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The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations - Shot-for-Shot - Sydney,
Australia [video]
Author : keepamovin
Score : 28 points
Date : 2025-06-16 09:48 UTC (2 days ago)
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| FirmwareBurner wrote:
| Seeing the movie as a kid I totally expect it to be filmed in New
| York, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver, but Sydney never crossed my
| mind since the shots looks too "North America" to be anything
| else. Probably because in my mind Sydney is a beach with the
| opera house and an outback with kangaroos and giant spiders.
| keepamovin wrote:
| Heh :) Sydney downtown is very beautiful and very city vibe.
| FirmwareBurner wrote:
| Sounds like something a giant spider would say ;)
| keepamovin wrote:
| Ah yes us sydneyspiders - I mean Sydneysiders - we're
| always looking for delicious - I mean gullible - I mean
| curious tourists in Sydney, and their dollars. We really
| don't have enough hehehe! :)
| dylan604 wrote:
| Especially the sound of the crosswalk signals. Orbital
| introduced me to them in the 90s, so when I heard in person
| the first time I had a knowing smile and started to groove to
| the rest of the track that my brain filled in for me
| ajxs wrote:
| We call them 'pedestrian crossings' down under! It's been
| sampled in a few songs actually. The sound is so ingrained
| in our psyche that you recognise it instantly.
| dylan604 wrote:
| the only one ingrained deeper for is Blade Runner's "walk
| now"
| bitwize wrote:
| The one that really baked my noodle was seeing Melbourne play
| the role of Boston in _Knowing_ (2009), which it did fairly
| well if you don 't look too closely.
| keepamovin wrote:
| Like that film, but holy shit I did not know that was
| Melbourne! No way. Have to go back and watch. Classic Cage
| hahaha :)
|
| _also nice Matrix reference_
| wkat4242 wrote:
| That's why Sydney was so popular. The CBD has a really American
| feel but prices and wages are Australian. Fox studios had a
| huge campus there. Not sure if they still do.
| throwaway992673 wrote:
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_funnel-web_spider
|
| The males like to wander around aimlessly looking for mates.
| wkat4242 wrote:
| I'm surprised they used two real locations for the hotels. The
| "Heart O'The City" one at the very start, and the "Deja Vu"
| staircase.
|
| These hotels look really delapidated in the film. I thought they
| were studio sets. I wonder how they managed to make them look so
| bad, tbh with late 90s tech (green screen mostly and limited CGI)
| it sounds like it would have been simpler to just build a
| delapidated staircase in a studio than to make the actual thing
| look rotten.
| loloquwowndueo wrote:
| CGI was not as limited as you think in 1999. Look up films from
| that year and you'll see.
| comrade1234 wrote:
| I thought they filmed scenes in the east bay? Oakland maybe? I
| swear I met (biblically) girls back then in s.f. that had been in
| some rave scene.
| Drunk_Engineer wrote:
| That was the second one (Reloaded). Filmed in downtown Oakland
| and Alameda Naval air station.
| andrehacker wrote:
| Sorry man, there never was a second "Matrix" nor a third.
| to11mtm wrote:
| Eh... I feel like they have aged better over time than a
| lot of 'trilogies'. They do not measure up to the original
| but they aren't truly terrible, at least if you're looking
| at them from a more philosophical standpoint.
| dylan604 wrote:
| what about the fourth with the gender bend twist? I guess
| the meme is older than the fourth movie, but I rarely see
| it even get mentioned let alone memefied. I guess less
| people would know tetralogy instead of trilogy, at least, I
| had to look up what a series of 4 would be.
| echelon wrote:
| The first film was groundbreaking. It matched "Star Wars"
| and "Lord of the Rings" in terms of its cultural
| penetration. Unfortunately the series failed to live past
| that strong debut. The second and third films were a
| total letdown, and The Animatrix only appealed to a niche
| audience and was itself a mixed bag.
|
| The surprising and unsolicited fourth film had some
| promise in the first third of the film - I loved how it
| subverted expectations and was a meta deconstruction of
| the series itself. After the provocative and almost
| blasphemous setup, the film quickly devolved into poor
| action, weird pacing, and overall bad plot and character
| arcs. In a word, it felt senile. (The action shouldn't
| have been that bad with Keanu helming John Wick. It was
| just laziness.) The denouement was just same-y slop we
| see in every other dialed in action movie.
|
| If you haven't seen the fourth film, it's a bit of a mind
| fuck. But turn it off the minute the reveal is over. It
| isn't worth your time otherwise.
| loloquwowndueo wrote:
| Sorry, they are as canon as the phantom menace even if you
| don't like them (neither do I for that matter but hey, if
| these creators wanted to wreck their legacy who are we to
| stop them).
| chrisallick wrote:
| I remember being at the alameda skatepark and hearing them
| shoot the freeway scene where the twins are driving a mac
| truck and trinity comes to help.
| reassess_blind wrote:
| My favorite of these shot-for-shot style videos is how well Last
| of Us 2 recreated Seattle:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uukShs2qgCI
| ajxs wrote:
| Very cool! I knew all of them, except for the two hotel
| locations! Sydney's inner city has changed a lot in the
| intervening years. It's surreal revisiting that Castlereigh St
| shot in the film, and seeing how undeveloped it looks in
| comparison to today.
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