CinemaWins wins: The text changes color depending on the setting within the movie. Green for while in the matrix itself, to blue in the real world, then yellow for the kung fu scene, and red for the simulation after. Ding!
Fun fact: In the original script of this movie, the machines were using humans' nervous systems for processing power, not just harvesting body heat for energy. I love this idea and think it makes a lot more sense, so even if the executives vetoed the idea, I still headcanon that the humans have it all wrong and that's still what's really happening.
Not all that much processing power left in a human if you're full-time blasting the human with an illusionary world, making them think they're living in it and going through their daily lives, I reckon?
Just a random little detail about the "Lady in the red dress" scene that I always enjoyed is how Morpheus is effortlessly gliding through the crowd while Neo is constantly bumping into everyone
I always interpreted that as showing how Morpheus has been through the training program multiple times before, innately knowing where all of the "NPCs" are going to be, while Neo hasn't seen it before. Fun way to show their differences in experience.
Fun fact: when the idea for this movie was first presented and a budget of over $60,000,000 was requested, they were rejected and given around $15,000,000 instead. All fifteen million was spent on the opening scene with Trinity, and the studio were so wowed that they gave the green light for the larger budget
@@SignalFlowers A significant part of the spending to get that opening scene done is resources they can use for the rest of the movie. Frex, the many-cameras setup to get that freeze-and-pan using physical effects; they then continued to use the same cameras.
I did wonder how they managed (as fresh new directors in Hollywood with almost no films to their name and a crazy idea) to get a budget big enough for every crazy tech they invented for this film. Turns out they kicked ass, which is kinda to the point of this film. Edit: they kinda snicked the movie by the producers, like they snicked it by the audience. "Yeah! This is and awesome action sci-fi movie! But is it...?"
Them using a fifth of the budget on ten minutes feels the exact same way as High School Musical 2 using an entire week of its 5-week shooting time to film Bet On It.
One thing should be mentioned: Morpheus pulled multiple people from the Matrix thinking they were the 'One' and they all died. Cypher watched it happen over and over again and it was one of the reasons he betrayed him. It's not in the film, but in the script that Cypher said something akin to "He's been telling all of them they can fight the Agents, none of them survived. So here's my advice if you see an Agent. Run". Eventually Morpheus found Neo but the part that that he killed multiple innocent people to do that is not even mentioned.
Yeah, Cypher is TOTALLY a relatable character. I don't say I'd do the same as he did, especially with the explicit betrayal, but still... understandable.
@@Mopark25 Parts of it are still in the film. In the opening you can hear Trinity talk to Cypher and he says "We're going to kill him, do you understand that?". Without context it sounds like Cypher is planning to kill Neo. But what he really means is that Neo is just another one they're trying to pull out of the Matrix and that's going to kill him.
I really liked the scene with Trinity where she's aiming her guns at the window she just jumped through expecting an agent and she's just willing herself to move, I thought it was such a brilliant scene showing her fear of the agents and how scared and running on instinct she is when fleeing them, brilliant way to showcase how terrifying the agents really are
Spent at least 20 years of my 31 years alive preaching how good the matrix is. Every time I see even the slightest mention of it or appreciation it brings me joy. So little things make me happy nowadays but this definitely made my year a bit better lol
I watched Matrix for the first time at 5.... 2004 LOVE THIS MOVIE. PS it's the reason behind my user... *Matrix*, and *1st* Matrix film in the franchise
Another thing about the window washing scene that I think was intentional, is that, having that thing happening while he is being "dressed down" by his boss, is very odd. It serves to remove a lot of the sting and authority of his supervisor. Because....Neo just keeps getting distracted, and watching the squeaky cleaning wands go up and down. It's fairly comical with it's absurdist tone. It feels like something that might happen in a Monty Python skit. Where this Really Serious Thing is happening....and the janitor comes in and starts loudly vacuuming in the room. Undercutting any sense of threat or power from the speaker. To me, this feels like one of those times that "The One, could reshape the Matrix, as he saw fit." That Neo, unconsciously did this, because he was probably thinking "Man I'd rather being doing ANYTHING than listening to this asshole....." *squeak, squeak, sssquuuuueak* *Stops listening to his boss and just watches that for a bit* Then when he finally snaps back, he realizes the guy didn't even notice he wasn't paying attention, but that he was done. So he just kind of nods and is like "yes sir." Reprimand over, leave room.
That really sounds accurate, awesome detail and way of thinking Thanks for sharing!!
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Well you know those 'window washers' are actually the director duo, Wachowskis, so in a way the Directors are cleaning the code and making the way shown to Neo and also as a way to destabilize authority just like you said.
Actually, the walk signals in Sydney where this was filmed are green! Walk signals in Australia are typically green. I never read that as a deliberate choice, I had no idea they were white in US cities.
@@MsLouisez At least here in Canada, "walk" is white and "don't walk" is orange. I'd bet it's deliberate that the white/orange aren't the same colours as the green/yellow/red of the car part of traffic lights, so there's zero chance of confusion if someone sees the colours at a glance.
@@taylorgalilea698 do you have other safety measures where you live for colourblindness? - green and red are in different boxes so they can't be confused. - the icons are different (walk man is green and stand man is red) - the 'crossing noise/tick' goes off with the green man (pedestrian right of way), and gradually gets slower as you run out of time. The noise turns off as the red man comes on. I am near sighted so the red and green blur and noise really help me.
Good to know that going down Neo's throat with the mirror still gives me LITERAL CHILLS. The sound design mixed with the visuals just never fails to give me goosebumps.
the "there is no spoon" line gets taken less seriously these days it feels because of the many parodies and over done jokes for the movie. But the realization that its all bullshit and not real and that that means if you believe it and can harness that truth you can literally do anything. manipulate matter, dodge bullets and even conquer death. Its such a fantastic line that seems glossed over these days snd even glossed over in this video. Its so important to the fabric of the ideals in this movie. I get chills every time the kid says it.
A thing I'm sad you didn't point out: Neo's boss has the same haircut, suit style, and even pattern of speech as the agents. He is an agent of the same systems of control.
The agents as a metaphor for transphobia makes a lot of sense now that i think about it. If Neo does something out of the ordinary, any person around him can turn into an agent, and because of that he has to keep his guard up around everyone. They’re obsessed with keeping him from discovering his true self and then when he does they want to drag him back into the matrix or kill him. They bribe his ally into betraying him by offering him acceptance back into society. The creators coming out really gives the film a whole new angle to explore (not that it needed it, I think this movies brilliant)
@@thequacken3226 Except it's not. It's all a bunch of backfilled bullshit slapped together in current day by people desperate to make socio-political hay out of The Matrix' popularity, the Wachowskis included. There are plenty of people, who were actually involved in the project, who have said this. Even the Wachowskis said it was a *Messianic* allegory. Can it be interpreted as a trans allegory? Eh...maybe, but it's a hell of a stretch. But it was never *intended* as one...that's pure retconning.
@@arklytte Ah yes, let's take the word of some random people who worked on the movie instead of the creators of the movie. It sounds like whoever you got your source from is just salty about it being a trans analogy.
First, as a 43 year old adult, I saw this movie first run in theaters and was completely blown away by it. I am also in the minority who liked the 2nd and loved the 3rd movie as well. I've seen the original Matrix over 200 times, and the entire trilogy at least 100. I've read countless essays, magazine articles, watched videos on it, talked with friends for hours... and yet you still managed to point out stuff in here that I'd never noticed before. Second, I had no clue about Nebula. I used your link and signed up for a year's access... I mean, an entire year for less than $12! I'd seen other Black Friday deals for Curiosity Stream, but getting to see extra long CinemaWins videos as part of it cinched it. Thank you!
@@nemanjap8768 Everyone's got hobbies. I like to watch good movies. I've also seen the entire Harry Potter collection 20+ times, All of the Phase 1, 2, & 3, Marvel movies 2-3x each (and the better ones 20+ times each)... when I like a movie, I like a movie. As many people have pointed out in the comments to this video, The Matrix wasn't just a movie. It literally changed how I looked at life and how I approached different situations. I was 21 when it came out, and I can directly attribute a lot of the success I've had in my life to some of the philosophies I gained by watching this movie and reading up on the story behind the story. In fact, there is one other work of fiction that had an even greater impact on my life: Ender's Game. I read it in the early 1990s when I was in high school, and I've read it at least once per year, every year, ever since. "The enemy's gate is down" is a line the resonates with me as much as "there is no spoon" does.
@@JaRyCu I understand you but either you are overestimating how much you have watched each movie or you are watching movies everyday and this is coming from a person who also watches movies multiple times. 200 times for matrix, that's almost watching it every month for 20 years. I don't think I have ever seen a film more than 10 times. Also how do you keep the record, do you write it down everytime you watch a movie
There is NOTHING wrong with this film; the aesthetic, Morpheus symbolic of one of the gods of dreams, Trinity literally representing the 3 main characters and Neo of course rearranged to be ‘One’. The green hues just giving that old vintage video game vibe. Or maybe it’s the fact that it made me actually question everything and both fear yet want to visit The Matrix.
Philosophy junkies make fun of this film but they're fuccking nuts! This movie is a perfect movie in every sense of the word! As the trailer and teaser trailer are THE PERFECT EVERY WORDS DAMNIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT A cuss WORD!!!B@!$&^%CHTCH!
For Keanu this was a major bridge point to John Wick, not nearly as important of a movie as a whole, but a very important movie for *him*. This established him as a serious actor & gave him the cred that made people realize he'd be game for extreme amounts of weapons training. This is how we got a 50+ Keanu Reeves that knows how to kill a man 50+ different ways, despite the fact that in real life he's way, way to nice to ever lay hands on someone irl.
Based purely on the pioneering effects work and the sheer number of references and parodies over the years, I find it hard to come up with a reasonable definition of "importance" where The Matrix is outweighed by John Wick - except possible if you add "when only looking at the last 5 years of cinema" or similar.
@@rmsgrey Agreed. The John Wick trilogy are arguably some of the best action films of all time, but The Matrix changed cinema by introducing elements such as bullet time, 360 camera sets, wire-fu, etc and inspiring multiple philosophical discussions, its arguably the most important film between Star Wars and the MCU.
A fun sound design thing that always jumps out to me - the squeak from Neo's hand on the interior of the pod is reminiscent of the window washers from earlier.
I see what you did there with the text matching the color of the scenes. Just like the film had a green tint for the scenes inside the Matrix and blue tint for the scenes out of the Matrix.
@@ludos1963 this is just a thought, but I think it's because it's to reflect their goals, since yellow and blue go together, but yellow and green doesn't.
The oracle never lied. She said that * Neo had the stuff to be The One, but * Being the one requires that you know to your bones that your *are* the one (She only said this after he himself said, "I'm not The One."), and * He was waiting for something like another life. All of these are true.
In the scenes of the matrix, the subtitles in the video are green. But in the scenes from the real world, the subtitles are blue. The yellow and red ones are the training simulations, like the dojo.
I did a double-take when I saw this in my feed, I thought you’d done the trilogy long ago! Matrix was one of the first movies that I ever got completely obsessed with, so much so that I went out of my way to stand on the same corner in Sydney where the final scene was filmed 😅
One little nitpick about your wins. The walk signals you mentioned that are green but usually white. Here in Australia, the walk signals are green normally and not white. Unless I am currently in the matrix
I watched this opening weekend in 1999 and definitely did not try to mind bend nonspoons. Also, this movie was so inexplicable and meta that when people asked me what the matrix was (because of the marketing campaign), the only thing I could think was, "The matrix is not something that can be explained, you have to see it for yourself." but nearly as eloquently or disturbing as Laurence Fishburn's delivery.
This was a movie that permanently imprinted in my mind when I first saw this movie in theaters when I was 14. A tried and true classic. And one of the best sci-fi/action movies ever made.
11:58 I love when you talk about each of the genres the movie is cycling through, the text at the bottom changes color with it. The text itself doesn’t change, just the color
Fun fact: Trinity's fingers curling at 2:17 was done digitally. Her hands were straight before, then John Gaeta went in and curled them. Great idea by the filmmakers.
The fact that you point out so many awesome things in this movie made me love it all over again. Granted, it literally your job, but revisiting it and why someone likes a movie just as much as you do is always fun.
Ok, watching this for the third time now, I just noticed the switch from green to greyish tint for the subtitles at 5:30 when mentioning the "real world" ... felt like a glitch - great work, I love it :D
One of the neat things I love is the subtitling you've put in Green for Matrix White for Meat Space Yellow for the Kung Fu battle Red for the Tutorial area
One of my favorite little touches in the office scene is how robotic the agents are. If you went to a cubicle to try to find someone, and didn't see them, your first instinct would be to look around the immediate area, but because they're inhuman programs, their first instinct is to begin scanning the office top-down, to the point that even as Neo fumbles out behind them, they don't have any notice that he's there because he's not in the part he's searching. They haven't revealed what the Matrix is yet but they're already showing how inhuman they are.
Don Davis score is one of my favorite things in the entirety of the film. The way he uses the orchestra and doesn’t rely on the common music structure of a film score. How he uses the diatonic scale in the orchestra and the choir to represent humanity’s struggle, and chromatic scales to represent the machines and agents. Every cue is so perfectly calculated! Don Davis himself mentioned how the initial idea in the score is the focus on the theme of reflection, the call and response between the french horns and the trumpets is the representation of that idea.
Even as a kid I knew that when they were inside the matrix the screen has a green tint. I love that detail. 9:33 how Neo’s voice goes from organic to electronic is one of my favorite little details in this classic movie. Or whatever you want to call it the sound design was awesome
Ive seen the matrix so many times. One day my father played the movie to try a portable dvd player we had and played on another room, i immediately recognized the introduction
I love getting more and more references in the movie by doing daily stuff. Like doing research for a presentation on Carthage and stumbling on Nebuchadezzar and and then immidiately going Matrix! also the way you pronounced filet mignon is hilarious.
This movie is what got me into movies and reading and genre storytelling. I saw it in 8th grade on a small screen on a bus on a school trip and even with all of those things going against in, I loved it. This is the movie I've seen the most times and the one I'd take with me.if I could.only watch one movie for thw rest of my life. I'm so excited you're doing these and hope you do the animatrix as well.
9:26 That sound you're hearing comes from an instrument called a waterphone. It's basically a pot with metal rods of variable lengths welded along its circumference and a pipe welded at the center. when you add water to the pot and rub a bass bow against the rods, it creates that sound effect. It's also very prominently heard in the opening theme as well. Don Davis' use of modern percussion techniques like the use of a waterphone, tam-tam effects, crotales on timpani, anvils, etc. has quickly made this movie's soundtrack among my favorites, and I haven't even seen the movie before (I don't mind spoilers, because I'll honestly forget them in 5 minutes).
One thing that made this movie stick in my teenage mind was how I somehow made a "full out" run home from my friends after it without once stopping, slowing down, being out of breath after or passing out until I went to bed 4hrs later (About 0.5 mile distance, nowadays I blame adrenaline & the fact I had 5mins to get home on time for supper but back then I was confused as fuck for months).
15:00 If everything tastes like Chicken, then by definition, Chicken tastes like everything. The line "They couldn't figure out what to make Chicken taste like, so it tastes like everything" isn't him mis-using the Idiom at all.
16:00 Fun fact: the movie on the TV is "Night of the Lepus". A really BAAAAAD sci-fi film about giant killer bunnies starring DeForrest Kelly that was recently given the RiffTrax treatment.
Hi! I love your videos. Whenever I’m excited to watch a movie but see bad reviews I just watch a video you did of that movie and it makes me even more excited to watch it!
13:36 I hate to tell you this, but walking lights in Australia are just green everywhere, including Sydney where this was filmed. I didn’t even know white walk signals were a thing until you said what I thought was normal apparently wasn’t.
Neo coming off that broken neck in the training sequence really added to his performance of him looking stiff, rigid and green around the gills compared to Morpheus.
Just like with The Matrix, i'm gonna have to rewatch this like 50 times to catch and appreciate all the little details you worked into this thing. And just like with The Matrix, it's gonna be excellent every single time.
The two reflections of Neo in the agent's glasses is one of the coolest details in this movie for me, I love that narrative of dual lives co-existing in one sense of reality.
I know it has a whole month till it reaches Disney Plus, but i cant wait for EGA Encanto. Maybe you can do a 60 sec review for it, because that movie is too amazing not to be at least reviewed.
13:36 . In Australia the 'WALK' signals are already green. It was the one of the lynchpins of the movie being filmed there. The dot matrix imagery of crosswalk signs is notoriously hard to edit in post production so they chose Sydney to film in so they at least wouldn't need to retouch the scenes later.
Thank you for this. My young inner self was just beaming the whole time. This and Jurassic Park define much of our childhood movie experience. Everything else is either coming up the mountain or down the mountain from those two peeks.
Oh man YES. Since Ressurections got a release day I have just been waiting for your videos on the trilogy (gotta play to the algorithm somehow), and I'm so happy it's finally here. So hyped to watch. EDIT: It's goood. Heading over to Nebula to watch the rest right now
Here I am wondering how it took so long to get this one. This is the GREAT vid I didint realise just how much I needed to see considering The Matrix is one of my favourite films
The Matrix has always been my favorite movie and i too was around 14 the first time I saw it. But you have shown me so many new Easter eggs I never new existed. Thank you!
Dunno how anyone else feels but check out Sideways talking about the matrix. He does a whole video about why the soundtrack is so awesome, and why someone was able to use the compete complexity of it as their doctoral dissertation
So happy to be watching this!!! Been waiting to see Everything Great About The Matrix!! My favorite film from 1999!! 😎😎 Can’t wait for Resurrections in December! Because of this, I gotta rewatch the trilogy 😎🙌 Thank you CinemaWins! 🎬🎥🙌
Honestly I've never considered getting nebula until you said the extra video was on there. I think it's an extremely important thing to discuss and I like the way you discuss movies.
THANK YOU for noticing and commenting on the trans allegorical layers of the Matrix as just another good point that adds to the merit of the film. No social uprising or similar necessary, just saying things like "Huh, deadnaming Neo is trying to push him back into the Matrix." Much love and many thanks
I know this is far too late to late in the day to say now but when neo is told to go to the bridge and he is stood under it I for some reason always just assumed there must be a railway on top of the bridge so when people talk about that bridge they generally mean under it
This is a great movie, and the directing and cinematography is truely inspired. So many missed opportunities in the sequels though. The trilogy would have been much better if it continued as sci-fi horror rather than sci fi action.
Gotta say that I really appreciate your work man. It's really cool how you notice the little things. I find myself always clicking your videos whenever I see them pop-up. I mostly agree with your wins and I love your style of dry humor. Just good job
It pains me that people in 2021 are so hateful over Trans issues, even though real world health organizations support transgender people. I look forward to watching your extended analysis on Nebula! I love this channel so much!
I always thought the far simpler window cleaning subtext was that it's reinforcing the running theme of people being dispassionately observed from outside.
CinemaWins wins: The text changes color depending on the setting within the movie. Green for while in the matrix itself, to blue in the real world, then yellow for the kung fu scene, and red for the simulation after. Ding!
Yup such a nice way to show how much he loves this film.
Also the text goes to green to blue at 5:31
@@Rebel_Friend yeah, as he says "cracking into the Matrix"! Genius.
Ooo.
I never really noticed the color scheme before.
Fun fact: In the original script of this movie, the machines were using humans' nervous systems for processing power, not just harvesting body heat for energy. I love this idea and think it makes a lot more sense, so even if the executives vetoed the idea, I still headcanon that the humans have it all wrong and that's still what's really happening.
Joining us from over at The Matrix Pitch Meeting, eh? That's how I found about that amazin fact, anyway. :D
Yup. Humans as batteries would be very inefficient. That’s exactly what the original script was.
I always just assumed they were doing both
Not all that much processing power left in a human if you're full-time blasting the human with an illusionary world, making them think they're living in it and going through their daily lives, I reckon?
@@TheBausOfAll This has been public knowledge since the Matrix came out, not that many people needed the Pitch Meeting to tell them that.
Just a random little detail about the "Lady in the red dress" scene that I always enjoyed is how Morpheus is effortlessly gliding through the crowd while Neo is constantly bumping into everyone
I always interpreted that as showing how Morpheus has been through the training program multiple times before, innately knowing where all of the "NPCs" are going to be, while Neo hasn't seen it before. Fun way to show their differences in experience.
It's like Morpheus is Bill Murray in Groundhog Day.
its not really a "little" Detail is it?
@@AviRox1154 I think it might be that since everyone is code. It would not take to much to just influence them to not be in your path
Hahaha
Fun fact: when the idea for this movie was first presented and a budget of over $60,000,000 was requested, they were rejected and given around $15,000,000 instead. All fifteen million was spent on the opening scene with Trinity, and the studio were so wowed that they gave the green light for the larger budget
So they spent 15Mil on the first 10 minutes of the film and 45Mil on the rest 120 ? Seems weird.
@@SignalFlowers A significant part of the spending to get that opening scene done is resources they can use for the rest of the movie. Frex, the many-cameras setup to get that freeze-and-pan using physical effects; they then continued to use the same cameras.
@@darekun46 Ohhh ! That makes sense.
I did wonder how they managed (as fresh new directors in Hollywood with almost no films to their name and a crazy idea) to get a budget big enough for every crazy tech they invented for this film. Turns out they kicked ass, which is kinda to the point of this film.
Edit: they kinda snicked the movie by the producers, like they snicked it by the audience. "Yeah! This is and awesome action sci-fi movie! But is it...?"
Them using a fifth of the budget on ten minutes feels the exact same way as High School Musical 2 using an entire week of its 5-week shooting time to film Bet On It.
One thing should be mentioned:
Morpheus pulled multiple people from the Matrix thinking they were the 'One' and they all died. Cypher watched it happen over and over again and it was one of the reasons he betrayed him. It's not in the film, but in the script that Cypher said something akin to "He's been telling all of them they can fight the Agents, none of them survived. So here's my advice if you see an Agent. Run". Eventually Morpheus found Neo but the part that that he killed multiple innocent people to do that is not even mentioned.
Yeah, Cypher is TOTALLY a relatable character. I don't say I'd do the same as he did, especially with the explicit betrayal, but still... understandable.
This makes the movie soooo much better than it already is. Wish they kept it in.
@@Mopark25 Parts of it are still in the film. In the opening you can hear Trinity talk to Cypher and he says "We're going to kill him, do you understand that?". Without context it sounds like Cypher is planning to kill Neo. But what he really means is that Neo is just another one they're trying to pull out of the Matrix and that's going to kill him.
Reminds me of Vitruvius's prophecy from the LEGO Movie. The existence of a prophecy would bring someone forth to fulfill it.
Pfft, Neo’s “the one.” More like a hundred and one, amirite 😂🥴
I really liked the scene with Trinity where she's aiming her guns at the window she just jumped through expecting an agent and she's just willing herself to move, I thought it was such a brilliant scene showing her fear of the agents and how scared and running on instinct she is when fleeing them, brilliant way to showcase how terrifying the agents really are
Especially after we've just watched her take out a room full of armed cops with basically no concern
Awesome point of view.
@@VazhKural Here, here.
Spent at least 20 years of my 31 years alive preaching how good the matrix is. Every time I see even the slightest mention of it or appreciation it brings me joy. So little things make me happy nowadays but this definitely made my year a bit better lol
I watched Matrix for the first time at 5.... 2004 LOVE THIS MOVIE.
PS it's the reason behind my user...
*Matrix*, and *1st* Matrix film in the franchise
Same
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It’s so satisfying showing a friend this movie. Especially if they’ve never seen it.
Best movie of all time! Watched it like 30 times and twice frame by frame! And it's always fun!
Another thing about the window washing scene that I think was intentional, is that, having that thing happening while he is being "dressed down" by his boss, is very odd. It serves to remove a lot of the sting and authority of his supervisor. Because....Neo just keeps getting distracted, and watching the squeaky cleaning wands go up and down. It's fairly comical with it's absurdist tone. It feels like something that might happen in a Monty Python skit. Where this Really Serious Thing is happening....and the janitor comes in and starts loudly vacuuming in the room. Undercutting any sense of threat or power from the speaker.
To me, this feels like one of those times that "The One, could reshape the Matrix, as he saw fit." That Neo, unconsciously did this, because he was probably thinking "Man I'd rather being doing ANYTHING than listening to this asshole....." *squeak, squeak, sssquuuuueak* *Stops listening to his boss and just watches that for a bit* Then when he finally snaps back, he realizes the guy didn't even notice he wasn't paying attention, but that he was done. So he just kind of nods and is like "yes sir." Reprimand over, leave room.
Actually, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks.
That really sounds accurate, awesome detail and way of thinking
Thanks for sharing!!
Well you know those 'window washers' are actually the director duo, Wachowskis, so in a way the Directors are cleaning the code and making the way shown to Neo and also as a way to destabilize authority just like you said.
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Actually, the walk signals in Sydney where this was filmed are green! Walk signals in Australia are typically green. I never read that as a deliberate choice, I had no idea they were white in US cities.
Yes, spent a few months in the US and forgot they were white. Now I'm trying to remember what their 'Red' is. Or even if there is one...
Same! I was like "White Walk signals? Wha?"
@@MsLouisez I'm red green colorblind, imagine how tough it is for me. Everything looks pale yellow.
@@MsLouisez At least here in Canada, "walk" is white and "don't walk" is orange. I'd bet it's deliberate that the white/orange aren't the same colours as the green/yellow/red of the car part of traffic lights, so there's zero chance of confusion if someone sees the colours at a glance.
@@taylorgalilea698 do you have other safety measures where you live for colourblindness?
- green and red are in different boxes so they can't be confused.
- the icons are different (walk man is green and stand man is red)
- the 'crossing noise/tick' goes off with the green man (pedestrian right of way), and gradually gets slower as you run out of time. The noise turns off as the red man comes on.
I am near sighted so the red and green blur and noise really help me.
Fun fact: Everytime Neo does a backflip, he grabs the air. It’s because this was Keanu’s first time ever using wires, so he reaches and grabs them
“An actor with that name, screwing everyone over?” Underrated line haha
Honestly, the majority of his lines are underrated.
Hi tim!
Spot the commie, lol
@@stoopanimation53 well your not wrong
how bad is it that I didn't get the reference?
Good to know that going down Neo's throat with the mirror still gives me LITERAL CHILLS. The sound design mixed with the visuals just never fails to give me goosebumps.
the "there is no spoon" line gets taken less seriously these days it feels because of the many parodies and over done jokes for the movie. But the realization that its all bullshit and not real and that that means if you believe it and can harness that truth you can literally do anything. manipulate matter, dodge bullets and even conquer death. Its such a fantastic line that seems glossed over these days snd even glossed over in this video. Its so important to the fabric of the ideals in this movie. I get chills every time the kid says it.
A thing I'm sad you didn't point out: Neo's boss has the same haircut, suit style, and even pattern of speech as the agents. He is an agent of the same systems of control.
I never put it together that agent Smith calling Neo “Mr Anderson” was deadnaming and knowing the creators this makes so much sense.
The more you know!
The agents as a metaphor for transphobia makes a lot of sense now that i think about it. If Neo does something out of the ordinary, any person around him can turn into an agent, and because of that he has to keep his guard up around everyone. They’re obsessed with keeping him from discovering his true self and then when he does they want to drag him back into the matrix or kill him. They bribe his ally into betraying him by offering him acceptance back into society. The creators coming out really gives the film a whole new angle to explore (not that it needed it, I think this movies brilliant)
@@dakotashomaker8812 The creators of the matrix are trans, and have confirmed that it is a trans allegory.
@@thequacken3226 Except it's not. It's all a bunch of backfilled bullshit slapped together in current day by people desperate to make socio-political hay out of The Matrix' popularity, the Wachowskis included.
There are plenty of people, who were actually involved in the project, who have said this. Even the Wachowskis said it was a *Messianic* allegory.
Can it be interpreted as a trans allegory? Eh...maybe, but it's a hell of a stretch. But it was never *intended* as one...that's pure retconning.
@@arklytte Ah yes, let's take the word of some random people who worked on the movie instead of the creators of the movie. It sounds like whoever you got your source from is just salty about it being a trans analogy.
I've always loved the "Yes." from Morpheus when Neo sees the agents coming into his office. STILL makes me laugh, because it's so appropriate.
First, as a 43 year old adult, I saw this movie first run in theaters and was completely blown away by it. I am also in the minority who liked the 2nd and loved the 3rd movie as well. I've seen the original Matrix over 200 times, and the entire trilogy at least 100. I've read countless essays, magazine articles, watched videos on it, talked with friends for hours... and yet you still managed to point out stuff in here that I'd never noticed before.
Second, I had no clue about Nebula. I used your link and signed up for a year's access... I mean, an entire year for less than $12! I'd seen other Black Friday deals for Curiosity Stream, but getting to see extra long CinemaWins videos as part of it cinched it. Thank you!
you realize the Merovingian was one like NEO.
Aren't you a bit obsessed dude?
I love the two sequels too
@@nemanjap8768 Everyone's got hobbies. I like to watch good movies. I've also seen the entire Harry Potter collection 20+ times, All of the Phase 1, 2, & 3, Marvel movies 2-3x each (and the better ones 20+ times each)... when I like a movie, I like a movie.
As many people have pointed out in the comments to this video, The Matrix wasn't just a movie. It literally changed how I looked at life and how I approached different situations. I was 21 when it came out, and I can directly attribute a lot of the success I've had in my life to some of the philosophies I gained by watching this movie and reading up on the story behind the story. In fact, there is one other work of fiction that had an even greater impact on my life: Ender's Game. I read it in the early 1990s when I was in high school, and I've read it at least once per year, every year, ever since. "The enemy's gate is down" is a line the resonates with me as much as "there is no spoon" does.
@@JaRyCu I understand you but either you are overestimating how much you have watched each movie or you are watching movies everyday and this is coming from a person who also watches movies multiple times.
200 times for matrix, that's almost watching it every month for 20 years. I don't think I have ever seen a film more than 10 times. Also how do you keep the record, do you write it down everytime you watch a movie
There is NOTHING wrong with this film; the aesthetic, Morpheus symbolic of one of the gods of dreams, Trinity literally representing the 3 main characters and Neo of course rearranged to be ‘One’. The green hues just giving that old vintage video game vibe. Or maybe it’s the fact that it made me actually question everything and both fear yet want to visit The Matrix.
HOW DID I NOT NOTICE THAT NEO REARRANGED WAS ONE
Well its a shame though that Switchs original character intention wasnt used.
@@katzenlady3245 yeah i really wish they went through with that, plus her aesthetic was iconic.
Philosophy junkies make fun of this film but they're fuccking nuts! This movie is a perfect movie in every sense of the word! As the trailer and teaser trailer are THE PERFECT EVERY WORDS DAMNIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT A cuss WORD!!!B@!$&^%CHTCH!
For Keanu this was a major bridge point to John Wick, not nearly as important of a movie as a whole, but a very important movie for *him*. This established him as a serious actor & gave him the cred that made people realize he'd be game for extreme amounts of weapons training. This is how we got a 50+ Keanu Reeves that knows how to kill a man 50+ different ways, despite the fact that in real life he's way, way to nice to ever lay hands on someone irl.
Not to mention his stunt actor for the Matrix films directed the John Wick movies.
Based purely on the pioneering effects work and the sheer number of references and parodies over the years, I find it hard to come up with a reasonable definition of "importance" where The Matrix is outweighed by John Wick - except possible if you add "when only looking at the last 5 years of cinema" or similar.
@@rmsgrey Agreed. The John Wick trilogy are arguably some of the best action films of all time, but The Matrix changed cinema by introducing elements such as bullet time, 360 camera sets, wire-fu, etc and inspiring multiple philosophical discussions, its arguably the most important film between Star Wars and the MCU.
John Wick just isn't that good though, I still don't know why people praise it. Just a basic shoot em up but weak storyline
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A fun sound design thing that always jumps out to me - the squeak from Neo's hand on the interior of the pod is reminiscent of the window washers from earlier.
I see what you did there with the text matching the color of the scenes. Just like the film had a green tint for the scenes inside the Matrix and blue tint for the scenes out of the Matrix.
Woah good catch!
That's awesome
And then I'm not sure why but inside their own simulation the text is either yellow or red
@@ludos1963 this is just a thought, but I think it's because it's to reflect their goals, since yellow and blue go together, but yellow and green doesn't.
@@ludos1963 I think yellow is for the dojo and red is for the lady in red.
"Wait, so is this going to be a cyberpunk, noir, dystopian science fiction or a kung fu movie?"
"Yes."
I love how Laurence fishburne can say the most ridiculous things and it’ll still sound badass 😂
What did he say that was dumb?
@@Slinky-1982 not really dumb but ridiculous
@@greengoblin4life
What did he say that was ridiculous?
@@Slinky-1982 like when he tells Neo that he won’t have to dodge bullets when he’s ready.
@@greengoblin4life
He was trying to free Neo's mind. I don't see why that is ridiculous.
The oracle never lied. She said that
* Neo had the stuff to be The One, but
* Being the one requires that you know to your bones that your *are* the one (She only said this after he himself said, "I'm not The One."), and
* He was waiting for something like another life.
All of these are true.
In the scenes of the matrix, the subtitles in the video are green. But in the scenes from the real world, the subtitles are blue. The yellow and red ones are the training simulations, like the dojo.
Ah, darn, I wanted to point that out.😅
I did a double-take when I saw this in my feed, I thought you’d done the trilogy long ago!
Matrix was one of the first movies that I ever got completely obsessed with, so much so that I went out of my way to stand on the same corner in Sydney where the final scene was filmed 😅
I thought he did too. Deja vu anyone?
@@KennethSee deja vu?
Tell me did you see a black cat walk pass twice?
@@josephbassey1501 I sure hope there's that again in Matrix Resurrection. And...yes, I saw the cat twice.
@@josephbassey1501 I mean, yeah, but it's nothing...right?
@@KennethSee Agents are coming?
One little nitpick about your wins. The walk signals you mentioned that are green but usually white. Here in Australia, the walk signals are green normally and not white.
Unless I am currently in the matrix
Everyone knows Australia, Canada, and Finland don't actually exist so yes you are in the Matrix
I watched this opening weekend in 1999 and definitely did not try to mind bend nonspoons. Also, this movie was so inexplicable and meta that when people asked me what the matrix was (because of the marketing campaign), the only thing I could think was, "The matrix is not something that can be explained, you have to see it for yourself." but nearly as eloquently or disturbing as Laurence Fishburn's delivery.
One of the top films of all time 💪😎
This was a movie that permanently imprinted in my mind when I first saw this movie in theaters when I was 14. A tried and true classic. And one of the best sci-fi/action movies ever made.
13:37 Walk signals are green in Australia and specifically Sydney where this was filmed.
I always appreciate Mr. Wins putting into words how much I love some of these movies.
The "Most Guys assume I'm a guy" thing seems a lot more important in hindsight.
11:58 I love when you talk about each of the genres the movie is cycling through, the text at the bottom changes color with it. The text itself doesn’t change, just the color
Fun fact: Trinity's fingers curling at 2:17 was done digitally. Her hands were straight before, then John Gaeta went in and curled them. Great idea by the filmmakers.
1:56 the siren sound matches the rising and falling action of her jump
Covering the Matrix means my many many requests for a Dark City video are even more appropriate. Awesome work as always.
6:18 though I'm not a fan of Reloaded, having seen that movie really makes me appreciate this cut.
The fact that you point out so many awesome things in this movie made me love it all over again. Granted, it literally your job, but revisiting it and why someone likes a movie just as much as you do is always fun.
Ok, watching this for the third time now, I just noticed the switch from green to greyish tint for the subtitles at 5:30 when mentioning the "real world" ... felt like a glitch - great work, I love it :D
One of the neat things I love is the subtitling you've put in
Green for Matrix
White for Meat Space
Yellow for the Kung Fu battle
Red for the Tutorial area
Same, that's a win for him
At 13:17, as it's loading in. The pan into the shot makes the ground below their feet look like a motherboard.
Unpopular opinion: I love all 4 Matrix films. They're misunderstood/underrated.
One of my favorite little touches in the office scene is how robotic the agents are. If you went to a cubicle to try to find someone, and didn't see them, your first instinct would be to look around the immediate area, but because they're inhuman programs, their first instinct is to begin scanning the office top-down, to the point that even as Neo fumbles out behind them, they don't have any notice that he's there because he's not in the part he's searching. They haven't revealed what the Matrix is yet but they're already showing how inhuman they are.
5:29 literally my favorite thing that makes me laugh every time i see it; Neo running past the copier
Don Davis score is one of my favorite things in the entirety of the film. The way he uses the orchestra and doesn’t rely on the common music structure of a film score. How he uses the diatonic scale in the orchestra and the choir to represent humanity’s struggle, and chromatic scales to represent the machines and agents. Every cue is so perfectly calculated!
Don Davis himself mentioned how the initial idea in the score is the focus on the theme of reflection, the call and response between the french horns and the trumpets is the representation of that idea.
I've seen the trilogy countless times and you're pointing out things I've never noticed before. Dman, I LOVE this channel.
11:06 The Matrix made an animatronic baby look real that no other movie has done since.
Even as a kid I knew that when they were inside the matrix the screen has a green tint. I love that detail. 9:33 how Neo’s voice goes from organic to electronic is one of my favorite little details in this classic movie. Or whatever you want to call it the sound design was awesome
Ive seen the matrix so many times. One day my father played the movie to try a portable dvd player we had and played on another room, i immediately recognized the introduction
I love getting more and more references in the movie by doing daily stuff. Like doing research for a presentation on Carthage and stumbling on Nebuchadezzar and and then immidiately going Matrix!
also the way you pronounced filet mignon is hilarious.
13:36 the move was filmed in Australia (I believe sydney) where the crossing signals are green
This movie is what got me into movies and reading and genre storytelling. I saw it in 8th grade on a small screen on a bus on a school trip and even with all of those things going against in, I loved it.
This is the movie I've seen the most times and the one I'd take with me.if I could.only watch one movie for thw rest of my life.
I'm so excited you're doing these and hope you do the animatrix as well.
9:26 That sound you're hearing comes from an instrument called a waterphone. It's basically a pot with metal rods of variable lengths welded along its circumference and a pipe welded at the center. when you add water to the pot and rub a bass bow against the rods, it creates that sound effect. It's also very prominently heard in the opening theme as well.
Don Davis' use of modern percussion techniques like the use of a waterphone, tam-tam effects, crotales on timpani, anvils, etc. has quickly made this movie's soundtrack among my favorites, and I haven't even seen the movie before (I don't mind spoilers, because I'll honestly forget them in 5 minutes).
You have NO idea how long iv’e been waiting for this
The dojo scene for me is arguably much more iconic than Neo’s bullet dodging scene…I LOVED their fight and commentary throughout that entire sequence
One thing that made this movie stick in my teenage mind was how I somehow made a "full out" run home from my friends after it without once stopping, slowing down, being out of breath after or passing out until I went to bed 4hrs later (About 0.5 mile distance, nowadays I blame adrenaline & the fact I had 5mins to get home on time for supper but back then I was confused as fuck for months).
love this film... even more because my names carved into the elevator when they go to see the oracle! 15:49
15:41 The blind guy is one of the programs protecting The Oracle, that's why he sees Morpheus, he sees code and recognizes Morpheus'.
15:00 If everything tastes like Chicken, then by definition, Chicken tastes like everything. The line "They couldn't figure out what to make Chicken taste like, so it tastes like everything" isn't him mis-using the Idiom at all.
Hurray! Can't wait for more!!!
Would love to see you cover "Glory" with Matthew Broderick, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington!!!
12:03 I love how, with the swap of each scene, the caption text changes color as well!
Of course the Wachowski sisters are great at scene transitions. They're also amazing at other kinds of transitions too
These are the kind of trans jokes that are actually funny.
@@lukeskywalker8543 you should hear more jokes then, this one was just lame.
I wouldn’t call it “amazing”, they look like they got interrupted while transitioning.
@@ChadKakashi only people who are still dudebros from the 90s use the word lame
@@ChadKakashi you look like you were interrupted while being born my guy
16:00 Fun fact: the movie on the TV is "Night of the Lepus". A really BAAAAAD sci-fi film about giant killer bunnies starring DeForrest Kelly that was recently given the RiffTrax treatment.
Ooh, I'm so excited to see you cover these movies!
@Anna ♪ Flagged :)
The "little horror trill sound" at 9:21 is done with an instrument called "Waterphone"
Cool!
Hi! I love your videos. Whenever I’m excited to watch a movie but see bad reviews I just watch a video you did of that movie and it makes me even more excited to watch it!
13:36 I hate to tell you this, but walking lights in Australia are just green everywhere, including Sydney where this was filmed. I didn’t even know white walk signals were a thing until you said what I thought was normal apparently wasn’t.
Neo coming off that broken neck in the training sequence really added to his performance of him looking stiff, rigid and green around the gills compared to Morpheus.
9:46
you say that as a joke, but my whole life, i have had around 2 nightmares, and one of them is this scene
Year 2, Week 54 of asking for Everything Great About Dead Man's Chest.
The Water Wheel Fight
There are 52 weeks in a year
@@ethan2090 This is my 2nd year of doing this, 54th week in total. Yeah sorry, the way I phrased it is kind of confusing.
Get a life, perhaps?
That's what I'm saying,Bridges
3:08 it could also be a reference to 1984, the torture room 101, as in he is trapped in here being tortured
Just like with The Matrix, i'm gonna have to rewatch this like 50 times to catch and appreciate all the little details you worked into this thing. And just like with The Matrix, it's gonna be excellent every single time.
The two reflections of Neo in the agent's glasses is one of the coolest details in this movie for me, I love that narrative of dual lives co-existing in one sense of reality.
I know it has a whole month till it reaches Disney Plus, but i cant wait for EGA Encanto.
Maybe you can do a 60 sec review for it, because that movie is too amazing not to be at least reviewed.
@Anna ♪ thanks I have now been traumatized, but it gets a win for a good message.
12:26 Mimicking Bruce Lee is always a win
Was looking for this a few weeks back and was shocked you hadn't done them yet. Excited for these videos!
2:28 I remember as a kid thinking "was that phone call really worth dying over?" lol ignorance isn't always bliss
13:36 . In Australia the 'WALK' signals are already green. It was the one of the lynchpins of the movie being filmed there. The dot matrix imagery of crosswalk signs is notoriously hard to edit in post production so they chose Sydney to film in so they at least wouldn't need to retouch the scenes later.
That's awesome info. Thank you!
Thank you for this. My young inner self was just beaming the whole time. This and Jurassic Park define much of our childhood movie experience. Everything else is either coming up the mountain or down the mountain from those two peeks.
Oh man YES. Since Ressurections got a release day I have just been waiting for your videos on the trilogy (gotta play to the algorithm somehow), and I'm so happy it's finally here. So hyped to watch.
EDIT: It's goood. Heading over to Nebula to watch the rest right now
4:45 fun fact: I believe that the two directors were the window cleaners in this scene.
He’ll do the secret life of Walter Mitty before I turn 20. Hopefully
God i hope
Copium
10:55 brother, i watch it every month or so and the matrix still make brain pudding out of my conscience
Here I am wondering how it took so long to get this one. This is the GREAT vid I didint realise just how much I needed to see considering The Matrix is one of my favourite films
The Matrix has always been my favorite movie and i too was around 14 the first time I saw it. But you have shown me so many new Easter eggs I never new existed. Thank you!
Dunno how anyone else feels but check out Sideways talking about the matrix. He does a whole video about why the soundtrack is so awesome, and why someone was able to use the compete complexity of it as their doctoral dissertation
The Matrix & Fight Club are my favourite movies.🔥🔥
To this day everytime I'm feeling nervous about something I remind myself "there is no spoon"
14:04 - such a yup reflection in Morpheus' glasses, what a spoiler halfway into the film haha
So happy to be watching this!!! Been waiting to see Everything Great About The Matrix!! My favorite film from 1999!! 😎😎 Can’t wait for Resurrections in December! Because of this, I gotta rewatch the trilogy 😎🙌 Thank you CinemaWins! 🎬🎥🙌
Honestly I've never considered getting nebula until you said the extra video was on there. I think it's an extremely important thing to discuss and I like the way you discuss movies.
THANK YOU for noticing and commenting on the trans allegorical layers of the Matrix as just another good point that adds to the merit of the film. No social uprising or similar necessary, just saying things like "Huh, deadnaming Neo is trying to push him back into the Matrix." Much love and many thanks
I know this is far too late to late in the day to say now but when neo is told to go to the bridge and he is stood under it I for some reason always just assumed there must be a railway on top of the bridge so when people talk about that bridge they generally mean under it
This is a great movie, and the directing and cinematography is truely inspired. So many missed opportunities in the sequels though. The trilogy would have been much better if it continued as sci-fi horror rather than sci fi action.
Gotta say that I really appreciate your work man. It's really cool how you notice the little things. I find myself always clicking your videos whenever I see them pop-up. I mostly agree with your wins and I love your style of dry humor. Just good job
It pains me that people in 2021 are so hateful over Trans issues, even though real world health organizations support transgender people. I look forward to watching your extended analysis on Nebula!
I love this channel so much!
I always thought the far simpler window cleaning subtext was that it's reinforcing the running theme of people being dispassionately observed from outside.
2:53 if you wonder why he is using Linux instead of Windows.
Hint: He's a hacker.
2:56 you don't know how satisfying it is to hear this kind of stuff.