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Keymaker
The Keymaker is a fictional character, portrayed by Korean-American actor Randall Duk Kim, in the 2003 film ''The Matrix Reloaded''. He is a computer program that can create shortcut commands, physically represented as keys, which can be used by other programs to gain quick access to various areas within the simulated reality of the Matrix. He appears as an elderly, bespectacled Korean man dressed in a button-down shirt, smock, and an apron hung with bunches of keys. Backstory and role The Keymaker is an "Exile", a program whose usefulness has come to an end and that has chosen to hide in the Matrix rather than be deleted. The Oracle tells Neo that he will need the Keymaker's help in order to reach the Source, the machine mainframe; however, he is being held captive by a dangerous Exile known as the Merovingian. Neo, Morpheus, and Trinity are rebuffed when they demand that the Merovingian release the Keymaker, but his wife Persephone betrays him and takes them to where the Keym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Matrix Reloaded
''The Matrix Reloaded'' is a 2003 American science-fiction action film written and directed by the Wachowskis. It is a sequel to ''The Matrix'' (1999) and the second installment in the ''Matrix'' film series. The film stars Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving and Gloria Foster who reprise their roles from the previous film, while Jada Pinkett Smith was introduced in the cast. The film premiered on May 7, 2003, in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, and had its worldwide release by Warner Bros. Pictures on May 15, 2003, including a screening out of competition at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. The video game ''Enter the Matrix'' and ''The Animatrix'', a collection of short animations, supported and expanded the film's story. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, although most felt it inferior to the first film. It grossed $741.8 million worldwide, breaking '' Terminator 2: Judgment Day''s record and becoming the highest-grossin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randall Duk Kim
Randall Duk Kim (born September 24, 1943) is an American stage, film, and television actor. Life Kim was born and raised in Hawaii. He is married to actress and fellow American Players Theatre co-founder, Anne Occhiogrosso. Career Theater Kim began doing theater when he was 18 years old. He has portrayed a wide variety of roles on the stage, focusing upon Western classical works, including Shakespeare, Chekhov, Ibsen and Molière. He has spent most of his career in theater. Kim starred in the first play written by an Asian American to be produced professionally in New York, ''The Chickencoop Chinaman'' by Frank Chin, which was mounted by The American Place Theatre in 1972. Kim co-founded the American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin with Anne Occhiogrosso and Charles Bright in 1977. He was the theater's artistic director. In 1974, Kim starred in Chin's second play, ''The Year of the Dragon''. Also that year, he became one of the first Asian-American actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enter The Matrix
''Enter the Matrix'' is a 2003 action-adventure video game developed by Shiny Entertainment and published by Infogrames under the Atari brand name. It was the first game based on ''The Matrix'' film series. Its story is concurrent with that of the film ''The Matrix Reloaded'' and features over an hour of original footage, written and directed by the Wachowskis and starring the cast of the films, produced for the game. Released in May 2003, the same month as ''The Matrix Reloaded'', ''Enter the Matrix'' was simultaneously produced with ''The Matrix Reloaded'' and ''The Matrix Revolutions''. While it received mixed reviews from critics, the game sold 5 million copies as of May 2004. Gameplay ''Enter the Matrix'' gives players control of two of the supporting characters from ''Reloaded'' and ''Revolutions'', Ghost ( Anthony Wong) and Niobe (Jada Pinkett Smith), members of the same group of rebels as Morpheus, Trinity, and Neo, the protagonists of the series. Niobe is the Captai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neo (The Matrix)
Neo (born as Thomas A. Anderson, also known as The One, an anagram for Neo) is a fictional character and the protagonist of ''The Matrix (franchise), The Matrix'' franchise, created by the Wachowskis. He was portrayed as a cybercriminal and computer programmer by Keanu Reeves in the films, as well as having a cameo in ''The Animatrix'' short film ''Kid's Story''. Andrew Bowen provided Neo's voice in ''The Matrix: Path of Neo''. In 2021, Reeves reprised his role in ''The Matrix Resurrections'' with what Vulture.com, ''Vulture'' calls "his signature John Wick (character), John Wick look". In 2008, Neo was selected by ''Empire (magazine), Empire'' as the 68th Greatest Movie Character of All Time... Neo is also an anagram of "one", a reference to his destiny of being ''The One'' who would bring peace. There are claims that Neo (nightclub), a nightclub in Chicago inspired the name of the character. Neo is considered to be a superhero. Fictional character biography Thomas A. Anderso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twins (The Matrix)
The Twins (played by identical twins: Neil and Adrian Rayment) are fictional characters in the 2003 film ''The Matrix Reloaded''. Henchmen of the Merovingian, they are "Exiles", or rogue programs believed to be older versions of Agents from a previous iteration of the Matrix. The Twins have the power of intangibility: they can take on a translucent state in which they pass through physical objects such as floors or gunfire, float through the air, and instantly reset any physical damage to their bodies or clothing. They are also the 'ghosts' the Oracle explains while talking to Neo before the 'Burly Brawl'. In other words, their abilities as programs were still usable in exile. Story The Twins are first seen with the Merovingian smoking a hookah in his restaurant in ''The Matrix Reloaded''. They smirk at the fact that neither Trinity, nor Morpheus, nor Neo appear to have the same intellect as does the Merovingian. The Twins rarely speak, but when they do so, it is with a slow-p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trinity (The Matrix)
Trinity is a fictional character in the ''Matrix'' franchise. She is portrayed by Carrie-Anne Moss in the films. In the gameplay segments of ''Path of Neo'', she is voiced by Jennifer Hale. Trinity first appears in the 1999 film ''The Matrix''. Character overview Like the series' other main characters, Trinity is a computer programmer and a hacker who has escaped from the Matrix, a sophisticated computer program where most humans are imprisoned. Though few specifics are revealed about her previous life inside the Matrix, it is told that she cracked a database so secure that she is famous among hackers, and that Morpheus, one of a number of real-world hovercraft commanders, initially identified her and helped her escape from the program. At the beginning of the series, she is first mate on Morpheus' ''Nebuchadnezzar'' and serves mainly as a go-between for him and the individuals he wishes to free from the Matrix. As the series progresses, her primary importance as a character bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merovingian (The Matrix)
This is a list of characters from ''The Matrix'' franchise universe. Many of the characters listed here have names reflecting certain aspects of them, such as their status, personality, or role. Introduced in ''The Matrix'' Apoc Apoc (played by Julian Arahanga) is a crew member of the ''Nebuchadnezzar'' in ''The Matrix''. He is murdered by Cypher when the latter forcibly unplugs Apoc's connection to the Matrix in the real world, killing him instantly. Agent Brown and Agent Jones Choi and DuJour Choi (played by Marc Gray) is assumedly a bluepill who appears in the first movie buying illegal software from Neo, for which Choi pays $2,000 in cash. Choi, his latex-clad girlfriend DuJour (played by Ada Nicodemou), and several unnamed and unspeaking friends arrive at Neo's door after he had been mysteriously told to "follow the white rabbit" through his computer. When Neo notices that Dujour has a tattoo of a white rabbit on the back of her left shoulder, he accepts their offer to g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agent (The Matrix)
Agents are a group of characters in the fictional universe of ''The Matrix'' franchise. They are guardians within the computer-generated world of the Matrix, protecting it from anyone or anything (most often Redpills) that could reveal it as a false reality or threaten it in any other way. Agents also hunt down and terminate any rogue programs, such as The Keymaker, which no longer serve a purpose to the overall Machine objective. They are sentient computer programs disguised as human government agents, physically appearing as human but with a tendency to speak and act in highly precise and mechanical ways. A notable individual Agent is Agent Smith, played by Hugo Weaving. He is introduced alongside his colleagues Agents Jones ( Robert Taylor) and Brown ( Paul Goddard) in the first ''The Matrix'' film in 1999. Other Agent characters have appeared in various media adaptations of the ''Matrix'' franchise. Physical aspects Agents appear in the guise of human government agents,Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matrix (fictional Universe)
''The Matrix'' is an American media franchise consisting of four feature films, beginning with ''The Matrix'' (1999) and continuing with three sequels, ''The Matrix Reloaded'', ''The Matrix Revolutions'' (both 2003), and ''The Matrix Resurrections'' (2021). The first three films were written and directed by The Wachowskis and produced by Joel Silver. The screenplay for the fourth film was written by David Mitchell and Aleksandar Hemon, was directed by Lana Wachowski, and was produced by Grant Hill, James McTeigue, and Lana Wachowski. The franchise is owned by Warner Bros., which distributed the films along with Village Roadshow Pictures. The latter, along with Silver Pictures, are the two production companies that worked on the first three films. The series features a cyberpunk story of the technological fall of humanity, in which the creation of artificial intelligence led the way to a race of self-aware machines that imprisoned mankind in a virtual reality system—the Matr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agent Smith
Agent Smith (later simply Smith) is a fictional Character (arts), character and the main antagonist of The Matrix (franchise), ''The Matrix'' franchise. He was primarily portrayed by Hugo Weaving in the first trilogy of films and voiced by Christopher Corey Smith in ''The Matrix: Path of Neo'' (2005), with Ian Bliss and Gideon Emery playing his human form, Bane, in the films and ''Path of Neo'' respectively. He also makes a Cameo appearance, cameo in the anime film ''The Animatrix'' (2003), voiced by Matt McKenzie. Jonathan Groff and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II portray Smith in ''The Matrix Resurrections'' (2021), the latter playing Morpheus (The Matrix), Morpheus in a dual role. In 2008, Agent Smith was selected by ''Empire Magazine'' as the 84th Greatest Movie Character of All Time. In 2013, Weaving reprised the role for a General Electric advertisement. He is considered to be the archenemy of Neo (The Matrix), Neo who is the main protagonist of the story. Overview Smith began as an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persephone (The Matrix)
Persephone is a fictional character in ''The Matrix'' franchise. She is portrayed by Monica Bellucci. In the films ''The Matrix Reloaded'' and ''The Matrix Revolutions'', Persephone is the wife of the Merovingian. She seems bored with her existence in the Matrix, and is dissatisfied with her husband (possibly because of his constant infidelities). Films In ''The Matrix Reloaded'', Persephone meets Neo, Trinity and Morpheus when they come to talk with The Merovingian, her husband. Though her husband declines to help the human resistance, Persephone is sexually attracted to Neo and offers to help him if he kisses her with the same passion with which he has kissed Trinity. Reluctantly, he complies and she helps him free the Keymaker. Later, she kills one of her husband's employees. In ''The Matrix Revolutions'', Persephone warns the Merovingian that Trinity would indeed kill everyone in Club Hel to free Neo from the Train Station, simply because she is in love. This suggests that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morpheus (The Matrix)
Morpheus () is a fictional character in ''The Matrix'' franchise. He is portrayed by Laurence Fishburne in the first three films, and in the video game '' The Matrix: Path of Neo'', where he was the only original actor to reprise his character's voice. In ''The Matrix Resurrections'', an AI program based on him is portrayed by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. Concept and creation Lana and Lilly Wachowski, the creators of ''The Matrix'' franchise, instructed Fishburne to base his performance on Morpheus, a character in Neil Gaiman's comic book series ''The Sandman''. At the studio's request, Gaiman later wrote "Goliath", a promotional short story set in the film's universe. The name Morpheus is that of the god of dreams in Greek mythology, which is consistent with the character's involvement with the "dreaming" of the Matrix. The mythical Morpheus and his family, including two brothers (Phobetor and Phantasos), lived in a dream world protected by the Gates of Morpheus with two monsters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
