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The action scenes of The Matrix were also strongly influenced by live-action films such as those of director John Woo. [154] The martial arts sequences were inspired by Fist of Legend, a critically acclaimed 1995 martial arts film starring Jet Li. The fight scenes in Fist of Legend led to the hiring of Yuen as fight choreographer. [155] [156]
The term "bullet time" was first used with reference to the 1999 film The Matrix, [2] and later in reference to the slow motion effects in the 2001 video game Max Payne. [3] [4] In the years since the introduction of the term via the Matrix films it has become a commonly applied expression in popular culture.
The first Matrix film features numerous references to the "White Rabbit", the "Rabbit Hole" and mirrors, referring to Lewis Carroll's novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871). [71] [77] Matrixism is a new religious movement inspired by the trilogy.
Scene from the 1990 film Total Recall. Historians of film note that the trope of a "red pill" as decisive in a return to reality made its first appearance in the 1990 film Total Recall, which has a scene where the hero (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) is asked to swallow a red pill in order to symbolize his desire to return to reality from a dream-like fantasy.
The original song featured prominently at the end of the first Matrix film, [92] and Resurrections features in its ending a cover by Brass Against. [93] The film's score was released on December 17, 2021. A track from the album titled "Neo and Trinity Theme (Johnny Klimek & Tom Tykwer Exomorph Remix)" was released as a single on December 10. [94]
The Matrix Reloaded was released on VHS and DVD on October 14, 2003. [68] On the first day release, the DVD release sold over 4 million units. [69] A Blu-ray release followed on September 7, 2010. [70] The Matrix Reloaded was released as a part of The Matrix Trilogy on 4K UHD Blu-ray on October 30, 2018. [71]
Io is the new sister city of Zion in The Matrix Resurrections. [6] Niobe explains to Neo that in the 60 years following the end of the war, enough humans left the Matrix to cause a severe power shortage for the machines. The machines fought each other over the limited resources, but some of them sympathized with the displaced humans and helped ...
Matrix digital rain, or Matrix code, is the computer code featured in the Ghost in the Shell series and the Matrix series. The falling green code is a way of representing the activity of the simulated reality environment of the Matrix on screen by kinetic typography. All four Matrix movies, as well as the spin-off The Animatrix episodes, open ...