FILM · 2003 · USA

The Matrix Reloaded

Directed by

Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski

Runtime

138 min

Studio

Village Roadshow Pictures, Silver Pictures, NPV Entertainment

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The Resistance builds in numbers as humans are freed from the Matrix and brought to the city of Zion. Neo discovers his superpowers, including the ability to see the code inside the Matrix. With machine sentinels digging to Zion in 72 hours, Neo, Morpheus and Trinity must find the Keymaker to ultimately reach the Source.

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8 Easter Eggs and References in The Matrix Reloaded

1. #036
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   When Morpheus's ship the Nebuchadnezzar is destroyed, the line "I had a dream, but now the dream is gone from me." is a reference to the Book of Daniel (Daniel 2:3), in which King Nebuchadnezzar has a dream about a golden statue that Daniel interprets for him. In this context, Morpheus is the prophet who guides the ship Nebuchadnezzar. It is interesting to note that Morpheus is the name of the Greek god of dreams, who changed dreams (literally "forms"). Combined with information from Enter the Matrix, it is possible that Morpheus's real name is Daniel.

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2. #051

   The side of the tractor trailer used in the highway chase scene reads "Big Endian Eggs." This is a reference to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels: because the Lilliputians were so small, they correspondingly had small political problems. The Big-Endian and Little-Endian parties argued over whether soft-boiled eggs should be opened at the big end or the small end (Big-endian has also been adopted as computer terminology).

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3. #057

   The character we know as "The Kid" actually bears the name "Michael Karl Popper," as revealed in The Animatrix (2003). Karl Popper was a famous twentieth-century philosopher who worked especially on the nature of free will and the relationship of mind and choice to physical domains.

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4. #085

   The effects team held "try-outs," where other effects companies could demonstrate any new technology that might be useful for shooting the film, particularly the highway chase. As with the previous film, the Wachowskis had a clear vision of how the sequence should look, but the tools needed to shoot it did not necessarily exist yet.

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5. #087

   There are many references to the number 101.

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6. #103

   The film the servants watch in the background is Brides of Dracula (1960). Monica Bellucci played one of Dracula's brides in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992).

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7. #104

   During the highway chase, one of the exits leads to a place called Paterson Pass (a road located between Livermore and Tracy, California, east of the Alameda highway production site, off Interstate 5). This was a nod to production designer Owen Paterson.

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8. #110

   In the fight with three agents at the start of the film, Neo kicks one of the agents into a lamp post, a reference to Geofrey Darrow, the conceptual designer of the Matrix films, of Darrow Industries.

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