Just a Few Fun Fact about The Matrix

Carrie-Anne Moss (Trinity) played Liz Teel in the TV series "Matrix" (1993).

In the first minutes of the film during the scene in which Trinity is chased by one of the agents and she leaps from one house to the next, an advertisement saying "GUNS" can be seen on the second building. The gun pictured in the ad is exactly of the same make and model (Israeli Military Industries' Desert Eagle) as the guns used by all agents during the film.

In the movie Higher Learning (1995), Laurence Fishburne's first sentence was: "Welcome to the real world."

Cypher is a play on the name Lucifer - the devil.

As Neo runs through the old lady's apartment near the end of the film, we see an image on the TV of a menacing man in a black suit coat. The image is that of one of the Number 2 agents from the TV show "The Prisoner" (1967).

When Neo is calling to get extracted from the Matrix after the subway fight scene, he says, "Mr. Wizard get me out of here," a reference to the 1960's cartoon Tooter Turtle. Each episode, Tooter would yearn to be something he wasn't and have his friend Mr. Wizard (a lizard) wave his magic wand and make him an astronaut or a scientist or whatever. Inevitably, Tooter would quickly get himself into trouble and call out "Help Mr. Wizard," and the lizard would intone "Drizzle, drazzle, druzzle, drome, time for this one to come home." Tooter would be transported back to his old self and be chided by Mr. Wizard to "be happy with what you are."

The glyphs on the computer screens, with the exception of the call traces, consists of reversed letters, numbers, and Japanese katakana characters.

All of the references to street corners (e.g. Wells and Lake) are real intersections in Chicago, USA, the Wachowski brothers' hometown. (The Wachowski brothers are the writers and directors of the movie.)

The subway train has signs for "Loop," another Chicago reference. The film however is quite obviously not set in Chicago or any other real city (though it was filmed in Sydney).

Coincidentally (or not), Matrix, Trinity, Morpheus, 303 and 101 are all models of music synthesizer (from various manufacturers).

When the traitor meets with agent "Smith," we learn that his name is Reagan. He says he wants to be someone important, maybe an actor, and that he wants to "remember nothing"! Sounds familiar? (Think“presidents.”)

In the Oracle's waiting room, the television is showing white rabbits (which, at the beginning of the film, Neo was instructed to follow) from Night Of The Lepus.

Another parallel with the life of Christ: Neo taken to a large building and tempted to jump off it; Neo ascending above the street (c.f. Christ's last appearance in the Acts of the Apostles).

The license plate number of the Agents' car is 70858. Coincidentally (or not?), Kevin Bacon's birthday is 7/08/58. (I don’t know why Kevin Bacon is metioned, but several people seemed to think it was important, perhaps due to 'six degrees of separation'.

When Neo is fleeing from the agents through a marketplace, one of the agents fires at him and misses, exploding a pile of watermelons nearby. This may be an homage to an identical scene in Ghost In The Shell.

In the subway scene, we see an ad for Sol beer. Sol means sun (son?)

Before filming, the principal actors spent four months with martial arts experts, learning very complicated fight moves. Neo had had surgery on his neck before the training began and was unable to practice kicks until the filming had begun. He does very few kicks in the movie, but will be shown doing a LOT more in future movies.

The song that Neo wakes up to at the start of the film is "Dissolving Child" by Massive Attack.

The mobile phone used most of the time during the movie is the Nokia 8110i. It is not sold in the US (and, in fact, won’t work here) but is very common in Australia.

No, you can not buy the cool sunglasses that Morpheus wears. There are similar pairs, however.