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La frase "Temet nosce"	D
With the exception of the call traces, the glyphs on the computer screens that represent the Ma [...]	D
The green code was created by a production designer who scanned his wife's sushi recipes from a [...]	D
For the "bullet time" scene Proof of concept tests were first conducted by Mass.Illusions in Le [...]	D
Morpheus warns Neo that some people are so dependent on the Matrix that they will resist libera [...]	D
Apparently, there is no reason for that Smith catches Neo in the room 303 he was looking to esc [...]	D
After the lobby shoot-out, the camera pans back, showing the aftermath of the gunfight. A momen [...]	D
When Carrie-Anne Moss saw the first cut, it was the first time she had seen herself in a movie. [...]	D
By the middle of 2002, the famous "Bullet Time" sequence had been spoofed in over twenty differ [...]	D
Prior to pre-production, Keanu Reeves suffered a two-level fusion of his cervical spine, which [...]	D
During Neo's training, he asks Morpheus: "What are you saying, that I can dodge bullets?" Morph [...]	D
Pretty much everything in the Oracle's talk with Neo, but three lines in particular: "Your next [...]	D
Russell Crowe turned down the role of Morpheus. He said. "I just didn't get it. I couldn't get [...]	D
The Wachowskis have said that the popular Japanese manga and the film of the same name, Ghost i [...]	D
When Neo fights Morpheus in the construct, the three pieces of music that play on the score are [...]	D
According to the time stamp of Trinity's call at the start of the film (Thursday, February 19th [...]	D
Janet Jackson was initially approached for the role of Trinity, but scheduling conflicts preven [...]	D
In the last scene, in which Agent Smith's chasing Neo through a building, as Neo's looking for [...]	D
Joe Pantoliano and Carrie-Anne Moss worked together again in Memento (2000).	D
Chow Yun-Fat turned down the role of Morpheus.	D
When Neo is meeting with the Oracle, the music playing in the background in her apartment is Dj [...]	D
The Wachowskis' approach to action scenes drew upon their admiration for Japanese animation suc [...]	D
The powerful sidearm used by the Agents in all three Matrix films is the Magnum Research/Israel [...]	D
The first time he saw the movie, Laurence Fishburne said, "Morpheus scared the s*** out of me." [...]	D
The Wachowskis approached Hugo Weaving to play Agent Smith after seeing his performance in Ista [...]	D
The helicopter rescue of Morpheus took over six months to prepare and plan.	D
The Wachowskis cited La ragazza del domani (1991) as one of their inspirations behind the movie [...]	D
For Keanu Reeves' scenes that are set in the Matrix at the start of the film, his wardrobe was [...]	D
Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) carries a pair of Beretta 84FS Cheetahs as her sidearms in the film. [...]	D
There was a rumor that the studio had little faith in the project, and only gave the Wachowskis [...]	D
When Neo meets Morpheus, this one offers him two pills, red and blue, symbolizing blue to keep [...]	D
The original script had a lot more swearing in it, namely a lot of f words, but any uses of the [...]	D
Some personal information can be seen on Thomas Anderson's criminal record that Agent Smith gla [...]	D
Only one time it is shown how a people leave Matrix using a telephone (Morpheus in the subway). [...]	D
The motorcycle Trinity rides is a jet black Triumph Speed Triple.	D
Michelle Yeoh was considered for the role of Trinity.	D
Neo (Keanu Reeves) takes at least two pair of Beretta 92FS pistols with him on his mission to s [...]	D
The spring-loaded cell phones used in the film were Nokia Stilletos or 8110s. Also known as the [...]	D
The filming of the helicopter scene nearly caused the film to be shut down; they flew the helic [...]	D
Principal photography wrapped at 1:01 a.m., with the scene where the characters are inside the [...]	D
Carrie-Anne Moss performed the shots featuring Trinity at the beginning of the film, and all th [...]	D
The famous Neo's election between red pill and blue pill contains a little trap: it was already [...]	D
Cypher's conversation with Trinity at the very beginning of the movie has three instances, one [...]	D
Warner Bros. green-lit the movie fairly late during pre-production. For a long time, artists wo [...]	D
David Duchovny turned down the role of Neo in order to star in X-Files - Il film (1998).	D
Jean Reno was approached to play Agent Smith. He turned it down and took a role in Godzilla (19 [...]	D
Leonardo DiCaprio turned down the part of Neo, supposedly because he was concerned about the am [...]	D
Numerous sets of identical twins were cast as extras in the "Woman in Red" scene to create the [...]	D
The car used while inside the matrix is a black 1965 Lincoln Continental.	D
Gary Oldman was considered for Morpheus at one point, as well as Samuel L. Jackson.	D
The bomb used in the elevator used a redundant pair of mercury switches. They are triggered by [...]	D
The iconic sunglasses worn by the Matrix characters are from the label "Blinde," which prides i [...]	D
Sets from the film Dark City (1998), including rooftops, buildings, and other exterior sets, we [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2001 list of the top 100 Most Heart-Pounding Ameri [...]	D
When we are introduced to Neo, he's asleep at his computer. Images are seen rapidly changing on [...]	D
Agent Smith tells Morpheus that humans are a cancer who move to an area and multiply until all [...]	D
Tamara Brown's debut.	D
The antique television Morpheus shows to Neo in the construct is an AWA (Amalgamated Wireless - [...]	D
Shot almost entirely in Sydney, Australia, the location scouts found it very difficult to find [...]	D
Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne and Joe Pantoliano are left-handed.	D
The screenplay appears to have borrowed several plot elements from the 1973 German TV miniserie [...]	D
In cryptography, an Oracle is a component of a secure system which leaks encrypted information [...]	D
The Nebuchadnezzar was designed to have a patched-up look, instead of clean, cold and sterile s [...]	D
Won all four of the categories it was nominated for that year at the Academy Awards. This is th [...]	D
Hugo Weaving stated that the character of Agent Smith was enjoyable to play because it amused h [...]	D
In an online interview when the film was first released, the Wachowskis revealed that they'd bo [...]	D
The dojo set was built well before it was used. During the dojo sequence, there was significant [...]	D
Tom Cruise was originally considered for the role of Neo.	D
The food on the Nebuchadnezzar hover-ship was a "rice porridge", according to Australian actor [...]	D
Neo's mouth melting shut during the interrogation scene is an intentional homage to the sci-fi [...]	D
The movie draws inspiration from Plato's Allegory of the Cave.	D
The name of the City's subway network is CityRail, which also happens to be the name of Sydney' [...]	D
The key of the beginning theme you hear at the beginning of every Matrix movie (rousing strings [...]	D
Due to Keanu Reeves' neck injury, some of the action scenes had to be re-scheduled to accommoda [...]	D
When the idea of The Matrix was in early development in the early 1990s Lana & Lilly Wachowski' [...]	D
The name of Morpheus' ship, the Nebuchadnezzar, is a Biblical reference to King Nebuchadnezzar [...]	D
The visual effects comprise roughly twenty percent of the entire film.	D
Although really the fourth wall never is broken by the actors, when (at around 1h 53 mins) the [...]	D
Michael Hutchence was cast in a major role, but died by suicide only three days after learning [...]	D
The Wachowskis instructed Laurence Fishburne to base his performance on the character Morpheus [...]	D
For the subway scene, the set was first planned to be shot in a real subway station, but due to [...]	D
Keanu Reeves was dressed in tight-fitting clothes to make him feel more confined in "everyday l [...]	D
The pistol that the Agents use throughout the film are a variation of the Desert Eagle--this wa [...]	D
In a deleted line, Cypher explains to Neo that Morpheus had identified several other candidate [...]	D
Laurence Fishburne said that Morpheus was like being Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader in one char [...]	D
The fight scenes sound effects, such as the whipping sounds of punches, were created using thin [...]	D
Agent Brown and Agent Jones never take off their sunglasses.	D
The studio insisted on a great deal of explanatory dialogue, as they described the screenplay a [...]	D
According to the inscription on the Nebuchadnezzar's core, the ship was "Made in the USA" in th [...]	D
At the beginning of the movie, Neo is told to "follow the white rabbit" which Dujour has a whit [...]	D
The lobby shoot-out was inspired by the works of John Woo.	D
One subtle bit of foreshadowing comes in the form of Cypher making Wizard of Oz references whil [...]	D
Nicolas Cage turned down the role of Neo due to scheduling conflicts regarding family issues.	D
As Neo and Morpheus get on a elevator as they are on their way to see The Oracle, Morpheus nods [...]	D
As of April, 2016 a research team at DARPA was working on a project which focuses on Targeted N [...]	D
The book Neo hides things in is called "Simulacra and Simulation," a treatise by Jean Baudrilla [...]	D
The only film in the trilogy where Neo utilizes firearms. It's also the only one released in th [...]	D
Mark Wahlberg was seriously considered and lobbied hard for the role of Neo.	D
While filming the scene where Neo slams Smith into the ceiling of the subway tunnel, Chad Stahe [...]	D
The Agents' costume was designed to create a secret service, undercover look, resembling JFK - [...]	D
The film bears a couple of similarities to the "Terminator" films: The film takes place in a da [...]	D
In the early stages of developing what was to become the famous Bullet Time sequence, visual ef [...]	D
Keanu Reeves and Hugo Weaving nicknamed each other "the neck" and "the leg" during preproductio [...]	D
The song that Neo is listening to when Trinity contacts him is called "Dissolved Girl" by Massi [...]	D
A combination of practical and digital effects were used for the interrogation scene where Neo [...]	D
According to producer Barrie M. Osborne, the Wachowskis originally wanted the Trinity chase on [...]	D
Despite it was conceived from the beginning as trilogy, if the sequels never wouldn't been be f [...]	D
On the first day of shooting, Hugo Weaving suffered an injury to his leg, which turned out to b [...]	D
Carrie-Anne Moss said that after the film's release, she could not go out wearing sunglasses, a [...]	D
Neo is often associated with the number one. (Neo is an anagram for one, and a major plot point [...]	D
The idea for the movie was created when the Wachowskis were thinking for some new story for a c [...]	D
By filming in Australia, the film-makers kept the final budget at $60 million. The movie would [...]	D
When Neo has a meeting with his boss at Metacortex near the start of the film, the boss talks a [...]	D
All the color blue was sucked out of the exterior shots to convey how grim the world of the Mat [...]	D
Joe Pantoliano had worked with the Wachowskis before on Bound - Torbido inganno (1996).	D
Lou Diamond Phillips was sent the script, but was later told by his agent that the movie would [...]	D
Switch (Belinda McClory) is seen carrying a silver chrome Browning Hi-Power with adjustable sig [...]	D
Christopher Meloni auditioned for the role of Agent Smith.	D
Keanu Reeves says he was introduced to anime after The Wachowskis made him watch 'Akira' and 'G [...]	D
Neo's first scene chatting with his friends (the ones that take him to the nigthclub where he m [...]	D
When Neo gets in the car with Trinity for the first time, Switch refers to him as "Coppertop." [...]	D
The green code that makes up the matrix was created by the production designer scanning in his [...]	D
The 44 cue names in Don Davis' musical score include: 10 gags based on character names (7 aroun [...]	D
The hotel and room number where Neo is told to go after the fight in the subway are the same as [...]	D
All scenes that take place within the Matrix have a green tint, as if watching them through a c [...]	D
Madonna revealed on The Jimmy Fallon Show recently that she had turned down a role in this film [...]	D
According to Don Davis, Johnny Depp was Lana and Lilly's first choice for Neo, but Warner Bros [...]	D
Together, the name of Choi and his girlfriend Dujour form "Choi Dujour" referring to the French [...]	D
Before filming, the principal cast spent four months (Oct. '97 to Mar. '98) with martial arts e [...]	D
For three times Neo is concerned about to return to his previous life instead to go ahead: the [...]	D
"Tastee Wheat", which is mentioned when Mouse is trying to describe the food in the real world, [...]	D
When Will Smith was being offered the part of Neo, the Wachowskis thought of pairing him with V [...]	D
Along with the many other Christian parallels in this movie, the character Cypher is a reflecti [...]	D
The Wachowskis hired Woo-Ping Yuen to be the fight choreographer based on his work on Jing wu y [...]	D
The climactic subway fight scene between Neo and Agent Smith went ten days over schedule.	D
Will Smith turned down the lead role to star in Wild,Wild West (1999). Smith later admitted tha [...]	D
The office building in which Smith interrogated Morpheus was a large set, and the outside view [...]	D
For the "Ultimate Matrix Collection" DVD re-release, the film was given a totally new, clean DV [...]	D
The name of the company where Thomas Anderson works is Metacortex. The roots of this word are m [...]	D
The film pays a huge homage to Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", although the [...]	D
To prepare for the wire fu, the actors had to train hard for several months. The Wachowskis fir [...]	D
Ewan McGregor turned down the role of Neo, as he was filming Star Wars: Episodio I - La minacci [...]	D
Gillian Anderson turned down the role of Trinity.	D
The first film to be shot in the then just-opened Fox Studios in Sydney.	D
After The Oracle reveals Neo that he is not the One, she says him: "You got the gift, but it lo [...]	D
In 2012, The Matrix was selected by the U.S. Library of Congress for preservation in the Nation [...]	D
In the combat training program, before Neo spars with Morpheus, he rubs his nose with his thumb [...]	D
Even though Cypher is seen holding a submachine gun on the poster, he never uses one in the mov [...]	D
According to the Wachowskis, all animals in the Matrix universe are computer generated images. [...]	D
All the intersections mentioned are real junctions in the Wachowski's home city of Chicago.	D
In the first forty-five minutes of the film, Neo has eighty lines. Forty-four of these lines ar [...]	D
At the 72nd Academy Awards, Arnold Schwarzenegger presented the Visual Effects award segment wh [...]	D
Jennifer Connelly, Marisa Tomei, Salma Hayek, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Halle Berry, Jennifer Lopez [...]	D
Jada Pinkett Smith auditioned for the part of Trinity. She later played Niobe in Matrix Reloade [...]	D
Many Hollywood studio execs passed on this project claiming virtual reality sci-fi was "bad bus [...]	D
Despite widespread rumors, Sir Sean Connery was offered the role of the Architect in the sequel [...]	D
The shot as Trinity tells Neo, "you know exactly where it ends", was filmed on Elizabeth Street [...]	D
The Wachowskis story-boarded the entire film before production. According to set decorator Tim [...]	D
This wasn't Keanu Reeves' first cyberpunk part. He also played the title role in Johnny Mnemoni [...]	D
In an eerie coincidence, Neo's passport expires on September 11 2001.	D
The opening action scene took six months of training and four days to shoot.	D
Body count: 39.	D
The number that Neo dials for Guns and Ammo is 555-0161.	D
Carrie-Anne Moss twisted her ankle while shooting one of her scenes, but decided not to tell an [...]	D
Keanu Reeves slipped and fell over during filming of the lobby gunfight.	D
David Schwimmer was a frontrunner for the role of Neo.	D
The vintage TV seen in an early scene in the film is an AWA (Amalgamated Wireless Australia) br [...]	D
On a computer, a "cookie" is a piece of data. The Oracle gives Neo a literal and a figurative c [...]	D
After reading the script, Carrie-Anne Moss stated that at first, she did not believe she had to [...]	D
Agent Smith's car has the license plate IS 5416, referring to Isaiah 54:16, which reads "Behold [...]	D
John Cusack lobbied hard for the role of Neo.	D
At the directors' request, the actors and were to be able to understand and explain The Matrix, [...]	D
The Nokia 8110 cell phone had no spring-mechanism. It was added specifically for the film. That [...]	D
The Agents, including Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving), famously carry IMI Desert Eagle Mark XIX pist [...]	D
The Lafayette Hotel escape sequence originally continued in to the sewers and then back up in t [...]	D
Drake, Nas, B.o.B, Rakim, Ab-Soul, Mac Miller, Colson Baker, cflynna, Kendrick Lamar, Common, R [...]	D
Takes place 6 months before The Matrix Reloaded (2003) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003).	D
Carrie-Anne Moss was a cast member of the short-lived television show Matrix (1993).	D
The Wachowskis harbored their vision for five and a half years, working through fourteen drafts [...]	D
The phone number for City Boarding is 555-0156.	D
The windows into which Trinity crashes the helicopter are those of the Columbia Pictures screen [...]	D
The last scene shot was Neo getting flushed into the lake when he gets unplugged for the first [...]	D
For the scene when Neo wakes up in the pod connected to the Matrix, the pod was constructed to [...]	D
In Greek mythology, Morpheus is the god of dreams. This is ironic, considering Morpheus' role i [...]	D
William Gibson's novel Neuromancer was an influence on the film (in particular, use of the term [...]	D
When Mouse is cornered by the S.W.A.T. team during the raid, the guns he pulls out are a pair o [...]	D
The first trace program gives a view of the City's area code, but the camera zooms in before it [...]	D
Christian symbolism: Early on, Choi tells Neo: "Hallelujah. You're my saviour, man. My own pers [...]	D
There are many who might legitimately claim to have invented the time-freezing photographic tec [...]	D
While asleep (inside the Matrix) at the beginning of the movie - one of Neo's illicit computer [...]	D
Both Joey Pantoliano and Laurence Fishburne made guest appearances on MAS*H during its last s [...]	D
The FedEx envelope that Neo receives has the FedEx logo in red and blue lettering. Neo signs fo [...]	D
After Smith sends Neo flying backwards with a punch to the chest, Neo spews blood before gettin [...]	D
Carrie-Anne Moss auditioned with the scene in the nightclub where she first approaches Thomas A [...]	D
When Neo is caught alone with the agent at a subway station and they use up their entire clips, [...]	D
When Tank is uploading the martial arts training to Neo, there is a shot of the computer screen [...]	D
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.	D
Thomas Anderson a.k.a. Neo wakes up seven times during the course of the film.	D
Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington, Anthony Hopkins & Robert De Niro were considered for the rol [...]	D
The cop of "That's impossible" line at the opening after Trinity famous jump from a rooftop to [...]	D
Before his character's final speech at the end, Keanu Reeves never has more than five sentences [...]	D
Switch was originally meant to change genders upon entering the Matrix, which coined their name [...]	D
Hugo Weaving had to undergo hip surgery after being injured during fight training, which comple [...]	D
To prepare for the scene where Neo wakes up in a pod, Keanu Reeves lost fifteen pounds and shav [...]	D
Sophia Stewart, a sometime writer who claims to have created the Matrix and Terminator franchis [...]	D
According to costumer Gloria Bava, Neo's original coat was a silvery leather. It was changed be [...]	D
All of the references to street corners (for example, Wells and Lake) are real intersections in [...]	D
Jennifer Beals turned down the role of Trinity.	D
According to Lana Wachowski, for the slow-mo bullet ripple effects, sound designer Dane A. Davi [...]	D
Cypher, whose last name is Reagan, wants to be "important, like an actor," a wink to President [...]	D
The film takes place around the year 2199.	D
The opening (and closing) scenes take place at Heart O' The City Motel. While the official name [...]	D
There is an anecdote repeated in the "Matrix Revisited" documentary and "Art of the Matrix" boo [...]	D
During the scene in the Oracle's living room where Neo meets the Potentials, La notte della lun [...]	D
During the Trinity rooftop chase at the film's beginning, two distinctive city skylines are not [...]	D
The bending of spoons in the Oracle's apartment is a nod to the 1970s psychic-pop fad of teleki [...]	D
Sophia Stewart had a case pending against the directors, producers, and studios behind the Matr [...]	D
Agent Smith refers to Cypher as Mr. Reagan during their meeting. This makes him the only charac [...]	D
Will Smith was approached to play Neo, but turned down the offer in order to star in Wild Wild [...]	D
The lobby shootout took ten days to film.	D
According to the film's armorer, John Bowring, the guns held by Keanu Reeves in the lobby and e [...]	D
The first day of shooting was the scene where Neo receives the phone from Morpheus in the offic [...]	D
When Belinda McClory auditioned for the role of "Switch," she was only going for half the role; [...]	D
For Agent Smith's voice, Hugo Weaving emulated a 1950s news reader. Laurence Fishburne compared [...]	D
When Morpheus offers Neo to choose blue pill or red pill, blue pill is on his left hand and red [...]	D
Laurence Fishburne stated that once he read the script, he did not understand why other people [...]	D
The way Neo and Morpheus attack each other with the same move, their clothes and head/hair form [...]	D
According to Marcus Chong, the actors and actresses were encouraged to make their characters st [...]	D
Brad Pitt turned down the role of Neo. He didn't believe the role was his.	D
Neo's combat training lasted for ten hours.	D
'Matrix' is the late Latin word for 'womb' - which would make "The Matrix has you..." an apt wa [...]	D
The sound of the pod containing a human baby closing, required almost fifty sounds put together [...]	D
Every time Trinity gets the phone trying to leave Matrix, Smith is trying to kill her.	D
According to costume designer Kym Barrett, Trinity's costume was made with cheap PVC because of [...]	D
The helicopter was a full-scale, light-weight mock-up. Only the blades needed to be added in po [...]	D
The Oracle's outfit and kitchen design reference Michelangelo's "Delphic Sibyl" a painting of a [...]	D
When Morpheus is explaining "What the Matrix is" to Neo, he uses the phrase "Welcome to the desert o [...]	D
When Lana and Lilly Wachowski's screenplay for Assassins (1995) was being made for producer Joel Sil [...]	D
The only non-Best Picture Oscar nominee that year to be nominated for Best Editing. Nevertheless, it [...]	D
"Temet nosce", the phrase in the kitchen of The Oracle, was the inscription above the entrance of th [...]	D

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