In the entire film, there are only two "homegrown", real humans - Tank and Dozer. They both have names of machines.
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When Neo unloads two 9mm Berettas at an agent who dodges all the shots, right after he runs out of ammo, the camera is facing Neo dead on and the recoil slides on the pistols are closed. The next shot where he drops them and says, "Trinity... help." the slides are locked back with the ejection port open. See more...
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Directed by Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski, starring Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Gloria Foster, Joe Pantoliano (add more)
In the entire film, there are only two "homegrown", real humans - Tank and Dozer. They both have names of machines.
It's been said that Neo being an anagram for "one". I think it's more important to realise that Neo means "new". His real name is Thomas Anderson. He is called Thomas at the beginning of the movie, when he doubts the truth -- that the world as he knows it is not real. Thomas is the "doubting" disciple in the Bible. Moreover, Anderson means "son of man". Hence, Neo Anderson is the New Son of Man. The biblical references go on and on... Trinity, Nebucadnezzar (the name of the ship -- in fact, the name plate on the ship makes reference to a verse in Mark chapter 3), Zion... So not only is Neo "the One", he has gone from being the doubter to the new son of man.
When Neo is at work in his supervisor's office getting yelled at, notice the window washers. When the camera shoots from the outside of the building, look at the soap on the window.. it strangely resembles the Matrix pattern as displayed on a computer screen. Also take notice of the look of confusion on Neo's face - like he had seen that pattern somewhere before.
At the beginning of the film when Neo is talking to his his boss, his boss says to him 'You think that you are somehow special and that the rules do not apply to you.' Neo is the one and the rules of the matrix don't apply to him.
Right before Agent Smith talks to Neo in the small room you see Neo sitting alone in the room there on multiple television screens. All those screens are from the Architect's room as seen in Reloaded.
Did you notice all the street references to Chicago streets, but anyone from there knows that's not Chicago? The guys that wrote and directed it are from Chicago, and always put Chicago references in their films.
At the beginning of the movie when Trinity is being chased across the rooftops, halfway across there is a sign for a weapon. It's the same type the agents use, the Desert Eagle.
The film's premise was based on Plato's Dilemma of the Cave.
As Neo runs through the old lady's apartment near the end of the film, we see an image on the TV of a menacing man in a black suit coat. The image is that of one of the Number 2's from the TV show "The Prisoner" (1967).
Notice how most of the the green computer language that is supposed to make up the matrix is actually the mirror image of Japanese characters.
In the Oracle's kitchen, there is a sign over the door which says "know thyself." The quote originally appeared over the door of the temple at Delphi, in Greece, which housed the Delphic Oracle. But the sign in the kitchen is written in Latin, not ancient Greek.
When Neo gets a tour of the Nebuchadnezzar it shows a "License Plate". The plate reads "Mark III no. 11. That is really a bible verse that relates to the story: "And whenever the unclean spirits beheld him, they fell down before him and cried out, 'You are the Son of God.'"
When Neo is in the office with his boss, along with the water on the window, check out the pictures in the back, they're all green and one is totally constructed from horizontal code.
Due to the popularity of the film, Carrie-Ann Moss stated that it is impossible for her to go out to the streets wearing sunglasses, because she is so easily recognizable due to her character Trinity, who constantly wore sunglasses in the film.
Check out the room numbers for Trinity and Neo. When the cops bust in on Trinity in the opening scene the number is 303 ("trinity") and since Neo is "The One" the number of his apartment is 101.
The free land, Zion, is a reference to Mt. Zion in Jerusalem, where the Dome of the Rock stands on the peak, and where the Jewish Temple was once. In the end of time, according to the Revelation, there will be 'a new Jerusalem', and Zion was frequently used in the bible as another name for Jerusalem.
When Morpheus and Neo are in the elevator to see The Oracle, look and the wall to the left of Neo's head when they focus on him. Notice the name "Kym" scratched in? Kym Barrett is the name of the costume designer.
The scene in which Cypher breaks the window and jacks out of the Matrix, was shot in Australia. The room where the phone was set was supposedly the room where a man hung himself years before. This was never confirmed, but in a shot of the room, a ghostly outline of a man can be seen behind Cypher. This is indicated by the directors in The Art of The Matrix.
Some people have complained that many scenes in the movie have a greenish tint to them. This is deliberate on the part of the filmmakers and is meant to be a clue to the viewer -- all scenes that occur within the Matrix have the green tint overlaying them, while the rest of the movie does not. All scenes in the real world are blue-tinted.
When Neo is in the office on the phone with Morpheus trying to escape, look at the pictures on the wall to the right of Neo's head, they look like they're objects covered with the Matrix Code, much like when Neo comes back to life and he looks at the agents, and we see the Matrix code.
When Neo gets into the car with Trinity and Switch for the first time, Switch calls him, "Coppertop" later on, you see Morpheus say "..all to turn humans into this.." and it is a Coppertop battery.
When Neo is visiting with the Oracle, the music playing softly in the background is an old jazz standard called "I'm Beginning To See The Light".
The scene showing the sentinels coming for the first time is a large allusion to Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. It's a combination of the scenes where Lando and Chewie fly the Falcon after getting Luke's hand fixed, and the asteroid field scene. Luke, having just gotten a new hand, sort of limps in the cockpit with Leia; in the Matrix, Neo just woke up and hobbles in with Trinity. The cockpit is almost identical, and Morpheus says Star Wars lines from the asteroid field scene, "Set her down there" and "Here they come."
Almost every line spoken by Neo's "customer" in the beginning of the film ("You're my savior," "You don't exist," etc.) is foreshadowing.
When Neo is fighting and falls in slow motion to a complete stop, and then the camera pans around him completely stationary in mid-air, he fell through a ring of SLR still cameras which were all triggered simultaneously.
In the Oracle's waiting room, the television is showing white rabbits (which, at the beginning of the film, Neo was instructed to follow) from Night Of The Lepus.
All of the main action inside the Matrix takes place at The Heart of the City Hotel. This is a metaphor on a couple of levels: Using the heart in the world of the mind (the Matrix) entails being in love (Trinity and Neo), which is what ultimately saves them. The second metaphor is tied to the first: The hotel is in the heart/center of the city (inside the Matrix), but the heart (the organ) is at the center of the story; love is needed to conquer the Matrix.
Neo is "the one", notice how Neo is an anagram for one.
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