THE MATRIX
Film 1999. Written by The Wachowskis. Directed by The Wachowskis. Starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Joe Pantoliano.
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BOGUS BUSINESS BUREAU
1Central West Junior High BBBEducationJunior High Schools

Central West Junior High
Neo attended Central West Junior High. Visible in Thomas Anderson's criminal record that Agent Smith glances at when he interrogates Neo.



3The Courier Press BBBPeriodicalsNewspaper Couriers

The Courier Press
Online newspaper seen on Thomas Anderson's computer screen.



3Heart O' the City Hotel BBBTravelHotels

Heart O' the City Hotel
Hotel where Trinity is first seen, and then where Neo is being chased by the Agents at the end.



3MetaCortex BBBCorporationsTechnology Companies

MetaCortex
The establishing shot of Neo's building shows his company name as Metacortex. A plaque inside the building where Neo works also lists the company he works for as Meta Cortechs.



3Nebuchadnezzar BBBVehiclesAircrafts

Nebuchadnezzar
Morpheus' ship.



3The Oracle BBBServicesPsychic Services

The Oracle
Where Morpheus takes Neo so he can learn the truth. When Neo is meeting with the Oracle, the music playing in the background in her apartment is Duke Ellington's "I'm Beginning to See the Light," a reference to Neo's continued awakening.



3Owen Paterson High BBBEducationHigh Schools

Owen Paterson High
Neo attended Owen Paterson High. Named after the film's production designer. Visible in Thomas Anderson's criminal record that Agent Smith glances at when he interrogates Neo.



3Tasty Wheat BBBFood ProductsBreakfast Cereal

Tasty Wheat
Mouse: "Do you know what it really reminds me of? Tastee Wheat. Did you ever eat Tastee Wheat?" Switch: "No, but technically, neither did you."



FICTITIOUS TIMELINE
3September 13, 1971 Dates20th Century: 70sBirth Dates

September 13, 1971
Date of Birth on Thomas A. Anderson's passport.



3September 12, 1991 Dates20th Century: 90sIssued Dates

September 12, 1991
Issued Date on Thomas A. Anderson's passport.



3February 19, 1998 Dates20th Century: 90sEvents

February 19, 1998
The Matrix movie begins, with the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar searching for Neo.



3July 22, 1998 Dates20th Century: 90sEvents

July 22, 1998
Date of last amendment or additions on Thomas Anderson's database record.



3September 18, 1999 Dates20th Century: 90sEvents

September 18, 1999
The Matrix movie ends, with Neo calling the machines.



3September 11, 2001 Dates21st Century: 00sExpiration Dates

September 11, 2001
Expiration Date on Thomas A. Anderson's passport.



MAKE BELIEVE MAP
3Capital City MapUrban AreasCities

Capital City
Neo's place of birth is "Lower Downtown, Capital City". Visible in Thomas Anderson's "criminal record" that Agent Smith glances at when he interrogates Neo.



3Lake MapTransit RoutesThoroughfares

Lake
Morpheus directs Trinity to an exit at Wells and Lake.



3Mega City MapUrban AreasCities

Mega City
Enormous virtual megacity in the world of The Matrix.



3Wells MapTransit RoutesThoroughfares

Wells
Morpheus directs Trinity to an exit at Wells and Lake.



3Zion MapUrban AreasCities

Zion
Tank tells Neo about the last human city: If the war was over today Zion is where the party would be.



OTHER
3Agent Smith OtherQuotesQuotes

Agent Smith
Agent Smith: I hate this place. This zoo. This prison. This reality, whatever you want to call it, I can't stand it any longer. It's the smell, if there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste your stink and every time I do, I fear that I've somehow been infected by it.



3Agent Smith OtherQuotesQuotes

Agent Smith
Agent Smith: I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure.



3Agent Smith OtherQuotesQuotes

Agent Smith
Agent Smith: Tell me, Mr. Anderson, what good is a phone call when you are unable to speak?



3Agent SmithOtherQuotesQuotes

Agent Smith
Agent Smith: Never send a human to do a machine's job.

4Agent Smith OtherQuotesQuotes

Agent Smith
Agent Smith: It seems that you've been living two lives. One life, you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a social security number, pay your taxes, and you. help your landlady carry out her garbage. The other life is lived in computers, where you go by the hacker alias Neo, and are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not.



3Agent Smith OtherQuotesQuotes

Agent Smith
Agent Smith: Do you hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability.



3Agent SmithOtherQuotesQuotes

Agent Smith
Agent Smith: Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization.

4CypherOtherQuotesQuotes

Cypher
Cypher: I'm tired, Trinity. Tired of this war, tired of fighting. I'm tired of the ship, being cold, eating the same goddamn goop everyday.

5Cypher OtherQuotesQuotes

Cypher
Cypher: Good shit, huh? It's good for two things: degreasing engines and killing brain cells.



3Morpheus OtherQuotesQuotes

Morpheus
Morpheus: This is the world that you know. The world as it was at the end of the twentieth century. It exists now only as part of a neural-interactive simulation that we call the Matrix.



3Morpheus OtherQuotesQuotes

Morpheus
Morpheus: You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.



3Morpheus OtherQuotesQuotes

Morpheus
Morpheus: You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind.



3Morpheus OtherQuotesQuotes

Morpheus
Morpheus: You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up. Ironically, that's not far from the truth.



3Morpheus OtherQuotesQuotes

Morpheus
Morpheus: What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.



3Morpheus OtherQuotesQuotes

Morpheus
Morpheus: Welcome to the desert of the real.



3Morpheus OtherQuotesQuotes

Morpheus
Morpheus: Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.



3MorpheusOtherQuotesQuotes

Morpheus
Morpheus: There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.

4Morpheus OtherQuotesQuotes

Morpheus
Morpheus: Come on, Stop trying to hit me and hit me!



3Morpheus OtherQuotesQuotes

Morpheus
Morpheus: What is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, taste, and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.



3MorpheusOtherQuotesQuotes

Morpheus
Morpheus: I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it.

4Morpheus OtherQuotesQuotes

Morpheus
Morpheus: I imagine that right now you're feeling a bit like Alice, tumbling down the rabbit hole.



3Morpheus OtherQuotesQuotes

Morpheus
Morpheus: Do you believe that my being stronger or faster has anything to do with my muscles in this place? Do you think that's air you're breathing now?



3Mouse OtherQuotesQuotes

Mouse
Mouse: To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.



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4Neo OtherQuotesQuotes

Neo
Neo: Yeah. Well, that sounds like a pretty good deal. But I think I may have a better one. How about, I give you the finger, and you give me my phone call.



3Neo OtherQuotesQuotes

Neo
Neo: I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid. afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules or controls, borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.



3Neo OtherQuotesQuotes

Neo
Neo: I know kung fu.



3Neo & Morpheus OtherQuotesQuotes

Neo & Morpheus
Neo: Right now we're inside a computer program?
Morpheus: Is it really so hard to believe? Your clothes are different. The plugs in your body are gone. Your hair has changed. Your appearance now is what we call Residual Self-image. It is the mental projection of your digital self.



3Spoon Boy OtherQuotesQuotes

Spoon Boy
Spoon Boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead. only try to realize the truth. There is no spoon. Then you'll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.



3Tank OtherQuotesQuotes

Tank
Tank: Believe it or not, you piece of shit, you're still gonna burn!

4Trinity OtherQuotesQuotes

Trinity
Trinity: I know why you're here, Neo. I know what you've been doing. why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit by your computer. You're looking for him. I know because I was once looking for the same thing. And when he found me, he told me I wasn't really looking for him. I was looking for an answer. It's the question that drives us. It's the question that brought you here. You know the question, just as I did.



3Trinity OtherQuotesQuotes

Trinity
Trinity: The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to.



3Trinity OtherQuotesQuotes

Trinity
Trinity: Dodge this.



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