»can someone explain the importance to the sun glasses«

Sorry if this has already been explained, but i have looked everywhere and not found any answer.

Can someone PLEASE explain to be what the importance of the sunglasses are. Neo, Trinity, Morpheous, The Agents, Seraph, The Twins all where sun glasses...whats the go with that.

the sunglasses are one of the most important things in the movie. they are special instruments designed to keep excess sunlight out and prevent the dust from damaging your fragile eye-balls. now for the next question : why does everyone shoes? why cant they go around bare-footed? there must be some symbolic meaning

yeah its to keep the dust out of their eyes. But, personally i think its just a matter of looking cool. that is my opinion at least. it's a movie what do you expect?

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yeah its to keep the dust out of their eyes. But, personally i think its just a matter of looking cool.

just kidding, dont take my last post seriously. we all are pretty sure that they're kung-fu fashionistas.

but i've wondered too... could it be to show that they're all blind? in a symbolic sense? at the end, neo-smith doesnt have sunglasses...

Ya that was a good one Ralph. I don't really think that the sunglasses are important. They were just there to make the fight scenes and the wardrobe look good.

Thats my 2 testicles.

Hey! I said `my two testicles', not `my two testicles'

WTF?

Akshat Gupta wrote:

Hey! I said `my two testicles', not `my two testicles'

I got so fed up with this idiom, that it is changed automatically to "These are my 2 testicles". I think it's just fair

ralph_angelus wrote:

they are special instruments designed to keep excess sunlight out and prevent the dust from damaging your fragile eye-balls.

BUT:
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the sunglasses are one of the most important things in the movie. they are special instruments designed to keep excess sunlight out and prevent the dust from damaging your fragile eye-balls. now for the next question : why does everyone shoes? why cant they go around bare-footed? there must be some symbolic meaning

That's hystarical. Good one.

They wear sunglasses because the real world is a lot darker (as you'll notice when you watch the movies) than the Matrix. The Matrix has sunlight and bright colors (mostly green, I might add). But the real world is mostly underground, and above ground there is no sun because the humans blackened out the sky. So when the revolutionists go from the dark-earthy-feeling real world to the bright-false Matrix, it obviously hurts their eyes. Here's a bit of proof from one of the Final 1997 Matrix script.

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The door opens and for the first time since his release, Neo steps back into the Matrix. He squints at the sun which seems unnaturally bright. He is the only one without sunglasses.

You see this in the final Matrix too. He squints.
If you mean why are they specialized, that would be because they now have the freedom to wear anything they want. Of course their not going to go to the nearest Sunglasses Shack they see and buy a pair. Notice that their clothes are different from everyone else's too. That's because now, thanks to the construct, (

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It is our loading program. We can load anything from clothes, to weapons, to training simulations. Anything we need.

), then can now express themselves completely.

Ok, it has nothing to do with "expressing yourself" by using the loading program. It's the residual self image that makes them look the way they do in the Matrix. As for the sunglasses, I don't think they serve a real purpose. It's just another form of product placement, another form of control (lol). And, if you noticed in Revolutions, there's Powerade posters all over in the train station the trainman gets chased in. Kinda lame, but whatever sells.

There's you have to realise about the wachowski brothers. It wasn't so true in the first movie (which is strange because that's when you would think they would really need the money), but in the last two movies it is certainly true.

They are complete and total advertising whores!

I mean it!

First movie -
Nokia
(are the sunglasses a certain brand here?)

Second movie -
Samsung (I even have Samsung written on the equipment with which sparks talks to me in the game for goodness sake!)

Powerade

Cars (can't remember which ones but they are placed!)

Oh and you can bet your buckaroo the sunglasses are well and truly branded here!

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They are complete and total advertising whores!

That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. :nono: Whores? This isn't a Jr. High school, you realize. :whatnow:

1. In the first movie, the sunglasses do not have brands. They were specially made for the production, and I doubt that anyone would be dumb enough to put brandnames on them.
2. The game was a humongus jib, from what I hear. Don't count on 90% of the things they have in there to be acurate. Do they show them in the movies? Where? (this actually would make a good blooper in to post, but you should really look carefully. I've never seen any equipment brands in reloaded)
3. Cars: That would be because GM donated 300 cars for the production of Matrix Reloaded. All 300 were destroyed by the end. So I agree with you on that one, because even the POLICE CARS were GM veicles. But I don't really think that was for advirtising sake, I think it was because the W. Brothers were eager to take any donations they could get. In a sense, I think that the GM donation was purposely done FOR advirtisement, but I don't think that it was accepted for advirtisement reasons.
4. Powerade: Not much to say on that, I don't really ever remember powerade being there. Which movie?

Buy the DVD. If you look at the second disc it spends about a quarter of an hour explaining all the different sponsorship and advertising in the movie.

As for the samsung phones they are all over the place in reloaded. They had that special phone designed specially for the movie and only samsung sell it. Sunglasses don't have to have a brand written on them. They didn't have a brandname written on them in Men In Black either, but that didn't stop Ray Ban sponsoring it. They simply have to be able to say "we're in the matrix movie" on all their posters.

I don't see why "advertsing whores" is such a bad term. It seems like a pretty accurate description.

I have it, and I've seen that, but I think that was more because people WANTED to buy the phone, and then they found out it didn't exist. Samsung took on the challange.

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Its just to let the viewer know that they are in the Matrix.
same with their clothes, nothing really special, just giving you an idea that they are creating what they want to look like.

why kick butt looking like a begger from Zion?

Uni wrote:

why kick butt looking like a begger from Zion?

i like that

This is probably way off, but I think that the sunglasses might have something to do with the whole "your eyes are like a window to your soul" deal. Perhaps it's to dide something within them, and not just thier eyes. Which is possibly why Neo doesn't wear them in the final fight with Smith in revolutions, he's not hiding anythig anymore. Just a thought.

Good thought. Laurence Fishburne said that he took off his glasses purposely in the fight with Agent Brown on the semi in Reloaded because he wanted Morpheus' face to be more expressive.

they wanna look kool thats what i think.

its a "matrix" theme hehe

Here's another possible explanation for the sunglasses in the Matrix. You will note they reflect a good deal. Firstly sunglasses have been used often to hide something. Perhaps like a mask. Sort of like saying the Matrix is'nt real like the personas we develop to mask our true selves and feelings. Secondly in psychology in relation to the shadow, people we meet reflect something of ourselves back to us. Some lost part of ourselves. Opposites mostly, but sometimes sameness. Just something more to add to the pot.

there's nothing to discuss. the Shades(sunglasses) are there just to make them look COOL. its as simple as that.
the emoticon for cool wears shades.

Puh-lease. They didn't put anything in the movie that had no meanin.If it had no purpose it wouldn't be there. Think about all of the time they spent on graffiti and stuff that only freaks like us would pause and rewind for hours on end to find and think about in smart-people forums....

but... they're just sunglasses for a 'matrix' type of theme... well if everything has a meaning in the movie... then wat meaning do the clothing they wear have?

what is the meaning of the brand of car trinity used on the highway chase scene in M2?

Is there a meaning for trinity if she seems to always use Beretta pistols?

Was is the meaning for the twin to use a UMP to shoot trinity's car?

What is the meaning of watever the merovingian was eating while making his deal with morpheus, trinity and seraph in M3?

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Yes I am interested in the clothing, also the colour. Why was Neo wearing a cassock? My dictionary's description of the cassock is 'an ankle length garment, usually black, worn by Christian priests.' Also why when they all first took Neo to see the Oracle in the first movie, did Switch wear all white, whilst the others were in all black. White is usually associated with purity, whilst black is usually associated with darkness.