The sequence depicts Cypher covertly meeting Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) at a restaurant in the Matrix.
In another amusing twist, the prop steaks utilized for the scene were not even real steaks.
Its time to look back at the steakhouse scene inThe Matrix.
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It was star Keanu Reeves who lobbied hardest to keep the scene intact.
I said: ‘Well, tell him to get the f*** over it.
He’s in 99 percent of the movie.’
When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth–the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.
They just started laughing because they realized I hadnt read it."
We’re gonna have some fun with that!'
Pantoliano explained, “When we broke for lunch, a lot of people were eating those leftover steaks.
When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth–the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.
They must have had a hundred of them!”
It also looks like ignorance was bliss for the crew members enjoying the leftover prop steaks.
The scene can be viewed as a broader commentary on human nature.
I was blissfully ignorant in those days.
I always found that to be funny."
The Matrixis anall-time sci-fi classic, and its difficult to imagine the final film without this amazing scene.
The wonderful acting by Weaving and Pantoliano creates a brilliant scene that enhancesthe film’s broader themes and plot.
