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Synopsis: Thomas A. Anderson is a man living two lives. By day he is an average computer programmer and by night a hacker known as Neo. Neo has always questioned his reality, but the truth is far beyond his imagination. Neo finds himself targeted by the police when he is contacted by Morpheus, a legendary computer hacker branded a terrorist by the government. Morpheus awakens Neo to the real world, a ravaged wasteland where most of humanity have been captured by a race of machines that live off of the humans' body heat and electrochemical energy and who imprison their minds within an artificial reality known as the Matrix. As a rebel against the machines, Neo must return to the Matrix and confront the agents: super-powerful computer programs devoted to snuffing out Neo and the entire human rebellion.
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  Won 4 Oscars. Another 34 wins & 48 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.7
Metacritic:
73
Rotten Tomatoes:
87%
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Year:
1999
136 min
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THE MATRIX - Rev. 3/9/98 6.

7 INT. HALL 7

She bursts out of the room as Agent Brown enters thehall, leading another unit of police. Trinity races tothe opposite end, exiting through a broken window ontothe fire escape.

8 EXT. FIRE ESCAPE 8

In the alley below, Trinity sees Agent Smith staring ather. She can only go up.

9 EXT. ROOF 9

On the roof, Trinity is running as Agent Brown rises overthe parapet, leading the cops in pursuit.

Trinity begins to jump from one roof to the next, hermovements so clean, gliding in and out of each jump,

contrasted to the wild jumps of the cops.

Agent Brown, however, has the same unnatural grace.

The roof falls away into a wide back alley. The next

building is over 40 feet away, but Trinity's face isperfectly calm, staring at some point beyond the other roof.

COP:

That's it, we got her now.

The cops slow, realizing they are about to see somethingugly as Trinity drives at the edge, launching herselfinto the air.

From above, the ground seems to flow beneath her as shehangs in flight, then hits, somersaulting up, stillrunning hard.

COP:

Jesus Christ -- that's impossible!

They stare, slack-jawed, as Agent Brown duplicates the moveexactly, landing, rolling over a shoulder up onto one knee.

It is a dizzying chase up and over the dark plateauedlandscape of rooftops and sheer cliffs of brick. Ahead,

she sees her only chance, 50 feet beyond the point whereher path drops away into a paved chasm, there is!-

10 EXT. WINDOW 10

A yellow glow in the midst of a dark brick building.

Trinity zeros in on it, running as hard as she can and -(

CONTINUED)

7.

10 CONTINUED:
10

Hurtles herself into the empty night space, her bodyleveling into a dive. She falls, arms covering her headas the whole world seems to spin on its axis -A10

INT. BACK STAIRWELL A10

And she crashes with an EXPLOSION of GLASS and WOOD, then

falls onto a back stairwell, tumbling, bouncing downstairs bleeding, broken -But

still alive.

She wheels on the smashed opening above, her guninstantly in her hand, trained, waiting for Agent Brownbut is met by only a slight WIND that HISSES against thefanged maw of broken glass.

Trinity tries to move. Everything hurts.

TRINITY:

Get up, Trinity. You're fine.

Get up -- just get up!

She stands and limps down the rest of the stairs.

11 EXT. STREET 11

Trinity emerges from the shadows of an alley and, at theend of the block, in a pool of white street light, shesees it!-The

telephone booth.

Obviously hurt, she starts down the concrete walk,

focusing in completely, her pace quickening, as the PHONEbegins to RING.

Across the street, a garbage truck suddenly u-turns, it'sTIRES SCREAMING as it accelerates. Trinity sees theheadlights of the truck arcing at the telephone booth asif taking aim.

Gritting through the pain, she races the truck, slamminginto the booth, the headlights blindingly bright, bearingdown on the box of Plexiglas just as -She

answers the phone.

There is a frozen instant of silence before the hulkingmass of dark metal lurches up onto the sidewalk -(

CONTINUED)

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Lana Wachowski (formerly Laurence "Larry" Wachowski, born June 21, 1965) and Lilly Wachowski (formerly Andrew Paul "Andy" Wachowski, born December 29, 1967) are sibling American film directors, screenwriters, and producers. They are both openly transgender women. Known together professionally as The Wachowskis and formerly as The Wachowski Brothers, the pair made their directing debut in 1996 with Bound, and reached fame with their second film The Matrix (1999), a major box office success for which they won the Saturn Award for Best Director. They wrote and directed its two sequels: The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions (both in 2003), and were deeply involved in the writing and production of other works in the franchise. more…

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