Other than Keanu Reeves dodging bullets in slow-motion or Laurence Fishburne waxing poetic about the sham nature of our perceived reality, is there anything more iconic from The Matrix films (airing ...

The film's code designer, Simon Whiteley, reportedly created the effect by scanning characters from his wife's Japanese cookbooks.

The 1999 sci-fi action film, ‘The Matrix’, is still regarded as one of the best and most visually stunning movies of all time. If you remember, the film featured a cascading green code that rained ...

Simon Whiteley, the production designer behind the code, has said he used his wife's Japanese cookbooks to help create the design. In early 2026, social media users circulated a claim that the iconic ...