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Five million cows were slaughtered to make the wardrobe for this movie
Describe The Matrix here.
We can't tell you what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.
...or, you know, you could read the article. That works too.
A trilogy of sci-fi action movies starring Keanu Reeves as the hero, Laurence Fishburne as his mentor, Carrie-Anne Moss as his Action Girl Love Interest, and Hugo Weaving as a recurring villain. The first film introduced the radical visual effect of Bullet Time, and is easily one of the most influential and oft-copied sci-fi films since Star Wars.
The first film - The Matrix - begins in what appears to be the Present Day (more specifically, at the turn of the millennium), but the audience discovers along with the protagonist, Neo, that it's an illusion created by sentient machines that have Turned Against Their Masters and taken over the world. The Matrix itself is a virtual world that humans are plugged into so that the machines can use their bio-electricity as power while keeping the humans complacent. It was meant to be a giant neural computer network, but Executive Meddling intervened.
Neo is led to Morpheus, who teaches him the truth and recruits him to join the resistance movement against the machines. Because they now know that The Matrix is a false reality, they are no longer bound by inconvenient rules such as gravity while inside the Matrix. Their only opposing force are the Agents (programs who are able to bend the rules of the Matrix themselves), whose leader is Agent Smith. Neo finds his place as a foretold hero, and sets out to free mankind from The Matrix and win back the world.
The second film - The Matrix Reloaded - delves into the history of the Matrix itself. The war between machines and mankind in the real world is heating up and the heroes are searching for a series of wayward programs that can lead them to the machine source and stop them forever. As Neo learns the true history of the Matrix, he starts to doubt himself and their current plan. It is made all the more complicated when Agent Smith returns as an anomaly working on his own terms and with new, very much virus-like, abilities.
The third film - The Matrix Revolutions - follows up directly from the previous film and depicts everything going to hell as the machines reach Zion (the humans' stronghold in the real world). Meanwhile, Neo sets in motion a plan to confront Agent Smith and end the war altogether.
The first movie was quite popular, and has proven to be one of those works of fiction that heavily influences nearly everything in its wake (the influx of superhero movies, for one thing, but also of symbolism-heavy Mind Screws like Lost). Your Mileage May Vary, but the second and third films are generally considered victims of Sequelitis. That said, in hindsight, the trilogy holds together much better as a whole when watched in one go; originally a four-year gap (!?!) existed between the first and second films.
Spin-offs, many of which contain plot explanations not included in the movies include:
Video games - Enter The Matrix, The Matrix: Path of Neo, and the (Now sadly closed) MMORPG The Matrix Online
A graphic novel anthology of short stories
The Animatrix, an anthology of nine short animated films from celebrated anime directors, including a two-parter (The Second Renaissance) that explains the backstory of the war between humans and machines that laid the foundation for the creation of the Matrix. The Animatrix is interesting in that it was much more well-received by critics than the sequel movies. It also sports a disclaimer that hilariously (and sadly) encapsulates why many tropers despise the existence of the Animation Age Ghetto.
See the quotes.
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Mind Screw: Many, but most memorably the ending of the second movie.
Also, the manner in which characters jack into the Matrix is a symbolic mind screw: they stick a giant needle in their brain. Freud is laughing.
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Crowning Moment Of Awesome: It has been argued that this series consists entirely of one Crowning Moment after another.
The Wachowskis themselves get one for the special cinematic that plays before the final fight in Path of Neo.
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Evil Foreigner: The Merovingian. He's evil and he's a jerk.
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Lotus Eater Machine: The first iteration of the Matrix was too perfect, according to the Architect, which is why humans initially rejected it.
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Mind Rape: Bane, who has his entire brain overwritten by Smith.
If you want to be symbolic about it, the entire human race that is jacked into the Matrix. I mean, seriously, they forcibly have big long needles stuck into their brains so the machines can screw them over. Really.
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All There In The Manual: The series was well ahead of its time in this respect. Sadly, The World Was Not Ready.
Parodied here:
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Bad Ass Normal: Captain Mifune. Anyone who holds off thousands of Sentinels with nothing but a single APU with two machine guns deserves a little respect.
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Big Bad: Agent Smith.
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Boring Invincible Hero: One of the common complaints about Reloaded and Revolutions. Ironic, considering how it all ends.
Or given that the final fight turns into some Neo wins either way (either he beats Smith or is copied over and destroys him from within), the BIH-ification still stands.
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Rage Against The Mentor: Neo and Morpheus at the Oracle's Cryptic Conversation.
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Bring It: The hand gesture Neo and Morpheus are fond of using to their opponents.
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Platonic Cave: The Matrix.
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Cool Shades: Custom-made ones at that. Special mention goes to Morpheus' silver, frame-less shades and Smith's oddly geometric ones.
Notice how all the good guys have round glasses and the bad guys have square-ish ones?
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Impossibly Cool Clothes: Apparently, one's Residual Self-Image includes cool hair and an awesome outfit. No exceptions. Even the nerdy Mouse is pretty pimp inside.
Going by The Matrix Online, where the character-creation was your redpill selecting what their in-Matrix appearance would be, apparently that's just how they like it. You could look boring and normal... but then you'd never get any screen time.
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Mister Exposition: The Keymaker when explaining about the bomb-trapped building that houses the door to The Architect - and how to break into it.
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Take My Hand: Neo jumping off a chopper to get Morpheus.
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Always Save The Girl: Addressed in Reloaded's climax.
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Nigh Invulnerability: The Agents.
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Not necessarily. Brace for some Epileptic Trees, or perhaps Fridge Brilliance, but the Oracle actually cared about humanity. Tired of the cycle of savior, salvation, and rebirth, she did something about it. She changed Neo and provided a common enemy to the machines and humans: Smith. How did she achieve this? She wrote a program within, what else, a cookie and gave it to Neo. Neo delivered this cookie's programming into Agent Smith when he dove inside Smith and in a sense, overwrote him. Or it was an Ass Pull.
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Not Quite Dead: Smith after the first movie. Also Tank after Cypher shot him.
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Homage: The directors pitched the idea to Joel Silver by showing him the 1995 Ghost In The Shell movie and saying "we want to do a live-action version." The style, themes, and action of the Matrix trilogy owe a lot to that movie.
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Your Mind Makes It Real: if someone is killed in the Matrix, they're dead for real.
Neo's powers.
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Its A Small Net After All
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Stepping Stone Sword: Morpheus uses a sword stuck into the side of a truck as a perch and jumps back up to the top of the truck from it.
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Not In Kansas Anymore: Just before the red pill taken by Neo kicks in, Cypher warns him "Buckle your seatbelt, Dorothy, 'cause Kansas is going bye-bye!"
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Katanas Are Just Better: Averted when Neo kicks arse with a solid ol' broadsword in the fight in the Mansion. Played a little straighter with the sword Morpheus takes from the handy Samurai statue. Bear in mind, that thing cut through a car.
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Self Fulfilling Prophecies: Sort of; The Oracle manipulates events by making prophecies, but the events that result from the prophecy are different from what the prophecy says. The reason it works out like this is that the Oracle does not say what will happen. She tells people what they need to hear in order for things to happen as she sees them.
Which immediately gives her Magnificent Bastard status (particularly considering how things turned out).
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Unnecessary Combat Roll: In the third movie, Morpheus, Trinity, and Seraph get into a fight with some guys who can bend gravity. Said guys do things like cartwheeling on the ceiling from cover to cover. They die.
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The Chessmaster: The Architect, who not only created The Matrix, but has manipulated five generations of "The One" into doing what he wants (letting Zion be killed off and then repopulating it).
That's not including the Oracle, the matronly counterpart to the Architect. The entire plot has been...at the very least, heavily influenced by her desire to unbalance the Architect's Plan).
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Les Yay: In "Enter the Matrix" there is a cinematic interlude where your hero (Niobe or Ghost - you must choose one of them before you start playing) has to kiss Persephone to gain access to a new level. However lesbian kiss seems longer and hotter then a normal one...
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The Other Darrin: The Oracle.
More like The Nth Doctor, actually.
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French Jerk: The Merovingian.
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In the subway fight in the first movie Neo managed to execute a specific trick, which resulted in him hitting Agent Smith right in the neck. But when he attempts the same on Agent Johnson, he performs a block, indicating that this particular flaw has been fixed.
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Use Your Head: Morpheus and Smith do this to each other.
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There Are No Girls On The Internet: Neo is surprised Trinity is female. She says most guys are.
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Sincerest Form Of Flattery: The Wachowskis used the Ghost In The Shell comics and film to show prospective producers how they wanted the movie to look.
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot: "He's gonna pop!"
Written In Infirmity: Keanu apparently developed a stomach flu that caused it.
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Turned Against Their Masters
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Rule Of Cool: How much one can do in the Matrix is directly proportional to how cool one looks doing it.
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Roofhopping
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Grand Theft Me: poor Bane.
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My Name Is Inigo Montoya: At least a quadruple subversion in the final showdown.
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Clothing Damage: Clear Fetish Fuel in the Animatrix short The Final Flight of the Osiris.
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What Could Have Been: Originally, Will Smith was offered the role of Neo, but turned it down for his part in Wild Wild West.
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Take That: Easy to miss. Cypher wants to be an actor who remembers nothing. His real name? Mr. Reagan.
If so, it could have a cruel joke: in 1994, Ronald Reagan disclosed he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
Or it was a reference to Reagan's repeated assertions that he couldn't remember critical details of the Iran-Contra scandal.
This video from Path of Neo is arguably a Take That from the Wachowskis towards people who hated the sequels.
Another Path of Neo example, one level takes place in the U.S. Senate within the Matrix, where one senator starts decrying violent video games as "offensive to our most basic values". About ten seconds later, he's turned into a Smith clone. Doubles as a rather satisfying Shut Up Hannibal.
Would've been so satisfying if Jack Thompson is in the place of that one Senator.
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High Octane Nightmare Fuel: Human harvest!
In the Animatrix short The Second Renaissance, an android woman is beaten to death by a crowd of men. They tear off her clothes and beat the fake human skin off of her while her screams turn into a mechanical bleating.
In the same short, the depiction of the forced extraction of a certain trooper from his powered armor. To give you some idea, he's torn from the armor by a machine tentacle wrapped around his waist. His arms and legs, however, remain locked in the armor. And he's screaming in pain and terror the whole time.
The scene in which a robot grabs a woman's face and TEARS HER SKULL IN HALF TO REVEAL HER BRAIN. The brain then turns into some sort of diagram for the next scene.
Generally speaking, Second Renaissance was full of Nightmare Fuel.
The interrogation scene. That is all.
Neo * himself* thought it was a nightmare. When Trinity sucks out the "bug," his reaction is "Holy shit! That thing was real?!?"
Giant flying baby face made of bugs. Egads.
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Click Hello: A number of times, the most memorable of which overlaps with Dodge This.
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Escort Mission: The entire car chase/fight scene over the Keymaker in Reloaded.
And in Path of Neo.
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God Mode Sue: Neo in the sequels. Most of the drama comes from him not being around to save the day.
Eventually becomes Blessed With Suck when he realizes what the real purpose of the "One" was. His destiny is to perpetuate the thing he wants to destroy. That may be the definition of meta-suckage.
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Screaming Warrior: In the first one, Morpheus, when he busts out of the wall to fight an Agent so that Neo can escape, and also in Revolutions, where Mifune becomes the poster child of this trope.
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Shouting Shooter: Mifune, as he gets overwhelmed with sentinels.
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Dressed All In Rubber - Trinity's PVC outfit.
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Robots Enslaving Robots
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Took A Level In Badass: Neo at the end of the first movie, and Smith in Revolutions.
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Robot War: As shown in The Second Renaissance, this is what eventually led to the creation of the Matrix.
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Story Breaker Power: Neo's "The One" package, in a nutshell.
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Chained To A Railway: Sort of; Smith puts Neo in a wrestling hold and makes him watch an oncoming subway train.
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More like The Nth Doctor, actually.
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Never Bring A Knife To A Fistfight: In a Katanas Are Just Better attempt, Morpheus tries to fight an unarmed Agent with a sword. He barely manages to nick the guy's cheek and cut off his tie before the sword gets snapped, and Morpheus gets punted off the back of the moving truck.
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White Void Room: The Construct.
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Another Path of Neo example, one level takes place in the U.S. Senate within the Matrix, where one senator starts decrying violent video games as "offensive to our most basic values". About ten seconds later, he's turned into a Smith clone. Doubles as a rather satisfying Shut Up Hannibal.
Would've been so satisfying if Jack Thompson is in the place of that one Senator.
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More Dakka
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More Dakka: The minigun scene is just one example.
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Stairwell Chase
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Justified Trope
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Justified. How far into the future is the Matrix set in again? Let us not forget that internal combustion engines could barely push automobiles 20mph 100 years ago, at present day they can go in excess of 200mph and are tenfold more fuel efficient then their predecessors. The same applies to the capacity of batteries. Who is to say how improved the technology is by the time of the Matrix?
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Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming: Neo saving Trinity in the end of the second movie.
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Powers As Programs
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Powers As Programs
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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: The Architect. Holy God, the Architect.
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Shout Out
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Shout Out: Lots of them. For example, Trinity: "The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to." => X Files' slogan, "The truth is out there".
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Broken Masquerade: The world is not real.
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Product Placement
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Product Placement: More obvious in the sequels, along with complementary commercials (who knew Agents could get distracted by HD TV?).
You may have noticed that the phones look radically different in the sequels from the first film. They were provided by Samsung as part of an advertising scheme to sell the same phones to the public.
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Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead
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Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead: What the Kid does in Revolutions.
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Inside A Computer System
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Inside A Computer System: The main premise of the films.
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Body Horror
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Body Horror: Immediately following Agent Smith's interrogation of Neo in the first movie, he "bugs" Neo by planting a giant insectoid robot inside his belly button while Neo's mouth is sealed shut.
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Color Wash
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Color Wash: Like mentioned directly above, scenes set in the Matrix are tinted green and scenes set in the real world are tinted blue.
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Matrix Raining Code
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Matrix Raining Code
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Big No
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Big No: Agent Smith in the first movie, after Neo dives into his body and before he explodes.
Also Dozer, before being killed by Cypher.
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Shown Their Work: They made an entire separate DVD for the making-of of the first film.
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Car Fu
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Car Fu: Many times throughout, starting when the Agents use a garbage truck to smash a phone booth while Trinity tries to dial out from it in the first film. When the Albino Twins try it on Morpheus in Reloaded, he gets his Crowning Moment Of Awesome as a result.
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Eat Me
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Eat Me: Done twice. The Oracle and Neo both let Smith assimilate them in order to destroy him.
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Seers: The Oracle
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Seinfeld Is Unfunny: By the time Reloaded came out, the effects of the original were extremely dated.
In hindsight, the effects sequence that has aged the least well from all three films is the second half of the "Burly Brawl" in Reloaded. It's one of the only times where they used Motion Capture, and the animation now looks terrible.
I say that the effects in the original, for how revolutionary they were, have aged quite nicely.
In theaters, it likely looked okay. On DVD (and now especially Blu-Ray), it's much more noticeable.
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Wuxia
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Wuxia
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Memetic Mutation: The first film alone probably has a line-to-meme ratio second only to Star Wars, as films go.
BULLET TIME!
Whoa, dude!
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Misaimed Fandom: In July 2002, a woman by the name of Tonda Lynn Ansley shot her landlady in the face. She proceeded to go for the Insanity Plea by claiming that she believed she was in a computer simulation, saying: "They commit a lot of crimes in The Matrix." The really weird part? This actually worked. A year later, a San Fransisco man named Vadim Mieseges used the same defense, for the same crime, even. This has led to "The Matrix Defense" being adopted as a real legal strategy.
This previously came up during The Columbine shooting, when some journalists speculated that Harris and Klebold might have been inspired by a certain amount of misaimed Matrix fandom.
The sad part is that believing that your reality is not real and consequently killing or harming someone as a result of your delusions is a common mental illness. That's right, folks, the Matrix just took every paranoid schizophrenic's nightmare and turned it into a viable idea.
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Cryptic Conversation
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Cryptic Conversation: The movies are riddled with this. Anything Morpheus, The Oracle or The Architect says will be almost unassailably mysterious and vague.
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Hey, It's That Guy!
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Hey Its That Guy: Jasmine (from Angel) is babysitting Link's kids.
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Gattaca Babies: Humans in the Matrix are essentially this.
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Follow The White Rabbit
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Freud Was Right
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Freud Was Right: Seriously, watch this movie with an eye toward sexual imagery and you'll find it EVERYWHERE, and in the most awful ways. The most graphic stuff is found in the first film, but it's still very much there in the last two. Makes you wonder just what was on the Wachowskis' minds the whole time they were writing this.
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Big Damn Heroes: Neo coming to save Morpheus and the Keymaker at the end of the freeway sequence in Reloaded, ie: the longest action sequence in the whole trilogy.
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Three Point Landing
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Three Point Landing Almost everybody does this, probably to emphasize coolness, but most prominently Trinity and one of the agents pursuing her right in the beginning of the first movie.
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Oracular Urchin
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Your Other Left
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Your Other Left
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Tracking Device: The literal robotic bug the Agents plant inside Neo.
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Ancient Grome: The Oracle has a reference to the Oracle of Delphi (Greek) over her door, but it's written in Latin.
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Blessed With Suck
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Eventually becomes Blessed With Suck when he realizes what the real purpose of the "One" was. His destiny is to perpetuate the thing he wants to destroy. That may be the definition of meta-suckage.
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Improbable Aiming Skills
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Mr Smith: All the Agents have bland pseudonyms.
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Smith Will Suffice
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Malignant Plot Tumor: Smith again.
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Cat Scare: With an actual cat.
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Cyberspace
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California Doubling: Sydney.
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Technicolor Death: The explosive death/destruction of Agent Smith in The Matrix and all of the Agent Smiths (Agents Smith?) in The Matrix Revolutions.
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Something Only They Would Say: Smith-Bane reveals himself to Neo by calling him "Mr. Anderson". However, despite Smith-Bane does this three times rapidly in a row, Neo still fails to recognize him, and only does so after Smith-Bane burns his eyes out.
Possibly an example of Your Eyes Can Deceive You as its only after having the blast shield put down that he sees who he's truly talking to.
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Slow Electricity
Reloaded: After the power station is destroyed (and later when Trinity turns off the power again), the blackout spreads slowly through the affected area.
Revolutions: Inside the Oracle's apartment building, the overhead lights go off (with clunking sounds) as a warning of Agent Smith's approach.
Could be argued that one of the clones is throwing the breakers, one by one, or something along those lines.
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Fan Service/Disservice: Neo's sex scene with Trinity in Reloaded. Your Mileage May Vary on whether or not you enjoyed seeing more of Neo.
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Dress Coded For Your Convenience: The rebels dress in leather and trenchcoats of varying styles to emphasize their freedom and individuality, while the Agents wear identical black and white suits to indicate that they are "part of the system."
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Ontological Mystery
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Red Pill Blue Pill
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Failure Is The Only Option: According to the Architect, Trinity would die in any case. It seems he was right.
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Human Resources
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Magical Negro The Wachowski Bros seem to love this trope. They have not one, not two, but THREE Magical Negroes.
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Throw Away Guns
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Instant Awesome Just Add Mecha: Why are there APU's defending the dock in Revelations's? Because they look frekkin Bad Ass obviously!
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The original idea was that all of the human's brains formed a neural network that the machines operated on, but executives thought that audiences wouldn't get it. Joss Whedon would go on to use the exact same idea on Dollhouse. Which still makes little or no sense... but at least it wouldn't defy the laws of thermodynamics.
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Kung Fu Sonic Boom: During the final fight in Revolutions.
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Cluster F Bomb: Averted. The original script had characters spewing much more direct exposition and way, way more swearing. Admittedly, some of it would have been better ("Dodge this, motherfucker."), but this may be one of the few acceptable Bowdlerizations in modern history.
The constant use of "shit" as a replacement of "fuck" makes it seem somewhat odd at times though.
"What the shit!? That guy stole my phone!"
The phrase "what the shit" has since entered the youth vernacular as a common, often comical alternative.
This makes Joker's mad hobble-dash through the Normandy even more awesome.
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Blood From The Mouth: Signifies that a plugged-in human has been badly injured or killed inside the Matrix.
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MIB: The Agents
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Viewers Are Morons: The original ending speech in the first film had Neo compares the Matrix to a chrysalis. This was changed because executives feared not enough viewers would know what a chrysalis is.  * For those who've just experienced a brain fart, the protective case that butterflies emerge from.
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Extreme Graphical Representation
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The Apple Falls Far: Neo's cellphone.
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Ascended Fanboy: The Kid, though he was also The Scrappy for some fans (and Neo).
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Extremity Extremist: In spite of all the time he spends onscreen fighting, Agent Smith only kicks once in the entire trilogy. Agents in general tend to stick to one of three techniques, which reflects their role as rigid-minded machines.
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Everyone Is Jesus In Purgatory: "We do not know who was the first fan to decode the symbolism in the first movie..."
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Crowning Music Of Awesome: The two songs playing during the credits of the first movie are Wake Up by Rage Against The Machine, and Rock is Dead by Marilyn Manson. Oh Hell yes.
Add to that Neodämmerung and Navras from the third movie. Hearing the opening of either song is enough to cause extreme pants-wetting. Don't forget the Burly Brawl.
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Nightmare Fuel: Oh, God. If your stomach doesn't turn in the scenes where they make Neo's mouth disappear, causing him to panic understandably to shoot in the tracking bug, there's obviously something wrong with you.
=(
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All Love Is Unrequited: At least Cypher's love for Trinity.
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I Have No Mouth: "Mr. Anderson, what good is a phone call when you are unable to... speak?" Cue Neo's mouth disappearing from his face.
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Bad Blue Lighting: The real world. The Matrix has Bad Green Lighting.
The first film originally didn't heavily feature the green "tint" during scenes that took place inside the Matrix; the remastered version of the film fixes that so that all three films share a similar look. This was also intentional (the green and blue tint) and used as part of the symbolism of the films.
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Moral Event Horizon: "I'm not so bad once you get to know me..."
"Cookies need love like everything does" was even more pants-shittingly evil.
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Cyber Punk Is Techno: Almost the entire soundtrack to everything in the franchise. That said, the score for the films is still pretty awesome.
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The Omniscient: The Oracle
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The Evils Of Free Will
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Evil Albino: The Twins.
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It was a movie based on (if by based on you mean "took, dumbed down and added guns to") a sort of mish-mash of Plato's parable of the cave and Cartesian dualism, the former of which is...uh...an explanation by way of analogy. Which makes the whole "adults can't deal with the idea of the world being an illusion" schtick even more implausible, unless of course no-one in the Matrix universe has ever heard of the veil of perception.
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Bad Ass Longcoat: The first film is definitely a Trope Codifier. The second... not so much. The costume designers went a little too crazy.
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Put Down Your Gun And Step Away
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Heroic Sacrifice
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World Of Badass
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Watching Troy Burn: Morpheus watching his ship burn.
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A Glitch In The Matrix
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Bullet Time: The Trope Codifier.
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Bald Black Leader Guy: Morpheus in the first film.
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Fetish Retardant: The aforementioned rave/sex scene.
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The Only Way They Will Learn: "No one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself."
More like "The only way you'll believe it." Millions of moviegoers in our world had no trouble with the concept.
It was a movie, so we were seeing it for ourselves.
It was a movie based on (if by based on you mean "took, dumbed down and added guns to") a sort of mish-mash of Plato's parable of the cave and Cartesian dualism, the former of which is...uh...an explanation by way of analogy. Which makes the whole "adults can't deal with the idea of the world being an illusion" schtick even more implausible, unless of course no-one in the Matrix universe has ever heard of the veil of perception.
It's a very different matter in practice.
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I Know Kung Fu
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Dream Within A Dream: Twice in the first movie. First when Neo meets Trinity at the club only to wake up and find that he's late for work, and then again when the Agents bug him (literally) and he wakes up again.
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Neck Lift: An Agent does it to Trinity in Reloaded.
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Neck Snap
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Now What: By the middle of Reloaded, it's clear the authors have painted themselves into something of a corner.
Again, Your Milage May Vary. There are some people who think the trilogy is reasonably well planned and thought out, some think that the script is a gold-embossed version of the dead sea scrolls, and some think that after the first movie the Wachowskis all got very high and fucked over the entire franchise. People have written essays about how good or badly written the trilogy is.
Essays? Quick search on Amazon shows at least seven non-fiction books with analysis of the Trilogy.
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Redshirt Army:
Pretty much anyone in our world (especially law enforcement, TSA guards and their like) is subject to being killed by people from The Real World. With zero moral repercussions. But it's not like it doesn't look totally awesome when it happens.
In the first film, just about the entire crew of the Nebuchadnezzar besides Neo and a few others. Whoops.
Granted, they might be considered more a Mauve Shirt Army
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You Squared
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AI Is A Crapshoot
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In the subway fight in the first movie Neo managed to execute a specific trick, which resulted in him hitting Agent Smith right in the neck. But when he attempts the same on Agent Johnson, he performs a block, indicating that this particular flaw has been fixed.
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Every Car Is A Pinto
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Every Car Is A Pinto: The Twins' SUV and the two semi trucks on the freeway in Reloaded.
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Unskilled But Strong
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Unskilled But Strong: Agents only use about three techniques, but compensate for it with superhuman strength and speed.
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Author Existence Failure
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Actor Existence Failure: The original Oracle died before completing her scenes and had to be replaced by another actress; fortunately the directors were already toying with the idea of her changing "skins".
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Everything Sounds Sexier In French
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Everything Sounds Sexier In French: including swearing, which is like wiping one's ass with silk.
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Neural Implanting
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Neural Implanting: This is how everyone gets their abilities.
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Everybody Owns A Ford
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Everybody Owns A Ford: General Motors was the vehicle provider, so the heroes nearly always drive high-end Cadillacs. Oldsmobiles and other GM makes fill out the background.
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Enemy Mine
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Enemy Mine: Smith's conquest of Matrix went so far that Neo and the Machines were forced to work together while the Machines made a temporary truce with the rest of the Humans. Smith got beaten and the first peace for hundreds of years came back.
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Made Of Iron
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Made Of Iron: Every main character, and an explicit ability of the Agents.
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Mood Lighting
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Mood Lighting
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Cutscene Power To The Max
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Cutscene Power To The Max: In Enter The Matrix.
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Kudzu Plot
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Claremont Coefficient: Compare the number of characters and plot points introduced in Reloaded to those followed up on in Revolutions.
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You Fail Biology Forever
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You Fail Biology Forever: How exactly one can extract more energy from a human body than needed to feed it and keep it alive remains a mystery.
Apparently at first humans were going to be used as processing power... which would make more sense in context, but not so much in real life.
One comic/story by Neil Gaiman (approved by the Wachowskis) goes with this theory, making it possibly-canon.
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Obfuscated Interface
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Obfuscated Interface
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Hot Consort
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Hot Consort: Persephone, played by Monica Bellucci.
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The Virus
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The Virus: The Agents overtaking mooks in the first film.
Smith in the sequels, quite literally.
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Meteor Move
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Meteor Move: How Smith weakened Neo enough to defeat him.
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Unusual User Interface
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Unusual User Interface: The Matrix jacks for the pod-grown people.
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Author Appeal
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Author Appeal: One of the Wachowskis employed a full-time dominatrix. Suddenly Trinity's costumes make far more sense.
Given the fact that Larry Wachowski is now Lana Wachowski, which appear to have been confirmed as of December 2009 by photos posted by Arianna Huffington, Switch's name and the early draft in which she was male in the real world and female in the Matrix makes much more sense.
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Spy Catsuit
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Spy Catsuit: Trinity
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Mobstacle Course
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Mobstacle Course: Neo in the agent training program.
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Driving Question
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Driving Question: "What is the Matrix?" It's answered shortly thereafter, but then it's replaced by "What is real?"
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