At the begining of every Matrix film comes one of the most easily recognizable visuals in the film's franchise—the falling green code. Fans of the movies have often wondered, what does the code mean?

The world was a whole lot simpler back in 1999 – the economy was doing fine, MTV played music, and the Matrix was much less ridiculous without all that weird pseudo-philosophy from the sequels.

The Matrix’s iconic title sequences are made up of falling “digital rain”, which, upon closer inspection, was actually thousands of lines of binary code. Until now, I always assumed this code must ...

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While Simon Whiteley, the production designer behind the code, claims to have used his wife's Japanese cookbooks to help create the design ... What's False ... the Japanese characters were mixed with ...

Millions are eager to return to the story of Keanu Reeves' Neo as the fourth instalment of The Matrix hits cinemas next week. Bullets that defy gravity and time, code falling like rain down the screen ...

Other than Keanu Reeves dodging bullets in slow-motion or Laurence Fishburne waxing poetic about the sham nature of our perceived reality, is there anything more iconic from The Matrix films (airing ...

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