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In the Matrix when the helicopter crashes into the glass and causes the ripple effect why does this happen?? My mate says its what happens to real glass when something hits it hard like that but I pointed out that it (ie in real life) shatters... Whats the deal?? Does anyone know??
silverpenguin7
12-10-2001, 01:40
Originally posted by jamesking420
In the Matrix when the helicopter crashes into the glass and causes the ripple effect why does this happen?? My mate says its what happens to real glass when something hits it hard like that but I pointed out that it shattered... Whats the deal?? Does anyone know??
Hmmmmm......must fight urge to.......make....a......smart.....comment.......:D
But in all seriousness. I would like a few questions answered about the Matrix....
1) As above, why did the glass ripple, does this happen in real life?
2) Where can you buy the software they use that uploads new skills in to your brain? (like how to fight etc)
3) How much is it?
4) Is it really true that someone can move as fast as Keanu in the bullet time bits?
5) I would have thought it would take years of meditation to achieve skills like these? So did he begin training for the film years before??
:D ;) :D :p
1) No
2) Make a time machine and travel forward into the future by ooo about 50years.
3) Sell every organ in you body, sell you wife, house, kids and your soal to the devil and you might just enough money for a trial period. :D
4) Sure, all you have to do is take enough speed to make an elephant to do a tour of india in about an hour
5) :confused: suppose
well glass is technically a liquid so i'd have thought it was psooible.
Well I was always of the opinion the glass "rippled" because the smash took place "in the Matrix" i.e- our world.
A lot of things similiar to the rippling glass happen in the film, to kind of emphasis the fact that the Matrix isn't real.
Not just the way the characters manipulate their surroundings to their benifit (like the famous jump/freeze scene), but to show the matrix/our world really isn't real and and not just unreal as far as the central characters are concerned.
I know what I mean anyway, probably could have been summed up better:)
P.S I'm one hundred percent definite that glass doesn't really ripple like that when broken;)
Lenny Nero
12-10-2001, 07:34
Well it was hit hard and vibrations went throughout it and all around in expanding circle like it should in real life, only it was slo-mo'd in the film and a little exaggerated, but that's what happens. Only it's so quick and not so wavy that human eye doesnt detect.
I'm sure I heard on a documentary somewhere, that they researched types of glass cos they wanted a ripple in the film.
In the end they found one, but it didn't ripple enough, they used that glass but made the ripple more prominent using commodores 64's and the like.
Probably crap, I meant have dreamt it :D
dean richardson
12-10-2001, 11:17
not 100% on this, but after research i have found that the film "the Matrix" and is just a movie. :eek:
Also during this research i found that pod racers do not actually exist yet ;)
The only question that need asking about glass is why there is no beer left in mine :D
I have a question...
WHY does the movie have a really bad 'sleeping beauty' ending that pretty much kills it dead!?
I'm sure I heard on a documentary somewhere, that they researched types of glass cos they wanted a ripple in the film.
You are absolutely right on this.
There are certain types of glass, that are designed to be flexible, and that is the glass they used on the film.
Also, the scene where they're eating the slop stuff in their ship (right after you watch the traitor geezer eating steak - I'm no good with names), wouldn't it of been better if, when comparing the different foods and what tastes like each other they said something along the lines of 'what if frogs legs tasted like chicken' (apparently they DO) rather than 'what if cereal tastes like tuna' (which don't). That would also of reminded us of the fact that the Matrix is good but doesn't quite get it right...
Hmm... deep philisothy was never my thing...
Originally posted by jamesking420
Also, the scene where they're eating the slop stuff in their ship (right after you watch the traitor geezer eating steak - I'm no good with names), wouldn't it of been better if, when comparing the different foods and what tastes like each other they said something along the lines of 'what if frogs legs tasted like chicken' (apparently they DO) rather than 'what if cereal tastes like tuna' (which don't).
Hmm, I was under the impression that, what Mouse was saying was that perhaps the machines got the tastes of various foods wrong (when compared to what they tasted like in the real world) when they coded the Matrix. So what was coded into the matrix as "Tasty Wheat taste" is actually the taste of "tuna fish as found in the real world."
And there's no point in saying "I know what cereal tastes like, and it sure doesn't taste like tuna", because after all, what we call reality may very well actually be The Matrix, so tuna actually should taste something entirely different to what we reckon it tastes like ....
or something like that :D
Morpheus2000
12-10-2001, 21:42
Originally posted by jamesking420
In the Matrix when the helicopter crashes into the glass and causes the ripple effect why does this happen?? My mate says its what happens to real glass when something hits it hard like that but I pointed out that it (ie in real life) shatters... Whats the deal?? Does anyone know??
1) There is no Building!
2) There is no Glass!
3) There is no Helicopter!
It is not the spoon that bends, it is you!
Kit_Taylor
12-10-2001, 22:37
It was done to look cool, surely.
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