The Matrix

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The Matrix literally changed the industry. The influx of martial-arts choreographers and fight coordinators now make more, and are more prevalent and powerful in the industry, than stunt coordinators. The Matrix revolutionized that. Today, action movies want their big sequences designed around the fights.

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By: Chad Stahelski

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Chad Stahelski, who was a stunt double on groundbreaking sci-fi classic The Matrix before directing Keanu Reeves in the John Wick series of movies, acknowledging the strong influence The Matrix has on the John Wick films and the style of action used to create them.

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I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure.

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By: Hugo Weaving
Characters: Agent Smith
From: The Matrix
Genres: Action | Adventure | Science Fiction | Thrillers

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Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) is interrogating Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and is attempting to break the freedom fighter down mentally, in an attempt get access codes to the last human city, Zion.

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  • Trinity: My name's Trinity.
  • Neo: "The" Trinity? Who cracked the IRS d-base?
  • Trinity: That was a long time ago.
  • Neo: Jesus...
  • Trinity: What?
  • Neo: I just thought... you were a guy.
  • Trinity: Most guys do.
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By: Carrie-Anne Moss | Keanu Reeves
Characters: Neo | Trinity
From: The Matrix
Genres: Action | Adventure | Cult Cinema | Science Fiction | Thrillers

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Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) and Neo (Keanu Reeves) meet for the first time.

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Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization.

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By: Hugo Weaving
Characters: Agent Smith
From: The Matrix
Genres: Action | Adventure | Cult Cinema | Science Fiction | Thrillers

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Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) says this to Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) after capturing the freedom fighter during an operation carried out by Smith, other Agents and a SWAT Team. Smith is trying to "break" Morpheus' mind in order to get codes to Zion's mainframe computer. Zion is the last human city on Earth in the movie.

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Neo, sooner or later you're going to realize just as I did that there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.

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By: Laurence Fishburne
Characters: Morpheus
From: The Matrix
Genres: Action | Adventure | Cult Cinema | Science Fiction | Thrillers

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Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) says to Neo (Keanu Reeves), who is confused about why he was led to believe he was not "The One," when indeed, he was "The One" all along.

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I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... you're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.

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By: Keanu Reeves
Characters: Neo
From: The Matrix
Genres: Action | Adventure | Cult Cinema | Science Fiction | Thrillers

Context:
The last lines of The Matrix. Neo (Keanu Reeves) is on a payphone. It is inferred that he is speaking to the mainframe system inside the matrix.

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What is real? How do you define 'real'? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.

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By: Laurence Fishburne
Characters: Morpheus
From: The Matrix
Genres: Action | Adventure | Cult Cinema | Science Fiction | Thrillers

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Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) says in response to Neo's (Keanu Reeves) disbelief that The Matrix could possibly exist.

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To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.

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By: Matt Doran
Characters: Mouse
From: The Matrix
Genres: Action | Adventure | Cult Cinema | Science Fiction | Thrillers

Context:
Mouse (Matt Doran) on why he designed the Sexy Woman computer program, after being called a "digital pimp" by Switch (Belinda McClory). Mouse had just offered the program's "services" to newly awakened Neo (Keanu Reeves) at breakfast.