The Matrix is ​​a 1999 science fiction action film written and directed by The Wachowskis (credited as The Wachowski Brothers) and starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano. It describes a dystopian future in which the reality felt by most humans is actually a simulated reality called the "Matrix", created by living machines to conquer the human population, while the heat and electrical activity of their bodies are used as a source of energy. Neo cyber programmers and PC programmers learn this truth and are drawn into rebellion against machines, involving others who have been freed from the "dream world."
The Matrix is known for popularizing the visual effect known as "bullet time", where the high perception of a particular character is represented by letting the action in the shot to advance in slow motion while the camera's viewing angle moves through the scene with the speed normal. This film is an example of a cyberpunk subgenre. It contains many references to philosophical and religious ideas, and conspicuously pays homage to works such as the Allegory of Plato Cave, Jean Baudrillard Simulacra and Simulation and Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventure in the Wonderland . Wachowskis's approach to action scenes drew their admiration for Japanese animation and martial arts, and the use of choreographic choreography and fu wire techniques from Hong Kong action films affects the production of the next Hollywood action movie.
The Matrix was first released in the United States on March 31, 1999, and earned $ 460 million more worldwide. It was well received by the critics and won four Academy Awards, as well as other awards, including the BAFTA Awards and the Saturn Awards. Reviewer praises the The Matrix for its innovative visual effects, cinematography and entertainment value. The film has appeared in the list of the largest science fiction films, and, in 2012, was added to the National Film Registry for preservation. The success of the film resulted in the release of two sequel films, written and directed by Wachowskis: The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions . The franchise is further expanded through the production of comic books, video games and animated short films, in which Wachowskis is deeply engaged, and even inspires books and theories about ideas in religion and philosophy.
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Plot
A woman cornered by police in an abandoned hotel; after conquering them with superhuman abilities, a group of gruesome green superkejer gray agents lead the police in pursuit on the roof. He answered the pay phone that rings and disappears.
Computer programmer Thomas Anderson, living a double life as a hacker "Neo", feels there is something wrong with the world and is confused by repeated online meetings with the secret phrase "Matrix". The woman, Trinity, contacted him, saying that a man named Morpheus could explain its meaning; However, Agent, led by Agent Smith, captures Neo and attempts to threaten him to help them arrest Morpheus "terrorist". Undeterred, Neo meets Morpheus, who offers him a choice between a red pill that will show him the truth about the Matrix, and the blue pills that will return him to his previous life. After swallowing the red pill, the reality is destroyed and Neo awakens, naked, feeble and hairless, in a vessel filled with fluid, countless of which are connected by wires to a complicated electrical system. He was saved and taken aboard the Morpheus airplane, Nebuchadnezzar.
When Neo recovered, Morpheus explained the truth: in the twenty-first century, intelligent machines waged war against their human creators. When humans block machine access to solar energy, the machine responds by harvesting human bioelectric energy. The Matrix is ​​a simulation with the world, where the harvested human mind is trapped and soothed. All human beings are free to live in Zion, the last refuge in the real world. Morpheus and his crew are a group of rebels who hack the Matrix to "uproot" enslaving people and recruiting them; their understanding of the reality of simulation allows them to bend their physical laws, giving them super abilities. Morpheus warned Neo that death in the Matrix also kills the physical body, and that Agent is a powerful life program that eliminates threats to the system. Neo's prowess during virtual combat training gave belief in Morpheus's belief that Neo was the "One," a very powerful human being in the body to liberate people and end the war.
The group entered the Matrix to visit Oracle, a prophet who predicted the appearance of the One. He implies that Neo is not the only one and warns Neo that he must choose between the life of Morpheus and his own life. Before they could leave the Matrix, the group was ambushed by the Agent and the tactical police stationed by Cypher, a crew member who betrayed Morpheus to Smith in exchange for a comfortable life in the Matrix. Morpheus allows him to be captured so that Neo and the rest of the crew can escape. Cypher exits the Matrix and kills some crew members as they are powerless in the real world. As he prepares to break Neo and Trinity, Tank, a crew he has abandoned, kills him.
At Matrix, Agent interrogated Morpheus to study his access code to the mainframe computer in Zion. The Tank proposes killing Morpheus to prevent this, but Neo, believing that he is not One, decided to return to the Matrix to save Morpheus; Trinity insisted he accompany her. While saving Morpheus, Neo gained confidence in his abilities, performing comparable accomplishments with Agent. Morpheus and Trinity exited the Matrix, but Smith ambushed and killed Neo before he could leave. In the real world, a machine called Sentinel attacked Nebuchadnezzar . Trinity whispers to Neo that he can not die because he loves him and Oracle tells him that he will fall in love with Yang One. He kisses Neo and he revives with the power to understand and control the Matrix. He easily defeated Smith and abandoned the Matrix just like the electromagnetic pulse of a ship that paralyzed the attacking Sentinel.
In 1994, The Wachowskis presented a script for the film Assassins to Warner Bros.. Pictures. After Lorenzo di Bonaventura, president of the company's production at the time, read the script, he decided to buy the rights for it and put two more pictures, Bound and The Matrix , in the contract. The first film The Wachowskis directed, Bound , then became a critical success. Using this momentum, the brothers are then asked to direct the The Matrix .
Producer Joel Silver immediately joined the project. Although the project has key proponents such as Silver and Di Bonaventure to influence the company, The Matrix is ​​still a huge investment for Warner Bros., which should invest $ 60 million to make movies with deep philosophical ideas and effects especially difficult. Therefore, Wachowskis hired underground comic artist Geof Darrow and Steve Skroce to draw a 600-page storyboard for the entire film. The storyboard finally got studio approval, and it was decided to film in Australia to get the most out of the budget. Soon, The Matrix became the co-production of Warner Bros. and the Australian Village Roadshow Pictures company.
Pre-production
Film actors are asked to understand and explain the The Matrix . Simulacra and Simulation are required reading for most major players and crew. Reeves declared that Wachowskis had read Simulacra and Simulation, Uncontrolled, and Dylan Evans Introduced the Evolution of Psychology even before they opened the script, and finally he able to explain all the philosophical nuances involved. Moss commented that he was having trouble with this process.
The directors have also been admirers of Hong Kong action theater for a long time, so they decided to hire choreographers of Chinese martial arts and film director Yuen Woo-ping to work in a fight scene. To prepare wire fu, the actors have to train hard for several months. The first Wachowskis is scheduled for four months for training. Yuen was optimistic but then began to worry when he realized how unworthy the actors were.
Yuen let their body style develop and then work with the power of each actor. He is built on Reeves persistence, Fishburne endurance, precision Weaving, and Moss feminine elegance. Yuen designed the Moss steps to suit the dexterity and lightness. Before pre-production, Reeves suffered from a combination of two levels of cervical spine that began to cause paralysis in his legs, which required him to undergo neck surgery. He still has not recovered during pre-production, but he insists on training, so Yuen lets him practice punches and lighter moves. Reeves trained hard and even asked for training on holidays. However, the operation still made it unable to kick for two of the four months of training. As a result, Reeves did not kick many movies. Weaving had to undergo hip surgery after she suffered an injury during the training process.
Production design
In movies, the code that composes the Matrix itself is often represented as a green character that flows down. This code uses a custom font type designed by Simon Whiteley, which includes a half-width characterized mirror image of the characters and Western Latin letters and numbers. The green color reflects the commonly used green color on an early monochrome computer monitor. Lynne Cartwright, Visual Effects Supervisor at Animal Logic, oversaw the making of the movie opening sequence, as well as the general appearance of Matrix code throughout the movie, in collaboration with Lindsay Fleay and Justen Marshall. This description resembles the cyberpunk 1995 Japanese ceo opening credits, Ghost in the Shell , which has a strong influence on the Matrix series (see below). It is also used in subsequent movies, on related websites, and in the game The Matrix: Path of Neo , and its drop-down effects are reflected in the design of some posters for > Matrices > series. This code received a Runner-up Award in 1999 Jesse Garson Award for Typography In the film or opening of credit sequence.
The Matrix 'production designer, Owen Paterson, uses the method to distinguish the "real world" and Matrix in a pervasive way. The production design team generally puts a bias against the typical green color of the Matrix code in the scene set in the simulation, whereas there is an emphasis on the blue color during the scene set in "real world". In addition, the Matrix scene sets are slightly more damaged, monolithic, and grid-like, to convey the cool, logical and artificial nature of the environment. For the "real world", the hair of the actors is less fashionable, their clothing has more textile content, and the cinematographers use longer lenses to soften the background and emphasize the actors.
The Nebuchadnezzar is designed to have a patched look instead of a clean, cool and sterile space ship interior set used in movies like Star Trek. Cables are made visible to show the ship's internal work, and each composition is carefully designed to convey the ship as a "marriage between Humans and Machines". For scenes when Neo wakes up on a pod connected to Matrix, pods are built to look dirty, used, and spooky. During testing of the respiratory mechanism in the pod, the tester underwent hypothermia in less than eight minutes, so the pod had to be heated.
Kym Barrett, the costume designer, says that he defines their character and environment with their costumes. For example, Reeves office costume is designed for Thomas Anderson to look uncomfortable, disheveled, and out of place. Barrett sometimes uses three different types of cloth for each costume, and should also consider the practicality of acting. The actors needed to perform martial arts action in their costumes, hanging upside down without people looking at their clothes, and being able to work with the wire while being tied to the harness. For Trinity, Barrett experimented with how each fabric absorbs and reflects various types of light, and is finally able to make Trinity costumes similar to mercury and oil slick to suit its character. For Agents, their costumes are designed to create a secret service, secret look, resembling a movie JFK .
Sunglasses, a staple for film aesthetics, were commissioned for the film by designer Richard Walker from sunglasses maker Blinde Design.
Filming
All but a few scenes were filmed at Fox Studios in Sydney, and in the town itself, although recognizable landmarks were not included to keep the impression of a generic American city. The filming helped establish New South Wales as a major movie production center. Filming started in March 1998 and wrapped in August 1998; Main photography takes 118 days.
Due to Reeves' neck injury, some action scenes must be rescheduled to await his total recovery. As a result, filming begins with scenes that do not require much physical activity, such as scenes in Thomas Anderson's office, interrogation rooms, or car trips where Neo is brought to see Oracle. Locations for this scene include the Martin Place fountain in Sydney, halfway between it and the adjacent Colonial Building, and the Colonial Building itself. During the scene set on the roof of the government building, the team filmed extra footage of Neo bullets avoiding if the bullet time process did not work.
Moss did a photo shoot featuring Trinity at the beginning of the movie and all the wire acrobats themselves. The Roof establishes that Trinity uses to escape from Agent Brown at the beginning of the remaining film of the Dark City production, which has prompted comments due to the thematic similarity of the films. During the practice of the lobby scene, where Trinity walked on the wall, Moss injured his leg and was finally unable to film a shot in one take. He stated that he was under a lot of pressure at the time and was devastated when he realized he would not be able to do it.
The set of the dojo was built well before the actual shoot. During the filming of this series of action, there was significant physical contact between the actors, making them bruises. Because of Reeves's injuries and inadequate training with the cable before filming, he was unable to do a satisfactory three kicks and became frustrated with himself, causing the scene to be postponed. The scene was successfully shot a few days later, with Reeves using only three times. Yuen changed the choreography and made the actors pull their punches in the last sequence of the scene, creating a nuance of training.
The filmmakers originally planned to photograph the subway scene at an actual subway station, but the hassle of fights and related wire work was needed to record a scene on one set. The set is built around an existing railway storage facility, which has a real railway line. Filming the scene when Neo slammed Smith into the ceiling, Chad Stahelski, Reeves' stunt double, suffered several injuries, including broken ribs, knees, and dislocated shoulders. Another stuntman was injured by a hydraulic puller during a shot in which Neo was slammed into a cubicle. The office building where Smith interrogated Morpheus was a large set, and the outer view of the building was a large, three-story cyclorama. The helicopter is a full-scale, lightweight mock-up hung with a wire rope that operates a sloping mechanism mounted on the roof of the studio. The helicopter has a side mounted to it a real minigun, which is set to rotate at full half normal level (3000 revolutions per minute). The visual effects of helicopters that rotate the blades are done using a strobe light.
To prepare the scene where Neo awoke in a pod, Reeves lost 15 pounds and shaved his entire body to give Neo a skinny look. The scene in which Neo falls into the sewer system sums up the main photography. According to the The Art of the Matrix , at least one movie scene and a variety of short actions are removed from the final cut of the movie.
Visual effects
As for the artistic inspiration for bullet time, I will praise Otomo Katsuhiro, who co-wrote and directed Akira , which must have surprised me, along with director Michel Gondry. The music video experimented with a different type of technique called display-morphing and that's only part of the beginning revealing a creative approach to the use of still cameras for special effects. Our technique differs significantly as we build it to move around moving objects, and we are also able to create slow motion events that 'virtual cameras' can move - rather than static action in Gondry music videos with limited mobile cameras.
The film is known for popularizing the visual effect known as "bullet time", which allows the shot to advance in slow motion while the camera appears to move through the scene at normal speed. The time of the bullet has been described as "the visual analogy for the special moment of consciousness in the Matrix", and throughout the film, its effect is used to describe the use of character control of time and space. Wachowskis first imagines the sequence of actions that slow down time while the camera rotates rapidly around the subject, and proposes effects in their scenarios for the film. When John Gaeta read the manuscript, he appealed to the effects producer at Manex Visual Effects to let him work on the project, and created a prototype that made him the watchful eye of the film's visual effects.
The method used to create these effects involves an expanded technically advanced version of technical art photography known as time-slice photography, in which an array of cameras is placed around objects and triggered simultaneously. Each camera is a still image camera instead of a movie camera, and only contributes one frame to the video sequence. When the photos are displayed in sequence, they create the effect of "virtual camera movement"; the illusion of viewpoint moves around objects that seem to be frozen in time.
The effect of bullet time is similar but a little more complicated, by combining the temporal motion so that instead of looking completely frozen, the scene is slow and varied. Camera position and exposure are visualized using 3D simulations. Instead of firing cameras simultaneously, the visual effects team fired the camera shards one second after each other, allowing each camera to capture the action while walking, creating a super slow-motion effect. When the frame is unified, the resulting slow motion effect reaches frame frequency of 12,000 per second, compared to 24 frames per second of normal film. Standard film cameras are placed at the end of the array to take normal speed action before and after. Because the subject camera's circle is almost completely in most sequences, computer technology is used to edit cameras that appear in the background on the other side. To create the background, Gaeta employs George Borshukov, who creates 3D models based on building geometry and uses the photos of the building itself as a texture.
The photo-realistic environment generated by this method is inserted into the bullet time scene, and linear interpolation is filled in the still image spaces to produce smooth dynamic movement; the lead-in slides and computer lead-outs are filled in between frames in order to get the illusion of orbiting the scene. Manex Visual Effects uses an agricultural cluster that runs Unix operating systems like FreeBSD to create many movie visual effects.
Manex also handles creature effects, such as Sentinel and machines in real-world scenes; Animal Logic creates the code aisle and the Agent explodes at the end of the movie. DFilm-run scenes that require much use of digital compositing, such as the Neo jump from skyscrapers and helicopters crashing into buildings. The ripple effects in the last scene were made digitally, but shots also included practical elements, and months of extensive research is needed to find the right kind of glass and explosives to use. The scene was shot by crashing a quarter-scale helicopter into a glass wall connected to concentric explosive rings; the explosives are then triggered sequentially from the center to the outside, to create exploding glass waves.
The background of computer-generated photogrammetry and image-based images in Matrix bullet time evolved into the innovations introduced in the sequel The Matrix Reloaded and < i> The Matrix Revolutions . The method of using real building photos as textures for 3D models ultimately leads the visual effects team to digitize all data, such as scenes, movements and character expressions. It also leads to the development of "Universal Capture", a process that collects and stores face detail and expression at high resolution. With this highly detailed data gathered, the team is able to create virtual cinematography where characters, locations, and events can all be digitally created and viewed through virtual cameras, eliminating real camera restrictions.
Sound and music effects
Dane A. Davis is responsible for creating sound effects for the film. The sound effects of a fight scene, such as the sound of a punch beam made using a thin metal rod and record it, then edit the sound. The sound of a pod containing the cover of a human baby requires nearly fifty votes put together.
The movie score was compiled by Don Davis. He notes that mirrors often appear in films: reflections of blue and red pills seen on Morpheus glasses; Neo Arrests by Agents viewed through the rearview mirror of a Triumph Speed ​​motorcycle Triple Trinity; Neo observes a broken mirror fixing himself; Reflection of the spark plug as a spoon is bent; a helicopter reflection was visible as it approached the skyscraper. Davis focuses on the theme of this reflection when scoring, alternating between parts of the orchestra and trying to combine contrapuntal ideas. Davis's score combines elements of orchestra, choir and synthesis; the balance between these elements varies depending on whether the human or machine is the dominant subject of a particular scene. In addition to Davis's score, The Soundtrack also features music from various actions such as Rammstein, Rob Dougan, Rage Against the Machine, Propellerheads, Ministry, Deftones, Magnet Monster, The Prodigy, Rob Zombie, Meat Beat Manifesto, and Marilyn Manson.
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Influences
The Matrix is taken from and makes reference to many cinematic and literary works, and concepts from mythology, religion and philosophy. The Matrix also refers to the ideas of Buddhism, Christianity, Gnosticism, Hinduism, and Judaism. The premise of The Matrix ' resembles the Christian doctrine of the Trinity. Andrew Godoski from Screened.com observes Neo's "virgin birth", his doubts in himself, his coming predictions, along with many Christian references. In The Matrix , a copy of Jean Baudrillard Simulacra and Simulation is visible on the screen as a book used to hide discs, and Morpheus quotes the phrase "real desert". The book needs to be read for the actors before filming. Baudrillard himself says that The Matrix misunderstood and changed his work.
Interpretations of The Matrix often refer to the Baudrillard philosophy to show that the film is an allegory for contemporary experience in a commercialized and media-driven society, especially in developed countries. The influence of the Bracha Ettinger matrix theory articulated in a series of books and essays from the late 1980s onwards was brought to the attention of the public through the writings of art historians such as Griselda Pollock and film theorists such as Heinz-Peter Schwerfel. Bracha Ettinger's matrix theory is explicitly quite late in the film through the expression "primal matrix" but is visualized from the beginning through an alliance between Neo, Trinity and Morpheus, their "co-birth" in the womb as "space-time sharing", their coexistence different dimensions at the same time, their relationship with the mother oracle and more. His "ancient" matrix is ​​always in the present and the future, depending on human influence and desire, and proposes a different relationship between the symbolic and the real. This matrix is ​​fragile but resistant to the dominating Matrix of mechanics encoded by simulation and manipulation of consciousness that seizes and rejects it. Within the scope of Etapeerian freedom of matrix goes along with responsibility. The relationship between Neo, Morpheus, Trinity and Oracle, from the start and throughout the film, manifests the possibility of "linkage" in distance and distance, which is not global and can not form a "web net." "The network is always specific, invested by" Eros of borderlinking " and is associated with a different process called Ettinger "metramorphosis" (morpheus maternal-maternal).This is another type of Matrix hidden behind Baudrillard.
The Matrix belongs to the science fiction cyberpunk genre, and draws from previous works in genres like Neuromancer by William Gibson. For example, the use of the film from the term "Matrix" was adopted from the Gibson novel, although LP Davies has used the term "Matrix" fifteen years earlier for a similar concept in his 1969 novel The White Room ("This has been tried in Americans a few years earlier, but their 'matrix' as they called it was not strong enough to hold a fictitious character in place "). After watching The Matrix , Gibson commented that the way filmmakers of cyberpunk work are "just like the creative culture osmosis" he relies on in his own writing; However, he notes that the Gnostic theme of the film distinguishes it from the Neuromancer , and believes that The Matrix is thematically closer to the work of science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. Other authors also comment on the similarity between the The Matrix and Dick's work; one example of such influences was the 1977 Philip K. Dick conference, in which he stated:
We live in computer programmed reality, and the only clue we have is when some variables are changed, and some changes in our reality occur.
Wachowskis's approach to action scenes drew their admiration for Japanese animations such as Ninja Scroll and Akira . The animated film director Mamoru Oshii 1995 Ghost in the Shell is a very powerful influence; Producer Joel Silver has stated that Wachowskis first described their intentions for The Matrix by showing him that anime and saying, "We want to do it real". Mitsuhisa Ishikawa from Production I.G, which produces Ghost in the Shell , notes that the high-quality visual anime is a powerful source of inspiration for the Wachowskis. He also commented, "... cyberpunk movie is very difficult to explain to third person I imagine that The Matrix is a very difficult type of film to compose written proposal for to be taken to film studio". He claims that since Ghost in the Shell has gained recognition in America, Wachowskis uses it as a "promotional tool". The action scene of The Matrix is also heavily influenced by live-action movies like director John Woo. The sequence of martial arts inspired by Fist of Legend , a critically acclaimed 1995 martial arts film starring Jet Li. The battle scene at Fist of Legend leads to Yuen recruitment as an action choreographer.
The film makes some references to Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventure in the Wonderland . The pod in which the machine guarded humans has been compared to the image in Metropolis, and the work of M. Escher C. The Wachowskis has described Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey as a formative cinematic influence, and as the ultimate inspiration for the visual style they address when creating the The Matrix .
Reviewer has commented on the similarities between The Matrix and other late 1990s movies such as Strange Days , Dark City , and The Truman Show Comparison has also been made for Grant Morrison comic series The Invisibles ; Morrison believes that Wachowskis basically plagiarized his work for making movies. Comparisons have also been made between the The Matrix and the books of Carlos Castaneda. The similarity of the movie's central concept to the device in the long running series Doctor Who has also been recorded. As in the film, the Matrix of the series (introduced in the 1976 series The Deadly Assassin ) is a large computer system in which a person enters using a device connected to the head, allowing users to see representations of the real world and changing the laws of physics; but if killed there, they will die in reality.
Philosophical Influence
The matrix as the resultant reality - the invention of the evil machine - is a reference to Descartes' First Meditation, or evil demons. Meditation hypothesizes that the perceived world may be a comprehensive illusion created to deceive us. The same premise can be found in the brain of Hilary Putnam in the proposed barrel scenario of the 1980s. One can also make the connection between the premise of The Matrix and Plato's Allegory of the Cave; once someone accepts that The Matrix is ​​an illusion, then the allegory of the cave becomes clear. Alegory deals with the theory of Plato's form, which states that the true essence of an object is not what we perceive with our senses, but its quality, and that most people see only the shadow of the object and thus are confined to the misperception.
Immanuel Kant also has an influence on how individuals in The Matrix interact with each other and with the system. Kant states in his book Critique of Pure Reason that people come to know and explore our world through synthetic means (language, etc.), and thus this makes it rather difficult to distinguish truth from wrong view understanding. This means we ourselves are our own fraud agents, and in order for people to know the truth, one must choose to pursue the truth openly. One can explicitly examine this in a scene with Agent Smith's monologue about the first version of the Matrix, designed to be a human utopia, a perfect world without suffering and with total happiness. Agent Smith exclaimed, "it was a disaster, no one accepted this program, all the crops [people] disappeared." The machines had to change their choice of program to make people submit to them, and therefore they compiled The Matrix in the world image in 1999. The world in 1999 was far from utopian, but still human received this for less-utopian. This is Kantian, because the machine wants to impose a perfect world on humans in an effort to keep the content completely subject to the machine, both consciously and unconsciously, but humans are not easy to create content.
Morpheus paraphrased the Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi when he asked Neo, "Have you ever dreamed, Neo, that you are so sure it is real? What if you can not wake up from that dream How will you know the difference from the real world and the dream world?
Release
The Matrix was released on VHS and DVD on December 7 , 1999 It was also released on Laserdisc in its original aspect ratio of 2.35: 1 on September 21, 1999 in the US. from Warner Home Video and a 1.33: 1 aspect ratio cut in Hong Kong from ERA Home Entertainment. After the DVD release, it was the first DVD to sell over one million copies in the US, and then became the first to sell over three million copies in the US. With November 10 , 2003, one month after The Matrix Reloaded DVD was released, The Matrix DVD sales have exceeded 30 million copies. The Ultimate Matrix Collection was released on HD DVD on May 22 , 2007 and on Blu-ray on October 14th. , 2008. The film was also released independently in the 10th anniversary edition Blu-ray in Digibook format on March 31 , 2009, 10 years to days after the movie was released theatrically. In 2010, the film released another DVD along with two sequels as The Complete Matrix Trilogy.
Reception
box office
The film earned $ 171,479,930 (37.0%) in the United States and Canada and $ 292,037,453 (63.0%) in other countries, totaling worldwide $ 463,517,383. In North America, the film became the fifth best-selling movie of 1999 and the highest grossing R-rated movie of 1999. Worldwide it was the fourth best-selling film of the year. In 2012 it placed 122th in the list of best-selling films of all time, and the second highest grossing film in the Matrix franchise after The Matrix Reloaded ($ 742.1 million).
Critical response
The Matrix earned praise from most critics, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest science fiction films of all time. Entertainment Weekly named The Matrix "the most influential action movie of the generation". Aggregator reviews Rotten Tomatoes reported 87% positive reviews, with a weighted average score of 7.6/10 based on a sample of 143 reviews. The critical consensus of this site reads, "Thanks to the imaginative vision of the Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix is a combination of intelligent, spectacular action and innovative special effects." At Metacritic, which ranks from 100 for reviews from major critics, the film received a score of 73 based on 35 reviews, showing "generally favorable reviews." Viewers surveyed by CinemaScore gave this movie an average rating of "A-" on a scale of A to F.
Philip Strick commented on Sight & amp; Sound , "if Wachowski Brothers claims there is no originality of the message, they surprise the method innovators," praising the movie's detail and its astonishing exterior image. Roger Ebert praised the visuals and premises of the film, but disliked the focus of the third action on action. Similarly, Time Out praised the "entertaining intelligent" switch between different realities, Hugo Weaving's "very strange" performance, and film cinematography and production design, but concluded, "the promising premise is constantly wasted as a movie turned into a fairly routine action image... but another piece of the excessive long draft law. "
Jonathan Rosenbaum of Chicago Reader reviewed the film negatively, criticizing it as "very fun for the first hour or so, until the movie becomes overwhelmed by many sources... Not much humor to keep it all." human-sized, and with the last stretch it becomes bloated, mechanical, and exhausting. "Film critic Nick Davis dislikes The Matrix, criticizing such aspects as lacking originality and his attitude towards race and gender, concluding that The Wachowskis has raised the bar of film-making and special effects, only to wasting it in the stale , impersonal nonsense and politics.
Ian Nathan of Empire describes Carrie-Anne Moss as "the main finding", praising the "tangible visual visibility" made possible by the effects of bullet time (or "flo-mo"), and describing the film as " Technically amazing, style combines perfectly with content and is really cool ". Nathan said that although the "looney plot" of the film will not bear to be scrutinized, it is not a big mistake because " The Matrix is about pure experience". Maitland McDonagh says in his review for TV Guide, the "Wachowski Brothers" plot through glass-searching... works very well on a number of levels: as a science fiction dystopian thriller, as a brilliant reason for a fancy and hiperkinik movie fight scene, and as a call that appeals enough to the dead masses over the eyeballs to unite and throw their chains away... This dazzling pop ambiance is immersed in the dark, pulpy sensitivity that goes beyond the pastiche nostalgia and stands firm on his own ability. "
Andrew O'Hehir acknowledges that The Matrix is ​​a basically immature and unoriginal movie ("It has nothing like emotion adults. All of these pseudo-spiritual laws, along with the powerful attacks of special effects-some of them quite amazing-will keep the 14-year-old boys in rapture, not to mention those of us all age and sex still holding a 14-year-old boy somewhere in "), but concludes," as in Bound , there is an interesting and courageous sphere for The Wachowskis work, and their desire for more flow stories and more crazy images are becoming more contagious. In a limited and very geeky sense, this may be an important and generous film.Wachowskis has little feeling for human character or interaction, but their passion for film - to create m ereka, watching them, inhabiting their world - pure and deep. "
Some science fiction creators commented on the film. Author William Gibson, a key figure in cyberpunk fiction, calls the film "a joy that I have not felt in a long time," and states, "Neo is my favorite science fiction hero, really." Joss Whedon calls the movie "my number one" and praises the story, structure and depth, concluding, "It works at whatever level you want." Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky commented, "I'm out of The Matrix ... and I'm thinking, 'What kind of science-fiction movie can anyone make now?' The Wachowski Brothers basically took on all twentieth-century science fiction ideas and rolled them into a delicious pop culture sandwich that everyone on the planet enjoys. "Director M. Night Shyamalan expressed his admiration for The Wachowskis, stating," Whatever you think about The Matrix, every shot is there because of their passion! You can see them arguing with it! ". Actor and screenwriter Simon Pegg says that The Matrix delivers "joy and satisfaction that The Phantom Menace failed to inspire. The Matrix looks cool and cool and stunning visuals, making beautiful and intelligent CGI use to add onscreen action, plugging in the perfect balance of real and hyperreal.This is probably the coolest movie I've ever seen. "Director Quentin Tarantino counts The Matrix as one of her twenty favorite movies from 1992 to 2009.
Awards
The Matrix received the Academy Awards for movie editing, sound effects editing, visual effects, and sound. The filmmakers compete with other films with established franchises, such as Star Wars Episode, I: The Phantom Menace, but they win all four of their nominations. The Matrix also received BAFTA awards for Best Sound and Best Achievement in Specialized Visual Effects, in addition to nominations in cinematography, production design and editing categories. In 1999, he won the Saturn Awards for Best Science Fiction Films and Best Direction.
Legacy
The Matrix has a strong effect on making action films in Hollywood. The merging of fu wire films, including the engagement choreographer Yuen Woo-ping and other personnel with the background of the Hong Kong action film, influenced the approach to fight the scenes taken by the next Hollywood action film, moving them toward an Eastern approach. The Matrix's success creates a high demand for choreographers and their techniques from other filmmakers, who want to fight from the same sophistication: for example, a wire job is employed at X-Men (2000 ) and Charlie's Angels (2000), and brother Yuen Woo-ping Yuen Cheung-Yan is a choreographer at Daredevil (2003). The Matrix ' s The Asian approach to action scenes also creates an audience for Asian action movies such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) which they may not have.
Following the The Matrix , the movie makes a lot of use of slow motion, rotating cameras, and often, the effect of bullet time from frozen or slowed characters and cameras around them. The ability to slow down enough time to distinguish bullet motion is used as the main game mechanic of some video games, including Max Payne , in which the feature is explicitly referred to as "bullet time". Matrix signature special effects ', and other aspects of the movie, have been parodied over and over, in comedy movies like Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo 1999), Scary Movie (2000), Shrek (2001), Kung Pow! Enter Fist (2002); Marx Reloaded where the relationship between Neo and Morpheus is represented as an imaginary encounter between Karl Marx and Leon Trotsky; and in video games such as Bad Fur Day Conker . The film also inspires films featuring black-clad heroes, sexy but lethal heroines, and bullets ripping slowly in the air; these include Charlie's Angels (2000) featuring Cameron Diaz floating in the air while the camera floats around him; Equilibrium (2003), starring Christian Bale, whose character wears a long black leather coat like Reeves' Neo; Night Watch (2004), a Russian megahit strongly influenced by The Matrix and directed by Timur Bekmambetov, who later made Wanted (2008), which also equipped with bullets that penetrate the air; and Inception (2010), centered on a team of sharp-dressed bastards who enter an alternative reality that is so easily penetrated by "deep cable". The original Tron (1982) paved the way for The Matrix and The Matrix, in turn, inspired Disney to create his own Matrix with Tron sequel, Tron: Legacy (2010).
Carrie-Anne Moss asserts that before becoming the actor in The Matrix, she "has no career". The film also created one of the most loyal fans of the movie since Star Wars, and was even blamed for the shootings at Columbine High School. The combined success of the Matrix trilogy, Lord of the Rings movies and Star Wars prequels makes Hollywood interested in creating trilogy. Stephen Dowling of the BBC notes that the success of The Matrix in taking up complex philosophical ideas and presenting them in a way that is suited to an influenced mind may be the most influential aspect.
In 2001, The Matrix was ranked 66th in the "100 Years... 100 Thrills" list from the American Film Institute. In 2007, Entertainment Weekly named The Matrix as the best science fiction section of the past 25 years. In 2009, the film was ranked 39th on Empire ' s list, the list of selected actors and critics of "The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time". The Matrix was voted the fourth best science fiction movie on the 2011 list of Best Movies: Our Largest Time Movie , based on a poll conducted by ABC and > People . In 2012, the film was selected for preservation at the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for "culturally, historically, and aesthetically."
Franchise
The film's main success led to the creation of two sequels, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, both directed by The Wachowskis. It was filmed back into one shoot and released on a separate date in 2003. This first film introductory story was replaced by the story of the impending attack on the human Zion bag by an enormous machine army. The sequel also includes longer and more ambitious action scenes, as well as increased bullet time and other visual effects.
Also released is The Animatrix , a collection of nine short animated films, many of which are made in the same Japanese animation style that has a powerful influence on the direct action trilogy. The Animatrix is ​​monitored and approved by The Wachowskis, who only writes four of the segments themselves but does not direct any of them; many of these projects were developed by prominent figures from the anime world.
The franchise also contains three video games: Enter the Matrix (2003), which contains excerpts of footage specific to games and chronic events that occurred before and during The Matrix Reloaded ; The Matrix Online (2004), an MMORPG that continues the story beyond The Matrix Revolutions ; and The Matrix: Path of Neo (2005), which focuses on Neo's journey through the movie trilogy.
The franchise also includes The Matrix Comics , a series of comics and short stories made in the world of The Matrix, written and illustrated by figures from the comic industry. Most of the comics were originally presented for free on the official website Matrix ; they were then republished, along with some new material, in two volumes of print trade paperbacks, called The Matrix Comics, Vol 1 and Vol 2 .
In March 2017, Warner Bros was in the early stages of developing a franchise relaunch with Zak Penn in talks to write care and interest in getting Michael B. Jordan attached to the star. According to The Hollywood Reporter both The Wachowskis and Joel Silver were involved with the effort, even though the studio wanted to get the blessing from The Wachowskis.
Home media
The Matrix was released on DVD on May 15, 2007, a Blu-ray release followed on October 14, 2008. The Matrix was released on 4K UHD Blu-ray on May 22, 2018.
See also
- Artificial Intelligence
- Brain in the barrel
- Cyberpunk
- Cyberspace
- Henosis
- Know yourself # Usage later
- Digital rain matrix
- Red pill and blue pill
- Simulation of reality in fiction
- The thought experiment
- White rescue narration in the movie
References
External links
- Matrix in IMDb
- Matrix in Internet Movie Firearms Database
- Matrix in AllMovie
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