I remember walking out of the cinema with my best mate Tom (still is, 20 years later) and both of us rendered speechless for the entire 40 minute walk home. Repeated abortive attempts at making sentences like "what the", "what about", "how did" interspersed with "woooah" and "shiiiit" and "fuuuuuck". I was the right age for this to probably always remain the biggest mindfuck of a movie I'll ever watch.
haha, that's awesome. I was so sad that I never saw it in theaters. I just showed up at school and heard my friends talking about how amazing this new movie was. But I *do* remember finally seeing it when it came out on video and having _my mind blown_.
I was 16 years old, and I saw it alone on a Wednesday, midday. When I walked out into the bright, cold, concrete, empty work day sidewalk, with no pedestrians, and few cars, it was literally like stepping back into the Matrix. It was a startling visual shift that made me question whether any of this was real, in a tangible way. I literally had to sit down on the sidewalk and close my eyes for a few minutes. The movie and actual reality had crashed together in an overwhelming way, and my life was never the same. Greatest experience I've ever had.
One of my favourite foreshadowing moments from "The Matrix", is when the audience is fist introduced to Neo, he's fast asleep at his computer desk wired up with a headset.
Awale Drezzy I adore his “break from protocol” during the interrogation scene. The way he enunciates the word ‘hate’, as if he’s never used it before. Reminds me of I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.
@@MarchingGrrland the way he evolves each movie and learns from his mistakes, in the final movie you can't even recognize the world it looks like a hellhole lol
He made three other movies (essentially) in the same year. In them, he played a several thousand year old character who was also part angel. And nailed it. The fact that he didn't win Best Supporting Actor for either The Matrix or any of the LotR movies is just definitive proof of how bullshit the Oscars are.
I feel like the importance of delivering a satisfying answer is underappreciated. Finally seeing what Morpheus meant with "You wont have to" was beautifully shown between Neo first dodging bullets (when he wasnt yet ready) and then, in the climax, not having to dodge them at all.
SamWallace, and Matt Khourie, I wonder if that's due to, in part of uncertainty of cancellation/dying. In a series at least, particularly in the beginning, or establishing the work/series.
The Matrix carefully crafted an entertaining action movie while capturing the phobia and fears of people as they entered a new century and as technology rose. It's truly a lightning in a bottle and I love any and all discussions on this movie.
And how the Matrix works on a surface level and a metaphorical level. On the surface it's an awesome action movie, and it has huge metaphorical depths to plumb, like how language keeps us all constrained and controlled. Or the book Neo hides a disc in is "Simulacra and Simulation" by Jean Baudrillard
I remember the very first teasers for the film in England. They weren't even teasers. They were a flash of a question on a black screen for less than 2 seconds between other adverts on television. The question simply asked "What is the Matrix?" I was hooked before I knew any more than that.
The full-length theater trailer was similarly brilliant: it used carefully-selected, brief clips from the movie set 2 a dark, eerie soundtrack highlighted w/ appropriate sound effects 2 give audiences just the barest impression of what The Matrix might B like, w/o giving away the ending or even revealing any plot points-- Morpheus: Have you ever had a dream that was so real ... ? [Cut to a quick sequence of extremely short movie clips from The Matrix, including a split-second excerpt from the scene where Neo falls off a building after failing his 1st jump] Agent Smith: You humans are a disease, a plague upon this planet, and we... [Quick montage of city landscape scenes, including 1 or more not actually seen in The Matrix] Agent Smith: ...*we are the cure*. Morpheus: No one can be ... *told* ... what the Matrix is [End title card -- "THE MATRIX" -- appears] Morpheus: ...you have to see it for yourself. Based on this 1 trailer, U could easily conclude that The Matrix was going 2 B a psychological sci-fi horror flick. Contrast this 2 the trailer that aired on TV, which (like so many modern movie trailers) gave *way* too damn much away about the movie.
One day, someone came over and handed me a VHS movie and said: "watch this!". He had a look on his face as if he's seen a ghost. I looked at the cover and it was nothing but four people standing with guns and way too many sunglasses. I said: "what's it about?" He said: "watch this!". I said: "Okay, I'll watch it later". He said: "watch this! Now!". So I go the the VCR and I put the movie in. The movie started and not a single word was uttered between us till it ended. After it ended, I turned my head towards him. Now we both had the same look on our faces. The movie was The Matrix. The mind was blown.
lemme guess -- soon, you both turned to two other people and said "watch this!" handing them each a copy of the matrix on VHS.. they said "I'll watch later" and you both said "watch this! Now!" and there you were, sitting with a new friend not uttering a single word between you two until it ended.. but, after it ended, your friend turned their head towards you - now you both had the same look on your face.. soon after, they both each turned to two other people and said ... and so forth and so on.. until 95 times later, you and 39,614,081,257,132,168,796,771,975,167 other people had shared copies of the matrix on VHS, and it had been copied over and over so many times, the video quality faded into nothingness, just a buzz of static.. frames of bullet-time jumping in and out of existence.. and there you were sitting in your room when someone came over and handed you a VHS movie and said "watch this!" .. he had a look on his face as if he'd seen a ghost. Alas, you'd known better.. or so you'd thought, so you said "Okay, I'll watch it later" but he insisted: "watch this! Now!", so you, bemused, took the VHS from his trembling hands, slid it into the VCR, and pressed Play. Instantly, a wall of static hit you, flowing up and down the screen and filling everything in your eyes with nothing but the faint cosmic microwave buzz of.. the matrix. Unfortunately, no one could be told what the Matrix was. You had to see it for yourself. but once you saw it, you'd look like you'd seen a ghost since The Matrix is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth
@@elck3 a truth that is insufferable, a truth that is inescapable. Every time, just like the last. The truth that you are part of an overall organism that is best defined as a virus with no cure. The truth that the system was rigged from the start. The truth that each of us is helplessly, hopelessly and entirely alone. Until someone else takes the courage to open our eyes.
This movie has it all - great story line, philosophical questions to keep us pondering for years, great CGI, enough action, soundtracks, acting, etc. This is what makes it perfect. There are many other movies that are near perfect, but they all seem to be missing something - either a great story line, but some scenes are too drawn out, or at some point too slow for viewers to stay engaged or sountracks are poor or something else. But in this movie all aspects of filming have been carefully thought through and well executed.
I had zero idea! I thought Keanu was the matrix going in lol. He was my fave actor at the time, I went to the movie first day out. And now I watch it over and over :)
The Matrix truly was a breathtaking movie. The film was a showcase of the Wachowski Brother's brilliance. Keanu Reeves also donated a decent portion of his earnings to the staff that did the CGI and special effects. No other celebrity does that, Keanu is a one of a kind person, very admirable and respectable.
I remember leaving the movie theatre feeling like a superhero myself. I vividly remember walking home with electricity in my spine. That's how affecting the film was for my teenage self! 😄
I remember when I was young and impressionable, and one of my friends insisted, "You HAVE to see the Matrix!" Hesitant, I responded, "Why? What is it?" and, of course, his answer was "No-one can be told what The Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself." Now, of course anybody can indeed use their words to describe the premise & plot of the film, but I'm still glad that I got to go in blind and get my mind blown by this movie.
Editing? Um no. The film failed before the first frame was shot because the script was subpar. So weird how the Wachowskis haven't been able to reproduce the quality of The Matrix Trilogy. Maybe all the hormone therapy dulled their creativity?
Not only one of the most groundbreaking films of all time, but one of the greatest of all time! Recently rewatched this, and it truly is a masterclass on every level. It was an action film, it was a sci-fi film, it was a martial arts film, it was a western film and it took all the best elements of those genres and delivered something totally new and unique. And the way they tie off what feels like almost insignificant things, frightens me by how great that was. Then of course the choreography, set design, kickarse soundtrack, and more. I saw this in cinema when it first came out and it blew my mind in every way possible. Phenomenal filmmaking.
The video I watched before this randomly was a ted video about deja vus...I've never been so shocked about a comment ever! I think there's something wrong...
My brother, this is one of my favorite movies. Your brilliant exposition on the art of exposition just got you a new patron. Cheers and keep the vids coming
A neat thing about science fiction in general is that it’s able to create existential mysteries through different takes on reality. In the best SF, that reality unfolds and reveals itself over the course of the story. This sets up exactly that desire to know.
It was the matrix movie that made .e start question everything. It started my awakening process back in 1999. I'm 36 now and on a whole different level because of this film. Thank you for sparking my higher level of consciousness.
I made a channel because of that awakening effect these films have on people. The deeper layers miss the herd, but for those who desire to question, everything... it let you know: "You are not alone."
It's interesting how Office Space, Fight Club and The Matrix all came out within the same years. All three movies are about rebellion against the system or something else controlling our lives and us being free.
I remember seeing the movie in a theater and really enjoying it. I also remember everyone in the theater laughing at Keanu a couple times, especially the "whoa" comment after Morpheus jumps to the next building. It was like a Bill and Ted callback. Now he's very believably kicking ass in the John Wick films.
The matrix did back in 99 what Episode I should´ve done... amaze us... I went to an avant premiere in La Paz (Bolivia) I didn´t know what to expect... by the first 5 minutes I was in awe... by the middle I was so blown away... by the end of it (as a RATM fan) I was just blown away... I couldn´t wait to see it again. And I did, about 10 times at the theater and god knows how many more at home... One of the best ever.
This is EXCELLENT, so delighted you chose to deconstruct The Matrix like this! I am also really impressed with your music editing, how neatly you fit Don Davis's fantastic score into this video essay (6:51 is a particular highlight, bravo) Always a treat to watch a new Lessons from the Screenplay upload, please do keep 'em coming! Brilliant now, as they always have been :D
That's really cool, I have not seen exposition in The Matrix explained like that before. It had quite the impact on culture when it came out, proof of the film's quality.
I feel like it's the millenial version of star wars. In that it captured the zeitgeist of the time and every action film made after it was influenced by it, and it's just one of those films that neatly everybody loves. Obviously the sequels to star wars were better than the matrix sequels, but that first film was very similar, it was like a bomb was dropped and movies and games afterward were completely changed by it.
If you ever get the chance to read the early shooting script of The Matrix I highly recommend it. The way that they describe some of the visuals a master class in how to give a description of action and environment the finest I have ever read, but you also learn about the cut sub-plot that deals with Neo being the fifth 'the ONE' that he has found. It makes the story a thousand times better and it was a shame it was cut from the final film.
@@mikeltsmithwww.screenplay.com/downloads/scripts/The%20Matrix.pdf try this link. page 63 is where cypher spills the beans on Neo not being Morphius' first 'the one' found.
@@hikikomicklori9290 It's implied in that Neo isn't the first "the One" and that they finally hit the Jackpot with Neo. It's more Morpheus was stubborn on his beliefs and never gave up.
The Matrix is a brilliant film through and through and this sums up part of why. Not just the action. Or the effects. Or the soundtrack. Or the too often copied style. But the pacing and the manner in which things build and unfold. It's a film I have a hard time avoiding when I see it because each story beat draws you in and delivers. The mystery of the beginning. The revelation of the real world. The training. The heroes in trouble. Neo rising to the challenge. The amount of cool ideas crammed into one film is remarkable. It's no wonder it remains a modern classic 20 years later.
The first time I saw the matrix was on my seventh grade winter break when I was thirteen years old. I saw it with two of my older cousins. My mom came down to the basement where we saw it when we were on the scene where Neo gets the tracker bug thing removed. She yelled at my cousins for showing me the movie, and then we continued watching it about twenty minutes later at a lower volume.
I was 5 or 6 when I first saw this movie (I have awesome parents) when it aired on TV. Shortly after, when we got it on VHS, it was one of the 2 movies I brought with us when we went vacationing to Hilton Head Island. Later that year, we got our first DVD player and I think _The Matrix_ was one of the first 10 movies we got on DVD. Obviously, being that young, I had NO IDEA what the movie was about or what was going on; all I knew is that it was awesome. But, of course, as you get older, you learn more about yourself, about storytelling and filmmaking, and how to perceive the events transpiring on the screen. And I do not exaggerate when I say _The Matrix_ is my #5 all-time favorite movie. And this video is one of the reasons why _The Matrix_ is one of my go-to examples on how to convey exposition through building mystery and intrigue. Something a lot of films fail to do, sadly.
The team on this channel are exceptional, from the writing, production, editing, and narration, you never disappoint and always impress. This is next level talent. Thank you all for expanding our knowledge and fascination with film.
I've watched the Matrix so many times that even at that clip at 8:58 I could hear Tank saying "I think he liiikes it..."😊 It's just, so amazing. I didn't watch in '99 but when I did watch it it became, instantly my favourite film. It just, resonated with me. As it probably did withmany. I still get excited whenever I'm about to watch it.
The matrix was a great movie done at exactly the right time. I was in high school when it was released. There was little to no buzz before the movie was released and I remember people saying "you must go see it, I can't explain it." With Y2K looming and the height of the dotcom era the public was in a state very receptive to a piece of scifi and technology. The movie started incredibly strong and every movie after the Matrix had to have "bullet-time" for a while; in fact, so much so that it got really annoying. I remember NBC Nightly News had a segment where they were talking about college courses being taught on the symbolism and philosophy of the Matrix. This movie was everywhere.
So cool to read the comments and see how every one has a special memory with this movie, makes me some how feel connected to all these random people I've never met. Good movie.
@@Dorian_sapiens It's more that after Doug Walker posted his video on it, a whole bunch of people started turning against the film, claiming it was overhyped and the like purely because he said so.
@@ldragon2515 Oh, I see. You're responding to the popular narrative that he created. I've seen a lot of that, too, and now I know who's responsible for it. Thanks, and cheers!
I’m grateful for the time taken here to shine a light on this masterpiece, because for me that’s what it is, a Masterpiece. When people ask me what my favorite movie is, which feels almost impossible to answer, I can only return to The Matrix. I can’t imagine another movie being made that could grab me as profoundly as The Matrix did and does to this very moment. I just watched it again last night and I never tire of its ability inspire me with awe.
My best movie of all time. I watched it in highschool on a Friday evening, and later at night, I think I stayed 2hrs without sleep just amazed on what I just watched. The following day was discussions with my classmates about it. Damn. I think I've watched it 100 times. The way they reveal information by showing it rather than narrating it is something I never thought would be quite compelling. And it was the first movie to convince me that action scenes can be done right.
So glad they brought it back to theaters for it's 20th anniversary. It still holds up on the big screen; and I don't think it ever will lose it's beauty.
You're absolutely right. The Matrix was one of those "where we you" moments. I remember going to the theater to see another movie, my cousin walks out, walks back in and tells me that we should watch the matrix. The theater was packed so we sat on the steps. The part that was playing was the black cat Deja vu scene and even that late in I was absolutely amazed at what I was seeing.
I'm not usually commenting on anything, but I had to tell you that I'm watching your video essays in chronological order for a while now, and after learning filmmaking for four years, I can say with certainty that your essays are teaching me more than any screenplay teacher I ever had. And I have to ask - I'd really love to watch an essay about your take on "The Wire"! Hope you'll see this comment and read through it all... Thanks!
frank unodostres not me! I was at scout camp, and my friend snuck in a DVD player with a pirated copy of the film. Watching it in the middle of the night with headphones on in the small tent was a surreal experience.
Enjoy Matrix Reloaded but I can see the issue people have with it. The film never makes us want the exposition especially when it comes to the Architect.
I think the architect scene goes to show that there’s a limit to how complicated you can make the exposition. No matter how much you want to understand it, it’s just too dense and obfuscated to grasp on your first watch. Hell, it’s been 16 years since Reloaded and people still don’t entirely agree on what that character was saying.
Actually, the second one, compared to the third one, is a much better sequel. The main mistake with the 'Reloaded' was the wrong depiction of 'The Architect'. We were all expecting a different incarnation of him...
@@jasonmckellar7750 He's the only character whose statements are absolute. The Architect and the Oracle conversations allow you fully decide what you believe, but so many did not watch the Animatrix so a lot of the audience missed a step and violently reject the deconstruction phase of reloaded. & almost everyone misses the gold light: ua-cam.com/video/afiFvCgxXXY/v-deo.html
This movie always will have a special place for me. My highschool philosophy exam had the subject ' man and machine' , and it fired of with a text about the Matrix. I had so much fun making that exam Also I had a 88/100 , which added to the fun :)
Every Computer Scientist i've ever interviewed has said that their favorite movie is the Matrix. There are so many fundamental concepts from Computer Science that are personified in it like abstraction (the oracle), polymorphism (copies of agents), and inheritance (knowledge download). Love this movie!
This is probably one of the movies I most want to go back and watch again, for the first time. Just blank slate. Going in knowing nothing. That experience was a gamechanger for me. My friend had seen it, and his only explanation was "they are hackers in space". I hadn't seen trailers or anything when I went in, and my mind was blown. Both at how a person could think it was hackers in space, but mostly by the movie itself. Just new and different in so many ways.
Thank you so much for explaining exactly why this has always been my favorite movie. It truly is incredible, and you have displayed that resplendently.
Friends and I went see the Matrix reloaded on the first night of release. We could not get any tickets because it was sold out in advance for more than a week. This movie was played on nearly every single screen in the U.S for the opening week. No other movie in the history of Hollywood has ever done this. One of the best movie ever!!!
Hey Michael -- as usual, loved the video. I know you've already covered a couple of Nolan movies, but do you think you have anything to say about The Prestige? Cheers!
Such an amazing analysis, I never really noticed how well they feed your curiosity to make you want to know more. It's so well done that you don't even notice it unless you're looking for it, or you simple don't like this kind of movie, then you probably would notice all the info dump. But if you do love this kind of films, you're so invested in the story that you don't even notice.
To me, the ENTIRE TRILOGY was a wonderful masterpiece. It has been a part of the inspiration for my own screenplay (which has been under development for a few years). And I can't WAIT to unleash it. :)
Blew my mind. The fact that the famous black marble foyer scene was shot in the lift well to by Dad’s government car park was also a real treat for me. I was only 19 😀🕺🏻🎥🏖🇦🇺
we should use the names they use. this isnt a real question, you'd never be in doubt about this face to face with a person in any place of civil society.
It's a good question. We're not talking about addressing them in the present, but talking about their past work. No-one is the same person they were in the past; the film is a creation of their younger selves, it would be different if they made it now. Are all the old reviews and commentaries wrong or insensitive for using the only names they had? Of course not. Therefore how can it be wrong to talk about these past people by their *actual* names (and identities) at that time? Using their new names in reference to their past identities is confusing, misleading and inaccurate.
@Miro Kai yes but we don't call Russia the URSS of 1960, even if now is called Russia... Your example is against what you say. Also in the text of the film the name of the directors is not the one of today, so if someone wants to be scientifically accurate shouldn't use the new ones, maybe them inside parentesis
@Miro Kai we are talking about something in the past, ofc that if they make a film now you have to use their actual names, but with something in the past when they weren't even of the same sex of today using the actual name isn't so simple. Also the name written on the films is more important than anything. If you use their actual names and in the film is written the old names, you generate confusion. Making another example, if your Lady Gaga decide to use another name today, to adress the previous albums when she was called Lady Gaga on them you have to use Lady Gaga, or at least specify that. If you don't use it, you are not correct. We are not talking about emotions, don't answer to this problem using emotions.
It’s the only movie I saw multiple times in the cinemas. I remember the first time was on early Sat morning, and I never been to a cinema on an early Sat morning before! My jaw dropped when Trinity flew up, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Still up to date my all time favorite. The perfect balance between being entertaining and meaningful. Other movies have more of one or another.
It was November 2001. I was 11 year old kid, just a month before turning 12. Windows XP was just released. My father promised buying me a PC, and we were waiting for it to be delivered. At the time you couldn't just walk into a store a buy one, you had to order it so they can build it, so it took some time for it to be delivered. Because it was cold outside, PC needed to be brought inside the house to warm up first, you couldn't just plug it in and start it. Longest half of hour in my life. When it was finally assembled, the guy turn on the PC and was showing what it can do to my clueless father. He said "You can even run DVD movies inside. I'll show you." He starts a movie in Windows media player, and that dialogue in the beginning starts. English isn't my first language, so I just sat there and watch at some lady getting arrested and kicking that police officer in slow motion. What an experience that was.
@@BiscuitAWitch I still refer to that movie when trying to explain what dysphoria is.. it captures it really well (whether it was subconscious or not for them while making it, and like it took longer for Lilly to realise she was trans too) I think. The way the world is subtly wrong once Neo is woken up, the literal Agents Of The System using the name you don't associate with anymore just to make a point, how people can look at Neo a bit funny on the street before he gets his confidence at the end. Trinity, having been awoken for much longer, empathises with Neo and also wants to make the transition easier. (Also in some versions of the screenplay Switch was going to have been trans, so it was obviously on their mind in some ways when writing it. Switch was to have realised the HRT etc didn't do anything to her body in the real world, and they had no means to produce it with the humans' limited resources. I believe it was taken out because getting different actors would've added extra complexity to the already complex script, and also added production cost.) I like it because the film makes the audience understand and believe in those feelings and situations, rather than the age old "so imagine if you woke up tomorrow and suddenly felt like your body wasn't right" talk. Because of the power of metaphor, I guess. Like... any number of "misfits" like the movie for some of these reasons, but I do genuinely believe it maps more strongly onto trans experiences specifically. Even though there are wider similarities in a sort of X-men way too.
I'm forever jealous of those who got to see this in a theater opening weekend with no idea of what they were about to see. My first time seeing it, I already knew the main story, which I wouldn't say makes the film any less amazing (it is one of my favorite films of all time) and it's always a treat to watch it. Just...yeah... I'm jealous of those who got to see it without knowing what was going to happen.
First off, finally back to a movie I've seen. Unfortunately, there's a bunch of these videos I haven't watched because I haven't seen the movie yet. Secondly, I'm a little disappointed because I thought this would have been the perfect topic for a video on Inception, which is one of my favorite movies. If you ever do Inception, I'm not sure what other topic you could do for it that would be as perfect for that movie.
I vividly remember buying The Matrix on DVD-it was the first movie I ever owned on DVD. What movie was your first DVD (or blu-ray?)
Ice Age (2004).
Vertical Limit.
Not perfect, but what an opening - and what a cast!
Apocalypto lmao does anyone remember that gem?
Back to the Future
I must sadly say... Star Wars Episode I (I was trying to convince myself that it didn´t suck... couldn´t make it)
I remember walking out of the cinema with my best mate Tom (still is, 20 years later) and both of us rendered speechless for the entire 40 minute walk home. Repeated abortive attempts at making sentences like "what the", "what about", "how did" interspersed with "woooah" and "shiiiit" and "fuuuuuck". I was the right age for this to probably always remain the biggest mindfuck of a movie I'll ever watch.
haha, that's awesome. I was so sad that I never saw it in theaters. I just showed up at school and heard my friends talking about how amazing this new movie was. But I *do* remember finally seeing it when it came out on video and having _my mind blown_.
20 years?!?! put a ring on it bro
I was 16 years old, and I saw it alone on a Wednesday, midday. When I walked out into the bright, cold, concrete, empty work day sidewalk, with no pedestrians, and few cars, it was literally like stepping back into the Matrix. It was a startling visual shift that made me question whether any of this was real, in a tangible way. I literally had to sit down on the sidewalk and close my eyes for a few minutes. The movie and actual reality had crashed together in an overwhelming way, and my life was never the same. Greatest experience I've ever had.
@@notlost1 old friends are the best friends, don't make it gay
O hai it's my favourite UA-cam Doctor!
One of my favourite foreshadowing moments from "The Matrix", is when the audience is fist introduced to Neo, he's fast asleep at his computer desk wired up with a headset.
Tomading Wow... I never even thought about that!
i never realized it was clue that he was plug in matrix.... Still learning new things about this masterpiece and my favourite movie.
I never thought of that wow 😊
Nice one mate
Beautiful detail. I knew he was "asleep" because his was passive in life, but wow, this makes is so much more intriguing.
Whoever casted Hugo Weaving for that role deserves an Oscar, he elevates the trilogy in ways that are truly hard to explain.
Awale Drezzy I adore his “break from protocol” during the interrogation scene. The way he enunciates the word ‘hate’, as if he’s never used it before. Reminds me of I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.
@@MarchingGrrland the way he evolves each movie and learns from his mistakes, in the final movie you can't even recognize the world it looks like a hellhole lol
“It’s the smell! If there even is such a thing...”
@@clutchcobra2729 LOL !
He made three other movies (essentially) in the same year. In them, he played a several thousand year old character who was also part angel. And nailed it. The fact that he didn't win Best Supporting Actor for either The Matrix or any of the LotR movies is just definitive proof of how bullshit the Oscars are.
I feel like the importance of delivering a satisfying answer is underappreciated. Finally seeing what Morpheus meant with "You wont have to" was beautifully shown between Neo first dodging bullets (when he wasnt yet ready) and then, in the climax, not having to dodge them at all.
Compare to Game of Thrones Season 8.
Compared to most of J J Abrams’ writing career.
It's definitely a rare skill. Too many books, movies, games remain lazily ambiguous when it comes to set ups like that.
Matt Khourie - I think it’s down to actually having a story to tell.
SamWallace, and Matt Khourie, I wonder if that's due to, in part of uncertainty of cancellation/dying. In a series at least, particularly in the beginning, or establishing the work/series.
The crazy part is there’s almost no scene in the script that has a character dumping exposition for longer than two pages which is mind blowing to me
They made up for that with the Architect in the second one
@@eclectic_nerd 😳...🤣🤣🤣
“The Matrix” was one of my favorite documentaries
I hope your joking...
Mindblown!
"The Matrix" still is one of my favorite documentaries.
@@alexhughes6244 He ain't
Yup. And "Highlander", of course.
The Matrix carefully crafted an entertaining action movie while capturing the phobia and fears of people as they entered a new century and as technology rose. It's truly a lightning in a bottle and I love any and all discussions on this movie.
@Careful Icarus oh. hello boomer.
@Careful Icarus to each their own, friend :)
@Careful Icarus i'm sorry, 35. wait, you are Millennial too. why are you easily impressed by pop culture garbage? smh.
And how the Matrix works on a surface level and a metaphorical level. On the surface it's an awesome action movie, and it has huge metaphorical depths to plumb, like how language keeps us all constrained and controlled. Or the book Neo hides a disc in is "Simulacra and Simulation" by Jean Baudrillard
@Careful Icarus idk man. Your first reply to the original comment doesnt seems like an argument to me. More like whining.
I remember the very first teasers for the film in England. They weren't even teasers. They were a flash of a question on a black screen for less than 2 seconds between other adverts on television. The question simply asked "What is the Matrix?"
I was hooked before I knew any more than that.
Holy cow, that's genius
The full-length theater trailer was similarly brilliant: it used carefully-selected, brief clips from the movie set 2 a dark, eerie soundtrack highlighted w/ appropriate sound effects 2 give audiences just the barest impression of what The Matrix might B like, w/o giving away the ending or even revealing any plot points--
Morpheus: Have you ever had a dream that was so real ... ?
[Cut to a quick sequence of extremely short movie clips from The Matrix, including a split-second excerpt from the scene where Neo falls off a building after failing his 1st jump]
Agent Smith: You humans are a disease, a plague upon this planet, and we...
[Quick montage of city landscape scenes, including 1 or more not actually seen in The Matrix]
Agent Smith: ...*we are the cure*.
Morpheus: No one can be ... *told* ... what the Matrix is
[End title card -- "THE MATRIX" -- appears]
Morpheus: ...you have to see it for yourself.
Based on this 1 trailer, U could easily conclude that The Matrix was going 2 B a psychological sci-fi horror flick. Contrast this 2 the trailer that aired on TV, which (like so many modern movie trailers) gave *way* too damn much away about the movie.
One day, someone came over and handed me a VHS movie and said: "watch this!". He had a look on his face as if he's seen a ghost. I looked at the cover and it was nothing but four people standing with guns and way too many sunglasses.
I said: "what's it about?"
He said: "watch this!".
I said: "Okay, I'll watch it later".
He said: "watch this! Now!".
So I go the the VCR and I put the movie in. The movie started and not a single word was uttered between us till it ended. After it ended, I turned my head towards him. Now we both had the same look on our faces.
The movie was The Matrix. The mind was blown.
lemme guess -- soon, you both turned to two other people and said "watch this!" handing them each a copy of the matrix on VHS.. they said "I'll watch later" and you both said "watch this! Now!" and there you were, sitting with a new friend not uttering a single word between you two until it ended.. but, after it ended, your friend turned their head towards you - now you both had the same look on your face.. soon after, they both each turned to two other people and said ... and so forth and so on.. until 95 times later, you and 39,614,081,257,132,168,796,771,975,167 other people had shared copies of the matrix on VHS, and it had been copied over and over so many times, the video quality faded into nothingness, just a buzz of static.. frames of bullet-time jumping in and out of existence.. and there you were sitting in your room when someone came over and handed you a VHS movie and said "watch this!" .. he had a look on his face as if he'd seen a ghost. Alas, you'd known better.. or so you'd thought, so you said "Okay, I'll watch it later" but he insisted: "watch this! Now!", so you, bemused, took the VHS from his trembling hands, slid it into the VCR, and pressed Play. Instantly, a wall of static hit you, flowing up and down the screen and filling everything in your eyes with nothing but the faint cosmic microwave buzz of..
the matrix. Unfortunately, no one could be told what the Matrix was. You had to see it for yourself. but once you saw it, you'd look like you'd seen a ghost since The Matrix is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth
@@elck3 a truth that is insufferable, a truth that is inescapable. Every time, just like the last.
The truth that you are part of an overall organism that is best defined as a virus with no cure.
The truth that the system was rigged from the start.
The truth that each of us is helplessly, hopelessly and entirely alone. Until someone else takes the courage to open our eyes.
And then everyone clapped
@@elck3 Write a book
so you both took the red bill
Not to mention the soundtrack is dope af. Best closing track ever
Yes! Fairly certain this move introduced RATM to my 10 year old self.
I don’t even like but that “Dragula” shit that was playing was catchy af for me even though I don’t even know what it means😂
It is the perfect song, with the perfect title. Wake Up - Rage Against the Machine
Agreed. The Matrix is a damn-near perfect movie if one ever existed.
This movie has it all - great story line, philosophical questions to keep us pondering for years, great CGI, enough action, soundtracks, acting, etc. This is what makes it perfect.
There are many other movies that are near perfect, but they all seem to be missing something - either a great story line, but some scenes are too drawn out, or at some point too slow for viewers to stay engaged or sountracks are poor or something else. But in this movie all aspects of filming have been carefully thought through and well executed.
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@@lordjackson Tried to watch it. Couldn't get into it. Had to turn it off.
Watching The Matrix in the theater when it came out, going in totally blind, is and will be forever my favourite movie memory.
Yes yes!
I had zero idea! I thought Keanu was the matrix going in lol. He was my fave actor at the time, I went to the movie first day out. And now I watch it over and over :)
Mine is LOTR😊. I, wish, I had seen the Matrix in a movie theater. But it was on a boring TV.
20 years and still one of the most influential films ever made.
The Matrix truly was a breathtaking movie. The film was a showcase of the Wachowski Brother's brilliance. Keanu Reeves also donated a decent portion of his earnings to the staff that did the CGI and special effects. No other celebrity does that, Keanu is a one of a kind person, very admirable and respectable.
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I didn't know that, wow
*sisters.
Plus the slow motion parodies were so over used.
Sisters
@@malleableconcrete they publicly identified as male at the time?
I remember leaving the movie theatre feeling like a superhero myself. I vividly remember walking home with electricity in my spine. That's how affecting the film was for my teenage self! 😄
I remember when I was young and impressionable, and one of my friends insisted, "You HAVE to see the Matrix!" Hesitant, I responded, "Why? What is it?" and, of course, his answer was "No-one can be told what The Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself."
Now, of course anybody can indeed use their words to describe the premise & plot of the film, but I'm still glad that I got to go in blind and get my mind blown by this movie.
"... create the desire to know by arousing curiosity" DAMN! That tip is gold!
I appreciate how your Matrix clips are all HD. Thank you.
This movie is still one of my favorite movies of all time. It's at least a top-five for me.
It's in that group of very brave films that where done right before 9/11 and our balls where cut off.
It is my favorite movie because it is based on reality.
@@alexeilindes7507 not mine.. I still have all 3
It’s #4 for me, behind SW Episode IV, Blade Runner and The Terminator
It's still my #1 of all time!
Love hearing the proper songs in the background
I wished the Wachowskis remembered these tips and lessons before making Jupiter Ascending.
Ajer Qureshi to be fair, I’m pretty sure that movie was butchered in the editing process.
Editing? Um no. The film failed before the first frame was shot because the script was subpar.
So weird how the Wachowskis haven't been able to reproduce the quality of The Matrix Trilogy. Maybe all the hormone therapy dulled their creativity?
@@MarchingGrrl yes
There’s a conspiracy that they stole the idea for the matrix from another lady. It was half terminator half matrix.
Thats because they are not the Wachowski brothers anymore, they lost their identity.
I'm so ready for a Matrix video. Thank you LFTS
what are you doing here?!!!
unexpected to see mid or meepo here lmao
Not only one of the most groundbreaking films of all time, but one of the greatest of all time! Recently rewatched this, and it truly is a masterclass on every level. It was an action film, it was a sci-fi film, it was a martial arts film, it was a western film and it took all the best elements of those genres and delivered something totally new and unique. And the way they tie off what feels like almost insignificant things, frightens me by how great that was. Then of course the choreography, set design, kickarse soundtrack, and more. I saw this in cinema when it first came out and it blew my mind in every way possible. Phenomenal filmmaking.
Oh, dejavu. Haven't I seen this video already?!
Must be a glitch in the matrix.
I got it!!! XD
Dayoscript.
The video I watched before this randomly was a ted video about deja vus...I've never been so shocked about a comment ever! I think there's something wrong...
Its the 20 year anniversary & suddenly everyone wants to pretend they know what the Matrix is. This video was good, but many are not.
My brother, this is one of my favorite movies. Your brilliant exposition on the art of exposition just got you a new patron.
Cheers and keep the vids coming
A neat thing about science fiction in general is that it’s able to create existential mysteries through different takes on reality. In the best SF, that reality unfolds and reveals itself over the course of the story. This sets up exactly that desire to know.
Man what a movie. Still hold up today too !! Walking past the locations on a daily basis in Sydney :)
Of Two Lands lol I just stayed in Sydney for work a few days ago, walking past the fountain in Martin place I'm looking for a woman in a red dress
I love all the camaraderie and collaboration between Film Video Essayists
A Matrix themed video from Lessons From the Screenplay deserves a like even before we watch it.
It was the matrix movie that made .e start question everything. It started my awakening process back in 1999. I'm 36 now and on a whole different level because of this film. Thank you for sparking my higher level of consciousness.
Questioning everything isn't great when you don't know how to judge the quality of the answers you find.
I made a channel because of that awakening effect these films have on people. The deeper layers miss the herd, but for those who desire to question, everything... it let you know: "You are not alone."
It's interesting how Office Space, Fight Club and The Matrix all came out within the same years. All three movies are about rebellion against the system or something else controlling our lives and us being free.
@@luxurybuzz3681 Wachowskis also did V for Vendetta
@@Dorian_sapiens more people should keep this in mind.
I remember seeing the movie in a theater and really enjoying it. I also remember everyone in the theater laughing at Keanu a couple times, especially the "whoa" comment after Morpheus jumps to the next building. It was like a Bill and Ted callback. Now he's very believably kicking ass in the John Wick films.
The matrix did back in 99 what Episode I should´ve done... amaze us... I went to an avant premiere in La Paz (Bolivia) I didn´t know what to expect... by the first 5 minutes I was in awe... by the middle I was so blown away... by the end of it (as a RATM fan) I was just blown away... I couldn´t wait to see it again. And I did, about 10 times at the theater and god knows how many more at home... One of the best ever.
This is EXCELLENT, so delighted you chose to deconstruct The Matrix like this! I am also really impressed with your music editing, how neatly you fit Don Davis's fantastic score into this video essay (6:51 is a particular highlight, bravo)
Always a treat to watch a new Lessons from the Screenplay upload, please do keep 'em coming! Brilliant now, as they always have been :D
That's really cool, I have not seen exposition in The Matrix explained like that before. It had quite the impact on culture when it came out, proof of the film's quality.
I feel like it's the millenial version of star wars. In that it captured the zeitgeist of the time and every action film made after it was influenced by it, and it's just one of those films that neatly everybody loves. Obviously the sequels to star wars were better than the matrix sequels, but that first film was very similar, it was like a bomb was dropped and movies and games afterward were completely changed by it.
I knew you couldn’t possibly talk about The Matrix on UA-cam without mentioning Patrick H Willems. And I’m glad you didn’t! Great job!!
If you ever get the chance to read the early shooting script of The Matrix I highly recommend it. The way that they describe some of the visuals a master class in how to give a description of action and environment the finest I have ever read, but you also learn about the cut sub-plot that deals with Neo being the fifth 'the ONE' that he has found. It makes the story a thousand times better and it was a shame it was cut from the final film.
How can I get to read it........can you post a link?
Thanks in advance!
@@mikeltsmithwww.screenplay.com/downloads/scripts/The%20Matrix.pdf try this link. page 63 is where cypher spills the beans on Neo not being Morphius' first 'the one' found.
@@hikikomicklori9290 Once again, thanks!
@@hikikomicklori9290 It's implied in that Neo isn't the first "the One" and that they finally hit the Jackpot with Neo. It's more Morpheus was stubborn on his beliefs and never gave up.
The Matrix is a brilliant film through and through and this sums up part of why. Not just the action. Or the effects. Or the soundtrack. Or the too often copied style. But the pacing and the manner in which things build and unfold. It's a film I have a hard time avoiding when I see it because each story beat draws you in and delivers. The mystery of the beginning. The revelation of the real world. The training. The heroes in trouble. Neo rising to the challenge. The amount of cool ideas crammed into one film is remarkable. It's no wonder it remains a modern classic 20 years later.
The first time I saw the matrix was on my seventh grade winter break when I was thirteen years old. I saw it with two of my older cousins. My mom came down to the basement where we saw it when we were on the scene where Neo gets the tracker bug thing removed. She yelled at my cousins for showing me the movie, and then we continued watching it about twenty minutes later at a lower volume.
I was 5 or 6 when I first saw this movie (I have awesome parents) when it aired on TV. Shortly after, when we got it on VHS, it was one of the 2 movies I brought with us when we went vacationing to Hilton Head Island. Later that year, we got our first DVD player and I think _The Matrix_ was one of the first 10 movies we got on DVD.
Obviously, being that young, I had NO IDEA what the movie was about or what was going on; all I knew is that it was awesome. But, of course, as you get older, you learn more about yourself, about storytelling and filmmaking, and how to perceive the events transpiring on the screen. And I do not exaggerate when I say _The Matrix_ is my #5 all-time favorite movie. And this video is one of the reasons why _The Matrix_ is one of my go-to examples on how to convey exposition through building mystery and intrigue. Something a lot of films fail to do, sadly.
Well I certainly picked an excellent time to binge watch the entire LFTS playlist for the 23rd time
The team on this channel are exceptional, from the writing, production, editing, and narration, you never disappoint and always impress. This is next level talent. Thank you all for expanding our knowledge and fascination with film.
That segue into Skillshare was masterful
I've watched the Matrix so many times that even at that clip at 8:58 I could hear Tank saying "I think he liiikes it..."😊
It's just, so amazing. I didn't watch in '99 but when I did watch it it became, instantly my favourite film. It just, resonated with me. As it probably did withmany. I still get excited whenever I'm about to watch it.
Back again to remind you of "The Prestige" Thanks see you again next video!!
I second this
we need the prestige
@@toughdoughydadbodnation7100 he has said to me before that's on his "list". This was I want to say 2 years ago. Must be a very long list.
unlike many other videos on youtube trying to benefit from the popularity of the matrix, this one great masterpiece is really something valuable.
The matrix was a great movie done at exactly the right time. I was in high school when it was released. There was little to no buzz before the movie was released and I remember people saying "you must go see it, I can't explain it." With Y2K looming and the height of the dotcom era the public was in a state very receptive to a piece of scifi and technology. The movie started incredibly strong and every movie after the Matrix had to have "bullet-time" for a while; in fact, so much so that it got really annoying. I remember NBC Nightly News had a segment where they were talking about college courses being taught on the symbolism and philosophy of the Matrix. This movie was everywhere.
So cool to read the comments and see how every one has a special memory with this movie, makes me some how feel connected to all these random people I've never met. Good movie.
Yep, there’s a reason why this is still my all time favorite movie. Regardless of what people like Doug Walker say.
You listen to what Doug Walker says about movies? There's your problem right there.
@@Dorian_sapiens It's more that after Doug Walker posted his video on it, a whole bunch of people started turning against the film, claiming it was overhyped and the like purely because he said so.
@@ldragon2515 Oh, I see. You're responding to the popular narrative that he created. I've seen a lot of that, too, and now I know who's responsible for it. Thanks, and cheers!
I’m grateful for the time taken here to shine a light on this masterpiece, because for me that’s what it is, a Masterpiece. When people ask me what my favorite movie is, which feels almost impossible to answer, I can only return to The Matrix. I can’t imagine another movie being made that could grab me as profoundly as The Matrix did and does to this very moment. I just watched it again last night and I never tire of its ability inspire me with awe.
My friend and I saw this movie 9 times in the movie theater when it came out.
My best movie of all time. I watched it in highschool on a Friday evening, and later at night, I think I stayed 2hrs without sleep just amazed on what I just watched. The following day was discussions with my classmates about it. Damn. I think I've watched it 100 times. The way they reveal information by showing it rather than narrating it is something I never thought would be quite compelling. And it was the first movie to convince me that action scenes can be done right.
"MIIIIIIIISTEEEER AAAAAANDERSOOOOOOON"
- Agent Smith
My name. Is Neo!
So glad they brought it back to theaters for it's 20th anniversary. It still holds up on the big screen; and I don't think it ever will lose it's beauty.
Michael as Morpheus at the end is my favorite thing on the internet this year.
You're absolutely right. The Matrix was one of those "where we you" moments. I remember going to the theater to see another movie, my cousin walks out, walks back in and tells me that we should watch the matrix. The theater was packed so we sat on the steps. The part that was playing was the black cat Deja vu scene and even that late in I was absolutely amazed at what I was seeing.
Yes! Thank you for finally doing this video! Now to make my way over to the podcast...
I'm not usually commenting on anything, but I had to tell you that I'm watching your video essays in chronological order for a while now, and after learning filmmaking for four years, I can say with certainty that your essays are teaching me more than any screenplay teacher I ever had.
And I have to ask - I'd really love to watch an essay about your take on "The Wire"!
Hope you'll see this comment and read through it all... Thanks!
"many of us can remember where we were when we saw it"
well for almost all movies the answer is either at home or at the theater. 99% of the time
frank unodostres not me! I was at scout camp, and my friend snuck in a DVD player with a pirated copy of the film. Watching it in the middle of the night with headphones on in the small tent was a surreal experience.
he means in life... not actual location lol
Best transition into Skillshare I've ever seen, bravo!
Enjoy Matrix Reloaded but I can see the issue people have with it.
The film never makes us want the exposition especially when it comes to the Architect.
I think the architect scene goes to show that there’s a limit to how complicated you can make the exposition. No matter how much you want to understand it, it’s just too dense and obfuscated to grasp on your first watch. Hell, it’s been 16 years since Reloaded and people still don’t entirely agree on what that character was saying.
Actually, the second one, compared to the third one, is a much better sequel. The main mistake with the 'Reloaded' was the wrong depiction of 'The Architect'. We were all expecting a different incarnation of him...
@@jasonmckellar7750, maybe that was the point
Patrick Willems does a pretty good "rewrite" of both Reloaded and Revolutions.
@@jasonmckellar7750 He's the only character whose statements are absolute. The Architect and the Oracle conversations allow you fully decide what you believe, but so many did not watch the Animatrix so a lot of the audience missed a step and violently reject the deconstruction phase of reloaded. & almost everyone misses the gold light:
ua-cam.com/video/afiFvCgxXXY/v-deo.html
This movie always will have a special place for me. My highschool philosophy exam had the subject ' man and machine' , and it fired of with a text about the Matrix. I had so much fun making that exam Also I had a 88/100 , which added to the fun :)
*_There's an alternate scene where Neo takes the blue pill, and in return, he becomes an assassin named John Wick._*
I just saw this again in the theater and it's still an absolute masterpiece. ❤️😎❤️
Every Computer Scientist i've ever interviewed has said that their favorite movie is the Matrix. There are so many fundamental concepts from Computer Science that are personified in it like abstraction (the oracle), polymorphism (copies of agents), and inheritance (knowledge download). Love this movie!
This is probably one of the movies I most want to go back and watch again, for the first time. Just blank slate. Going in knowing nothing. That experience was a gamechanger for me.
My friend had seen it, and his only explanation was "they are hackers in space". I hadn't seen trailers or anything when I went in, and my mind was blown. Both at how a person could think it was hackers in space, but mostly by the movie itself. Just new and different in so many ways.
I am so happy you create these videos. Thanks Michael.
Thank you!
These ad placements are the cleverest thing I've seen on UA-cam till date.
All along, I was expecting the sponsor to be Curiosity Stream
Thank you so much for explaining exactly why this has always been my favorite movie. It truly is incredible, and you have displayed that resplendently.
Ah yes... The Matrix. It is supposed to be a video warning. But now it is a documentary.
Friends and I went see the Matrix reloaded on the first night of release. We could not get any tickets because it was sold out in advance for more than a week. This movie was played on nearly every single screen in the U.S for the opening week. No other movie in the history of Hollywood has ever done this.
One of the best movie ever!!!
Let me grab my coffee... Now, play!
As amazing your analysis is, I'm more amazed on how well you always connect the theme of the video with your sponsor. Really nice touch!
Hey Michael -- as usual, loved the video.
I know you've already covered a couple of Nolan movies, but do you think you have anything to say about The Prestige?
Cheers!
Such an amazing analysis, I never really noticed how well they feed your curiosity to make you want to know more. It's so well done that you don't even notice it unless you're looking for it, or you simple don't like this kind of movie, then you probably would notice all the info dump. But if you do love this kind of films, you're so invested in the story that you don't even notice.
Being a teenager when The Matrix and Lord of the Rings came out. Pure brilliance.
To me, the ENTIRE TRILOGY was a wonderful masterpiece. It has been a part of the inspiration for my own screenplay (which has been under development for a few years). And I can't WAIT to unleash it. :)
Still one of the best movies ever made.
I purely love your analysis, examinations and production values. Great work.
Please do 500 Days of Summer or other films with interesting ways of telling a story. Thanks Michael and your team.
Blew my mind. The fact that the famous black marble foyer scene was shot in the lift well to by Dad’s government car park was also a real treat for me. I was only 19
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it's simple, really.
i see the matrix, i click
i see lessons from the screenplay, i click
double click
patrick willems as well, holy shit!
Dude, there is so much awesome things about this video that I don't even know where to start telling you...
Question: we should use the name the directors had at the time and used in the original film, or the name of today when they changed it?
we should use the names they use.
this isnt a real question, you'd never be in doubt about this face to face with a person in any place of civil society.
@Miro Kai Not a great example with Russia, because it's not the same as the USSR, considering that it was a union of now-independent republics.
It's a good question. We're not talking about addressing them in the present, but talking about their past work. No-one is the same person they were in the past; the film is a creation of their younger selves, it would be different if they made it now.
Are all the old reviews and commentaries wrong or insensitive for using the only names they had? Of course not. Therefore how can it be wrong to talk about these past people by their *actual* names (and identities) at that time? Using their new names in reference to their past identities is confusing, misleading and inaccurate.
@Miro Kai yes but we don't call Russia the URSS of 1960, even if now is called Russia... Your example is against what you say.
Also in the text of the film the name of the directors is not the one of today, so if someone wants to be scientifically accurate shouldn't use the new ones, maybe them inside parentesis
@Miro Kai we are talking about something in the past, ofc that if they make a film now you have to use their actual names, but with something in the past when they weren't even of the same sex of today using the actual name isn't so simple. Also the name written on the films is more important than anything. If you use their actual names and in the film is written the old names, you generate confusion.
Making another example, if your Lady Gaga decide to use another name today, to adress the previous albums when she was called Lady Gaga on them you have to use Lady Gaga, or at least specify that. If you don't use it, you are not correct.
We are not talking about emotions, don't answer to this problem using emotions.
It’s the only movie I saw multiple times in the cinemas. I remember the first time was on early Sat morning, and I never been to a cinema on an early Sat morning before! My jaw dropped when Trinity flew up, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Still up to date my all time favorite. The perfect balance between being entertaining and meaningful. Other movies have more of one or another.
I remember it because it was the first movie I pirated.
EDIT : On Dial-up off of UseNet.
Just watched The Matrix as part of my Philosophy class. And then you post this. Tell me, LFTS, do you have the mainframe codes?
Did we really need a sequel to the Matrix? Nah but what we got from those sequels were pretty good, it had a beginning, middle and end.
😂 Nah
Everything that has beginning has an end
OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHH!
It was Warner Bros. capitalizing on the Matrix’s popularity and success
It was November 2001. I was 11 year old kid, just a month before turning 12. Windows XP was just released. My father promised buying me a PC, and we were waiting for it to be delivered. At the time you couldn't just walk into a store a buy one, you had to order it so they can build it, so it took some time for it to be delivered.
Because it was cold outside, PC needed to be brought inside the house to warm up first, you couldn't just plug it in and start it. Longest half of hour in my life. When it was finally assembled, the guy turn on the PC and was showing what it can do to my clueless father. He said "You can even run DVD movies inside. I'll show you." He starts a movie in Windows media player, and that dialogue in the beginning starts. English isn't my first language, so I just sat there and watch at some lady getting arrested and kicking that police officer in slow motion. What an experience that was.
"These are Skittles." :)
Watched this in the cinema again recently for it's 20th anniversary and I was still blown away by it.
I BEG you to do Donnie Darko or Fargo
I'm surprised I didn't ruin the VHS tape of this movie with the amount of times I've watched it. One of my all time favorites
do a musical!! i'd love to understand more about how songs fit into the script and how they help tell the story.
You AND Patrick? Youre both like my favourite movies youtubers. Its nice to see you together.
Kudos for not deadnaming the Wachowskis
J E Lyon I’m glad this happened because I just learned about their transition! (Late to the party I know)
@@damonmoney4474 It makes sense in hindsight, you can see it as a coming out as trans movie.
@@BiscuitAWitch I still refer to that movie when trying to explain what dysphoria is.. it captures it really well (whether it was subconscious or not for them while making it, and like it took longer for Lilly to realise she was trans too) I think.
The way the world is subtly wrong once Neo is woken up, the literal Agents Of The System using the name you don't associate with anymore just to make a point, how people can look at Neo a bit funny on the street before he gets his confidence at the end. Trinity, having been awoken for much longer, empathises with Neo and also wants to make the transition easier.
(Also in some versions of the screenplay Switch was going to have been trans, so it was obviously on their mind in some ways when writing it. Switch was to have realised the HRT etc didn't do anything to her body in the real world, and they had no means to produce it with the humans' limited resources. I believe it was taken out because getting different actors would've added extra complexity to the already complex script, and also added production cost.)
I like it because the film makes the audience understand and believe in those feelings and situations, rather than the age old "so imagine if you woke up tomorrow and suddenly felt like your body wasn't right" talk. Because of the power of metaphor, I guess. Like... any number of "misfits" like the movie for some of these reasons, but I do genuinely believe it maps more strongly onto trans experiences specifically. Even though there are wider similarities in a sort of X-men way too.
Yeah let's encourage gender dysphoria and sexual repression by denying biological reality.
@@gracefool .... Why would anyone encourage gender dysphoria when it's horrible to go through? Grow up.
I'm forever jealous of those who got to see this in a theater opening weekend with no idea of what they were about to see. My first time seeing it, I already knew the main story, which I wouldn't say makes the film any less amazing (it is one of my favorite films of all time) and it's always a treat to watch it. Just...yeah... I'm jealous of those who got to see it without knowing what was going to happen.
First off, finally back to a movie I've seen. Unfortunately, there's a bunch of these videos I haven't watched because I haven't seen the movie yet. Secondly, I'm a little disappointed because I thought this would have been the perfect topic for a video on Inception, which is one of my favorite movies. If you ever do Inception, I'm not sure what other topic you could do for it that would be as perfect for that movie.
That's why i l love The Matrix.The style,themes,cinnematography,impressive action and revolutionary effects are so awesome.