stux⚑️Nov 29, 2024

The Matrix: Mirrored doorknob: There was no way to properly hide the camera, so the director of photography threw a coat onto himself with a tie matching the one Morpheus was wearing, trying to blend in as much as possible

Guess it worked, I never saw it!

Show threadDave Goldsmith

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What?!

Matrix was ALL post-production, computer generated, etc? No?

Nov 29, 2024 at 5:13pmWeb
Show threadPeter AmstutzNov 29, 2024

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One of the funny things about the Matrix is that most of the scenes of the "real" world (excluding the scenes inside the ship) were CGI and most the scenes inside the Matrix were live action.

The action scenes did use green screens pretty heavily but effects with full CG characters were the later movies.

Show threadDave GoldsmithNov 29, 2024

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didn't know that. i only saw the first one.

Show threadWolfgang LutzNov 29, 2024
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Matrix Revisited

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Show threadPeter AmstutzNov 29, 2024
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The famous bullet time shots were done by putting Reeves in a harness and having 100+ cameras set up to shoot at the same time from different angles so they could do the effect of panning around at a single point in time. There was definitely digital editing involved but it was still basically a practical effect.
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"One of the funny things about the Matrix is that most of the scenes of the "real" world" - are you talking red pill or blue pill here? πŸ™‚ Because most of the real real world πŸ™‚ scenes - blue pill - are in Sydney, and many landmarks can be seen in the movie - Australia Square, the harbour bridge, the shipping control tower, the AWA tower, the Martin Place fountain, and the MMI building... where I used to work! πŸ™‚