"Set." "Action!" "Paper." "Paper!" "One, two, three!" "Yes!" "It was really good." "Where do you want these things?" "Cut." "That was a good one." "Action." "And cut." "Cut there." "Go!" "Cut." "Cut there." "That was roll 50." "Die!" "Place her action." "Oh, yeah!" "Very good." "And fall!" "About that high." "Andy, that'll look" "All right?" "He's not gonna make it." "Places and action!" "Cut." "Boom." "Jeez!" "Was I late?" "Cut." "Freeze!" "And" "No, hold it." "Hold it." "And action!" "Action!" "Go!" "Cut!" "Spot your positions." "Can I have a clear set, please?" "Your handstand?" "But I wanted it clean." "What?" "What?" "Just making it clean, you know?" "This was-- I'll shut up." "Triple kick, yeah!" "Forget the handstand." "Ancient history." "Be here now." "And action!" "Cut." "Cut there." "All right, let's see that back on the big screen." "Smith." "Agent Smith." "You all look the same to me." "Spacing." "And action!" "One, two, three!" "Shit." "Sorry." "It's okay." "Probably that line." "I am" "Tired." "I am." "I am tired." "We'll consider that." "Give it the college try." "That's all I can do, brother." "That's just the way I was trained." "Should we think about trying to..." "... turnyouaroundabit?" "ls that too much stuff?" "What else do you got that you could do..." "... that'seasier?" "Not much, eh?" "We're all ducking and dodging at this point." "I mean, the ducking and dodging that happens over there later is..." "... alittlebiteasierbut...." "They're in the walls." "Action!" "No, Morpheus!" "Don't!" "Trinity, go!" "Go!" "Action!" "And action!" "Cut it!" "Cut that." "Weapons up." "Fingers off the triggers." "Cut." "Cut." "Oops, sorry." "Action!" "Cut." "Go again right away?" "And action." "Cut." "Action." "And action." "And action." "Actually, you better kick..." "... overthehip." "Excellent." "And roll sound." "Roll it!" "Stay on the deck." "Fall." "Light." "Fire!" "Action!" "Now!" "Go!" "water like that." "The roof, tie it up on top." "Cut!" "Cut there." "Action!" "Cut!" "And roll sound, please." "Action!" "I deliver perfection..." "and don't brag about it!" ":" "D" "This movie takes place..." "... inanothertimeand place with unbelievable effects." "The Matrix is science fiction..." "... butit'salso an action/adventure film." "You see things that are fantastic." "And you say, "Wait a second." "That's impossible. "" "Freeze it." "When they explained to me the movie they were making..." "... Igotfiredupbecausenobody's made this kind of movie before." "Synthesizing evolution..." "... actingintheconstruct..." "... givingfleshto acartoon, soul to a machine." "The movie takes place in the distant future." "It is a time when computers rule the world." "You have a world of people who believe they're real..." "... butthey'renot." "They're living in a computer program." "There are a number of other people who are trying to liberate..." "... thosepeople..." "... fromtheircaptivities." "It's about taking everything for granted." "Other times, it's about hope and love..." "... andbelief." "It's about robots versus kung fu." "And there's some crazy action." "Sydney's a beautiful town." "Who wouldn't want..." "... 5monthsin Australia?" "Filming on location in Sydney..." "... isa pleasure." "We're in a great city..." "... witha veryprofessionalcrew." "We're in Sydney in a beautiful new facility." "This stage is brand-new." "We're the first movie on this stage." "When we moved in here..." "... thepaintwaswet onthewalls ." ""Do not touch the walls."" "Is it okay if I kind of come forward?" "It's difficult to ask, "Where do you get your ideas from?"" "Nobody knows." "They just sort of happen." "A friend of ours asked us to come up with a concept for a comic book." "We like kung fu movies." "We like Japanimation." "We like science fiction books that are about the nature of reality." "You've been living in a dream world, Neo." "This is the world..." "... asitexiststoday." "What's interesting about the whole idea of cyberpunk is..." "... it'sa greatwayto create a sense of alienation..." "... anddisconnection and alternate worlds..." "... beingcaughtin these..." "... quasi-dream,quasi-conscious states." "How far do you want me up like this?" "That's it." "That's the look." "I first met Larry and Andy when I read Assassins  anditreallywas anincredible script." "It was a very dark, edgy..." "... pieceofmaterial." "I was impressed with that style." "They showed me this animated Japanese cartoon..." "... andtheysaid, "We wanna do that for real."" "You know, that was an incredible idea to me." "I mean, to actually see that animation come to life..." "... andbelieveme ,essentially,ithas." "We've had our eye on you for some time now, Mr. Anderson." "In one life, you're Thomas A. Anderson..." "... programwriterfor a respectable software company." "The other life..." "... islivedin computers..." "... whereyougo by  the hacker alias "Neo" ..." "... andareguiltyofvirtuallyevery  computer crime we have a law for." "I play a man named Thomas Anderson who's looking..." "... forMorpheus,who'splayed by Laurence Fishburne." "I'm searching for the answer." "The question is:" "What is the Matrix?" "My character feels that the answer will somehow make sense of his life." "At last." "My character is called Morpheus..." "... andMorpheusis apersonwholives  in the real world." "And he's the leader of this band of people..." "... lookingfor..." "... theOne." "You felt it your entire life:" "Something's wrong with the world." "You don't know what, but it's there." "Like a splinter in your mind." "He is this, like..." "... feveredmissionaryguy." "He's a zealot." "There's something dangerous about people who believe they have the truth." "They do sort of act blindly." "This is your last chance." "After this, there is no turning back." "You take the blue pill..." "... thestoryends,you wakeup in your bed and believe..." "... whateveryouwanttobelieve." "You take the red pill..." "... youstayin Wonderland..." "... andI showyouhow deep the rabbit hole goes." "There are references to..." "...Alice in Wonderland." "I think that is a brilliant book." "She comes into this world..." "... andthereis allthiscraziness." "People just give her things and say, "Eat this", "Drink this."" "Everything affects her and changes her..." "... andnothingmakessense." "Nothing's logical." "It's just the way you have to do it." "We tried to do that with the beginning of the film." "The thing I love about Trinity..." "... isthatI'mportrayingsomeone who's really strong..." "... andwhohasamissionandpurpose." "Can you fly that thing?" "Not yet." "Operator." "I need a pilot program for a B-212 helicopter." "She's a warrior." "Yet, I don't think that she's lost being a woman." "Lieutenant." "Oh, shit." "Agent Smith is the law enforcement..." "... andhe'sseeminglyaninvincible machine who develops..." "... humanfrailties." "There was an accident." "Goddamn car accident." "Cypher was a disciple, a strong disciple of Morpheus." "But now, I've had second thoughts." "Did he tell you why he did it?" "Why you're here?" "Jesus!" "What a mind job." "So you're here to save the world." "Then you go from the-- To" "Speaking about Larry and Andy together as a pair, as a team of writers..." "... IlikenthemtotheBrothersGrimm." "I imagine that's what the Brothers Grimm were like." "Action." "Boom!" "Good." "Somebody's gonna be here." "They work well together, wonderful sense of humor." "So you do get a dialogue happening that is normally..." "... justwithin the one director's head." "So it's normally one director talking to themselves..." "... workingoutaproblemandexpressing their solution to that problem." "Whereas, with Larry and Andy, you'll see..." "... you'llseethedialoguegoingon." "They're just like real guys." "There's none of that kind of "Hollywood" thing." "It's not evident at all." "They're from Chicago." "They wear shorts, they wear baseball hats." "They watch basketball games." "They love movies." "They get so excited." "There's nothing greater than doing a scene..." "... andforthemtogetexcited." "Monday!" "Monday, I will no longer just be a computer nerd." "I will be a superhero!" "They search for clarity." "They're very thoughtful..." "... andyetthey'revery...." "They have a wonderful sense of humor." "Action!" "It's really..." "... youknow,unusualthatdirectors..." "... aresosureofwhat they want ." "They know exactly what they want..." "... whatangletheywannaseeitat..." "... whattheactorsshouldsay..." "... whenhetakesabreath in his speech." "They had storyboards of fight sequences that they wanted." "Certain punches and kicks..." "... andflipstheywantedtosee." "I see some of the framing of Frank Miller." "There's some..." "... Japaneseangles..." "... andperspectivesin it ." "Dodge this." "They worked with people that they knew from the comic book world..." "... anddesigned these fantastic things." "We went into the first Warner Bros. story meeting..." "... andtheysaid,"Okay..." "... weknowwe 'vebought something cool." "We don't know what it is."" ""Could you take us through it once?"" "It helped translate the movie for us." "Nobody really understood..." "... thelevelof action we wanted in the action sequences." "Then when we'd show the storyboard to people, they'd go, "Whoa." "Jeez. "" "The scale that you can pull off..." "... withcomicsis just always fantastic." "You can freeze a moment and make an image..." "... that'ssortof sustained." "There's some action that we can do a lot better in comics..." "... andsomethings that were better in film." "Kung fu is great on film." "We're supposed to start with these programs first." "That's major boring shit." "Let's do something more fun." "How about..." ""Jujitsu"?" "I'm going to learn jujitsu?" "And action!" "Just roll your chest down." "Bring it down." "One of the things that we love about Hong Kong action..." "... ishowtheyshootfightscenes with the long takes and wider angles." "But they also do this wire work..." "... whichisveryfluidandpeople, you know, fly around..." "... andjumpincredibly." "It's very balletic and everybody..." "... hasa superhuman, supernatural grace." "We wanted to bring that kind of wire work to our movie." "Cut!" "Raise up!" "You don't have to go up so high." "More out." "It just looks better." "At first, Larry and Andy were frustrated because their dream was to work..." "... withthisguy that did Fist of Legend." "Through contacts in Hong Kong..." "... wetrackedtheguy down and it turned out to be Wo Ping." "Wo Ping rocks." "He's one of the best." "We love his movies." "We been watching them for years." "I think it's good for Laurence." "He said, "I really don't know how they got my number."" "He was in Beijing making a movie..." "... andgotacallsayingthebrothers were interested in him." "He said, "I'm very busy." "I don't have the time."" "And the call came again." "He read the script and he..." "... thoughtitwas a very brilliant script." "So he decided he should do it." "One of the incredible experiences here, unlike any movie I've done..." "... isthatourfourleadsspent ..." "... 3or4monthstrainingwithWoPing  and his Hong Kong stunt team." "These aren't athletes, but actors." "To paint your house, you hire a painter, not an actor pretending he's a painter." "They really had to learn..." "... afightingstyle they never had learned before." "It was a tremendous hardship..." "... butit'sevidentonthefilm that that's Laurence, Carrie-Anne..." "... andKeanuin thosescenes doing that stuff..." "... andit'sastounding." "We started training in October of '97." "Trained all the way..." "... throughtillMarchof' 98 ." "That was on, like, an everyday basis." "One, two, three!" "Ready?" "It was a very involving, exhausting process." "I initially thought we were gonna be doing kung fu for maybe..." "... 4or5weeks." "Something like that." "It ended up being months and months of training." "The interesting thing is in the challenge." "The challenge is how to make these people look like they know..." "... andarebornwiththeskills." "We all sort of have our own person..." "... thatisourteacher." "Mine is Mo Dai." "He really held my hand in the beginning..." "... andwasveryhardonme  at the same time." "Chu is Keanu's main guy..." "... andChudoesn'tspeakanyEnglish." "Then we have Dion, who oversees us, and he speaks..." "... betterEnglishthanthe rest." "And he's sort of our go-between..." "... WoPingandus." "We've had various movie kung fu dojos ..." "... inLosAngelesand inAustralia..." "... andatlunch, we'd sit with our legs..." "... tryingtoopenthe rustygates and stretch." "Watch kung fu movies and see what was good and bad." "Action." "I really didn't know..." "... ifI wouldbe abletodo what they were asking me to do." "I was going every day, getting on the wires..." "... andbeingliftedupjust toget the feeling of being on the wire." "Practicing, sort of getting up the wall..." "... andthenhavingthe wallpadded and going along the padded wall..." "... andthemtakingthe pad off  and me being terrified." "I couldn't do the wire the day they took the pads off..." "... becauseI wasso afraid." "He's very inventive and organic, the way he works." "You must have your own style, but you also have to have..." "... youknow,goodkungfu." "Initially, I think Wo Ping and the wire team, they took us on..." "... andthoughtwe wereuseless, which we were, hopeless at kung fu." "But they realized after a couple weeks..." "... maybeweweregonnabeableto get to a level where we'd be..." "... halfwaydecent." "It was really intense, but it was a lot of fun." "And again it's... ." "It's the kind of thing..." "... thatyouveryrarelygetan opportunity to do something like this." "I feel incredibly blessed to have..." "... workedwithWo Pingand his team." "So what do you need?" "Guns." "Lots of guns." "I'm gonna pass out to everybody a rubber handgun..." "... togooverthe weaponsparts..." "... andyoucanphysicallyhave something." "These are 100% safe." "Turn!" "Kill!" "Pick up your weapon and hold it with two hands in front of you." "Almost everyone has a great position." "We tried to..." "... notdogunshow  they're always done." "The guns should be at each other's-- What do we do?" "Directors!" "Yes." "I tried to make it kind of funny." "Please remove any metallic items you're carrying." "Keys, loose change." "The sets on the picture..." "... alloriginated from the visual design..." "... thatLarryandAndyachieved in storyboarding the film." "They were executed, built and designed..." "... byOwenPaterson, who's our production designer." "It's full of details." "We're trying to create..." "... anenvironmentwhichis just an illusion." "This is my ship." "The Nebuchadnezzar." "This is the main deck." "Don't pull it anymore!" "And we're trying to use..." "... contemporarytechnology and a slightly retro fashion..." "... andsomethingthatlooksdifferent to your archetypal spaceship." "We've fallen back a great deal onto, and utilized..." "... asLarryandAndywantedusto,  Geof Darrow's drawings, which were..." "... theoriginalconcept." "We tried to promote that idea of reality that isn't real." "You'll look at it and go, "That's a real place."" "There are the illusions within it." "There's some of the most spectacular stunt stuff..." "... I'vebeeninvolvedwith." "There's style and visual effects that has not ever been seen before." ""Bullet Time." Registered trademark." "Enter "the Gaeta."" ""The Gaeta Force."" "Let's get the wind cue right." "Nobody's around." "In this particular rig..." "... thereare120cameras and two motion-picture cameras set up." "Bullet Time was conceived for The Matrix specifically..." "... butI thinkit 's the byproduct of the directors..." "... observingtechnologyandasking..." "... therightquestion at the right time." "That's the money cam at the end..." "... thatlastone,wherethebullet will come over your head." "I could shoot the same exact stunt several times over." "I can also do things like go forward in time..." "... orstopthecameraabruptly and move backwards..." "... whiletheaction continues to move forward." "I can create a three-dimensional construction of the object." "Everything begins with a simulation..." "... andallthemathfortheshot." "Works backwards from there." "These guys have a lot..." "... ofspecificnotionsabouttheworlds that they're creating." "They're pretty over the top." "You're allowed to do things you wouldn't normally do." "We were going to slow motion to high-speed..." "... jump-cutting, crossing the line, everything." "To achieve what seems like a fairly simple thing to do..." "... toflyahelicopterdown  the front of a building..." "... andrescuesomeone by jumping out a window." "It seems, if we see it in the film, a seamless object." "But in fact, it's been shot in two different buildings." "It's been shot on a big set." "To figure out how to make that scene work" "We wanted the glass to explode in sort of an ever-expanding circle." "To actually figure out how to make the glass do that..." "... andwhatglasstouse,  it probably took..." "... threemonths of heavy-duty research." "It's such a rare experience..." "... fora groupof actorsinfilm , maybe in theater, to work together" "We'll have worked together for a year..." "... bytheendofthis ." "It's been a great, kind of, melding..." "... ofheartandsoul and spirit and action." "Working on a film of this magnitude..." "... hasbeenan enormous eye opener for me." "It's kind of chased away a few demons for me..." "... andit'seducatedmemore ." "Working on a film with this budget and on this scale has been great." "I really think that this is the first film of the next century..." "... ofthemillennia..." "... theyearY2K,they'recallingit." "It is monumental." "I think it is" "It's groundbreaking." "Something people have never seen before..." "... andit'sgonnatake people's breath away." "There will be a lot of films that will be disciples of this movie." "Andy and Larry will start..." "... anewvisualstyle,youknow..." "... thatwillbe very..." "... well-knownandwell-remembered." "Ripped with SubRip 0.97b  Corrected by CdinT (Cristi_Polacsek@SoftHome.net)" "I deliver perfection..." "and don't brag about it!" ":" "D" "I deliver perfection..." "and don't brag about it!" ":" "D" "Bullet-time is a stylistic way of showing..." "... thatyou'rein  a constructed reality..." "... andthattimeand space are not the same as..." "... youknow,us today, living our lives." "It's slowing down time to such an extent..." "... thatyoureallysee  everything around you..." "... asclearlyas youpossiblycould." "Bullet-time was conceived for The Matrix, specifically." "But I think it's the byproduct of..." "... thedirectorsobserving the controls coming into place." "And then they ask the right question at the right time." "You always know that you're doing something groundbreaking..." "... ifsomeoneaskssomething, that you go:" ""Maybe." "Maybe, if we do some development..." "... andgettherightminds working on it. "" "And it takes some pretty heavy thinking to get it together." "Everything begins with a simulation." "All the computer simulation information is the basis..." "... ofthetimingsequence." "Each camera has a specific moment in time to fire a frame of film." "All that is taking into account..." "... thenet,totaleffect of the move." "That is, a camera coming up to speed, moving out of speed..." "... andcomingoffofspeed." "In this particular rig..." "... thereare120cameras and two motion-picture cameras set up." "The rig that we've made..." "... canbeconfiguredinto any shape that you want." "The shapes are basically what we compose..." "... inoursimulations." "It can do "S" curves." "It can do arcs." "It can do spirals." "It can do anything you want." "It's an erector set." "The heights of the cameras, where they point..." "... alsofromsamesimulation." "In the middle of that box right there..." "... isa motioncontrol laser-pointing system..." "... thattakesan animationfile and creates a point..." "... onthecube'ssurface, telling where to point the camera." "The two motion-picture cameras that'll be in this particular shot... ." "That's running at 150." "That one's running at 120." "There are bullet-times where the end camera is a Photosonics camera." "So we'll be running that at 360." "I can choose, at will..." "... anyelapsedreal-worldtime..." "... tophotograph." "That is, if I have a guy falling over..." "... Icanchoosetocapture the whole event..." "... inthetimeittakes to go around the circle." "I could choose to capture only a very brief moment." "And that is how we determine what frame rate..." "... thecameraseventuallywindup." "I could shoot the same exact stunt several times over..." "... creatinga simulation of 100 frames per second..." "... 500or2000framespersecond..." "... allwiththesamecameramove,  moving at the same speed and time." "I can go forward in camera motion..." "... andforwardin time with the event." "I can stop the camera abruptly..." "... startmovingbackwardswhile the action continues to move forward." "I can shoot the move coming from both sides at the same time..." "... crisscrossingoverandending." "I could shoot in waves, you know, cycles of film..." "... thatcrisscross like waves over the middle." "There is a very heavy digital half to this capture." "Not every frame that a camera captures..." "... istheonlyframe that will be seen." "There's a lot of a process we called "interpolation" ..." "... whichisthecreation of frames, digitally..." "... thatarethebyproduct..." "... ofrealframes." "That is, we analyze what real frames we have." "And we can create new frames..." "... ofmomentsin between the captured frames..." "... tomakemoveslonger..." "... orstretchthemout , or do time-compression effects." "There's a lot of work going on..." "... intheartformofinterpolation." "It needs to be said, because it's not "what you see is what you get."" "It's all baby steps toward something much larger..." "... thatwon'tbe reallycommonplace for a few years." "But there are people around the world..." "... thataresortof scratching their heads..." "... abouta newway to photograph things." "It'll be as revolutionary as when cameras came off sticks..." "... andwentto acrane..." "... whentheycameoff ofcranes and went to Steadicams." "We're talking about cameras that are now..." "... brokenfromthesubjectmatter, that are virtual." "That's the next phase." "That's what computers..." "... haveintroducedintocinematography." "Ripped with SubRip 0.97b  Corrected by CdinT (Cristi_Polacsek@SoftHome.net)" "I deliver perfection..." "and don't brag about it!" ":" "D" "I deliver perfection..." "and don't brag about it!" ":" "D" "What if you were unable to wake from that dream?" "How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?" "This can't be." "Be what?" "Be real?" "Now." "There are fields, Neo, endless fields  where human beings are no longer born." "We are grown." "For the longest time, I wouldn 't believe it." "And then I saw the fields with my own eyes." "This is my ship." "The Nebuchadnezzar." "It's a hovercraft." "This is the main deck." "This is the core..." "... wherewebroadcastour piratesignal and hack into the Matrix." "Try to relax." "This will feel a little weird." "Shit." "Sentinels." "You scared the bejesus out of me." "Sorry." "It's okay." "Is that... ?" "The Matrix?" "Set her down there." "Ripped with SubRip 0.97b  Corrected by CdinT (Cristi_Polacsek@SoftHome.net)" "I deliver perfection..." "and don't brag about it!" ":" "D"