Editing The Matrix (section)

===Filmmaking===
Following ''The Matrix'', films made abundant use of slow motion, spinning cameras, and, often, the [[bullet time]] effect of a character freezing or slowing down and the camera dollying around them.<ref name="Lane City of God">{{Cite magazine |last=Lane |first=Anthony |author-link=Anthony Lane |date=January 20, 2003 |title=The Current Cinema: Trouble in the Streets |url=https://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/01/20/030120crci_cinema |access-date=December 4, 2012 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |quote=What I think of as the "Matrix" shot, a lone figure frozen while the camera circles around him, has travelled quickly from novelty to cliché, but Meirelles just about keeps it alive by using it to track the passage of time. |archive-date=December 12, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212135218/http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/01/20/030120crci_cinema |url-status=live }}</ref> The ability to slow down time enough to distinguish the motion of bullets was used as a central gameplay mechanic of several video games, including ''[[Max Payne (video game)|Max Payne]]'', in which the feature was explicitly referred to as "bullet time".<ref name="Influence BBC"/><ref>{{Cite book |title=Max Payne: Official Police Dossier (game manual) |year=2001 |series=PC CD ROM version |page=19 |chapter=The Game World: Bullet Time |quote=When pressed into a tight spot, Max can activate Bullet Time, which will slow the action around him, while allowing him to aim his weapons in real-time. This ... even allows Max to dodge oncoming bullets.}}</ref><!-- although the game went into production before the film was released.{{citation needed|date=December 2012}} --> It was also the defining game mechanic of the game ''[[Superhot]]'' and its sequels. ''The Matrix''{{'}}s signature special effect, and other aspects of the film, have been [[parody|parodied]] numerous times,<ref name="Influence EW2"/> in comedy films such as ''[[Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo]]'' (1999),<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=May 26, 2000 |title=Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo |url=https://www.gamesradar.com/au/deuce-bigalow-male-gigolo-review/ |url-status=live |magazine=Total Film |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210909233538/https://www.gamesradar.com/au/deuce-bigalow-male-gigolo-review/ |archive-date=September 9, 2021 |access-date=September 10, 2021 }}</ref> ''[[Scary Movie]]'' (2000),<ref>{{cite web |last=Dinning, Mark |date=January 2000 |title=Scary Movie |url=https://www.empireonline.com/reviews/ReviewComplete.asp?FID=6152 |access-date=December 26, 2012 |website=[[Empire (magazine)|Empire Online]] |publisher=[[Bauer Media Group|Bauer Consumer Media]] |archive-date=May 26, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130526073857/http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/ReviewComplete.asp?FID=6152 |url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[Shrek]]'' (2001),<ref name="Influence BBC"/> ''[[Kung Pow! Enter the Fist]]'' (2002),<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Schwarzbaum |first=Lisa |date=January 30, 2002 |title=Kung Pow!: Enter the Fist |url=https://ew.com/article/2002/01/30/kung-pow-enter-fist/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200218005415/https://ew.com/article/2002/01/30/kung-pow-enter-fist/ |archive-date=February 18, 2020 |access-date=September 10, 2021 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |publisher=Time Warner }}</ref> ''[[Lastikman (2003 film)|Lastikman]]'' (2003); ''[[Marx Reloaded]]'' in which the relationship between Neo and Morpheus is represented as an imaginary encounter between [[Karl Marx]] and [[Leon Trotsky]];<ref>{{cite web|last=Korsic|first=Nemanja|date=May 26, 2011|title=Marx Enters the Matrix|url=https://greekleftreview.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/marx-enters-the-matrix/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150418182415/https://greekleftreview.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/marx-enters-the-matrix/|archive-date=April 18, 2015|access-date=September 10, 2021|website=Greek Left Project}}</ref> <!-- in animated TV series such as ''[[The Simpsons]]'',{{citation needed|date=December 2012}} ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]''{{citation needed|date=December 2012}} and ''[[Family Guy]]'';{{citation needed|date=December 2012}} in the [[Original video animation|OVA]] series ''[[FLCL]]'';{{citation needed|date=December 2012}} --> and in video games such as ''[[Conker's Bad Fur Day]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Casamassina |first=Matt |date=March 2, 2001 |title=Conker's Bad Fur Day |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2001/03/03/conkers-bad-fur-day |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130222032943/http://www.ign.com/articles/2001/03/03/conkers-bad-fur-day |archive-date=February 22, 2013 |access-date=December 30, 2012 |website=[[IGN]] }}</ref> It also inspired films featuring a black-clad hero, a sexy yet deadly heroine, and bullets ripping slowly through the air;<ref name="Influence EW2"/> these included ''[[Charlie's Angels (2000 film)|Charlie's Angels]]'' (2000) featuring [[Cameron Diaz]] floating through the air while the cameras flo-mo around her; ''[[Equilibrium (film)|Equilibrium]]'' (2002), starring [[Christian Bale]], whose character wore long black leather coats like Reeves' Neo;<ref name="Influence BBC"/> ''[[Night Watch (2004 film)|Night Watch]]'' (2004), a [[Russia]]n megahit heavily influenced by ''The Matrix'' and directed by [[Timur Bekmambetov]], who later made ''[[Wanted (2008 film)|Wanted]]'' (2008), which also features bullets ripping through air; and ''[[Inception]]'' (2010), which centers on a team of sharply dressed rogues who are able to enter other people's dreams by "wiring in". The original ''[[Tron]]'' (1982) paved the way for ''The Matrix'', and ''The Matrix'', in turn, inspired [[Disney]] to make its own Matrix with a ''Tron'' sequel, ''[[Tron: Legacy]]'' (2010).<ref name="Influence EW">{{cite magazine |last=Vary |first=Adam |date=April 1, 2011 |title='The Matrix': A Groundbreaking Cyberthriller |url=https://ew.com/article/2011/04/01/matrix-groundbreaking-cyberthriller/ |access-date=June 7, 2020 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |archive-date=June 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200607190138/https://ew.com/article/2011/04/01/matrix-groundbreaking-cyberthriller/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Also, the film's lobby shootout sequence was recreated in the 2002 Indian action comedy ''[[Awara Paagal Deewana]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=20 Years Of 'The Matrix': 5 Times Bollywood Got Inspired By It |date=March 31, 2019 |url=https://www.news18.com/news/movies/20-years-of-the-matrix-5-times-bollywood-got-inspired-by-it-2083183.html |website=[[News18]] |access-date=May 17, 2019 |archive-date=April 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401134943/https://www.news18.com/news/movies/20-years-of-the-matrix-5-times-bollywood-got-inspired-by-it-2083183.html |url-status=live }}</ref>