Keanu Reeves' The Matrix and sushi recipes have a strange connection
'The Matrix' might be your favourite film franchise and Keanu Reeves your favourite actor. However, there are chances that you don't know this interesting nugget about it.
In Short
- 'The Matrix' franchise began in 1999 with the first Matrix film.
- Keanu Reeves portrayed the main character of Neo Anderson.
- The franchise consists of four films in total.
Nearly 20 years ago, 'The Matrix: The Beginning' was released. The Wachowskis were willing to take their society-as-system metaphor quite literally, as evidenced by the usage of the green lines of code that represented the technological foundations of reality in the first film's finale. These lines of code became their iconic opening, much like the 'Star Wars' text scroll. Additionally, it gave rise to a zillion screensavers, with the black-and-green writing serving as a kind of enduring touchstone for cyberpunk imagery.
THE CODES IN THE MATRIX WERE SUSHI RECIPES
For years, the codes that you have been trying to decipher were not really codes. A few years back, the truth was laid bare. The iconic vertical green lines were actually sushi recipes -- yes, you read that right. The 'codes' were, in reality, recipes for some amazing sushi dishes. If you know Japanese and pay close attention, you'll notice that it's a cocktail mix of Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji characters. According to production designer Simon Whiteley, the source for the movie's title sequence was his wife's Japanese recipe book.
Whiteley said, "I like to tell everybody that The Matrix's code is made out of Japanese sushi recipes. Without that code, there is no Matrix."
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Before this revelation, we knew that those codes were a programming language of interactive neurostimulation in which humanity thinks it is living, but, instead, is trapped in incubators, used by 'machines' as a source of energy. That was tough to understand, right? Cinema knows its way of selling lies to us. Otherwise, who would believe that those codes were mere sushi recipes?
To sum up, all the time that Matrix fans or coding lovers spent on deciphering the code simply went to waste as they were nothing but random sushi recipes. So much for a film! Phew!