Carrie-Anne Moss played Liz Teel in the TV series "Matrix" (1993).
When Trinity leaps from one house to the next (in the beginning of the movie), an advertisement saying "GUNS" can be seen on the second building. The gun pictured in the ad is exactly of the same model as the guns used by all agents during the film.
In the movie Higher Learning (1995), Laurence Fishburne's first sentence was: "Welcome to the real world."
Cypher is a play on the name Lucifer - the devil.
When Neo is calling to get extracted from the Matrix, he says, "Mr. Wizard get me out of here," a reference to the 1960's cartoon Tooter Turtle.
The glyphs on the computer screens, with the exception of the call traces, consists of reversed letters, numbers, and Japanese characters.
All of the references to street corners are real intersections in Chicago, USA, the Wachowski brothers' hometown. The subway train has signs for "Loop," another Chicago reference. The film as you know is not set in Chicago or any other real city (it was filmed in Sydney though).
Neo produces a computer disk from a book titled "Simulacra and Simulation," an actual work of critical theory that deals with issues of what is "real" and what is "simulation or simulacra."
Inside the Nebuchadnezzar there is a brief shot of a plaque with the ship's name, above which it says "Mark 3 no. 11." The Biblical verse Mark 3:11 is, "And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out saying, `You are the Son of God.'"
Check out the room numbers for Trinity and Neo. When the cops bust in on Trinity in the opening scene the number is 303 ("trinity," 3) and since Neo is The One the number of his apartment is 101.
When Neo is meeting with the Oracle, the music playing in the background in her apartment is Duke Ellington's "I'm Beginning to See the Light," a reference to Neo's continued awakening.
Names of people and objects have historical significance, all related to dreams and illusions. For example, "Morpheus" was named for the Greek god of sleep and dreams; and "Nebuchadnezzar" (hovercraft in film) was a biblical king who was visited by troubling dreams.
Neo is an anagram for One.
Anderson means "Son of Man," as Jesus is often called.
The name Thomas means "twin", but the apostle Thomas also had the epithet "the Doubter." So "Thomas Anderson" could be interpreted as "the doubting Son of Man."
Matrix, Trinity, Morpheus, 303 and 101 are all models of music synthesizer.
All of the good guys (Morpheus, Trinty, Neo...) in the movie wear round or oval sunglasses. All of the bad guys (the agents, Cypher) wear square or rectangular sunglasses.
The license plate number of the Agents' car is 70858.
Wondering about the choral music in the trailer for The Matrix? Well it´s the song "The Eyes of Truth" by Enigma. You can find the song on the cd "The Cross of Changes."
