When Switch says that line about 20 questions, if you were to count the number of questions Neo asked up to that point, you would find out he asked, you guessed it, 20 questions.

My favorite Easter Egg in the Matrix is when Neo goes to see the Oracle. There is music playing very faintly in the background from her radio. And the name of the song? Duke Ellington's "I'm Beginning To See The Light."

This is the only movie I've ever went to the theater and watched, went right back to the ticket counter an watched it again. Love it so much.

With all the Alice and Wonderland references how do you not bring up the mirror consuming him when he first takes the red pill... literally goes through the looking glass

Switch’s handle: I always liked this one. She is called “Switch” because in the original script she was supposed to be male in the real world and female in the Matrix. The best the studio would let the Wochawski’s do is make her tomboyish in the real world. It is also when you think about it a foreshadowing of the Wachowski’s personal lives in the years after the movie.

i have never in my life have seen someone do such a good job on a cold calculated villain as Weaving did with Agent Smith.

I always love the part where Neo peeks over his cubicle wall to see the cops. He says "Oh shit!" and Morpheus' response is just "Yeeeess.."

I’ve always felt the overall message of unplugging from a false reality is one of the best a movie can have. Imagine going through a day where you’re not loaded with caffeine, sugar, carbs, nicotine, liquor, access to your phone, and that job you hate. All of those things gone for one day. Who would you be? What would you do? Unplugging from all you think you need is such a riveting plot device it still jars people to this day.

also the guy at neo's door in the beginning tells him that "you need to unplug"

This film inspired me to read Simulation & Simulacra, my first heavy psychology text, I then went on to read many more, eventually changing careers and becoming a teacher. It's strange looking back over the last 20 years, the Matrix seems to have directly influenced me more than any other film.

Surprised in the Jesus section it wasn’t mentioned that when Neo dies near the end he is dead for exactly 72seconds to represent the 3days before Jesus resurrection.

My favorite one is the deja vu scene... The 'black cat' is seen twice as the glich in the matrix occurs. The next scene, the character 'Mouse' is killed.

On my second time watching it I realized how similar Neo’s boss and the agents are. Their voices, mannerisms and looks are basically identical. I know that’s an obvious one but I still appreciated it.

The torture room where Neo has his mouth shut is room 101, referring to the torture room in George Orwell's book, 1984.

7:08, a couple more things that people may not know about this scene is that, while the machine pulls Neo out of the pod, Reeves' idea was to draw a correlation between himself and the infant in the pod, so he shaved off all his body hair, including his eyebrows AND eyelashes to look more like a newborn. Another thing you may not have known, was that the goo in the pod was bone-chillingly cold and Reeves came dangerously close to hypothermia several times, but he was so committed to helping the Wachowskis achieve the scene, that he ignored his condition, despite the medical staff's suggestions to get out and warm up.

One of my all time favorite movies. The script is just great and the more you look at it the greater it becomes. Also, the casting is perfect. Great cinema. Visualy stunning, smart, but also very entertaing. It's not an easy combination.

Choi refers to him as "my savior"... actually, he said, "Hallelujah. You're my savior, man. My own personal Jesus Christ." There's no missing that.

Ok that cookie thing did go over my head for 20 years lol

Something I noticed long time ago and no one ever mentions it. When Neo goes to see oracle for the first time. In atrium next to blind men, on chair next to him is written Sia. Sia is ancient Egyptian god of perception. Also The Sia (hieroglyph) was also used to represent "to perceive", "to know" or "to be cognizant".

The time you realize Morpheus is basically playing Pac-Man with Neo to get him out of the office when the agents rock up. And it only really stops when Neo eats his Power Pill. 😂

Such an amazing movie and I’m eternally grateful the role was given to Keanu. He is the chosen one.

"...and discovers Rage Against the Machine." LOL

another one people confuse is the "agent simulation" scene when its frozen. many people noticed in this scene that many actors are used repeatedly in different poses and places. A lot of people at the time called it lazy or a mistake. In reality, it was genius to show that mouse was lazy about creating the "regular NPCs" choosing to focus more time on the woman in the red dress, and so he simply re-used assets to fill in the simulation

#11. The entire film is structured around Thomas/Neo waking up, which he does 9 times: 1. "Wake up, Neo" on his computer. 2. Alarm buzzing 9:18 "Shit, shit." Neo is late for work. 3. Post interrogation Neo wakes up as from a nightmare and touches his mouth and checks his navel. 4. Silver fluid covers Neo and he blacks out, then awakens in his pod, covered in goo. 5. Neo awakens to find himself surrounded by Morpheus' crew. Morpheus says, "Welcome to the real world." Then New blacks out. Neo drifts in and out of consciousness. Asks "Am I dead?" and "Why do my eyes hurt?" 6. Neo awakens in his cabin on the Nebuchadnezzar and pulls out the IV in his arm. 7. After vomiting and passing out, New wakes up in his bunk. "I can't go back, can I?" After accepting his life in the real world, we no longer see Neo wake up: 8. Trinity brings Neo's dinner to his room while he is sleeping. Then he is up in the Construct, being taught by Morpheus about agents. Neo can't sleep and talks to Cypher and drinks Dozer's moonshine. 9. The next day, they visit the oracle, are betrayed by Cypher, and Neo dies, Shot by Agent Smith. He is brought back to life by Trinity.

everytime neo says "jesus", which is a lot, Trin always replys with, "What?"

Anyone else already catch most of this from watching the movie 100 times?

I was waiting for the "Jesus" section to mention that Neo was a software programmer, the virtual analog to a carpenter... but it never came. :(

For the falling green code, just the fact they were reversed so it's like you're looking in is an interesting fact on its own.

11:15 Let's not forget his full name is Thomas Anderson. You're correct on the etymology of "Anderson" (son of man) but Thomas is also has a Biblical connotation: Doubting Thomas. i.e. someone who doesn't quite believe based on hearsay alone.

Wow, props to you, a "Things you missed" list with actual things I actually missed! Normally, these lists are full of crap like "In Endgame, when Falcon says 'on your left' it's a callback to Winter Soldier when they're running around the.." LITERALLY EVERYBODY GOT THAT!! This was well-researched, informative and as I already said, actually provided new info. Well done!

In "Simulacra and Simulation" , the chapter title where Neo has hollowed out the book is "On Nihilism" - which pretty much describes Neo's life up to that point: nothing has any consequence and his life is hollow like the reality of human existence.

The Matrix hands down is the most mentally provocative and visually stunning syfi movies of the 20 century.

Adam:The Matrix over 20 years old now... Me:😯....🥺I'm old now.

Amazing they went to the level of detail to the blue/red pen. I'm a diehard Matrix fan, have probably watched the first film about 30 times and have never noticed that, nor would I if not for this video. Pretty damn cool! There are a million little goodies like that across all of the films. Like when Neo has the girl with the white rabbit and her boyfriend show up to take him to the club... Neo asks the guy, have you ever woke up but felt like you were still in a dream? And the guy says yeah, mescaline, it's the only way to fly. At the end of the film, Neo is able to fly. So many goodies and such a wonderful franchise. I absolutely can't wait for Resurrections!!!

One correction: i work with people that did cg on this film, and digital color grading wasn’t a thing in 1999. The green and blue tint was accomplished by using green and blue lights during the physical printing of the film. “Analog color grading”. Low tech, but beautiful results.

The only thing I missed connecting was the cookie, which is totally ironic because I'm a computer guy by trade. Lol

The original concept was that the human brains were actually the processing substrate for the matrix, but this was deemed too complex, so instead they ran with the idea that humans were batteries, which makes much less sense!

The matrix was one of the most beautiful pieces of artwork to ever exist on earth, so far. It's not inconceivable that it holds more truth than I first thought was a child. The creators are genius artists that may understand this world better than most.

The Matrix - best documentary I have seen so far.

Prior to being unplugged Neo name isn't just Anderson, (son of man) but THOMAS (doubting Thomas). Once he believes, he becomes NEO. So y'all missed that one.

When Neo is running from the agents near the end of the movie, he breaks through the door on his left. "No, your other left." He runs past an old lady watching the series The Prisoner on the television.

The red pill is also a reference to Total Recall. In that movie the red pill is taken when you are ready to awaken from the dream.

Watching it the other day, I noticed that when neo is introduced to the nebuchadnezzer crew Cypher is the only one wearing red possibly foreshadowing his ill intent to betray them….

Copper-top really struck me... that is quite a good insult.

I don't think the cookie connection ever clicked with me til this video.

The cookie is the programming that allows Trinity's love for Neo to bring him back to life. The Oracle does this for Sati and Seraph at the end of Revolutions

All other considerations aside... Hugo Weaving's performance in these films was literally phenomenal. I'm not sure I can think of a single truly fair comparison in the world of Cinema.

I like that Tom Anderson helps his Land Lady take out the garbage. Then Neo helps the Land Lord of the Matrix remove the Smith Virus.

Bruce Lee reference in one of the best movies of all time with the immortal Keanu Reeves

And here I am, thanking the universe for not having Will Smith take up Neo's role.

I was born in '97 and this is going to be in my top favorite movies of all time. All 3 were great in my opinion

What does blue and yellow make? Ok, so I notice this while watching this video; the real world is blue, and the virtual training world is colored yellow, if you combine this 2 colors you’ll get a lovely matrix green, a world as real as the blue one, and as virtual as the yellow one.

8:47 don't forget his "through the looking glass" moment right before he exits the matrix for the first time.

This is the only movie I've ever watched that was so good, that when the movie ended, I immediately rewound the VCR tape and watched it again!

Just watched this with my kid and she loved it! Cant believe its been 20 years since i saw it first

The rooftops in Dark City were inherited from Proyas' previous film, The Crow

Time to go watch it again. I love it when directors, screenwriters, cinematographers, whoever... pays that much attention to details.

I missed quite a few of these and this was interesting. I'm proud that I did pick up on 'coppertop' as being a reference to the human race as batteries. I was such a fan at the time that my daughter is called 'Trinity'

Well done. Often these you-missed-it videos have maybe one thing that's an a-ha. This one was chock full of goodies. Thanks!

The reference to "coppertop" - I didn't realize people would not get that. But back in 1999 Duracell's advertising referring to it a "Coppertop" was much more prevalent and the reference was easily caught when watching the movie.

It's still my screen saver 😂

6:11 LMFFAAAOO WAIT YOU ACTUALLY DID A GOOD IMPRESSION OF HIM🤣🤣🤣🤣

I love The Matrix. Thanks for the video, some stuff I knew but others I didn't and it just reaffirmed my love for this movie. Now I need to go re-watch it with all of this new information and enjoy it even more. Also, reading the comments I found some deeper insights into the film too. The Matrix rules. One of the greatest movies ever made.

Does anyone remember the Easter eggs hidden in the DVD menu, I was told there wasn't but I clearly remember it. It was something like follow the white rabbit, and you used the remote controls up down left right to find the white rabbit

The cookie. As we find out the second movie, food can be a way to transmit code from programs in the matrix to humans. While it was never outright said, the cookie was code the oracle needed Neo to take in order to continue on his path.

Aside from the Anderson/Neo/One implications, Morpheus, Trinity, Zion, the Nebuchadnezzar, and all sorts of names are derived from religious texts spanning multiple religions and theologies. Most of the dialogue from and with Cypher is derivative of Judas. There's direct references to the Bible, including on the data plate for their ship. There is so much theology packed into the movie that it's hard to miss it. I had to rewatch and do a 50-page paper on The Matrix as it relates to defining the self (yourself, as well as humanity, in the context of other books we'd read) as the final for my first college-level English course. Pretty big leap from high school. But one of the most eye-opening times of my life.

Anyone ever notice that when Neo is at work his monitor is turned off? Like what was he doing? 🤣🤣

Such a ground-breaking movie. It's definitely a classic.

I’m surprised you didn’t mention that if you rearrange the letters in “Neo” you get “one”. Like in the One.

One of my all-time favorite movies. I don't do fansites so I really appreciate this visual catalog of all the "secret" stuff. WhatCulture does it again.

I've always thought it very likely that Cypher was given the same prediction from the Oracle that Neo was given but instead of accepting that he wasn't the one and moving on he believed he was tricked and owed something and grew resentful.

Joe Pantoliano stayed at the hotel I worked during the film shoot. He's an awesome guy. Me and my workmates shared a cigar with him after close one night.

Another Bruce Lee reference: In the combat training tutorial in The Matrix: Path Of Neo, the location is from Han's underground facility in Enter The Dragon

Now I need to go back and watch these again

Nice one, WhatCulture! This was intriguing and entertaining far above it being informing/informative and for that we thank you! Kudos to the narrator for pulling off such a seamless effort, too! Well-rounded conjured perfection nevertheless! Quite enjoyable! Whoohoo!

Actually, those pens have 4 colours on them, just cant see the black and green side from that angle. Maybe that's also a reference, like the monitors being black and green and in reverse.

I think the scene where Morpheus gives Neo directions over the phone to avoid the agents is a reference to future-Ted doing the same thing for Ted in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.

I swear this happened: I was walking with my husband through Farmer’s Market (a popular spot in our hometown of Los Angeles). I was just commenting that I felt like (and this was before even the pandemic!) was like living in a dystopian world. Just then, Lawrence Fishburne walked by. (This is a celebrity-heavy spot. We see celebs here often). We sort of backtracked around to approach him and said how much we love his work. We asked for a photo with him and he said, “Nah, I’m not gonna take a photo” but pulled us both in for a big bear hug! An amazing experience but wow, right after I was saying I felt like I lived in a dystopian world??

When Neo uses the pen and uses blue, he then has Morpheus say to him you may not be ready yet almost directly after. I wonder if those two are related. If he had chosen red would Morpheus had known Neo was ready?

Title: Things you somehow missed #1: The matrix is green...

Yes, but can the Matrix run Crysis?

Keannu used to run at Bondi beach on the evenings when he was shooting the matrix .... this is one of the all time classic made in Sydney Australia great era back then when Fox studios was at full power in Australia

For me, this video paid out with the pen at the end, the meaning of "Anderson", and then learning about Dark City has me hyped!

Morhpeus is also the Greek God of dreams

I'm not sure why people would complain Jesus and Neo - I mean, Jesus is meant to be good and all, but he's no Keanu Reeves...

Thanks for your analysis, I really enjoyed your observations and insights.

Agent Smith reminds me of Carl Sagan in his speech pattern and sound.

Because the matrix is artificial, I see the city as an amalgamation of serval cities from humanity's past as all of those cities are now in ruins and the machines only had the leftover data and video to recreate civilization within the matrix after their Eden version failed. It's entirely possible that the city in the majority of the Matrix scenes in the films is the entire matrix itself and no other cities really exist therein. It's like how they keep Jim Carrey's Truman in The Truman Show from leaving the town he lived in his entire life. If you've got no pressing reason to go anywhere else what does it matter if nothing else exists beyond your horizons. This is further indicated by the fact that when the group goes to see the Merovingian they have to go to another area of the matrix, like a new layer meant for programs and those humans they invite as entertainment.

Regarding Neo representing Jesus the Christ, do you remember what was said to Neo before he was resurrected? "You can't be dead, because I love you." Do you remember who said it? Trinity.

I've also noticed how when Neo is being harangued by his boss, the window cleaners are wiping away suds that resemble the falling code of the matrix - an omen of the choice Neo is going to make soon.

The Night of the Lepus is playing on the Oracle's TV. That's my favorite nuclear killer rabbit movie.

Getting an advert for Duracell Coppertop batteries immediately after the video ends in which I have commented on them for a video related to the Matrix is a perfect example of apophenia. And damn good ad placement!

One of my techs didn’t know the history of drunken boxing. He literally thought it was in reference to bars and drunks getting into fights.

Wow I'm getting old!! I still remember when it came out and went to see it in the movie theater great movie do .

Idk why but the the copper top reference made me laugh 😂

One fact they left out was that humans were not supposed to be batteries in the original script. Humans were to be used to run super computing tasks by linking their brains together. The studio insisted they change it to the battery story claiming people wouldn't understand what is essentially cloud super computing. Though even a layman who halfway listened in one Biology class in their lifetime would note that though humans do produce electricity to transfer information via our nervous system, it is not what you call cost beneficial, as you must consume far more energy in the form of food than a body would ever produce, resulting in an actual energy net loss.

When you think you’ve picked this film apart at a cellular level, THIS video comes out.

The cookie and the pen! Those are the best two.

I wrote my Film Study Alevel on this film and this video blew my mind! It’s cool to see that I tapped into some of the themes you’ve mentioned here! 🙌 Excellent Work man keep it up! 🙌

I’ve just rewatched the matrix, purely for the reference to the pen. Yes it is a 4colour pen, and he wrote in blue. However, it was handed to him with blue already down, therefore was not his choice he just took the pen and signed. Secondly, it’s more professional to sign in blue or black, and after just being spoken to about that, and working within an office, he’d be used to signing in blue or black, never red or green