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The Matrix
Directed by the Wachowski Brothers

“Buckle your seat belt Dorothy, because Kansas is going bye-bye.”
-Cypher (Hugo Weaving)

“Through all the action we’re trying to tell a story and there is a lesson to be learned. The movie has a meaning and a positive message. It’s a story for the fight for individuality and compassion and coming to terms with the world. It has such heart and soul.”
-Keanu Reeves
“Expect the unexpected.”
-The Wachowski Brothers
Written and directed by the Wachowski Brothers, released in 1999
Larry Wachowski was born on June 21, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois. His brother Andy Wachowski was born on December 29, 1967 in Chicago Illinois. They started out as comic book writers but then got into the movie business. Their first movie was Bound, which was released in 1996. The also wrote Assassins for Richard Donner. They wrote and directed The Matrix, and it was released in 1999. The Matrix won four Oscars, one Grammy, and an MTV Movie Award. They like to play the audiences perception so that the audience doesn’t know what is going to happen next.

Keanu Reeves…Neo or Mr. Anderson Carrie-Anne Moss…Trinity
Hugo Weaving…Cypher Lawrence Fishburne…Morphius

Sequence
This sequence takes place towards the end of the movie. It begins in the lobby of the building where the agents are holding Morphius captive. Neo and Trinity are trying to rescue Morphius. When they walk into the building they must first get through the security guards before they can do anything else. After that they get on the elevator and then stop it. They then get on top of the elevator and shoot the wires after they attach a clamp that will take them to the top of the building.

This sequence begins with a ground level pull back dolly shot of Neo entering a building through rotating doors.

The camera straight cuts a reverse angle shot of Neo entering the building. The camera pans down to the bag that Neo is placing on to the conveyer belt that takes it through the x-ray machine.

The camera straight cuts to the red lights that are flashing on the metal detector that Neo walked through. The camera pans down to Neo with a medium close up shot.

There is a straight cut side angle shot of a security guard approaching Neo and asking him to remove any metal objects that he may be carrying.

There is then a straight cut close up of Neo opening his trench coat and revealing the weapons that he is carrying.

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