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I think the second movie is the best because there is more action and throught the series you begin to understand more and more the concept of the matrix you should listen the whole series. It's not my favorite series of all time too but it's really a unique type of movie and a must to watch entirely
I think the reason Keanu was chosen for this role, was because he IS cyberpunk for many of us. 4 years before he played the lead in Johnny Mnemonic which is based on a short story written by William Gibson. Many credit Gibson as the father of Cyberpunk with his first novel Neuromancer which came out in 1984.
well since the "outside" of the Matrix is just another matrix (as evidenced by Neo's powers still working) and how what Morphius tells Neo about the nature of the matrix not standing up to the simplest scrutiny, then it is just a choice of illusions, really. Which incidentally makes the people who call slurping down corporate and fascist propaganda taking the red pill extra ironic.
I think most can agree that the movie "The Matrix" was way advanced for its time. This was released in 1999. It still holds up even over 20 years later.
Trinity had been observing Neo's life for a long time before they met in person. She "knew" him already, and had fallen in love with the man he was before he entered the Matrix.
Agents aren't people, they are sentient programs, which is why they never technically die. They can take over any body that's still connected to the Matrix and of the agent dies, that person dies instead of the agent
@@Soulsphere001 yeah but that is because these agents couldn't be useful anymore due to the fact neo became too powerful, thats why they are "upgrades" to try and keep up with his power. Smith was a virus in the sequels, which is well known
@@Soulsphere001 If your "code" is hardwired to the matrix you can survive death. Both the agents and of course "the one" Neo,have theirs embedded and protected in the matrix. The others do not nor do ordinary people. It's Neos purpose. He carries that code even in the real world as is seen in Reloaded.
It's not just fighting, training and cryptic talk. This is why you've been told you have to watch it more than once. The pacing is mad, but hidden in the pacing is an epic story. Details you will never see in the first watch. Take the Oracle conversation. There is not a single wasted word, everything said is about what is going to happen next. To really get how good this film is, watch it 2 or 3 times more. It's worth it!
I missed it in cinema, but it was the first DVD I baught. I watched it so often that I watched it not only dubbed but in original language. When Reloaded hit theaters in Germany they also had special screenings of the original movie in original language (at least in my location) and when I finally saw it in cinema I knew the lines of at least the first 15min by heart. I later acomplished that we could watch it in school. Besides the fact that the idea of the Matrix in itself is plausible in a way that everything you percieve is just electrical signals in your brain, you would not really be able to disprove that you are NOT living in a Matrix. They also draw a ton of references to an other well known age old "saviour/chosen one" story. :-)
And then you start to notice the poor character development, worldbuilding and all the compromises made because the producers were too dumb to understand the story that the audience would have. It’s still a great movie don’t get me wrong, but it and the sequels could have been soo much more interesting if it hadn’t shot itself in the foot from the get-go, and introduced important sci-fi concepts to the masses allowing more simulation sci-fi to be greenlit sooner.
@@samuelslade6717 Actually the matrix itself is a copy of another movie called Dark City, which goes a long way to explaining why when they needed to make sequels and be original with storylines, the quality declined.
And if you now go back and look, you'll see that, of course, everything the Oracle said came true. "I'm not the one." "Sorry, kid. You've got the gift, but you're waiting for something." "What?" "I don't know. Your next life, maybe?" ... "One of you is going to die." And indeed, Neo did die, and The One woke up in his place.
Me: "Haha, I remember wishing I could get that phone Morpheus sends to Neo. It was so badass and cool looking!" Mary: "Oh my lord, what an old phone! It's so funny!" Me: *Dies a little inside*
Let's see. I was 40 when this movie came out and was 37 when Mary was born. I don't recall feeling particularly old in 1983. I WAS probably under the influence of about six hits of acid, a metric shit-ton of cocaine, a bit of hash, and nearly a fifth of vodka. Unless it was the weekend when I partied.
The difference between Neo and an Agent is, Neo is a human connected into the Matrix, the Agents are computer code, part of the Matrix itself. You have to destroy the code to destroy the Agent, or it can keep coming back.
I agree to a point but in my opinion Reeves went through an extended period of bland performances, of which the Matrix was sadly one. The film is great, but Reeve's performance is a block of wood in a black coat. Not sure what happened there but he seemed to lose his talent for quite some time before regaining it in time for Joh Wick, thank goodness.
@@GriffinPilgrim IMHO He got typecast as Ted "Theodore" Logan. No one wanted him for his acting ability, they wanted him to see something impressive and go "Woah..." with varying degrees of animation behind it. Even with the star power of being "The One" post Matrix he still got stuck mostly in those roles until he really started to lean into the action hero typecasting instead in the late 00s/early 10s.
@@smily4 Chad Stelinski is the director of JOHN WICK, who worked as a stunt double & stunt co-ordinator for keanu on THE MATRIX(directed by WACHOWSKI BROTHERS)
"The Matrix" is not just another film. This movie has DEFINED an entire generation of sci-fi film fans! In the same way that the original "Star Wars" did. One only wonders what the next generation-defining sci-fi film will be, because I imagine it will be just as mind-bendingly DEEP.
Avatar was advertised as one when it came out. Infinity war and endgame kinda were for harboring such a large cast of "main" characters and continued storylines. I would agree that inception had to have been.
I was thinking the same thing. I saw The Matrix in college a year or two after release and got to have that Star Wars mind-blown experience. And though it may not be ESB, the anticipation of the sequel. Reading this discussion I thought it was too early for the next phenomenon, then I did the math. 22 years and 22 years, wow.
Thank you, yes this. Also - the "10%" number people hear, is about how much of the brain is "lit up" at any normal instant, but we use all of it over time. There is a moment people "use" close to 100% of their brain however, and it's called an epileptic attack - so it doesn't make you smart or better - it completely disables you.
@@WernerEdgar We went over this in my psychology class and my professor told us he actually examined brains that had multiple epileptic attacks and described it as "not so bueno." lol thanks professor!
It is so weird hearing an adult person talking about this old trope/myth. How can that still be a thing? Then again...flat earth, the missing link, a 4000 year old earth...the human race really has a long way to go...
The Matrix is a great analogy tool for therapy. There are multiple applications to be made. One of my favorite parts of the movie is when Morpheus asks Neo, "You think that's air your breathing now?" That, and Morpheus' facial expressions are on point and you can see the truth dawning in Neo's noggin when he gets up.
They had been watching Neo for a while and it was over that course that Trinity began falling in love with him. So, atleast from her perspective, it wasn't as sudden as it seems.
There's the line in the opening scene where Cypher asks Trinity if she thinks Neo is the One. Trinity says it doesn't matter what she believes, but one must evaluate that in the context of her being told by the Oracle that the man she loves will be the One. If she thinks he's the One, it follows that she would necessarily be in love with him. That she doesn't instantly reject the concept but instead dodges the question speaks to how long she's been ruminating on the matter.
This movie spawned sooo much in the world of us nerds. It truly is a legend. If you enjoyed it enough to want more story and answers, the next two movies are personally recommended and packed with stuff.
I always think of Trinity falling in love with Neo in the same terms as Neo knocking over the vase. The Oracle told Trinity that she would fall in love with the One. Then Morpheus keeps telling everyone Neo is the One. Would Trinity have fallen in love with Neo if the Oracle hadn't said anything?
Yes. They fought agents together and he pulled her out of a crashing helicopter. just because there was no anakin/padme scene doesn't mean it didn't develop well. people can fall in love wordlessly... Mary doesn't know that lol
Long ago in the US, Laurence Fishbourne was interviewed on the PBS "Charlie Rose" show when the movie first came out. He described how he got hired. They said "We're making a genre film. It's a action movie in the style of Japanese anime. Are you interested?" He said "Hell, yea. Sign me on." They did not know he had been an anime junkie since the late '70s in the pre-otaku era !
Another film that has the bullet-dodging and was called a Matrix knock-off is "Equilibrium" starring Christian Bale but it's much more than that. It takes place in the future where emotions have been all but outlawed, people are medicated and all art has been banned. Well worth viewing.
The Matrix was filmed in Sydney Australia at the Fox Studios and on locations within the city, which will explain why you recognize some of the locations Mary, because they filmed in Australia most of the cast are also Australian.
The W sisters are from Chicago and all the streets mentioned in the script are Chicago streets. I think they actually managed to get one or two scenes shot in Chicago but MOST of it is Sydney.
A cool little thing about the scene in Martin Place is that the crowd they are walking through are all pairs of twins. It was meant to look like the programmer had copy-pasted a bunch to fill out the crowd. The filmmakers did an open casting call for identical twins so most of the twins in NSW are in that scene!
Fun fact: The Wachowski Brothers asked for a budget of 80 million dollars. This was denied and they were only given 11 Million. So they spent it ALL on Trinity's opening sequence. When they showed the opening scene to the executives, they were so impressed they greenlit the original budget that was requested.
This came out before serious social media and there was very little given away in the trailer. My friends and I went to see it in the afternoon opening day knowing only that it was that Keanu Hacker film. We weren’t excited we just literally had nothing better to do. Best surprise of my life.
Likewise. I'd seen some online comics on the official website that dropped hints, but I wasn't able to put them together until I actually saw the movie.
Such a significant movie in the sci fi genre and pop culture in general, it blows my mind how many folks have never experienced it. Glad you're getting to now! 😄
You need to watch "The Animatrix" which is a series of animated short films that is the prequel to "The Matrix" film series and will explain a lot of the concepts in the movie
Some are prequels, some are side stories, and at least one is the first part of a bridge between this film and the second one (the second half is a video game that got a "meh" reception but I liked it).
It wasn't that Agent Smith 'died', the body he was occupying did and he just jumped into one of the people on the train. However, Neo obliterated him later :)
In the Matrix there's no bodies, everyone is a digital representation. Agents are programs running in the Matrix that can take over the representation of who they want.
@@muckit606 I do seem to recall that the Wachowskis confirmed at one point that when an Agent takes over a new body it does kill the person they jump into though. Not directly like they'd been shot but the Matrix ejects them like it did with Neo, just without the tracking program to let anyone find them.
Trinity is a soldier. As such, she's generally pretty reserved. You even made a remark about how much you liked her "poker-face." Unless she just comes out and tells you, you're not gonna get much from Trinity.
"I've seen an agent punch through a concrete wall, men have emptied entire clips at them and hit nothing but air, yet their strength and their speed are still based in a world that is built on rules, because of that they will never be as strong or as fast as you can be." Best movie quote ever.
The Matrix score has to be among the most underrated scores of all time, yet it's instantly iconic. No other score comes close to the level of detail that this score has.
Me: Breakfast cooking *Mary Cherry new video dot* Me: Hmm. *Mary Cherry Finally Watched The Matrix* Me: Oh I'm gonna have a *good* time! (Double check the back of my head) good to go
The other thing The Matrix really pioneered in Hollywood was fight choreography. There's a real night-and-day switch between pre-Matrix and post-Matrix fight scenes.
Keanu was also in the 1995 Cyberpunk film "Johnny Mnemonic" based off the short story by William Gibson, the author of "Neuromancer" the first major cyberpunk text in 1984.
"NEO" is an anagram of "ONE". It is also an anagram of "ENO", meaning that Brian Eno is The One. The Matrix made use of leftover sets from Dark City, another movie you might find of interest.
Neo was always the one. What the Oracle said is that he's got the gift, but he's just waiting on something, another life perhaps. So when he died and came back that was his next life.
You have to remember that Morpheus and Trinity have been watching him for some time. They never specify his long Trinity had been watching him (to fall in love) but she was convinced by the time they met.
I noticed that you made the comment that the love story between Neo and Trinity wasn’t developed enough but remember that Trinity had been watching over Neo for a very long time at that point. She knew him well before he ever met her.
Many people thought this movie took a lot of concepts from Dark City which came out before this. It would be interesting to see you react to that as well and see if you can draw any parallels
My friends and I saw this in the cinema in 1999, back when I was a sprightly 22 years old! Cannot believe this movie celebrates its 25th anniversary next year (along with The Phantom Menace)!
When agents get killed they just take over another body of a human that is still plugged into the Matrix. So he did kill Agent Smith with the train. But then some one on the train just becomes Agent Smith and he starts his pursuit again. They just always come back.
Watching the opening half hour or so of this movie for the first time is such a trip. I still find it hard to believe that so many people haven't seen it.
One thing to keep in mind about agents, they don't really die (except at the end where he exploded), they just transfer to someone else that hasn't been unplugged.
You said that the love part of it was underdeveloped, but I kind of disagree. They alluded to Trinity following & watching Neo for a long time before they actually met. It may be a little stalkerish, but she knew a lot about him. lol "You like watching him, don't you?" - Cypher to Trinity at the beginning. And don't think of agents as being a body or person that can die. They are programs that take control of bodies & occupy them for their needs. So when Agent Smith 'died' from the train, the body he occupied is gone & he takes control of another body.
When I saw this when this came out, I was like...6? And It kinda blew my mind. Before I knew anything about film making, I knew that what I saw, I liked the techniques used. Plus ever since then, I've been on the Keanu train, and never went off, so when you get to Reloaded and Revolutions, it does get amped up, and their not the most favorable movies to fans, but they have their merits.
@@richardpuente867 It's actually EASIER as a little kid, because as a little kid, you're not as mentally "trapped in the real world" as adults are. Probably why Morpheus told Neo that it's just "easier" to free the minds of children, rather than adults past a certain age.
The concept isn't as novel as some may think. Think of The Sims where there are player characters and non-player characters (NPCs). Those of us who do things such as invent things are player characters and those of us who mindlessly just live out our lives are NPCs. Another feature of the plot of the movie is similar to The Terminator where the machines rise up and overtake humanity. There have been cyborgs among us. People may not think of them as cyborgs, but think about people with artificial hearts, etc. They are part human and part machine. Eventually, with the advancement of science, as more and more people seek immortality or even just a longer life, there will be more and more cyborgs with people having not only artificial hearts, but also artificial livers, lungs, kidneys, etc. There are movies such as The Sixth Day which shows a different interpretation of eternal life, but because of the illegality of doing such things in The Sixth Day, many people believe that the ultimate evolution of man will be to become machines. How ironic that you included the footage where he was learning various martial arts where the one character says "10 hours straight. He's a machine." inferring that even as humans, we will all become machine like at one point in the future. With the advancements made in robotics and DNA sequencing, there are some who believe that the generation of your grandchildren will be able to live to 1000 years old while still looking like they are in their 20s or 30s.. While I think the timeline is a bit optimistic, it will probably happen in the not too distant future. About your comment about the love story aspect, maybe it can be explained in The Terminator. On another note, I wonder if you recognized Hugo Weaving playing Agent Smith as Lord Elrond in Lord of The Rings.
You forget that Trinity has known him for longer than what we saw in the movie, she has been following the idea of "The One" for years, just as Morpheus has and so she fell in love with him long before they first met. She fell in love with someone she didn't know in the same way someone could fall in love with a hero they had never met, except she had been expressly told by the Oracle years before that she would love him. If that makes sense. It wasn't a whirlwind romance, Trinity has been preparing herself for years to meet the person a prophet not only said she would fall in love with but also someone that will save their world. That's quite a powerful driver of emotions.
If you go back and watch Neo's conversation with The Oracle, you'll realize that everything she said was true. She wasn't playing Neo, he just misinterprets what she means when she says, "You've got the gift. But it seems to me that you're waiting for something. Another life, perhaps." She says right there that Neo is indeed The One, but he has to die and come back in order to unlock his power. Mary has to watch the sequels now. Though they get a bit more confusing and are divisive, they do expand on the story and introduce some new themes. I'd also recommend The Animatrix series of animated shorts, particularly The Final Flight Of The Osiris because it leads directly into the events of The Matrix Reloaded, and The Second Renaissance Part 1 & 2 because it explains the backstory about how the Machines took over the world and makes you question who the villains of the story actually are.
He doesn't come back, it's just a near death experience.Morpheus is right the oracle isn't interested in truth she says what she needs to say to get him to go where he needs to go and do what he needs to do. In this case, he needs to "die" in the matrix so he will have no choice but to reject the matrix's reality.
I was 11 years old when this released and it blew my mind. I watched it with my brothers soo many times afterwards, when we got it on dvd back then. It's crazy how many movies and games were influenced by Matrix, with the bullet-time slowmo.
Similar films with the same themes that came out earlier are Dark City, 13th Floor and Johnny Mnemonic (in the year 2021 where Keanu Reeves could carry as much as 80 gigs of data in his head! Watch the trailer XD)
> carry as much as 80 gigs of data in his head Haha - reminded of the novelization of Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982) - which contained dialogue about an enormous "50 megabyte" video game that was too big to fit on any of the smaller 24th Century computers in the Genesis Lab: "I don't want to delete anything," Carol said, "but I just spent six weeks debugging this subroutine, and I've got to have it." At a lab table nearby, Del March glanced at Vance Madison. Vance grimaced, and Carol caught him at it. "All right you guys," Carol said. "Del, have you been using my bubble bath again?" Del approached, hanging his head; Vance followed, walking with his easy slouch. They're like a couple of kids, Carol thought. Like kids? They are kids. They were only a few years older than David. "Geez, Carol," Del said, "it's just a little something-" "Del, there's got to be ninety-three computers on Spacelab. Why do you have to put your games on the main machine?" "They work a lot better," Vance said in his soft beautiful voice. "You can't play Boojum Hunt on anything less, Carol," Del said. "Hey, you ought to look at what we did to it. It's got a black hole with an accretion disk that will jump right out and grab you, and the graphics are fantastic. If I do say so myself. If we had a Three-D display …" "Why do I put up with this?" Carol groaned. The answer to that was obvious: Vance Madison and Del March were the two sharpest quark chemists in the field, and when they worked together their talents did not simply add, but multiplied. Every time they published a paper they got another load of invitations to scientific conferences. Genesis was lucky to have them, and Carol knew it. The two young scientists played together as well as they worked; unfortunately, what they liked to play was computer games. Del had tried to get her to play one once; she was not merely uninterested, she was totally disinterested. "What's the file name?" she asked. She felt too tired for patience. She turned back to the console. "Prepare to kill a file," she said to the computer. "Ok," it replied. "Don't kill it, Carol," Del said. "Come on, give us a break." She almost killed it anyway; Del's flakiness got to her worst when she was exhausted. "We'll keep it out of your hair from now on, Carol," Vance said. "I promise." Vance never said anything he did not mean. Carol relented. "Oh-all right. What's the file name?" "BH," Del said. "Got one in there called BS, too?" David asked. Del grinned sheepishly. Carol accessed one of the smaller lab computers. "Uh, Carol," Del said, "I don't think it'll fit in that one." "How big is it?" "Well … about fifty megs." "Christ on a crutch!" David said. "The program that swallowed Saturn." "We added a lot since you played it last," Del said defensively.
Sorry but I really couldnt disagree more with your analysis of this movie. I dont think its dated at all and its very strange that you would say that Infinity War has less action than this movie. Infinity Wars is 3 hours of action, The Matrix only has about 30 minutes of action in the entire movie. One of the reason the Matrix is so well loved is because it isnt just mindless action, it put story over action.
Yes, it's exactly like an interactive video game. You gain skills, you level up. Neo is "The One" player who can go to superhuman levels because of a "rounding error" in the system. Little excess bits of code all attach to him.
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@Mary Cherry that agent's name is Smith
Wait until you see the second Matrix film
This is when we began asking ourselves if we are in a simulated dream world and somehow the real world is out there
I think the second movie is the best because there is more action and throught the series you begin to understand more and more the concept of the matrix you should listen the whole series. It's not my favorite series of all time too but it's really a unique type of movie and a must to watch entirely
I think the reason Keanu was chosen for this role, was because he IS cyberpunk for many of us. 4 years before he played the lead in Johnny Mnemonic which is based on a short story written by William Gibson. Many credit Gibson as the father of Cyberpunk with his first novel Neuromancer which came out in 1984.
So Mary chose the BLUE PILL when she was 14, by going back to her normal life and not watching the rest of the movie. LOL
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well since the "outside" of the Matrix is just another matrix (as evidenced by Neo's powers still working) and how what Morphius tells Neo about the nature of the matrix not standing up to the simplest scrutiny, then it is just a choice of illusions, really.
Which incidentally makes the people who call slurping down corporate and fascist propaganda taking the red pill extra ironic.
the real question is, how the parents could let this movie be watched by a 14 year old in the first place
@@IceyJones This is fine for a 14 year old...
I think most can agree that the movie "The Matrix" was way advanced for its time. This was released in 1999. It still holds up even over 20 years later.
I disagree . . . I just think todays movies are late for their time and did not follow up in the quality (some do) but overall many could be better
"Is that young Keanu Reeves?" ... 🤔 He is ALWAYS the young Keanu Reeves lol... never ages
Trinity had been observing Neo's life for a long time before they met in person. She "knew" him already, and had fallen in love with the man he was before he entered the Matrix.
@2d Geek Oops yes ha ha. That’s what I meant. Nice catch.
Agents aren't people, they are sentient programs, which is why they never technically die. They can take over any body that's still connected to the Matrix and of the agent dies, that person dies instead of the agent
The agent is suppose to die, too, but "you know who" breaks the rules.
@@Soulsphere001 yeah but that is because these agents couldn't be useful anymore due to the fact neo became too powerful, thats why they are "upgrades" to try and keep up with his power. Smith was a virus in the sequels, which is well known
@@Soulsphere001 If your "code" is hardwired to the matrix you can survive death. Both the agents and of course "the one" Neo,have theirs embedded and protected in the matrix. The others do not nor do ordinary people. It's Neos purpose. He carries that code even in the real world as is seen in Reloaded.
If* the agent dies…..
@@Soulsphere001 supposed*
It's not just fighting, training and cryptic talk. This is why you've been told you have to watch it more than once.
The pacing is mad, but hidden in the pacing is an epic story. Details you will never see in the first watch.
Take the Oracle conversation. There is not a single wasted word, everything said is about what is going to happen next.
To really get how good this film is, watch it 2 or 3 times more. It's worth it!
@@kgcrossov3r That has nothing to do with it.
I missed it in cinema, but it was the first DVD I baught. I watched it so often that I watched it not only dubbed but in original language. When Reloaded hit theaters in Germany they also had special screenings of the original movie in original language (at least in my location) and when I finally saw it in cinema I knew the lines of at least the first 15min by heart. I later acomplished that we could watch it in school. Besides the fact that the idea of the Matrix in itself is plausible in a way that everything you percieve is just electrical signals in your brain, you would not really be able to disprove that you are NOT living in a Matrix. They also draw a ton of references to an other well known age old "saviour/chosen one" story. :-)
and eventually you will start to think about the Oracle herself.
And then you start to notice the poor character development, worldbuilding and all the compromises made because the producers were too dumb to understand the story that the audience would have. It’s still a great movie don’t get me wrong, but it and the sequels could have been soo much more interesting if it hadn’t shot itself in the foot from the get-go, and introduced important sci-fi concepts to the masses allowing more simulation sci-fi to be greenlit sooner.
Definitely watch this one a couple more times. Then DONT watch the sequels where they fuck it all up!
One of the most inspiring sci-fi movies ever made.
Then they decided to make average sequels 🙁
@@generic_sauce shit average may be a bit kind... I do, reluctantly, hope the new rumored sequel lives up to the original
I remember seeing this in 1999, before everything copied it. lol. It basically did for cinema the same thing Star Wars did in 1977.
Too bad WB stole it from Finnish home movie makers. Even a settlement was made worth millions. It was called Pötrix.
@@samuelslade6717 Actually the matrix itself is a copy of another movie called Dark City, which goes a long way to explaining why when they needed to make sequels and be original with storylines, the quality declined.
And if you now go back and look, you'll see that, of course, everything the Oracle said came true.
"I'm not the one."
"Sorry, kid. You've got the gift, but you're waiting for something."
"What?"
"I don't know. Your next life, maybe?"
...
"One of you is going to die."
And indeed, Neo did die, and The One woke up in his place.
And today is Hugo Weaving's birthday along with Robert Downey Jr
woah
Happy birthday for them
So? They are just people.
Sweeeeeet
That’s amazing
Me: "Haha, I remember wishing I could get that phone Morpheus sends to Neo. It was so badass and cool looking!"
Mary: "Oh my lord, what an old phone! It's so funny!"
Me: *Dies a little inside*
Saaame 😂 I used to be so mad that Neo dropped the phone.
Same!
I want to say Cingulair or T-Mobile had the phone they used in Reloaded... but I was with Sprint :/
Mary: It's been 10 years since I was 14, I feel super old.
Me: ...
She’s 24
Me: .... I was 24 when this movie came out....
@@shanerux8971 Hah. I was 36. Time flies.
@@tmac731 yes, I am sure he knows that. Hence his comment.
Let's see. I was 40 when this movie came out and was 37 when Mary was born. I don't recall feeling particularly old in 1983. I WAS probably under the influence of about six hits of acid, a metric shit-ton of cocaine, a bit of hash, and nearly a fifth of vodka. Unless it was the weekend when I partied.
The difference between Neo and an Agent is, Neo is a human connected into the Matrix, the Agents are computer code, part of the Matrix itself. You have to destroy the code to destroy the Agent, or it can keep coming back.
Those gun sounds are actually very accurate lol
I believe those are "Desert Eagles" and yes . they are very accurate. What kind of hearing protectors did they wear making this. They are invisible.
I doubt she's ever been near a gun being fired without earplugs on
Keanu Reeves is a national treasure. Bill and Ted, Speed, Point Break, The Matrix, and John Wick are must watch.
Hugo Weaving's niece is in Bill and Ted and she said in a joke that she is after vengeance for him killing her Uncle.
Excellent!
add Constantine to that list. super underrated
I agree to a point but in my opinion Reeves went through an extended period of bland performances, of which the Matrix was sadly one. The film is great, but Reeve's performance is a block of wood in a black coat. Not sure what happened there but he seemed to lose his talent for quite some time before regaining it in time for Joh Wick, thank goodness.
@@GriffinPilgrim IMHO He got typecast as Ted "Theodore" Logan. No one wanted him for his acting ability, they wanted him to see something impressive and go "Woah..." with varying degrees of animation behind it. Even with the star power of being "The One" post Matrix he still got stuck mostly in those roles until he really started to lean into the action hero typecasting instead in the late 00s/early 10s.
Fun fact! Keanu Reeves stunt double on this movie is the director of John Wick.
Seriously?
That is kinda wild.
Really? The Russo brothers? stunt doubles?
@@smily4 The director of John Wick, not The Matrix (The Wachkowsis).
Damn that is so cool if it's true, I had no idea!
@@smily4 Chad Stelinski is the director of JOHN WICK, who worked as a stunt double & stunt co-ordinator for keanu on THE MATRIX(directed by WACHOWSKI BROTHERS)
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Trinity: "I know why you're here, Neo. I know what you've been doing."
Neo: "Runs home and frantically tries to clear browsing history."
"The Matrix" is not just another film. This movie has DEFINED an entire generation of sci-fi film fans! In the same way that the original "Star Wars" did. One only wonders what the next generation-defining sci-fi film will be, because I imagine it will be just as mind-bendingly DEEP.
There have argubly been some since matrix- maybe inception? interstella?
Avatar was advertised as one when it came out. Infinity war and endgame kinda were for harboring such a large cast of "main" characters and continued storylines.
I would agree that inception had to have been.
Interstellar
Dune
I was thinking the same thing. I saw The Matrix in college a year or two after release and got to have that Star Wars mind-blown experience. And though it may not be ESB, the anticipation of the sequel. Reading this discussion I thought it was too early for the next phenomenon, then I did the math. 22 years and 22 years, wow.
"oh my lord what an old phone" :D we were all SO desperate for one of those at the time!
and Morpheus' phone in the next movie that extends
yeah my uncle had that phone, I was mad jealous but I one upped him by having the first colour phone in the family
People use 100% of their brain, just different parts at different times.
Thank you, yes this. Also - the "10%" number people hear, is about how much of the brain is "lit up" at any normal instant, but we use all of it over time. There is a moment people "use" close to 100% of their brain however, and it's called an epileptic attack - so it doesn't make you smart or better - it completely disables you.
@@WernerEdgar We went over this in my psychology class and my professor told us he actually examined brains that had multiple epileptic attacks and described it as "not so bueno." lol thanks professor!
@@ImitationBrand just think if a car fire its pistons 100% of the time. heheh
It is so weird hearing an adult person talking about this old trope/myth. How can that still be a thing? Then again...flat earth, the missing link, a 4000 year old earth...the human race really has a long way to go...
@@nielnielsen4822 yeah, awful waste of energy
The Matrix is a great analogy tool for therapy. There are multiple applications to be made. One of my favorite parts of the movie is when Morpheus asks Neo, "You think that's air your breathing now?" That, and Morpheus' facial expressions are on point and you can see the truth dawning in Neo's noggin when he gets up.
They had been watching Neo for a while and it was over that course that Trinity began falling in love with him. So, atleast from her perspective, it wasn't as sudden as it seems.
And in the later instalments we learn about how people can be manipulated anyhow.
There's the line in the opening scene where Cypher asks Trinity if she thinks Neo is the One. Trinity says it doesn't matter what she believes, but one must evaluate that in the context of her being told by the Oracle that the man she loves will be the One. If she thinks he's the One, it follows that she would necessarily be in love with him. That she doesn't instantly reject the concept but instead dodges the question speaks to how long she's been ruminating on the matter.
This movie spawned sooo much in the world of us nerds. It truly is a legend.
If you enjoyed it enough to want more story and answers, the next two movies are personally recommended and packed with stuff.
I always think of Trinity falling in love with Neo in the same terms as Neo knocking over the vase. The Oracle told Trinity that she would fall in love with the One. Then Morpheus keeps telling everyone Neo is the One. Would Trinity have fallen in love with Neo if the Oracle hadn't said anything?
That’s very adept. Never thought of it. But I think you’re right.
Mind blown and noodle totally baked!
Yes. They fought agents together and he pulled her out of a crashing helicopter. just because there was no anakin/padme scene doesn't mean it didn't develop well. people can fall in love wordlessly... Mary doesn't know that lol
I think they actually do a good job of her becoming more sure of her feelings and therefore, him being the one, during the course of the film.
And in the later instalments we learn about how people can be manipulated anyhow...not just by words.
My favorite part is when Neo comes back to life and awakens as the one, and he flexes and makes the walls bow outward
Long ago in the US, Laurence Fishbourne was interviewed on the PBS "Charlie Rose" show when the movie first came out. He described how he got hired. They said "We're making a genre film. It's a action movie in the style of Japanese anime. Are you interested?" He said "Hell, yea. Sign me on." They did not know he had been an anime junkie since the late '70s in the pre-otaku era !
One of my favorites. Don't forget that Trinity had been watching Neo for a long time so she had time to develop those feelings.
By... stalking him? xD
Also they were nursing him back to health for weeks, but you only see snapshots of that in the movie.
Lol thats just stalking, not love
And in the later instalments we learn about how people can be manipulated anyhow.
Another film that has the bullet-dodging and was called a Matrix knock-off is "Equilibrium" starring Christian Bale but it's much more than that. It takes place in the future where emotions have been all but outlawed, people are medicated and all art has been banned. Well worth viewing.
The Matrix was filmed in Sydney Australia at the Fox Studios and on locations within the city, which will explain why you recognize some of the locations Mary, because they filmed in Australia most of the cast are also Australian.
I always recognise the sandstone rail bridge near Central.
The W sisters are from Chicago and all the streets mentioned in the script are Chicago streets. I think they actually managed to get one or two scenes shot in Chicago but MOST of it is Sydney.
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr Anderson!"
Legit I almost said that when I went to the Fellowship of the Ring at the theater.
@@Outlaw8908 I just want him to yell at Starscream
A cool little thing about the scene in Martin Place is that the crowd they are walking through are all pairs of twins. It was meant to look like the programmer had copy-pasted a bunch to fill out the crowd. The filmmakers did an open casting call for identical twins so most of the twins in NSW are in that scene!
10% brain thing is total myth, but movies love to use it as a reason for superpowers etc 😂
Lucy is the most notable example of that
It's a myth for a portion of the population..
When you get to 100% you can meet a caveman.
@@SergioLeRoux No, you control space and time like Dr. Manhattan and Thanos.
Deathstroke apparently has that power in DC Comics haha
One of my favorite movies of all time. Seen it in theaters 3 times in 1999 when I was 15. It was revolutionary.
Fun fact: The Wachowski Brothers asked for a budget of 80 million dollars. This was denied and they were only given 11 Million. So they spent it ALL on Trinity's opening sequence. When they showed the opening scene to the executives, they were so impressed they greenlit the original budget that was requested.
And how is that fun?
Wachowski Sisters
Wachowski nut-jobs
@Shawn Gates:
They weren't called that back then. The Wachowski BROTHERS made this film.
Somebody doesn't know the meaning of sarcasm.
This came out before serious social media and there was very little given away in the trailer. My friends and I went to see it in the afternoon opening day knowing only that it was that Keanu Hacker film. We weren’t excited we just literally had nothing better to do. Best surprise of my life.
Likewise. I'd seen some online comics on the official website that dropped hints, but I wasn't able to put them together until I actually saw the movie.
Such a significant movie in the sci fi genre and pop culture in general, it blows my mind how many folks have never experienced it. Glad you're getting to now! 😄
You need to watch "The Animatrix" which is a series of animated short films that is the prequel to "The Matrix" film series and will explain a lot of the concepts in the movie
Some are prequels, some are side stories, and at least one is the first part of a bridge between this film and the second one (the second half is a video game that got a "meh" reception but I liked it).
I concur, The Animatrix is awesome
The Second Renaissance was better than any of the movies.
It wasn't that Agent Smith 'died', the body he was occupying did and he just jumped into one of the people on the train. However, Neo obliterated him later :)
In the Matrix there's no bodies, everyone is a digital representation. Agents are programs running in the Matrix that can take over the representation of who they want.
@@muckit606 I do seem to recall that the Wachowskis confirmed at one point that when an Agent takes over a new body it does kill the person they jump into though. Not directly like they'd been shot but the Matrix ejects them like it did with Neo, just without the tracking program to let anyone find them.
Keanu, Lawrence Fishburne , Carrie Moss and Hugo Weaving trained Kung Fu for four months under the supervision of Yuen Wo Ping!
Watching the Animatrix anthology series will fill in a lot of the world building graps left by the movies.
Trinity is a soldier. As such, she's generally pretty reserved. You even made a remark about how much you liked her "poker-face." Unless she just comes out and tells you, you're not gonna get much from Trinity.
The way they have Cypher hint at her feelings for Neo because he's watching her it is pretty clever.
"I've seen an agent punch through a concrete wall, men have emptied entire clips at them and hit nothing but air,
yet their strength and their speed are still based in a world that is built on rules, because of that they will never be as strong or as fast as you can be."
Best movie quote ever.
"You're cuter than I thought. I can see why she likes you ... Who? ... Not too bright, though." ...
7:49 "In his belly button" Haha The way you add that is just funny.
From Blade Runner to Ghost in the Shell to The Matrix.
"If only I could learn skills like that..."
I think you missed the opportunity to add a SkillShare sponsorship right there.
The Matrix score has to be among the most underrated scores of all time, yet it's instantly iconic.
No other score comes close to the level of detail that this score has.
All it takes is listening to the intro themes in the very beginning and I'm instantly IMMERSED into the world of the Matrix.
Regarding the quickness of theTrinity-Neo romance, shared danger and exertion tends to stimulate interpersonal bonding.
Lol the random mouse cursor moving around in the middle of the movie screen was making me laugh
This EPIC movie changed the whole movie landscape forever! I literally watched it in the theatres like 20 times 🤭 It inspired me so much!
Me: Breakfast cooking
*Mary Cherry new video dot*
Me: Hmm.
*Mary Cherry Finally Watched The Matrix*
Me: Oh I'm gonna have a *good* time! (Double check the back of my head) good to go
Trinity has been watching Neo for a while, thats why she loves him lol
She watched him one day, in the shower, while singing to himself, and that's when she got hooked. lol
The love between Trinity and Neo was supposed to be underdeveloped, so that it would be at least a little surprising for the ending.
The other thing The Matrix really pioneered in Hollywood was fight choreography. There's a real night-and-day switch between pre-Matrix and post-Matrix fight scenes.
Pioneered in western cinema, that is
@@joeno-say5504 That''s what he said, Hollywood.
Yep, The Matrix took the John Woo gunplay and the Shaw Brothers/Golden Harvest hand-to-hand fighting and showed it to Hollywood.
Agents can take over anyone still plugged into the system, Mary.
Blows me away that there are people who haven’t experienced The Matrix or are aware 😉
When films evolve and change cinema. Best example of the 90s
FUN FACT: Agent Smith aka the "Mr. Anderson" guy is Hugo Weaving. He was Red Skull in the first Captain America movie.
And Elrond from Lord of the Rings
@@christianwise637 I didn't want to look up his name, and I wasn't sure if she has seem the movies.
3:21 - "Do these people have super powers?...Because they're very good at jumping"
Us - "Uh....yeah"
Keanu was also in the 1995 Cyberpunk film "Johnny Mnemonic" based off the short story by William Gibson, the author of "Neuromancer" the first major cyberpunk text in 1984.
Mr Johnson dose not want to be Mr Name. Now get yourself a better deck, chipper.
I read Neuromancer back in 84. I was only 10 so I didn’t get most of the details. Still was a great read.
This was the first movie I ever saw on a CD-ROM lol
"NEO" is an anagram of "ONE". It is also an anagram of "ENO", meaning that Brian Eno is The One.
The Matrix made use of leftover sets from Dark City, another movie you might find of interest.
Neo was always the one. What the Oracle said is that he's got the gift, but he's just waiting on something, another life perhaps. So when he died and came back that was his next life.
You have to remember that Morpheus and Trinity have been watching him for some time. They never specify his long Trinity had been watching him (to fall in love) but she was convinced by the time they met.
And in the later instalments we learn about how people can be manipulated anyhow.
And today on "show your age", i know her from Heartbreak high, where she was even younger 😅
There is no spoon.... We all had that one friend back in 1999 who was overly obsessed with this film. XD
I was one of those friends
I noticed that you made the comment that the love story between Neo and Trinity wasn’t developed enough but remember that Trinity had been watching over Neo for a very long time at that point. She knew him well before he ever met her.
Many people thought this movie took a lot of concepts from Dark City which came out before this. It would be interesting to see you react to that as well and see if you can draw any parallels
Agree. Came here to make this very suggestion.
one of my favorites, and it's still relevant today. thanks for sharing your reaction with us, mary! :)
Matrix is one of those films Mary. It blew me tf away when I first seen it too. Still does.
If you think The Matrix is Keanu Reeves's path to Cyberpunk 2077, you should check out Johnny Mnemonic.
Totally agree.
Mary: "It looks like the young Keanu Reeves."
Me: KR does not age.
He does. Just better than most. He's no Paul Rudd who I'm convinced is immortal.
He mastered his own code.
My friends and I saw this in the cinema in 1999, back when I was a sprightly 22 years old! Cannot believe this movie celebrates its 25th anniversary next year (along with The Phantom Menace)!
When agents get killed they just take over another body of a human that is still plugged into the Matrix. So he did kill Agent Smith with the train. But then some one on the train just becomes Agent Smith and he starts his pursuit again. They just always come back.
Sadly the person they inhabited/possessed is now dead on the train tracks. :/
Watching the opening half hour or so of this movie for the first time is such a trip. I still find it hard to believe that so many people haven't seen it.
One thing to keep in mind about agents, they don't really die (except at the end where he exploded), they just transfer to someone else that hasn't been unplugged.
You said that the love part of it was underdeveloped, but I kind of disagree. They alluded to Trinity following & watching Neo for a long time before they actually met. It may be a little stalkerish, but she knew a lot about him. lol "You like watching him, don't you?" - Cypher to Trinity at the beginning. And don't think of agents as being a body or person that can die. They are programs that take control of bodies & occupy them for their needs. So when Agent Smith 'died' from the train, the body he occupied is gone & he takes control of another body.
Software that takes over the hardware of a body still jacked in literally possession.
You saw the vase lines coming. YOU ARE GENIUS!!!!
When I saw this when this came out, I was like...6? And It kinda blew my mind. Before I knew anything about film making, I knew that what I saw, I liked the techniques used. Plus ever since then, I've been on the Keanu train, and never went off, so when you get to Reloaded and Revolutions, it does get amped up, and their not the most favorable movies to fans, but they have their merits.
"... and their not the most favorable movies to fans, but they have their merits."
Yep. Totally agree.
I really enjoyed Reloaded, but Revolution not as good but good.
Can't even imagine watching this at 6 years old. To wrap your brain around all these ideas 🤯
@@richardpuente867 It's actually EASIER as a little kid, because as a little kid, you're not as mentally "trapped in the real world" as adults are.
Probably why Morpheus told Neo that it's just "easier" to free the minds of children, rather than adults past a certain age.
Well they have Monica Bellucci 😆
The concept isn't as novel as some may think. Think of The Sims where there are player characters and non-player characters (NPCs). Those of us who do things such as invent things are player characters and those of us who mindlessly just live out our lives are NPCs. Another feature of the plot of the movie is similar to The Terminator where the machines rise up and overtake humanity. There have been cyborgs among us. People may not think of them as cyborgs, but think about people with artificial hearts, etc. They are part human and part machine. Eventually, with the advancement of science, as more and more people seek immortality or even just a longer life, there will be more and more cyborgs with people having not only artificial hearts, but also artificial livers, lungs, kidneys, etc. There are movies such as The Sixth Day which shows a different interpretation of eternal life, but because of the illegality of doing such things in The Sixth Day, many people believe that the ultimate evolution of man will be to become machines. How ironic that you included the footage where he was learning various martial arts where the one character says "10 hours straight. He's a machine." inferring that even as humans, we will all become machine like at one point in the future. With the advancements made in robotics and DNA sequencing, there are some who believe that the generation of your grandchildren will be able to live to 1000 years old while still looking like they are in their 20s or 30s.. While I think the timeline is a bit optimistic, it will probably happen in the not too distant future. About your comment about the love story aspect, maybe it can be explained in The Terminator. On another note, I wonder if you recognized Hugo Weaving playing Agent Smith as Lord Elrond in Lord of The Rings.
Oh wow you're definitely in for a ride I can't wait to see the other matrix reloaded and revelations as well
one important issue you need to understand about keanu reaves: there´s no young keanu reaves and there´s no old keanu reaves. he´s not aging.
That's one talented mouse cursor.
You forget that Trinity has known him for longer than what we saw in the movie, she has been following the idea of "The One" for years, just as Morpheus has and so she fell in love with him long before they first met. She fell in love with someone she didn't know in the same way someone could fall in love with a hero they had never met, except she had been expressly told by the Oracle years before that she would love him.
If that makes sense. It wasn't a whirlwind romance, Trinity has been preparing herself for years to meet the person a prophet not only said she would fall in love with but also someone that will save their world. That's quite a powerful driver of emotions.
I didn't remember that he wake up because of a 'true love kiss" LMAO
" No fucking way dude, that can't be right " 😂😂
If you go back and watch Neo's conversation with The Oracle, you'll realize that everything she said was true. She wasn't playing Neo, he just misinterprets what she means when she says, "You've got the gift. But it seems to me that you're waiting for something. Another life, perhaps." She says right there that Neo is indeed The One, but he has to die and come back in order to unlock his power.
Mary has to watch the sequels now. Though they get a bit more confusing and are divisive, they do expand on the story and introduce some new themes. I'd also recommend The Animatrix series of animated shorts, particularly The Final Flight Of The Osiris because it leads directly into the events of The Matrix Reloaded, and The Second Renaissance Part 1 & 2 because it explains the backstory about how the Machines took over the world and makes you question who the villains of the story actually are.
He doesn't come back, it's just a near death experience.Morpheus is right the oracle isn't interested in truth she says what she needs to say to get him to go where he needs to go and do what he needs to do. In this case, he needs to "die" in the matrix so he will have no choice but to reject the matrix's reality.
I was 11 years old when this released and it blew my mind. I watched it with my brothers soo many times afterwards, when we got it on dvd back then. It's crazy how many movies and games were influenced by Matrix, with the bullet-time slowmo.
A perfect release for Easter 😁
I saw this in theaters before the spoilers leaked. It’s a big part of pop culture today but it was mind blowing when you first saw it fresh.
Similar films with the same themes that came out earlier are Dark City, 13th Floor and Johnny Mnemonic (in the year 2021 where Keanu Reeves could carry as much as 80 gigs of data in his head! Watch the trailer XD)
> carry as much as 80 gigs of data in his head
Haha - reminded of the novelization of Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982) - which contained dialogue about an enormous "50 megabyte" video game that was too big to fit on any of the smaller 24th Century computers in the Genesis Lab:
"I don't want to delete anything," Carol said, "but I just spent six weeks debugging this subroutine, and I've got to have it." At a lab table nearby, Del March glanced at Vance Madison. Vance grimaced, and Carol caught him at it. "All right you guys," Carol said. "Del, have you been using my bubble bath again?" Del approached, hanging his head; Vance followed, walking with his easy slouch. They're like a couple of kids, Carol thought. Like kids? They are kids. They were only a few years older than David. "Geez, Carol," Del said, "it's just a little something-" "Del, there's got to be ninety-three computers on Spacelab. Why do you have to put your games on the main machine?" "They work a lot better," Vance said in his soft beautiful voice. "You can't play Boojum Hunt on anything less, Carol," Del said. "Hey, you ought to look at what we did to it. It's got a black hole with an accretion disk that will jump right out and grab you, and the graphics are fantastic. If I do say so myself. If we had a Three-D display …" "Why do I put up with this?" Carol groaned. The answer to that was obvious: Vance Madison and Del March were the two sharpest quark chemists in the field, and when they worked together their talents did not simply add, but multiplied. Every time they published a paper they got another load of invitations to scientific conferences. Genesis was lucky to have them, and Carol knew it. The two young scientists played together as well as they worked; unfortunately, what they liked to play was computer games. Del had tried to get her to play one once; she was not merely uninterested, she was totally disinterested. "What's the file name?" she asked. She felt too tired for patience. She turned back to the console. "Prepare to kill a file," she said to the computer. "Ok," it replied. "Don't kill it, Carol," Del said. "Come on, give us a break." She almost killed it anyway; Del's flakiness got to her worst when she was exhausted. "We'll keep it out of your hair from now on, Carol," Vance said. "I promise." Vance never said anything he did not mean. Carol relented. "Oh-all right. What's the file name?" "BH," Del said. "Got one in there called BS, too?" David asked. Del grinned sheepishly. Carol accessed one of the smaller lab computers. "Uh, Carol," Del said, "I don't think it'll fit in that one." "How big is it?" "Well … about fifty megs." "Christ on a crutch!" David said. "The program that swallowed Saturn." "We added a lot since you played it last," Del said defensively.
@@spatulasnout lol
Like the Oracle said, Neo was waiting for his "next life".. Neo was killed by Agent Smith, and brought back by Trinity.. Thus, his "next life"...
When you thought it was dreams early on it was just him waking up the next morning.
That mouse cursor knows kung-fu.
Okay now I want Mary to watch Keanu in Speed 🤞
This film was filmed in Sydney, good eye. It’s also why some of the extras (and Hugo Weaving) are from Australia
Sorry but I really couldnt disagree more with your analysis of this movie. I dont think its dated at all and its very strange that you would say that Infinity War has less action than this movie. Infinity Wars is 3 hours of action, The Matrix only has about 30 minutes of action in the entire movie. One of the reason the Matrix is so well loved is because it isnt just mindless action, it put story over action.
Yes, it's exactly like an interactive video game. You gain skills, you level up. Neo is "The One" player who can go to superhuman levels because of a "rounding error" in the system. Little excess bits of code all attach to him.
12:20 everyone, every time. Don’t believe, look up others who’ve reacted to The Matrix.
Great movie reaction. I was distracted, was someone else moving your cursor or were you doing that with your feet?