By: MJ

Many scenes from this movie had been a combination of the hired artists’ previous works. For example, the fighting scenes were choreographed by Yuen Woo-ping, whose brother Yuen Cheung-Yan was choreographer on Daredevil (2003) where Ben Affleck starred in. Therefore, similarities in movements in both movies could’ve been inevitable.

And also, because of its “bullet time” technique, many movies such as Swordfish had copied the move. Because of its prominence, there were also a number of exaggerated and comical versions of the certain movement. These are some of them:

a.) Scary Movie
b.) Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
c.) Shrek
d.) Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
e.) The Simpsons
f.) Family Guy
g.) Conker’s Bad Fur Day

• During the combat training before Keanu Reeves starts with his fight attacks on Morpheus, he made a similar mannerism of Bruce Lee where he rubs his nose with his thumb and finger. He did this before he attacks his opponents. Keannu Reeves improvised the popular move.
• Did you know that the guns for Keannu Reeves in the lobby sequence and the elevator sequence were actually lightweight weapons? John Bowring, the weapon provider revealed this. The team made a very good cast of MP5K that is only weighs 150-200 grams. They want Keanu to easily carry them without thinking much about the weight.

By: MJ

Carrie-Ann Moss was the one who played the role of The Matrix Movie’s Trinity. She was born in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Starting from a very young age, she had already pursued the field of show business. She was also previously a model who had gone to countries like Japan.

At the age of 41, she had already acted on 39 films with 1 still in the making. She had received several awards namely: 2007 Genie Award for Best Actress in Supporting Role for “Snow Cake” and 2002 Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actress for “Memento.” Up until today, she is still actively blooming in her acting career and is happily married.

By: MJ

Fishburne, now turning 47, has had made many achievements in his acting career ever since year 1973. He had played 9 roles on stage, acted 56 films and presently has 5 upcoming movies. Not only is he a talented actor but also a producer and screenwriter.

He’s been nominated in the 1994 Academy Awards, an Outstanding Motion Picture producer in the 2006 Black Movie Awards, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Motion Picture producer in the 2000 and 2007 Black Reel Awards, and Outstanding Lead and actor in a Mini-series or Television Special in the 1996 and 1997 Emmy Awards.

He won Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in the 2006 Black Movie Awards, and Outstanding Made for Television Movie and Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in the 1993 and 1997 Emmy Awards.

In modern days, Zion was more of a ‘thought’ which applied to the area of Jerusalem and Israel as a whole, and the hopes of the Jewish people that they would be able to return here, form a home and worship God without outside interference.

How do these things relate to the story in the Matrix? First, Zion in both is a fortress-city – somewhere in need of defense against outer attack. It is also a “feeling” – the rallying cry for people who dream of a place where they can live without outside interference. It is a holy place, to be defended without quarter. It holds something sacred – in history it holds the Ark, and in the movie it holds the precious freed humans.

Along came King David. A direct ancestor of Jesus Christ, David was born around 1040BC and grew up as a simple shepherd. David defeated the massive Goliath as a boy, and the current king, Saul, grew jealous and tried many times to kill David. David avoided them all and, on Saul’s death, took the throne.

Looking for a base of operations, David spotted the fort of Zion. The Jebusite refused to allow him in, and David invaded the fort by sneaking into the sewer systems. Then as a city grew around the fort, that city was called the City of David. The fort was moved to another hill, and in time a temple was built on the original location. The name Zion then referred to the temple. It was in this temple that the Ark of the Covenant, which David guarded, was kept.

• Did you know that rooftops, building and other exterior sets that are used in the film were taken from the film Dark City? Notice that the rooftops where Trinity runs across at the start of the film is similar with the scene in Dark City where John Murdoch runs across.
• Are you familiar with the movie called Akira that was shown in 1988? The ending scene of that movie is the influence of the moment where Neo met the gifted children in the Oracle’s apartment in a homage.
• The books “Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found there” are some of the references of the movie. How cute!

The Matrix Online (MxO) is a multiplayer online game developed by Monolith Productions. The game features the set of the fictional universe of The Matrix Movies and continues the story based on The Matrix Series. In June 2004, the game had its beta testing and gave special closed beta test for the pre-orders that began in November 2004. In the United States of America, Warner Bros. and Sega officially released The Matrix Online game on March 22, 2005. In Europe, it was released in April 15, 2005. The online game was later released in other continents like Asia and Australia.