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The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]

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Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]

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Post by Melatonic »

globular-toast wrote: post #68
aranchelk wrote: post #61

It’s wild how much the green color grading used in the film made the daytime location shots look un-Californian.

There's actually a bit of a controversy over what the original film actually looked like. There are 35mm scans out there with no colour grading at all (e.g. https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ow1KDYc9XsE ). Some people claim it never had the green and it was added later for the DVDs. The sequels definitely had it but turned up to 11. Trouble is nobody can really remember what they saw in the cinema in 1999 and there's a bit…

I saw an original 35mm print at Cinespia somewhat recently and it's definitely not the green tint. That was added later.

The original look was a bleach bypass film process which was very colourful with blown highlights. There should be quite a bit of info on this online I would think.

Coolest part of this whole experience is that the Cinespia venue is at the Hollywood Forever in LA - it's a giant old cemetery with a huge lawn and massive screen. During the final scenes when Neo is about to fight Agent Smith in the rain it actually starts raining in real life (obviously rare for Los Angeles). People started leaving but I thought it was pretty damn amazing.

Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]

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Post by protocolture »

wkat4242 wrote: post #110
protocolture wrote: post #42

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I was in Sydneys chinatown a few years back and above one of the restaurants I could see into a burnt out old apartment building that 100% reminded me of the matrix. I doubt it would have been too hard to find.

Oh when I was there 24 years ago Chinatown wasn't all that bad. We often went to eat there, or go to paddy's market (which was not quite in chinatown but on the edge of it). It was also the only "ethnic town" that actually felt like one. "Koreatown" and "Thai town" were just normal CBD streets with maybe one or two massage parlors. I think those names were invented more for publicity than anything. I wish I could go…

Yeah, at street level I couldnt fault the place. But having done a lot of wireless engineering I have a tendency to look up, and the places were like 5th storey and above. Shattered windows, burnt out interiors that sort of thing.

Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]

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Post by throwaway422432 »

Wololooo wrote: post #82
magarnicle wrote: post #33

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You have to go a long way to get to the "outback" from Sydney, though Hollywood has other ideas. I laughed in Mission Impossible 2 when they set up their base in the desert for their operation in Sydney Harbour. Just a short 500km (at least) helicopter ride away.

You remind me of a movie that I can't remember the name off but it was a low budget American spy movie that was shot in Europe through European subsidies targeted at getting work in Europe for cinema crews. One shot is supposedly happening in an American city, but it's shot somewhere in Brussels, where they discuss people hiding, then you got a transition shot where now they are supposed to be thousands of km away wi…

That can make for a very weird viewing experience.

"Oddball" was filmed in an Australian town I grew up in. There was a chase scene that combined and compressed multiple locations. In one particular scene you are looking at an extra with a backdrop of part of the main street, but the location he is looking at (supposedly directly across the road) is actually about 1/2km away.

Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]

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Post by DidYaWipe »

wkat4242 wrote: post #108
DidYaWipe wrote: post #52

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The real Heart O' the City Hotel is in Chicago, like the rest of the place names in the movie (although the real name is Heart O' Chicago). The Wachowskis wanted to film there, but Major Daley (historic asshole and scumbag, in case you're not familiar) wouldn't let them. I can't remember what the rationale was, but then of course two Batman movies shot there. The hotel: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29…

Yeah I even know of that guy. The guy that destroyed Meigs field :'( I got my pilot's license later and if it hadn't been gone I would have loved to do a few circuits there. I'm surprised they wanted to pretend it was Chicago though. There's many well-known landmarks featured prominently like the AWA tower.

Yeah there was no excuse for it. Daley lied repeatedly about his motivation. The real story? That's where downstate politicians flew in, and to spite them he destroyed the coolest GA airport in the country. Meigs was the default starting point for MS Flight Simulator for its entire existence until then.

We're about to see a similar crime now in Santa Monica. This time a lame-duck outgoing FAA administrator, Michael Huerta, struck an illegal back-room deal with the corrupt Santa Monica city council to let them seize and destroy the airport after 2028... if citizens let them get away with it.

Meanwhile, in the Matrix they weren't pretending that it was Chicago. They just kept the street names and so forth in the script when they called for extraction. They're all pretty well-known streets in Chicago. I was looking for a list, when I found something I didn't know: Neo's name came from the club where I had the first shot I really enjoyed (a Kamikaze). There's a timestamp for ya: https://www.reddit.com/r/chicago/comments/cf0uv3/til_neo_fro...

Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]

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Post by keepamovin »

keepamovin wrote: post #55
tetris11 wrote: post #35

I was hoping to see the subway location, but I guess this was just a set piece

No, that subway was definitely real as well, on what used to be the city circular line. The guy missed a few of the locations such as the Oracle apartment, which is actually an apartment building in Redfern.

Just a meta comment here: I really like how we’re discussing in these threads whether the locations of the film the matrix are real or fabrications ha ha ha ha

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Post by keepamovin »

keepamovin wrote: post #54
causality0 wrote: post #51

I love these types of videos. The ones for Jurassic Park and Jaws are also good. The problem with this type of content is that nobody has the time or money to do more than a couple of these videos so the body of work is spread over hundreds of different creators, making it next to impossible to find and watch a significant fraction of what's out there.

There’s some really good ones for Terminator one and two as well. It’s fantastic to see the locations in Los Angeles and California. Different channel.

This one: https://youtu.be/i1xPujRzWks?si=bmIBjlA-9GYDaOEM

And for the OG: https://youtu.be/C8BC0VuF8Ys?si=E8VRiGht-guW_DUC

Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]

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Post by BobbyTables2 »

overfeed wrote: post #104
globular-toast wrote: post #70

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I feel like hardly anyone even know that a fourth exists, let alone seen it. Didn't it come out during COVID? I watched it because I had a home cinema at the time. The thing I hated the most was how it looked more like a YouTube video than a movie. Something just wasn't right and made it feel very much like fanfiction. I've completely forgotten the story but remember it was unsurprising given the more recent developm…

> I've completely forgotten the story but remember it was unsurprising given the more recent developments of the Wachowskis. I think you mean recent developments at WB. The movie was a self-parody, describing in painful detail the demands from the studio for a sequel Matrix movi- er, "game", even when the creator was so over it.

Indeed. It was pretty much a parody — only not as funny as such usually are.

They should have went all the way and replaced Keanu Reeves with Charlie Sheen. At least Hot Shots had humor…

Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]

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Post by keepamovin »

keepamovin wrote: post #77
worthless-trash wrote: post #67

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I thought that was a set, the green tiles in the kitchen and the green walls had made me think she was 'more machine' than the other characters. The room/lobby with the Aboriginal man at the bottom of the lift, was that the same location ? https://imgur.com/a/original-seraph-0igD2aP <-- this scene.

Yes, the lift lobby is an actual location. I’ve been there. It’s in Redfern if I recall correctly. I can’t speak to what the apartment interior was who knows?

Although saying that I appreciate your deep reading of the film to correlate the green tiles in the kitchen as indication the oracle was more machine than something else. Or at least more part of the system. This is interesting and I think a great deep reading of it.

At the same time I also recall multiple older style kitchens that I’ve been in while growing up or renting in my early 20s that in Australia had these kind of green tiles in the kitchen. It’s quite a popular aesthetic there.

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