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‘The Matrix’ Changed Everything, but the Little Details Made It Even Greater

#TheMatrix, #AgentSmith, #Cypher, #Neo, #Trinity, #Morpheus, #RedPillBluePill,  Beyond blue pill or red pill and bullet time, here are the smaller elements of the 1999 sci-fi action movie that helped make it an enduring classic. These are some of the stories that come up when you search for articles about The Matrix on the internet: How The Matrix Changed Movies Forever; The Matrix Is the Movie That Changed Everything; How The Matrix Changed the Rules for Action Movies; Neo’s Stunt Guy Chad Stahelski on How The Matrix Changed Movie Action Forever; Six Ways The Matrix Changed Hollywood. There are more, of course, but the point is clear: The Matrix, a philosophy movie disguised as an action movie about a computer programmer who learns that machines run the world and everyone is asleep inside of a digital simulation, changed movie things irrevocably. Let’s do here what we did with Good Will Hunting: Rather than go through and reiterate all of the big things that The Matrix wa