to the guy in the beginning to whom he is selling an illegal disk and his worry of getting caught shows through. In the end, he became the cocky hero as he dawned the black suit, sunglasses, and a set of guns. This turned him into our action hero. Morpheus is the next character of major importance. He takes on a likeness of the well-loved Yoda from Star Wars. This is because Morpheus is the wise man who has the most experience and knows what’s going on, what needs done, and how to do it. Morpheus’ use of expert power to lead this group shows his willingness to do what’s best to benefit the others, even at the cost of his own life. Our next character is Trinity. She is the rough and tough female who certainly doesn’t care about breaking a nail. This woman acts in such a self-sufficient and heroic manner that the audience could assume that she is the main character in the first few minutes of the movie. She talks and acts like a “tough guy” while presenting a very feminine body. The ways in which she shows her body, along with her acting, presents her as America’s tough girl, to be idled along with the hero. The Agents are the dark forces of the A.I. computers that work against all the efforts of our hero and his little band that battle to stop them. They are dark complex characters with the ability to alter the matrix and hinder, or kill, the group of humans trying to stop them. Their unemotional faces and voices add to their dark tone and mood. Cipher is another important character due to the fact the he was fighting for the cause of rescuing humanity, but turns traitor and gives in his friends just so he can go back to his little taste of non-reality. His evil and conniving attitudes are foreshadowed on a few occasions when some of his true personality shows through. One example would be the scene where Neo and Cipher are sitting at the computer terminals in the ship and Cipher starts prying in...
