The Matrix Reloaded - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[kenneth]

Jada Pinkett Smith was nine months pregnant when she received a call from her agent informing her that she was being considered for a part in the films.

[kristina]

During Neo's encounter with the Architect, if you're able to use subtitles, you can see Neo's alter egos displayed on the screens make the following outbursts: "You can't control me!" "I'm going to smash you to bits!" "I'm going to fucking kill you!" "You can't make me do anything you Old White Prick!"

[ray]

Monica Bellucci and Keanu Reeves previously co-starred in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992).

[albert]

The marble floors and columns, plus many other seemingly expensive textured surfaces were actually printed on "grand format" printers and with a scuff- and UV-resistant coating. A number of back-lit surfaces (such as the "amber" elements in the Merovengian's restaurant) were also printed, but on a translucent material.

[oscar]

The Ship referred to as the Hammer is labeled (and actually named) Mjolnir, a difficult name to pronounce. This explains why nobody calls it by its real name. Mjolnir is the name for the famous Hammer of Thor, the Nordic God of Thunder.

[camila]

Only a few of the Smith clones were actually played by Hugo Weaving. Open casting calls for males with similar body shapes and structures took place, and Weaving's head was superimposed on them later.

[brent]

Gina Torres plays Cas, the widow of Dozer (Anthony Ray Parker), one of Morpheus' (Laurence Fishburne) crew members in The Matrix (1999). Torres and Fishburn were married at the time that the movie was made.

[kyle]

During the freeway chase, the police radio dispatcher calls "1-Adam-12, please respond." (at around one minute). This was the call sign of the police cruiser in the television series Adam-12 (1968).

[gabriel]

The fight sequence of Neo versus Smith and his clones (a.k.a. The Burly Brawl) took 27 days to shoot.

[cassandra]

Trinity uses a genuine hack to get into the power stations computers. She uses Nmap version 2.54BETA25 (a real port scanning tool used by both network administrators and hackers alike) to find a vulnerable SSH server, and then proceeds to exploit it using the SSH1 CRC32 exploit from 2001.

[alyssa]

The special effects cost one hundred million dollars.

[steve]

GM donated three hundred cars for use in the production of the movie. All three hundred were wrecked by the end.

[tom]

The script for the movie (while in production) was code-named "The Burly Man". The Burly Man is the title of the script Barton Fink is working on in the film Barton Fink (1991). While shooting the freeway sequence, the directors watched rushes in a vehicle referred to by the crew, as the "Burly Van".

[albert]

The freeway exit sign (the one listing Whipple Ave., Woodside Rd., and Marsh Rd.) passed during the freeway chase, is the same sign that you would pass on the real-life U.S. Highway 101, if you had just left the headquarters of Oracle Corporation, and were heading southbound on U.S. Highway 101.

[jessica]

There are 1,943 names in the credits.

[ella]

In the fight with the three agents at the beginning of the film, Neo kicks one of the agents into the lamppost made by Darrow Industries, a reference to the Matrix films' Conceptual Designer, Geofrey Darrow.

[gabriel]

The idea of all programs being born from The Source, an entity of pure light, and returning there after their purpose is fulfilled, is a philosophy borrowed from the Hindu belief in Brahma, who in Hindu mythology, is a god composed of pure life energy. This god created all things, and it is man's destiny to return to Brahmand after his or her destiny is fulfilled.