He is then brought aboard Morpheus's flying ship, the Nebuchadnezzar. As Neo takes the red pill, his reality begins to distort, and he soon awakens in a liquid-filled pod among countless other pods, containing other humans. Morpheus offers Neo a choice between two pills: red to reveal the truth about the Matrix, and blue to forget everything and return to his former life. Soon after, Neo is taken by Trinity to meet Morpheus, and she removes the bug from him, indicating that the "nightmare" he experienced was apparently real. Neo wakes up from what he believes to be a nightmare.
When he refuses to cooperate, they fuse his mouth shut, pin him down, and implant a robotic "bug" in his stomach. The Agents attempt to bribe Neo into helping them locate Morpheus, who they claim is a terrorist (and the most dangerous man alive), by offering to erase his criminal record. Though Morpheus attempts to guide Neo to safety, he surrenders rather than risk a dangerous escape via a scaffold.
A team of Agents and police, led by Agent Smith, arrives at Neo's workplace in search of him. Trinity contacts him and tells him a man named Morpheus has the answers Neo seeks. She answers a ringing public telephone and vanishes.Ĭomputer programmer Thomas Anderson, known by his hacking alias " Neo", is puzzled by repeated online encounters with the phrase "the Matrix". She flees, pursued by the police and a group of suited Agents capable of similar superhuman feats. A fourth film, titled The Matrix Resurrections, was released on December 22, 2021.Īt an abandoned hotel, a police squad corners Trinity, who overpowers them with superhuman abilities. The franchise has also inspired books and theories expanding on some of the religious and philosophical ideas alluded to in the films. The Matrix franchise was further expanded through the production of comic books, video games and animated short films, with which the Wachowskis were heavily involved. The film's success led to two feature film sequels being released in 2003, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, which were also written and directed by the Wachowskis. The film is considered to be among the greatest science fiction films of all time, and in 2012, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant." The film was also the recipient of numerous other accolades, including Best Sound and Best Special Visual Effects at the 53rd British Academy Film Awards, and the Wachowskis were awarded Best Director and Best Science Fiction Film at the 26th Saturn Awards. At the 72nd Academy Awards, the film won all four categories it was nominated for, Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, Best Sound, and Best Sound Editing. film of 1999 and the fourth highest-grossing film of that year. The Matrix opened in theaters in the United States on March 31, 1999, to widespread acclaim from critics, who praised its innovative visual effects, action sequences, cinematography and entertainment value, and was a massive success at the box office, grossing over $460 million on a $63 million budget, becoming the highest-grossing Warner Bros. The film popularized a visual effect known as " bullet time", in which the heightened perception of certain characters is represented by allowing the action within a shot to progress in slow-motion while the camera appears to move through the scene at normal speed, allowing the sped-up movements of certain characters to be perceived normally. The Wachowskis' approach to action scenes was influenced by Japanese animation and martial arts films, and the film's use of fight choreographers and wire fu techniques from Hong Kong action cinema influenced subsequent Hollywood action film productions. The Matrix is an example of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. When computer programmer Thomas Anderson, under the hacker alias " Neo", uncovers the truth, he joins a rebellion against the machines along with other people who have been freed from the Matrix. It is the first installment in The Matrix film series, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano, it depicts a dystopian future in which humanity is unknowingly trapped inside the Matrix, a simulated reality that intelligent machines have created to distract humans while using their bodies as an energy source. The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction action film written and directed by the Wachowskis.
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