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Blue Pill reveals pictures from a different MATRIX 2 location! Click and collect them all!
Hey folks, Harry here... So now we've seen the production move from the open air streets, to the Weber Street tube in downtown Oakland.... This time we had the Blue Pill, itself, taking images for us... He/she/it blended and merged straight into the fence surrounding the set itself. As you can tell, he was freely able to just shift his location at will... Ahhhhh, AICN spies are like Matrix Agents mixed with Darkman.... They are everyone and noone, the teeming masses of wide open eyes... And they rule.... Here ya go....
Hi,
I'm attaching some images I shot while watching the filming of Matrix 2 on the morning of March 29th at the Weber Street tube in downtown Oakland. I arrived at the scene just as they were about to film a sequence in which the silver Cadillac was being chased by the silver dreadlock dudes in their black Cadillac truck (which was being followed by about 4 or 5 fake police cars). As security seriously tightened right before the scene was shot, I was not able to capture any images while the scene was being shot. But what I did capture was taken immediately before and after the scene. The scene I saw may have been the same one that Burlyman described, because I saw the silver Cad make a right turn (heading toward the exit of the pillar area under I-880) and crash into something. There was a loud crashing sound, and I saw sparks flying. I thought this was part of the scene, but Burlyman makes it sound like this was an "accident". However, Burlyman was describing a "basement level parking garage" scene. There were cars parked in this area, but it was an area under I-880 near the Weber tube entrance.
Anyway, here are the images. There are 13 in all, so it looks like I'll need to send 4 additional messages.
Blue Pill
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by this rate in five years it will be impossible to keep a film's secrets
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"A forty foot Twinkie. Now that's a big Twinkie."
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Wow,I loved the 1st Matrix movie dearly, but right now I'm a bit concerned. I mean, the Cadillac looks awesome, a car chase/crash scene would be sweet, but Silver Virii with Dreadlocks? Whoa... Well, I guess we'll all have to just trust the W brothers. Right now, It looks and sounds pretty lame, but....hey....two years ago if someone was talking about a new movie starring Keanu Reeves where he fights against computer programs using kung fu...well I would have smiled and nodded. The photos are great close ups, a little blurred, but still pretty damn good. Keep up the great spy work while you still can. Oh yeah, and Talkbackers try NOT to turn this into a Star Wars Vs. Matrix battle...it's just scary and wrong....
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...I bet Harry's really pissing a lot of people off at Warner Bros. I guess this time he won't get to be pampered, huh?
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so many pics, keep up the good work guys
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Oh, Gordy! Hope! Hope!
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Christopher Lambert has reprised his Mortal Kombat role as the Thunder God chasing after Trinity and Morpheus! Okay, seriously, I think it's great we're getting all these pics from the set. I'm sure Harry's going to get Security wound up real tight over these. Now, if you'll excuse me, Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown is coming on, so I need to kill myself.
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Apr 01, 2001 2:35:38 PM CDT
I Would Like To Re-Ignite The Debate Over Which Is Better...
by buzz maverik
...Yes, The Beatles or The Stones?
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"S...A...T...U...R...D...A...Y..
NIGHT!" Whooo-hooo! Light for peace! -
...but the agents from the first film would have looked like lame MIB's if I hadn't seen them in the context of the film. I know the "wait to you see it in the film" excuse gets old (green goblin costume anyone?) but it does hold true in some cases. But as for the M:I2 reference, I never did buy cruise and the bike even in the film. Of course, by the time that seen came, I was overwelmed by the awfulness of it all and the obvious overdone super-spyizing of the Hunt character anyway, and over-all laugh-ability of iut all... and I wasn't the only one laughing. It was like Charlies Angels though of it self as serious.
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Harry, these Matrix 2 pics are the best scoops you've had in a LONG time!! BTW, doesn't that silver guy look like Christopher Lambert complete with TERL dreads??
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Apr 01, 2001 5:12:43 PM CDT
I dunno... I keep waiting for the virus brothers to start singin
by llghtst0rmer
Just playing. I think it'll be cool. Of course, I pity the Wachowskis if they misstep with this movie OR number 3. Hell hath no fury like fanboys diappointed. And I gotta agree with... was it Seth? MI:2 was such a poor waste of prime-rate celluloid. To think that film could have been used to shoot something more meaningful... like an educational piece on those high-tech urinal motion-detectors. Now that would have been worth it. Lightstormer out.
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To those that are looking at these and other recent photos and proclaiming the movie to suck, consider this:
Would you have ever though Hugo Weaving could be menacing if all you had seen of him was an out-of-focus picture in 1997?
Would you have ever thought Keanu Reeves would actually work in a good scifi movie after his work in Johnny Mnemonic?
Just keep this in mind when you're looking at this - it's hard to judge a design, let alone a movie - from a few blurry stills taken with a cheap camera. -
Something about these pics is odd. Very nice pictures by the way. But, why the picture of a sign for Highway 101? That highway is on the other side of the Bay. So is this sign a prop for the movie? If so, that seems a bit odd. On one hand, nice reference to the world of binary code. On the other hand since there is an actual Highway 101 that spans the state of California it becomes a real world reference for millions of people. Minor detail I know, but the picture had me puzzled. Oh yeah, and it's the Webster Tube where filming took place. Loved the pic of the guy yawning while with Laurence Fishburne(?).
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I am sooooo happy that the scoopers are working overtime on this one! Shit, the movie has only been filming there for a week, and already we have some great shots that are enough to keep us pumped up until the next movie comes out, but not enough to be spoilers. Just a couple of questions though: 1. Is that Lawrence Fishburn's stunt double in that shot (he seems slimmer faced) and 2. What exactly 'is' the release date of the second installment? Half of the posters in here refer to this film coming out in Summer 2002 (the original plan) but I have read in a couple of places that it has been pushed back to Xmas 2002. Anyone have a definitive answer? Oh, please don't hyperlink to IMDB as proof, that site is great and all, but half of the shit is wrong for upcoming films. I think they still have Nicolas Cage listed as the next Superman, with Kevin Smith directing. But, getting back to topic...this movie is going to rock!!! I am soooo pumped for the first trailer....Neo kung-fuing some dreadlocked Christopher Lambert agent through a fucking wall in bullet time. Wooohooo!
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Whoever that is in the picture with the yawning crew member, they're channeling Walter Kovacs quite well!
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Apr 01, 2001 7:59:53 PM CDT
Gee, them "Matrix" folks sure got some nifty set securty, huh?
by darth taun taun
Where's Sean Penn when you need someone to bust the intruding eye of the camera? (I also hear Tommy Lee is free...)
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Apr 01, 2001 8:10:22 PM CDT
So far, this reports look like one new add campaign for Cadilla
by intrigue_m26
Well, just take a look at the pics on both reports and read the descriptions and think..... this movie is just one giant ad campaign ( probably Super Bowl material ) for selling cars. I mean so far they have given me more info on cars than on the movie itself. So who is bankrolling this movie? Motor Trend? Car and Driver? Cadillac? Consumer Reports? So could someone please post some pics of Keanu Reeves smoking a cigarette in a director's chair, Carrie doing a crossword puzzle, or even laurence Fishburne talking onhis cell phone..... while their stunt doubles do 60% of the work.
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Sweet Merciful FUCK!!! This movie gets lamer everyday, guess they ran out of ideas to steal. Can't keep using John Woos black longcoat and shades forever now can we, so we'll get some rastifarians, spray them with fake snow and put them in Puff Daddys trashcan suit wardrobe, BRILLIANT!!!
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. . . Do you see Neo anywhere in those pics? No, just Morpheus and Trinity, right? Actually, I was hoping that Matrix 2 & 3 would take place OUTSIDE the Matrix, since Neo has superpowers in there. Then again, maybe he's not all that powerfull? I thought that at the end of Part One, Neo flew up into the sky and collapsed the Matrix or something. Maybe that's not within his power? Maybe I should go lay down before I give myself an anurism?
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cuz you know Star Wars would win. ;P
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but, Silver colored? Dreadlocks? What if those weird lookin'guys are the human equivalent of the Sentinals? They may look idiotic NOW, but on film they'll probably morph and do all sorts of cool stuff. Plus, take into condideration the different look the MAtrix had in terms of lighting and coloring... These guys will most likely look completely different in the finished film. I don't think its fair to judge what we're going to see on the screen based on some crappy internet pics. I trust the W Brothers, I think this movie will be AWESOME.
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If those silver guys are supposed to be virii, why the fuck are they using guns? Agents used guns so why rehash the first movie??? Virii can alter programs and should be able to change the Matrix like Neo can, so using guns makes no fucking sense.
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everyone seems to be speculating about these 'white' guys with dreads. what about this scenario.....they could possibly be a 'virus'? there is plenty of story to tell and options to explore with this angle so it seems most plausible to me.
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. . . um, consider it pondered. (Where have you been?)
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This is how you get all the Matrix fans started up. Most are geeks who just wait for the next talkback comment to come up and then start bashing up on it. Post up a few candid shots of morpheus and trinity and don't get me started with neo, and then one guy just bites your head off just cuz he doesn't agree with you and then there's name calling and someone already started the whole debate about Matrix vs. Star Wars. Peace....go find out what happens with when you mix bleach with ammonia. Go flying like Neo.
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My thoughts exactly--just before I took the shot. I was staring at that sign thinking, "Does 101 come up here...no, that would be San Francisco." Then when I saw that it said "Interstate" right above 101 (sorry, too fuzzy in the image), that was a dead-giveaway that this sign was indeed a prop. There was a smaller Interstate 101 sign on the left side of the entrance, but I didn't have a clear shot of that one. May be hard to tell in the image, but the green color of the sign was a bit different from the typical CA highway sign--wasn't quite as bright and looked a little washed out.
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"Is that Lawrence Fishburn's stunt double in that shot (he seems slimmer faced)?"
I believe it is a stunt-double. When I snapped this shot, I thought it might be the real Laurence Fishburne, because there was already a stunt-double sitting in the silver Cad waiting to do the next scene. But I later read that both Fishburne and Carrie-Anne Moss have 2 stunt-doubles each on the set. Even before reading that, a second look at my photos made me think that the one in the photo didn't look quite like Fishburne--he looked more like the other double! (I'd submit the other double's photo, but it's a blurry side-profile shot) -
Apr 03, 2001 12:35:43 AM CDT
Re: Damn, is that a silhouette of Morpheus or of RORSCHACH?
by bluepill99
"Whoever that is in the picture with the yawning crew member, they're channeling Walter Kovacs quite well!"
Notice that he's wearing one of the Dreadlock Dudes' trenchcoats. Maybe he's actually a cast member that just looks like some ordinary Joe-dude, but he actually has Neo-like powers and took both the Dreadlock Dudes on and stole their coats.
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its Harry Lennix....now scurry off to imdb so you can figure out who he is........haha
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any pix are great pix - thanx for the hard work...now please go and take some more and put us out of our blurred, desperate misery. i mean, what can they do to you if they catch you? seal your mouth shut with skin? insert a weird scorpion into you (which Trinity can remove...)? spank you soundly and send you home to Harry? just wish i was there to help instead of stuck in miserable wet u.k., relying on you for MORE PHOTOS. please. please. please.
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