It’s wild how much the green color grading used in the film made the daytime location shots look un-Californian.
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]
#62Seeing the movie as a kid I totally expect it to be filmed in New York, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver, but Sydney never crossed my mind since the shots looks too "North America" to be anything else. Probably because in my mind Sydney is a beach with the opera house and an outback with kangaroos and giant spiders.
That's why Sydney was so popular. The CBD has a really American feel but prices and wages are Australian. Fox studios had a huge campus there. Not sure if they still do.
It's now Disney Studios (https://disneystudiosaustralia.com/) after Disney's acquisition of Fox. There's 9 large sound stages. A large amount of movies are filmed there.
The lease of the land at the time was controversial.
> The rental was $2 million, payable over 40 years. However, the payment date was not specified, and the deal proceeded with an initial $1 per annum peppercorn rental, in return for which the government was obliged to spend $75-80 million on site works for the benefit of Fox
Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry man, there never was a second “Matrix” nor a third.
what about the fourth with the gender bend twist? I guess the meme is older than the fourth movie, but I rarely see it even get mentioned let alone memefied. I guess less people would know tetralogy instead of trilogy, at least, I had to look up what a series of 4 would be.
I'm totally going to watch the fifth one when it comes out but fully expect to be heavily disappointed.
Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]
#64Seeing the movie as a kid I totally expect it to be filmed in New York, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver, but Sydney never crossed my mind since the shots looks too "North America" to be anything else. Probably because in my mind Sydney is a beach with the opera house and an outback with kangaroos and giant spiders.
When I visited Sydney, it felt like NYC with LA weather and cars on the wrong side of the road.
I knew it was filmed there, but hadn't put together that it was filmed around the corner from where I stayed, and I walked by multiple filming locations.
Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]
#65Seeing the movie as a kid I totally expect it to be filmed in New York, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver, but Sydney never crossed my mind since the shots looks too "North America" to be anything else. Probably because in my mind Sydney is a beach with the opera house and an outback with kangaroos and giant spiders.
That's why Sydney was so popular. The CBD has a really American feel but prices and wages are Australian. Fox studios had a huge campus there. Not sure if they still do.
Paramount also used to have a presence there.
Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]
#66Seeing the movie as a kid I totally expect it to be filmed in New York, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver, but Sydney never crossed my mind since the shots looks too "North America" to be anything else. Probably because in my mind Sydney is a beach with the opera house and an outback with kangaroos and giant spiders.
Neo fights giant Kangaroo Smith
i would watch neo nazi vs kangaroo fight.
Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]
#67I 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.
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.
Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]
#68It’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 of Mandela effect going on thanks to retroactive grading and sequels.
Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]
#69Man, I loved this.
Re: The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry man, there never was a second “Matrix” nor a third.
what about the fourth with the gender bend twist? I guess the meme is older than the fourth movie, but I rarely see it even get mentioned let alone memefied. I guess less people would know tetralogy instead of trilogy, at least, I had to look up what a series of 4 would be.
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 developments of the Wachowskis.