A 1999 film starring Keanu Reeves; the franchise of its sequels, comic books, and video games; also the name of a virtual world within those created by machines to enslave mankind in such a way that it isn't even aware of it's shackles
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Why did Cypher trust the agents?
In the first Matrix film, Cypher makes a deal with Agent Smith (to forget about the matrix and to be put back in as someone rich/famous) betraying Neo, Morpheus and everyone else, in the hope he would ...
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Is Bullet Time possible in real Life? [closed]
I have played Many games like Matrix,Death to Rise,Max Payne, etc.. In Movies like Max Payne the character has ability of Time Slice(moving with insane focus with respect to Time and Surrounding). ...
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What type of computer network would the Matrix be considered [closed]
My basic understanding of computer networks is that they fall under two categories:
Client-Server
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Peer to Peer
Can the Matrix be defined in one of these two ways, or is there another ...
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What are the machines in the Matrix doing?
In The Matrix, the machines won the war against humans. They have incredibly efficient production and lots of energy. What are they doing in the meantime? What purpose do these machines have?
I could ...
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Did Neo die in the end of the Matrix trilogy?
Towards the end in "The Matrix Revolutions", Neo is jacked by the machines into the Matrix to fight Agent Smith. During the fight, Smith seems to have killed Neo then we see the machines pumping a ...
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what is the Zion Foundation?
In The Matrix Reloaded, during the scene where the Nebuchadnezzar is returning home, there are several seconds of footage of all the impressive machinery which operates the main gate. There is one ...
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How does Zion population square with how it's built?
The Architect says that The One must choose 23 people (16 female, 7 male) to create new Zion.
After which, you will be required to select from the Matrix 23 individuals - 16 female, 7 male - to ...
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Why do they need “16 female, 7 male” to re-establish Zion?
So, re-reading this:
After which, you will be required to select from the Matrix 23 individuals - 16 female, 7 male - to rebuild Zion.
It got me thinking - why exactly this ratio (and why ...
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Why do the machines allow/initiate the building of a new Zion?
In the Matrix Reloaded, the Architect says:
The function of the One is now to return to the Source, allowing a temporary dissemination of the code you carry, reinserting the prime program. After ...
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What's the point of running from Agents when you can push anything to The Matrix?
In the matrix, outsiders were able to bring weapons. If it was based on mental projection, it would be obvious that bringing tanks was beyond their willpower (or, something similar). But, it was shown ...
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Why don't people in The Matrix notice the internal discrepancies?
In The Matrix it's fairly obvious to us the viewer that there is something wrong with the virtual reality. There is only one city (and it's surrounding area) that we know of and it doesn't even have a ...
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Were there non-AI physicists and scientists in the Matrix?
This question made me wonder- were there non-AI physicists and scientists in the Matrix? Or anyone of tested superior intelligence (thus, potentially disruptive to maintaining illusion of reality)?
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How big is the Matrix?
Does it contain the whole universe (whether obeying physics laws as we know it or not)? Or, is it just limited to solar system & fake EM radiations coming from outside?
I was just wondering how ...
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Why wasn't The Matrix built with perfect physics? [closed]
Physics experienced in The Matrix wasn't perfect. There are many examples, but only one is in my mind at this time: In the end of the first movie, when helicoper crashed to the building, building ...
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How can Neo and others break the Matrix's rules?
How can Neo, Morpheus, Trinity etc. change/break the Matrix's rules (jump so far, fly, or move fast)? Do they have ability to "compile" their thoughts into the matrix code on the fly? How can they ...
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How could Neo have part of the Matrix source code within him?
According to this question and Monty's answer:
Neo has within him a portion of the Source Code of the Matrix.
Let's suppose that it's true. But how is he, a human being, able to have the source ...
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Why couldn't red pills be used instead of running towards ringing telephone?
In The Matrix trilogy, it was common practice of outsiders to exit using hardwired telephone. For which, they also went into lots of trouble.
Why couldn't they simply use Red Pill to interrupt the ...
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How does an outsider's dead body continue to exist in The Matrix?
In the first movie, Morpheus told Neo in a simulation program that their virtual bodies were mental projection of theirs. That's why they looked like their real world counterparts.
How did then their ...
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Since computers normally start counting from zero, was there a city before Machine City 01?
In The Matrix (and Animatrix), the machine city is called 01 (Zero One). From what I've read, this is the only city the machines have. If this is the first city built by machines, wouldn't it be ...
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Why can't Morpheus, Trinity, etc. behave like the agents as Neo does?
In the film The Matrix, why can't Morpheus, Trinity, etc. behave like the agents as Neo does? If they all knew the Matrix was not real, and Morpheus was the one who asked Neo to free his mind, why ...
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In the first Matrix film, why did they free Cypher in the first place?
I was wondering why Cypher was freed. It always seems like he has never liked being in the real world, or even wanted to be part of what they are doing.
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Why is it possible to get hurt in the Matrix?
In the first matrix movie, we can see that it is possible to make simulated worlds or rooms in which the characters can train their minds. We also learn that these worlds/rooms, as well as the Matrix, ...
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Why not close the connection to the outside?
I just finished the Matrix Trilogy and there is one thing I feel confused about. My assumption is that the controller of the matrix, whatever it is, is aware that Neo is attempting to destroy it and ...
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Why does Neo say there is no spoon?
In the movie The Matrix, after Neo ambushes the high-military facility and goes into the lift with Trinity, he plants the charges inside the lift, goes on top of the lift, and while Trinity hangs onto ...
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Animatrix: In “Kid's Story”, how was the kid found?
According to the Wachowski's, the Red Pill allowed the Nebuchanezzer to find Neo's body in the real world:
"[The Red Pill] is like a computer virus that’s meant to disrupt Neo’s life signal so ...
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Animatrix: What's going on in “Matriculated”?
I've read on a few forums people saying things along the lines of, "Matriculated was my least favourite of the Animatrix anime, but then I watched it a few times and realised what was going on. Now ...
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The Matrix: When Neo and Trinity shoot security/police are they actually killing real people?
According to the following conversation, if you die in the Matrix, you die in "real" life:
Neo: (in pain) I thought it wasn't real.
Morpheus: Your mind makes it real.
Neo: If you're killed in ...
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How did the land line phone exits work in the Matrix? How did they get from the line they jacked into to the line they jacked out of?
I imagine there were ancient pod people powered phone switch rooms scattered throughout the ruins in The Matrix movies, and that's why certain phones were still viable years after the sky was ...
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Where to obtain the theatrical trailer for The Matrix (1999) in a 640x274 (or higher) resolution? [closed]
Interestingly enough, it's difficult to obtain the theatrical trailer for The Matrix (1999) in a 640x274 (or higher) resolution, despite the fact that plenty of 4:3 CRT screens could do 640x480 in ...
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Whose bodies are the agents possessing when we first see them?
When the agents first appear while some cops are dying inside the Hearth O' The City Hotel at the hands of Trinity, whose body do they posess?
Except this scene, most of the time they consider the ...
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Was executive meddling the cause of “humans as batteries” in The Matrix?
I just ran across this on TVTropes's page "Human Resources":
In The Matrix the robots use humans as batteries! (And recycle the
dead into nutrient solution to help feed the living).
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How did the Zionists in the pre-Neo era explain the relative ease of rescuing prisoners?
tl;dr: Here comes a motivation/background for this question; perhaps you would like to skim ahead to the <hr/>.
We know that there is a lie behind a lie: In the first film we learn that the ...
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How did Morpheus come to identify Neo as potentially being The One before he met him?
Morpheus seeks out Neo because he's convinced he believes Neo's The One. He openly tells Neo while he's still part of the Matrix that he's only alive because "they" don't know what he knows.
We later ...
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Why doesn't Neo teleport at random?
I've never quite understood why Neo cannot or doesn't want to just teleport all over the Matrix, or transform objects around him as he sees fit, large-scale. The promise about the One is that he is ...
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How does 'seeing the code' help Neo?
At the end of The Matrix Neo finally see the code and that makes him able to deal with agents easily, always faster, etc.
But why is that? Earlier we learn that there is just too much information ...
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What changes were made to Reloaded, EtM and Revolutions after Gloria Foster died?
Late Gloria Foster died of diabetes on September 29, 2001, during the shooting of Reloaded.
The Oracle was a central character and thus the role was kept, continued to be played by Mary Alice. The ...
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What drove Neo to seek out knowledge of “The Matrix” and Morpheus?
At the beginning of The Matrix, Neo is running Internet searches for Morpheus. When he meets Trinity, it is revealed that he wasn't just looking for Morpheus. He was really seeking knowledge of ...
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What are the reasons to consider the Merovingian 'very dangerous'?
In Reloaded, we learn about the Merovingian from grandma':
He's being held prisoner by a very dangerous program, one of the oldest of us. He is called the Merovingian.
Why is he a very dangerous ...
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Why didn't Agent Smith just die?
When Agent Smith is destroyed by Neo, how can he survive, how can he still exist? Do some or all machines have a physical body? Smith gives a rough explanation, but that simply explains that it was ...
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Was the tracking bug actually inserted into Neos body, or was it a program?
When Neo is detained by the Agents, they place a tracking device inside of him. Do they insert a physical device into his actual body, or did they install a virtual tracking device into his matrix ...
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How does the command structure of the Machines work? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What kind of a political hierarchy do the machines in The Matrix have?
While discussing why the Sentinels in The Matrix: Revolutions would participate in a suicide ...
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Do the Machines in “The Matrix” Adhere to the Three Laws of Robotics?
In the "real world" of the Matrix, do the machines follow Asimov's Three Rules? Were they even programmed with them?
EDIT: I realize that killing people goes against the 1st law, but by keeping ...
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Can people Exercise in the Matrix?
When Neo is brought onto the Nebuchadnezzar, his muscles are stimulated so that they grow (having atrophied from not being used). However, if in the Matrix fighting can cause real damage (since your ...
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How good a hacker was Neo?
In the Matrix, Mr Anderson goes by the hacker alias of Neo, and is guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for :
It seems that you've been living two lives. In one life, you're ...
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Did Trinity think she would survive jumping out of a window?
In Reloaded, Trinity jumps out of the a window while fighting Agent [Thompson?]. Did she hope that she could survive the fall if no bullet hits her? Or what's her point?
In the Final Fight of the ...
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Which keyboard models does Neo|T.A. use? [closed]
I'm interested what keyboards does Neo use because I like how Neo's room is detailed and in particular because I became interested in keyboard choices and in keyboards lately. While it's nothing ...
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Where do they get the programs that are used to learn abilities?
In The Matrix (live-action) movies they usually call the operator and ask for a program to learn something.
For example, Trinity asking the operator to learn how to pilot a chopper.
Where do these ...
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Comparison of the programs of the Matrix and the machines of the real world?
What was the position of a program that resided in the matrix when compared to a machine in the real world? Were the machines of the real world superior? If yes, why? If no, then what was their ...
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Why didn't the agents take over Neo's body?
Apparently, when someone sees something strange or unusual in the Matrix, it triggers some kind of red flag that tells the agents "come here and take over that body". We see it a few times during the ...
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Why was Neo different from other Ones?
I know that Neo made different choices when compared to the other Ones. I know that those choices, though uncompromising to a dangerous extent, led to a different turn of events. But what was ...
