Everything that has a beginning...also
has an end...and also a reboot and some more sequels 20 years later.
Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show I'm your host Paul aka The One out
of Ten looks wise and in this video we're breaking down The Matrix 4 Resurrections.
Now normally when a film drops like this I do a big trailer breakdown
but I thought I'd change things up and do a video discussing way more about the
movie than what I typically tend to touch upon that gives context to the first looks.
This trailer was actually shown at Cinemacon and I was lucky enough to get sent a lot of info in
advance on not only the teaser but what's gonna be happening in the film. So big big breakdown
and in this video we'll be going over the story in general, what insiders have said
about the film and also some of the easter eggs and things you missed from the teasers.
What if I told you there will be Heavy Spoilers as some of these things might ruin some of
the surprises and reveals. If you don't want thing ruined then I recommend that you unplug
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With that out the way, thank you for clicking this, now let's enter the Matrix.
Ok so over the last couple of days we've had a lot of teases towards the film. Though a blue and red
pill video dropped on Tuesday that was announcing when the trailer was coming if you visited
the website it was possible to get two teasers that hinted towards what's coming in the film.
These first looks had Yahya Abdul-Mateen playing a young version of Morpheus
and he gave a similar speech to what he did in the first Matrix movie when he discussed reality
and how we must question everything around us. He brought up the time which was 6:27
and this random number could actually be a nod to Luke 6:27 from the bible.
If that's the case then it refers to the passage about how you should turn the other cheek
and it's rumoured that the humans and machines are actually working together in a lot of cases.
We see at one point him touching a mirror which
bends and twists much like the mirror scene in the first film.
This is later reflected...ey in another part when a gun comes out from the other
side of it making me think that mirrors are indeed portals and jump points within
the Matrix. The phrase through the looking glass was used heavily in the first film
and this is a nod to that carrying over to the trailers.
I think it's really interesting how the steam and water droplets on the
mirror look like the famous green coding that was everyone's screen saver in 1999
and I think these have been placed here on purpose to hint towards their importance.
Now a lot of people are confused over the timeline and how Morpheus
is younger when the other carry overs such as Trinity and Neo are actually the same
age. Take this with a big grain of salt but according to rumours surrounding the film
the real one died of old age and when Neo rebooted the Matrix he actually brought in a bootleg
copy of him that is what we see here. Similar to the characters in the film he will be someone who
questions his own reality and he will have to come to grips with being built into the simulation.
In the real world Niobe apparently is still alive
and she will have taken Morpheus' place as the leader of humanity.
At one point in the film he will fight Neo
in a Dojo that is heavily riffing upon the scene in the first film,
however Neo will be far more powerful and brutal than what we saw him doing in that film.
I think it is super smart by the creators to call back to the moments like this as they are
of course iconic and remind us exactly why we fell in love with the franchise in the first place.
Now as for Neo he will attend a lot of therapy sessions throughout the movie and we learn that
he actually erased his own memory but they come back to him through the form of flashbacks.
He will have two looks in the film, namely his quote unquote John Wick one
and also the completely shaven one that pops up in the pods.
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Neo has created a fake life for himself that he sedates with blue pills which of course call back
to the first film as it was in that that we saw these led someone away from escaping the Matrix.
Neo is a game developer that actually worked on a trilogy of games for Warner
Bros...called The Matrix.
This is super fourth wall breaking and it's a really fun thing that I think will add so
much to the movie. At one point in the trailer we see him taking the blue pills
and if you look in the mirror you'll see a much older reflection of him standing there.
This makes me think that his age is really gonna come into question here
and we'll learn he's way older than he appears. In the first film Switch was
actually meant to be a man in the real world and a woman in the Matrix and this was going
to show that you could really appear in the simulation exactly how you felt you looked.
I think by the looks of it that the movie will be tackling mental health themes and
highlighting people who question their reality and if there is indeed some legitimacy too it.
Just when I thought I'd finally settled on being Kevin Spoilers
this film is gonna make me question it all over again...yaaaay.
Throughout we're gonna watch him attend a lot of therapy sessions with a character
played by Neil Patrick Harris. This will be known as the Analyst and he's a super
intelligent machine that is responsible for bringing the humans and machines together.
Neo will be called Anderson, a call back to his name in the first film
and he'll also meet Trinity who is going under the name Tiffany. Though they don't have breakfast at
Tiffany's ey, the pair do come face to face at a coffee shop. This Deja Vu makes them begin
to remember their life before hand and Deja Vu was of course caused by a glitch in the Matrix.
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We can see in the trailer that the coffee shop is called Simulatte and it also has the green
colour that is associated with the Matrix code. Simulatte becomes simulate if you remove one T
and coffee is of course something that wakes you up when you're tired, perhaps hinting at
how Neo will wake up or perhaps the big reach in the video that you've all been waiting for.
Now if we look at the rumours, reports and behind the scenes info,
this coffee shop is supposed to be the jumping off point for a big action scene.
The Analyst is apparently studying Neo and he's doing this in order to
see if Trinity will remember Neo as it's at that point that he will become unstoppable.
When the pair realise that they do know one another this will send things spiraling out of
control and there'll be a massive action and chase scene in which the pair start to work together.
This will send them on a quest to uncover the truth about what's really going on
and during this time thye'll come across a character called Bugs,
played by Jessica Henrick. The movie is meant to open with her being chased by Agents
which of course riffs on the first film and how that started up.
Bugs and Morpheus will apparently work together to ressurect Neo
so that he can once more be the one. I have no idea why this needs to be done
if the humans are cool with the machines but obviously we need some conflict in the film
so my guess is that there are some rebels amongst the humans that want to rise up.
Now lastly the two big other characters that are returning are apparently the Merovingian
and Agent Smith. The latter will be played by Lambert Wilson once more
but Hugo Weaving will not be returning as the latter.
This has people speculating a lot over who could be portraying the iconic villain and judging by
the trailer I actually think that it's gonna be Jonathan Groff. You might know the actor from
Mindhunter and Hamilton and he definitely has the acting skills to pull off something like Smith.
There is a scene in which you can catch the character with his mouth sticking
together and I think it would be great if this was carried out by Neo. Smith of course did
the same thing to Neo in the first Matrix film and it would be a great switcheroo.
If Neo is indeed the creator of this brand new world that he doesn't know he built then it
makes a lot of sense that his subconscious would pull things into it.
This could include Smith who was of course a big part of the character's life,
death, rebirth, other death and now his resurection.
Now some of the miscallaneous easter eggs include what I initially thought was the Nebekenezza but
shoutouts Simon A. Burman on twitter for sending me through that it's actually the Mnemosyne.
This is named after the greek godess of memory
which of course ties into the overall theme of the film.
We also know that the pods will appear in the film as
well as several callbacks to what has come before.
There are Red and Blue pills a fight scene in which I believe that Agent Smith punches Neo
really fast which is of course a callback to their fight in the train station from the first movie.
You might also notice that there's somewhat of a green tint over the
top of the movie and this of course reflects when someone is in the Matrix
whereas in the real world the colours are more natural.
Or really blue sometimes...sometimes it's really blue.
Now whether this is true or not, I have been told that Trinity and Neo both rely
on each other in order to unlock their abilities. That's why the pair meeting
is so dangerous and it's also the reason that Neo can't fly when we first see him.
Overall it makes a lot of sense looking at this teaser and I
like the idea of them somewhat helping the other one to grow.
Now as for my thoughts on the trailer I tried to think about how I feel about
the trailer but it was only then that I realised the truth...that there is
no trailer. Now by that I mean there is a trailer and it's really good in my opinion.
A question you probably have is did I enjoy the Matrix trilogy and I'll
answer your question by saying that I was in high school when it came out,
so yeah, think pretty much every high schooler did.
I loved the first film and though I didn't initially like the second and third,
over the years I have come to appreciate what they were doing
in terms of telling a modern day Jesus story.
They of course have their faults but whatever they were they weren't enough to put me off
this first trailer and I am really sold on the movie at this point. I love that
it's reusing a lot of the previous iconography and it looks like it's
really breaking the fourth wall to make us question our own reality once more.
This did a great job of getting me hyped up for the film and December
is gonna be a great month with this and Spider-man No Way Home.
Now until then I'd love to hear your thoughts on
the trailer so make sure you comment below and let me know.
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With that out the way thank you for sitting through the video,
I’ve been Paul and I’ll see you next time. Take care, Peace