When Lord of the Rings first came out, a few years after The Matrix, there were groups of people who went to the theater and, whenever Elrond spoke, would follow his line by all saying "...Mister Anderson."
I've been going to movies since the early 1970's and when this came out the impact and utter astonishment at what we were seeing was unlike anything before it, it was so far beyond next level we couldn't process all of it. I've never seen a crowd so awestruck and blown away by a film, it was a surreal experience I'll always cherish.
@@fakecubed maybe they're not computer literate, who knows? I was eleven when this movie came out and I still got that part. Morpheus spells it out pretty clearly.
@@fakecubedusually they get confused because they're "reacting" during important exposition, so they miss it, and then have no idea what's going on. Alex Hefner is bad for that
I've seen it on HBO on an pirate frequency emulator build by myself with instructions from an electronics background neighbor ,back in the days when you could do that!You had to readjust the screw during play ,so you could get a clear signal!;) Later on I bought all DVD's watched them at least 6 times,160E in total!@@JakkFrost1
I was a sophomore in high school the year this came out. It came out on a Wednesday. My friend Pat said to me that morning “want to go check out this Matrix movie after school?” So we did, and I wasn’t the same when I left that theater. We spent the whole drive home going “HOLY SHIT! THAT MOVIE WAS F*CKING CRAZY! HOW’D THEY DO ALL THAT?” 1999 in general was a phenomenal year for movies.
Hugo starred in V For Vendetta. He was a last minute replacement for the original actor who wanted V to take his mask off once filming began. Hugo understood the character and gave a good performance. It's up to the viewer to decide if he was a good or bad guy. Check it out around November 5th.
Neo survives because he realises that, because the Matrix is fake, his "death" in the Matrix is something that he can change. Trinity speaking to Neo, and kissing him, in the real world is how he reaches that realisation. And, just as the Oracle foretold, either Morpheus would die or Neo would, and Neo becomes The One in his "next life" (after he dies).
"I don't know who to root for! Is she a good guy or a bad guy?" "Did that really happen? Or did he dream it?" "This movie has me so confused as to what is happening!" We ALL said (or rather, quietly "thought", since we were in a movie theatre) ALL those things while watching the movie when it came out!
"Elrond is in this." When Fellowship was first released I saw an internet comment where someone was complaining about Hugo Weaving being cast as Elrond because "I kept expecting him to say 'welcome to Rivendell, Me Anderson.'"
My favorite thing is that everyone gets sucked into the big question, "How is Neo still alive after getting killed?" Thing is, a combination of his being the One and Trinity kissing him, it's been called "The Power of Love meets The Power of Logic". Basically one of the gifts of the One is, clearly, to transcend the Matrix being able to tell him that he's dead. He feels her in the real world, and realizes that he's still alive, and that just completely unlocks all his power.
This is not your typical "Power of Love" trope that you see in so many movies. The trope is usually used as a Deus ex Machina, but in this one there is a clear setup and payoff and it is woven into the plot. The Oracle says to Trinity that "The one that you love will be The One". That's why Neo can't die, he MUST be The One because Trinity loves him. It's not the kiss that brought him back to life, it's the creative use of the Chosen One trope.
My only complain about the scenario is that people who get plugged on the ship should NOT cough blood while they are getting killed or beat. Only their mind is being affected by the damages. Their physical body in the real world should remain intact. Until they die where your life signal (don't know the name in eng) go flatline. But i guess it is more spectacular for the viewers.
It’s also that Trinity’s kiss (amplified by the feelings) reminded Neo’s body what was real and what was just an illusion from the Matrix (the bullets)
@@synhet84 Bodies do hyper react to brain signals. People usually just think of the muscles, but all organs and glands take command from it. In theory, enough mental stress can cause at least a nosebleed, draining into the lungs, and getting coughed back up.
Hugo Weaving is one of my all-time-favourite actors. From his breakout performance in The Interview to iconic roles like Agent Smith in The Matrix to Elrond in Lord of the Rings, to Captain America, and his devastatingly great performance in Little Fish, and his wonderful performance in Hacksaw Ridge. Hugo Weaving is a simply legend. 🙂
Something everyone seems to miss that the Oracle said "you got the gift... but it looks like you're waiting for something" Neo asks what "Your second life maybe. Who knows?" I don't know if Smith killing Neo triggered the final transition or if its something else, but once he came back to life he achieved his full form.
Yeah, the movie is full of foreshadowing. For example, Neo asks Morpheus if he can dodge bullets, and Morpheus says that when he's ready, he won't have to, foreshadowing Neo stopping bullets with his mind.
When Neo "dies" what you see is the cardiograph flatlining... this however is not technically 'death' which is achieved when brain function ceases... and there is a light window between the two (otherwise CPR and defibrillators wouldn't be effective) it is this window where Neo's consciousness heard Trinity's words and that was enough...
this has been my favourite movie of all time for 20 years now, and going. I was too little to see it in cinemas when it originally released in 1999 (I was 8) but since then it re-released (at least in my area) a couple of times and I've seen it every single time on big screen. Glad you enjoyed your first experience :)
Another fantastic role for Hugo Weaving is as Desmond Doss' father, Tom Doss, in the movie "Hacksaw Ridge." It's a supporting role, but it's really a great role, and the movie is really spectacular. It's about Desmond Doss, who enlisted with the army after Pearl Harbor during WWII, under the impression that he would be a medic, and not required to carry any firearm as a conscientious objector. He became the first American soldier to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. It's based on a true story, and the reason I say "based on" is that the producers of the movie left out or reduced some of the more heroic actions taken by Doss, because they simply wouldn't have been believable by an audience. For instance, they left out the fact that he was suffering from Tuberculosis when he performed many of his heroic deeds, and he eventually lost a lung.
I remember watching this the first time, that last scene with Neo stopping the bullets and fending off smith with one hand behind his back. Just gave me chills because it was so well done, so well written, executed and acted.. Everything, even the music was on point.
He came back from the dead because he realized what Morpheus told him. Some rules can be bent, and some can be broken. He broke the rule of dying in the matrix
If you're a fan of SciFi, you might consider watching Firefly. It's a show that was brutally murdered by fox half way through the first season. Only 14 episodes, and a movie. The movie was a result of an enormous groundswell of fan support. It has a massive cult following that will make itself known if you choose to watch it. I am certain you will enjoy the show.
The best TV sci-fi space western that never was. But, it defied getting the Sleeping Beauty treatment by it's network and ended with a great movie that the diehard fans wished into existence.
It's a shame shows like Firefly don't get support but woke nonsense like She Hulk does. I guess we just have to wait for all the woke film producers like Warner Brothers, Disney and the like to go bust from all their losses, before we can return to normal films.
@@aaronmicalowe Funnily enough, Firefly was rather progressive for it's time - with a strong black female character (Zoe) in the main cast, and a sex-positive message with Inara being a Companion, not to mention the generally anti-capitalism and anti-colonialism themes of the show. But nobody cared, because it was a well-written story, with compelling characters, and perhaps most importantly, it didn't beat you over the head with virtue signaling. It just did it's thing, and let the audience draw their own conclusions.
It was really cool watching you piece all of this together as you watched it. I first saw it when I was 13yo, so rest assured, I had *NO CLUE* what the hell was happening haha... all I knew was "cool fight scenes! cool gun fights!". It wasn't until at least ten years later that I even understood what was really happening when Neo woke up in his pod next to all those other humans who were still in the matrix.
This is one of the coolest movies ever made. So cool, in fact, that not one of the sequels (especially the latest one...) could ever live up to it. Still stands the test of time to this day. Really groundbreaking in so many ways. Great choice!
By kissing him, I think trinity was forcing his real body to breath. It's the body's natural survival mode. His mind was making him believe he was dead. When she cut off his air by kissing him, the body sent a survival mode signal to the brain to take a breath, which also sent the message that he's not really dead. Once he took that breath, his matrix mind figured it out and his special coding kicked in. He got up and took control. The Oracle knew that Trinity would be hesitant to act on her feelings until the appropriate time. So to most people it just seemed like a corny fairytale moment where he wakes from a kiss, but it was actually logical science. Btw...Neo is an anagram for One, as in The One.
except the "she cut off his air by kissing him", which sounds like you don't know how kissing works... except that part, this is actually a nice piece of headcanon which I will gladly take, thank you :)
Let's say your theory works - how could the Oracle, a computer program, know what's going to happen in the future outside of that program in the real world?
@@aaronmicalowe algorithm analysis. Remember, they've lived inside the Matrix for a large period of their lives. It's also how she knew reverse psychology would work on Neo. How Morpheus would sacrifice himself for Neo without hesitation. She knows the system and how the Agents work. Pretty much how Neo could read the system and predict the steps of attack by Agent Smith at the end.
@@aaronmicalowe i don't know, how could predictive algorithms for personalized ads know a woman is pregnant before she does know, just based on a slight change of buying habits/tendencies? and that's just based on few years of only purchases data from a few hundred thousand people, processed by current technology... ...it doesn't seem implausible at all to me (btw i'm a programmer with AI as a hobby) that a sufficiently large neural network would very much be able, from data gathered from all aspects of every second of everyone's whole lives, would be able to: a) conclude Neo is the type of person actually capable of breaking the mind barrier and becoming the one b) conclude that Trinity is the type of person that would fall in love with the type of person that can break through the matrix's mind barrier ...at the very least. at the very, very least. Much more likely, matrix should be able to accurately simulate the rest of someone's life from any point, which makes the whole task we're talking about here absolutely trivial.
congrats you are the first reactor that ive seen who gets that the agents can move into anyone who is plugged into the matrix under control by the machines . others come close some just dont understand at all 😄
I think one of my favorite details that hardly anyone seems to notice in particular, is how right after Neo explodes Agent Smith he flexes and just straight up bends the physical space around him. That's what I think the later movies really got wrong, they act like Neo has this one power that lets him stop bullets, and another that makes him the most OP at kung fu, etc etc... But no, those are just things he can do as a result of being able to bend the entire structure of the Matrix on a whim. Like I get that it's hard to write a story with stakes when you have a character like that, it's the old "superman" problem, but then they either shouldn't have built up Neo this much in the first place or shouldn't have continued to use him as the central focus of the other movies.
I don’t think people really talk about this any more but when this movie came out the marketing and trailers were very mysterious about what the movie was about and part of the marketing campaign was that no one can tell you what the matrix is, you have to see it for yourself. It was a really cool approach.
"I'm not the one" "Sorry kid, you've got the gift. But it looks like you're waiting for something." She didn't actually say he wasn't the one, just that he wasn't ready to understand that he was.
Since this movie came out, the Wachowski brothers have become the Wachowski sisters, 9/11 happened, a black man became president of the United States, a human made object left the Solar System, Eminem won an Oscar, the I Pod was invented, and somehow an antiquated technology like texting became more popular than human interaction by speaking on the phone. It's a crazy friggin' world!
Think of the agents like system administrators who pretty much have access and control over your office computer systems. They can jump into user files (people who are "plugged in" to the Matrix) and pretty much do what they want. I likened the "unplugged" users like hackers--they can infiltrate a computer system and wreak havoc (or possibly move around carefully to remain undetected) but may not be able to access key files (the "answers") but they can also be deleted from the system (killed) if they don't get out before the administrators locate and delete them.
I got to see a The Matrix at a press screening the week before it opened & it absolutely blew my mind. It was so different to anything that had been seen in such a long time & visually; even now, is stunning to watch. Originally, the scene between Neo & Cypher was much longer & also alluded to why Cypher hates Morpheus & why he wants to be reinserted to The Matrix. The script for the scene went as follows Cypher: I’m going to let you into a little secret here. Now don’t tell him I told you this, but ain’t the first time Morpheus thought he found The One. Neo: Really? Cypher: You bet your ass. It keeps him going. Maybe it keeps all of us going. Neo: How many were there? Cypher: Five. Since I’ve been here. Neo: What happened to them? Cypher: Dead. All dead. Neo: How? Cypher: Honestly. Morpheus. He got them all amped up believing in bullshit. I watched each of them take on an Agent & I watched each of them die. Little piece of advice: you see an Agent, you do what we do; run. Run your ass off. A later scene also had Neo confront Morpheus about him being the sixth & final person who could be The One; this is also hinted at by the child with the spoons…..if you take note of how many spoons he has. Also, if you want a little insight into how the war against the machines began, I highly recommend the two animated shorts The Second Renaissance Pt 1&2. In many ways, those two shorts would make an incredible, live action prequel to The Matrix films…..something I’d happily have sat down to watch, over the terrible fourth film.
I first saw this during its initial theatrical run in 1999. I was in college at the time and had no car, so I walked about 2 hours to the nearest mall to see it. It was totally worth the trip. The Matrix was ASTOUNDING in 1999. There was nothing else like it. I would say that there have been two watershed moments in sci-fi filmmaking over the last 50 years. Star Wars was one and The Matrix was the other. That's how mind-blowing The Matrix was back then.
My favourite bit of your video was when you didn't know who the good guys and bad guys were. Thank you for reminding me how amazing this movie was the first time.
I see so many people complain about the kiss. This is not your typical "Power of Love" trope that you see in so many movies. The trope is usually used as a Deus ex Machina, but in this one there is a clear setup and payoff and it is woven into the plot. The Oracle says to Trinity that "The one that you love will be The One". That's why Neo can't die, he MUST be The One because Trinity loves him. It's not the kiss that brought him back to life, it's the creative use of the Chosen One trope, another trope that other movies tend to overuse, but in this one they added several layers to it.
"Oh, so he just has to decide that's who he is?" Quite the opposite - he just has to not have to decide. As soon as you're deciding, you're going against something. The act of deciding acknowledges there's a different reality to what you are deciding, thus acknowledging and creating the whole fight you vs. reality, which you will inevitably lose. What you need to do is just do the thing, without deciding or thinking whether it will work or not. Same as Neo did when he dodged those bullets. He didn't decide, nor think about it, he had no time for that. He just did it.
No one ever notices on a first watch-through that the Oracle says he won’t be The One “in this lifetime.” Well, he died and then came back, so it is a new lifetime.
I read the title of the vid as Matrix Reloaded so I was happy, then I found out it was just a reupload of your Matrix reaction and I was sad, then I watched the reupload and I'm happy again. Long story short: please do matrix 2&3 as well, I enjoy your reactions :D
I know there are reasons to have to reupload a previous video, but the excitement for a new video that is then followed by the disappointment of having already seen it, is too much to bear! LOL!
Hehe.. for a minute.. thought the matrix glitched and I had 'deja vu'. For some reason I read 'RELOADED' (instead of re uploaded). Guess I can't wait to see you continue your journey into the matrix trilogy.. lol
Loved your reaction, Addie! If you haven't watched V for Vendetta, I would highly recommend it. Hugo Weaving plays one of the protagonists. It's an amazing film. I would also recommend that you do some Jackie Chan films. Here's a few ideas to get you started on HIM: Rumble in the Bronx First Strike Who am I? Operation Condor 2 Drunken Master (1978) Rush Hour trilogy Shanghai Noon/Knights
My favorite detail that I think most people miss is the fact that the Oracle never told Neo he wasn't the one. She looks at him, he says "ahh" and she says "Hmmm that's interesting, and then you say," and then NEO says "I'm not the one." She responds, "I'm sorry kid, you got the gift, but you're waiting for something." The Oracle never told Neo he wasn't the one.
Hugo Weaving should have given oscars for being in the most increadible trilogies in human histories! The Oracle gave the Neo a substance program as cookie. Trinity's kiss triggered the process and he became the One. Hope you gonna watch second and third movies lady.
The best part always comes after seeing the movie, in real life, when you realize over time that the Matrix is absolutely real. Welcome to the world as it really is 🙂
Remember when Neo broke the vase and the Oracle said would you have broke it if I hadn't said anything that's why Neo came back to life because Trinity didn't tell Neo what the Oracle told her falling in love with him
I remember seeing this the night it was released in theatres while the Y2K threat was on the horizon and I couldn't figure out why the Agents that came to Neo's workplace looking for him couldn't track his movements from one cubicle to the next. The Matrix is supposed to be our reality and the machines control every aspect of the Matrix, because it was created to pacify humanity into never questioning the Matrix, so how can the system that controls every aspect of the Matrix not be able to locate a threat to the entire system. In the interview room Agent Smith literally opens a folder that has EVERYTHING Neo has ever done, all the way down to common everyday chores, and somehow the system that created that universe doesn't have to ability to track an individual inside of an office building from the elevator to their cubicle? Morpheus says the agents are "Everyone and no one, they hold all the keys" meaning everything in the Matrix is controlled to the most minute detail.
This movie was and still is one of the most ground breaking movies that has influenced pop culture. It hit on some of the most profound questions of reality and really made everyone question what the world is that they live in. You've probably already been exposed to a lot of the ideas this movie presented from other pieces of media which is why you caught on pretty quickly but those were likely influenced by this movie. I remember some people at the time who just couldn't grasp what the movie's full meaning was because at the time it had a lot of people confused. Also considering everyone saw Hugo in The Matrix first before seeing him in LotR but not as a bad guy was quite a throw off. Another thing is he was supposed to be the Wolverine in the X-Men movies that were made around 2000 as well.
I got stood up on a first date to go see this movie opening night. since she didn't show, I went anyway, forgot my wallet, which had my barracks key card. found out when I got to the theater, had to go track down someone to open my room. got back to the theater just in time for the last showing of the night.
Can you please, please watch 'the Animatrix' next? It is an anthology of world-building shorts done in different animation styles, and its from the same writers. Not too many consider it "part" of the Matrix series, but it really does give a lot of entertaining exposition on the Matrix history, different perspectives folk have within the Matrix, and weird consequences such a universe would have. It also makes watching Matrix Reloaded a much smoother transition. Thanks for the content!
8:20 : Before watch Matrix 2, go watch Animatrix to know "What happen" 😉😊 18:47 : An Agent is a program who can use a body of any human connected to the Matrix. He can used human like a camera and take his/her place. But when they died, in real , it's the human who die only. And the Agent Smith is a program who don't want to stay in the Matrix because once he do his job, he's gonna be deleted. So he want to escaped to the Matrix through Zion. 24:25 : the famous "Bullet Time" that get used by so many after that. 1999 was the years of the FX with Matrix.
I don't know if you're going to be able to but in case you're not doing anything Regal cinemas are rereleasing this in theaters across the US on April 3rd and 4th. Highly recommend checking it out if you can.
There is an earlier SF movie called "Dark City" which which explores some of the same concepts as The Matrix, but in a film noir setting. I think that you might also like it. The Matrix reused some of the other film's sets.
I'm a little jealous of the people like Addie who first see this movie as an adult! I saw it first when I was about 8 years old, so I barely understood any of the in-depth explanation about the matrix and the real world.
Elrond is not in this. Agent Smith is in Lord of the Rings. "I don't know who the good guys are " That's how you can tell someone doesn't know about MIBs, when they wonder if the stern men in black suits and sunglasses are the good guys 😂
As an Australian, I see him as so much more than 'just' Elrond and Agent Smith, but I still love that he's getting so much love from all over the world. My favourite movies of his, though, would have to be Proof and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of The Desert (with Guy Pearce and Terrence Stamp). I also love that his niece Samara is getting some pretty great roles too.
