a decommissioned air station in Alameda, California.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesA hundred Smiths, 27 days
Neo's fight against a crowd of Agent Smiths, nicknamed the Burly Brawl, took 27 days to shoot and cost around $40 million.
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- Behind the scenesThe Oracle got a new face
Gloria Foster died before finishing her scenes, and Mary Alice took over as the Oracle. The story itself explains why she looks different.
source ↗ - CameoThe Kid from The Animatrix
The Kid, star of the Kid's Story short in The Animatrix, is in the cast and helps defend Zion.
source ↗ - ReferenceA Sanskrit mantra in the final fight
The final fight's theme, "Neodämmerung," features a choir singing lines from the Pavamana Mantra in Sanskrit.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesSame hour, whole planet
The film opened simultaneously in 108 territories at 14:00 GMT on November 5, 2003, the widest coordinated release up to that point.
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- ReferenceWarner orders a sequel
Inside the film, Warner Bros.' parent company demands a sequel to Thomas Anderson's game The Matrix. It's the movie poking fun at itself and at franchise recycling.
source ↗ - ReferenceWhite Rabbit, again
Bugs has a white rabbit tattoo, and the soundtrack uses Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit." Lana Wachowski picked it for the Alice link and because the band played at a San Francisco club called The Matrix.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesBorn from grief
Lana Wachowski lost her father, her mother and a close friend in 2019. Unable to bring them back, one sleepless night she imagined bringing back Neo and Trinity.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesNew faces for Morpheus and Smith
Laurence Fishburne said he wasn't asked back, and Hugo Weaving had a scheduling conflict with a stage play. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Jonathan Groff stepped in, and the old footage shows up in flashbacks.
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- Behind the scenesOsiris played in theaters
Final Flight of the Osiris, made by Square USA, ran in theaters ahead of Dreamcatcher in 2003. Four of the shorts premiered online before the home video release.
source ↗ - SetupRemember the Kid
In Kid's Story, a teenager chatting with Neo online manages to leave the Matrix on his own. He comes back later in the saga.
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