OK, so there were actually lots of unofficial mysteries surrounding the blockbuster trilogy.
Like, was Keanu Reeves acting like that on purpose or just having a laugh? Or, did the script actually make one single tiny iota of sense? Or even, why did the films get so dramatically worse as they went along?
However, one proper official mystery has always surrounded the Matrix code.
Remember all those green symbols running down the screen? The man who created them has finally explained what they mean and the answer is more mind-blowing than the idea that the (undeniably talented) Wachowski’s will ever make an entirely coherent film (or TV series).
It will take more than a blue and red pill to make sense of most of it but British production designer Simon White just cooked up an incredible revelation.
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He has worked on the Harry Potter movies and is currently helping craft The Lego Ninjago Movie but in a chat with CNET he dropped the biggest bombshell when he spilled the secret behind that Matrix code.
It is seriously inspired by his Japanese wife’s love of cooking – and by sushi, in particular.
Well, this is the Matrix, what did you expect?
The movies may have broken new ground with the incedible visuals and ground-breaking fight sequences, but the entire pseudo-spiritual mumbo-jumbo behind it all was hard to swallow.
Unlike sushi, which always goes down a treat and is the brilliant inspiration behind the code.
White explained: “I like to tell everybody that The Matrix’s code is made out of Japanese sushi recipes. Without that code, there is no Matrix.”
Of course, being the Matrix, it’s possible that nothing is as it appears and the cheeky chap is having some fun at fans’ expense.
However, sushi recipes seem far more profound and satsfying than a typical comment from the Architect like: “Some of my answers you will understand, and some of them you will not. Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.”
We’ll take six tuna maki rolls, six shrimp nigiri and some salmon sashimi, please, Neo…