How long did the opening action scene from The Matrix take to shoot?
I'm the kind of person who always takes a moment whenever they're holding a spoon, just to see if, you know, there is no spoon.
Turns out there always is a spoon, but that doesn't really ruin my enjoyment of 1999's The Matrix, one of those rare movies that somehow did something totally new even though now it seems totally obvious. That's because it was the first one to break through with this concept, and beyond the technical advances of the film it's a movie that has left indelible marks on our culture.
When you get down to the nitty-gritty of how it was made, it gets even more interesting. Like that opening scene, where Trinity basically beats up on some hapless cops and runs around on walls. It's what, a couple of minutes of screen time?
But how long did it take to actually shoot?
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Correct Answer: Four days
The answer is: Four days. The iconic opening action scene to The Matrix took four days to film and required six months of training. There’s an urban legend that the Wachowskis spent their entire initial $10 million budget to get the opening right, but that’s not true. They did, however, show an unfinished version of the scene to nervous studio executives to convince them that this expensive weird movie would look incredible when it was put together. It worked.Source
And yeah, we won't leave you hangin'.
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