While Simon Whiteley, the production designer behind the code, claims to have used his wife's Japanese cookbooks to help create the design ... What's False ... the Japanese characters were mixed with ...

The green, falling digital code depicted as rain in the film "The Matrix" consisted of Japanese sushi recipes. Rating: What's True: While Simon Whiteley, the production designer behind the code, ...

While Simon Whiteley, the production designer behind the code, claims to have used his wife's Japanese cookbooks to help create the design ... What's False: ... the Japanese characters were mixed with ...

THE MATRIX has guarded its biggest mystery until now. What was all that indecipherable green code running down the screen. Did it hold the secrets to the very essence of reality itself? Apparently not ...

Part of what made The Matrix such a great film was its attention to detail. The special effects were revolutionary for their time, and the production includes so many small elements underlining the ...

Among the many things that The Matrix launched into the pop-culture lexicon—the notion that we’re all living in a vast simulation, “bullet-time” action, Hugo Weaving—one of the most immediate was its ...

Whiteley is a production and art designer who was tasked with the design of ‘The Matrix’ and that included the code you see all over the film. Whiteley is currently out on a press tour promoting his ...

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