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Matrix, The (1999)
In a world of 1s and 0s...are you a zero, or The One?
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IMDb Rating 8.6 (233,836 votes) Top 250: #32
Actor Crew
Director Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski
Producer Bruce Berman; Dan Cracchiolo; Joel Silver
Writer Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski
Cinematography Bill Pope
Musician Don Davis
User Credit 1 Zach Staenberg
User Credit 2 Kym Barrett
Plot
A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against the controllers of it.
Edition Details
Format DVD NTSC
Barcode AA007
Release Date 4/15/2003
Nr of Disks/Tapes 1
Personal Details
Seen It Yes
Index 55
Collection Status In Collection
Notes
Filming Locations:
AON Tower, Kent Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (more)

Trivia:
When Tank is uploading the Martial Arts training to Neo, there is a shot of the computer screen as it scrolls through the various Martial Arts styles. The graphics have a computer image of a person and the title of the style below. The first one on the screen is entitled "Drunken Boxing". Woo-ping Yuen, the fight choreographer for this movie, was director and fight choreographer for Jackie Chan's early hit, Jui kuen (1978) in which Jackie Chan's character masters the style of Zui Chuan, or Drunken Boxing. (more)

Goofs:
Continuity: When Neo meets Trinity, Apoc, and Switch for the first time in the car, Trinity opens the car door, but when we cut back to Neo, she opens the door again. (more)

Quotes:
[first lines]
[phone rings]
Cypher: Yeah.
Trinity: Is everything in place?
Cypher: You weren't supposed to relieve me.
Trinity: I know, but I felt like taking a shift.
Cypher: You like him, don't you? You like watching him.
Trinity: Don't be ridiculous.
Cypher: We're gonna kill him. You understand that?
Trinity: Morpheus believes he is the one.
[...]
(more)

Awards:
Won 4 Oscars. Another 28 wins & 35 nominations (more)

Movie Connections:
Spoofed in "Chappelle's Show: (#1.7)" (2003) (more)

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