One proposed technique for creating these effects involved accelerating a high-frame-rate motion picture camera along with a fixed track at a high speed to capture the action as it occurred. However, this was discarded as unfeasible, as the destruction of the camera in the attempt was all but inevitable. Instead, the method used was a technically expanded version of an old art photography technique known as time-slice photography, in which a large number of cameras is placed around an object and triggered nearly simultaneously.
Each camera is a still-picture camera, and not a motion picture camera, and it contributes just one frame to the video sequence. When the sequence of shots is viewed as in a movie, the viewer sees what are in effect two-dimensional "slices" of a three-dimensional moment.
Watching such a "time slice" movie is akin to the real-life experience of walking around a statue to see how it looks from different angles. The positioning of the still cameras can be varied along any desired smooth curve to produce a smooth looking camera motion in the finished clip, and the timing of each camera's firing may be delayed slightly so that a motion scene can be executed albeit over a very short period of movie time.
Some scenes in The Matrix feature the "time-slice" effect with completely frozen characters and objects. Film interpolation techniques improved the fluidity of the apparent "camera motion". The effect was further expanded upon by the Wachowskis and the visual effects supervisor John Gaeta so as to create "bullet time", which incorporates temporal motion so that rather than being totally frozen the scene progresses in slow and variable motion.
Engineers at Manex Visual Effects pioneered 3-D visualization planning methods to move beyond mechanically fixed views towards more complicated camera paths and flexible moving interest points. There is also an improved fluidity through the use of non-linear interpolation, digital compositing, and the introduction of computer-generated "virtual" scenery. The objective of the bullet time shots in The Matrix was to creatively illustrate "mind over matter" type events as captured by a "virtual camera".
However, the original technical approach was physically bound to pre-determined perspectives, and the resulting effect only suggests the capabilities of a true virtual camera.
The evolution of photogrammetric and image-based Computer Graphic Interface background approaches in The Matrix ' s bullet-time shots set the stage for later innovations unveiled in the sequels The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions.
Virtual Cinematography CGI-rendered characters, locations, and events and the high-definition "Universal Capture" process completely replaced the use of still camera arrays, thus more closely realizing the "virtual camera". The film's score was composed by Don Davis. He noted that mirrors appear frequently in the movie: reflections of the blue and red pills are seen in Morpheus's glasses; Neo's capture by Agents is viewed through the rear-view mirror of Trinity's motorcycle; Neo observes a broken mirror mending itself; reflections warp as a spoon is bent; the reflection of a helicopter is visible as it approaches a skyscraper.
The film also frequently references the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , which has a sequel entitled Through the Looking-Glass. Davis focused on this theme of reflections when creating his score, alternating between sections of the orchestra and attempting to incorporate contrapuntal ideas.
As an extra bit of trivia, the track " Exit Mr. The Matrix was first released in the U. The combination of special-effects-laden action and philosophical meandering was considered fresh and exciting.
In , Entertainment Weekly called The Matrix the best science-fiction piece of media for the past 25 years. Several science fiction creators commented on the film. Author William Gibson, a key figure in cyberpunk fiction, called the film "an innocent delight I hadn't felt in a long time", and stated, "Neo is my favorite-ever science fiction hero, absolutely".
November issue pp. The Matrix received Oscars for film editing , sound effects editing , visual effects , and sound. The Matrix is arguably the ultimate " cyberpunk " artifact. The Matrix makes numerous references to recent films and literature, and to historical myths and philosophy including Judaism , [24] Messianism , Buddhism , Gnosticism , Christianity, Existentialism, Nihilism, Vedanta, Advaita Hinduism, Yoga, Vashishta Hinduism, Sikhism and the Tarot.
There are similarities to cyberpunk works such as Neuromancer by William Gibson. In Postmodern thought, interpretations of The Matrix often reference Baudrillard's philosophy to demonstrate that the movie is an allegory for contemporary experience in a heavily commercialized, media-driven society, especially in developed countries. Another angle is supplied by French artist, psychoanalyst and feminist theorist Bracha L.
Ettinger's "Matrix" Notebooks from the s and Matrixial theory from the s. Ettinger began to articulate the matrixial sphere and the matrixial gaze as a psychic unconscious sphere with social, cultural, spiritual, and finally political implications around , alongside a series of paintings named Matrix.
Starting a long series of essays on the Matrix with "Matrix and Metramorphosis" Differences 4 3 in and "The Matrixial Gaze" in , Ettinger transformed the debates in psychoanalysis, postmodernism, feminist theory, gaze and aesthetics in terms of the matrixial borderspace already during the s.
In Ettinger's matrixial theory the emphasis is on the space of "co-emergence" of several "I" and "non-I", the virtual, potential and actual shareability of traces of trauma and of phantasy beginning in the womb as matrix , on the mental re-co-birth where subjects are trans-connected by psychic strings and threads to form trans-subjectivity. Some scenes from the film provide actual visualizations of her highly abstract notions.
Japanese director Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell was a strong influence. Producer Joel Silver has stated that the Wachowskis first described their intentions for The Matrix by showing him that anime and saying, "We wanna do that for real". Mitsuhisa Ishikawa of Production I. G, which produced Ghost in the Shell , noted that the anime's high-quality visuals were a strong source of inspiration for the Wachowskis.
Read more by Max Read here. Here are the more prominent and stranger ones. Like red pill but less worried about feminism than reptilian aliens enforcing the New World Order. Anti-materialist more concerned with personal enlightenment than with the Illuminati. Ignorant of politics and global conspiracies. Hates reading and just wants to get laid. Supporter of the Illuminati or possible member. Thinks people need to be controlled. Into bodybuilding, the neo-Paleo diet, and the alt-right. Claims to have supernatural powers.
More nihilistic red pill, too dejected to even learn pickup-artist techniques. Trans women have claimed The Matrix as an allegory for gender transition since at least , when Lana Wachowski publicly came out as a trans woman while doing press for the film Cloud Atlas. Her sister Lilly followed suit in The Matrix is the gender binary. The agents are transphobia. You get it. Read more from Andrea Long Chu here. Read an interview with Bostrom here. Shortly after this, the group is hunted down by Agents, programs designed to guard the Matrix from irregularities, led by one called Smith.
The Agents nearly capture Neo, but are held back when Morpheus, acting out of faith in Neo's perceived messianic status, holds the Agents off and is captured in the process. Mounting a rescue operation , Neo and fellow virtual gun enthusiast Trinity manage to save Morpheus. Morpheus and Trinity make it out of the simulation, but Neo is shot by Smith and killed before, true to his Christ allegory, he returns to life.
Neo, now able to control aspects of the Matrix, does a horizontal swan dive into Smith's chest, apparently killing him. Six months after the events of The Matrix, the Resistance fighters of Zion have discovered that an army of machines will breach their city walls within three days. All Resistance ships are called back to base, but the Nebuchadnezzar stays behind to try and get Neo in touch with the Oracle.
Around this point, it becomes clear that Morpheus' faith in the prophecy of the One is a little far out for most people, bordering on religious fanaticism. Meanwhile, Smith has come back.
The chestful of Neo that he took in the last movie seems to have changed him: no longer acting as an Agent of the system, he now operates as a self-replicating virus, assimilating other programs and turning them into copies of himself. The Oracle tells Neo that he needs to find a program called the Keymaker who can take him to the Source. She explains that it's all part of Neo's path, and that he'll need to retrieve the Keymaker from the Merovingian, who's keeping him locked away in his hideaway for exiles.
This leads to a car chase which lasts roughly as long as Ben Hur and ends with Neo being led to what he thinks is the Source, but turns out to be the Architect. At this point, the Architect explains everything to Neo. This is not the first version of the Matrix, he isn't the first One, and the entire idea of his fated trip to stop the machines is a fabrication. He's been manipulated from the beginning by the Oracle and the Architect to deliver the anomalous code stored inside of him back to the Source, the same way that the five Ones before him were.
So why not just take it from him? The problem comes down to the Beta Matrix designs from earlier: he had to have a choice. The Architect says that, although Neo won't be able to save Zion from the oncoming attack, he can return the code to the Source, begin the necessary rebooting of the Matrix, and take a handful of humans out of the program, allowing humanity to start over.
Alternately, he can return to the Matrix to try and save a deeply-in-trouble Trinity, dooming the human race to die when the program is overrun by glitches and shuts down, ultimately not saving Trinity anyway. Neo strays from the paths the previous Ones took. He goes after Trinity and manages to save her through his greatly increased control of the Matrix.
Exiting the simulation, he then discovers that he has some level of control over the machines in the real world, too, stopping half a dozen Sentinels with his mind before falling into a coma. When he wakes up, Neo's consciousness has been mysteriously transported to a halfway point between the Matrix and the real world — a virtual train station used by the Merovingian to transport exiled programs. Morpheus and Trinity negotiate his release. The machines begin their assault on Zion, while Neo and Trinity take a ship to Smith, however, has managed to break into the real world.
He blinds Neo, inadvertently activating Neo's ability to sense machine code, which he uses to defeat the physical Smith and help Trinity navigate the way to the Source. Trinity is killed when the ship crashes, but Neo carries on, into the city. There, Neo negotiates a peace with the machines.
He'll offer up the code that they require to keep the Matrix running and eliminate Smith from the program. In exchange, they'll stop their attack on Zion and allow the surviving humans to live. Neo sacrifices himself again, this time absorbing Smith into himself while jacked into the Source, negating Smith and returning all of the programs he assimilated to their original forms. As the sun rises on a new virtual day, the Architect and the Oracle discuss the new status quo.
Humans within the program will be allowed to leave if they choose to, or to stay inside the Matrix, living blissfully ignorant computer generated lives. All is as close to right with the world as it can be in a simulated dystopia.
Have you ever had a dream that you were so sure was real? What if you couldn't awaken? How would you know the difference between dream and reality? When a beautiful stranger Carrie-Anne Moss leads computer hacker Neo Keanu Reeves to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.
Neo joins legendary and dangerous rebel warrior Morpheus Laurence Fishburne in the battle to destroy the illusion enslaving humanity. During the year , a man named Thomas Anderson also known as Neo , lives an ordinary life. A software techie by day and a computer hacker by night, he sits alone at home by his monitor, waiting for a sign, a signal - from what or whom he doesn't know - until one night, a mysterious woman named Trinity seeks him out and introduces him to that faceless character he has been waiting for: Morpheus.
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