Star Wars is a saga so long and full of storiesmovies, series and more, which has had the opportunity to coexist over time with many other cultural phenomena of great impact, and has even taken references of works that preceded it -as is the case of the saga ‘Dune’– or has been taken freedom to make guides to films like the emblematic ‘Matrix’ of 1999.
And yes, you probably don’t knowbut George Lucas wanted pay your special tribute to the Wachowskis’ science fiction film, and he did it in a way that only the smartest have discovered.
This is the curious tribute in ‘Attack of the clones’ with which George Lucas paid tribute to ‘Matrix’
Give the coincidence that for the year 1999they met in the cinemas two very powerful premieres science fiction (and both very different, on the other hand). We are referring, obviously, to the first film of ‘Matrix’ written and directed by the sisters Wachowskiwhich was an unexpected surprise and a mass success, and at that time long awaited -although somewhat disappointing for many- ‘Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace’.
As we say, the two films They were box office hits. and as we know today, they had their own consequences. Three years later, the fans of the space pear of Lucas They will go to the cinemas again to see, this time, ‘Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones’a film that once again had little to do with ‘Matrix’except that for this film the filmmaker It occurred to him to include his own tribute to the cyberpunk dystopia of the Wachowskis.
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Matt Doran and Fiona Johnsontwo actors from ‘Matrix’they make cameos in ‘Attack of the clones’.
He did it, neither more nor less, than including two actors in a scene who had participated in ‘Matrix’although the moment is so brief and so subtle that has gone unnoticed by the vast majority of the public. However, so that Do not miss it The next time you see the movie, we are going to show it to you below:
You can see the specific scene in which Lucas left his particular guide to ‘The Matrix’ in the clip that we attach above these lines. Happens just over 20 minutes of the beginning of the film, and it is about that already mythical moment in which Obi-Wan Kenobiin the company of his Padawan Anakin Skywalker, They pass through a nightclub on Coruscant as they pursue bounty hunter Zam Wesell.
Right after entering the club, Kenobi and Anakin they decide to separate to search for his target. The teacher approaches the bar to have a drink and is then rebuked by a young man who offers him some pillsto which Kenobi rejects them with the classic Jedi mind control trick.
This particular character is the first wink from Lucas to ‘Matrix’since it is the actor Matt Doran who gives him life, the same one who in the Wachowskis film played the young mouse. But the thing doesn’t end here. Just a few seconds later, we see Anakin wandering among the people of the club, and for a short moment, the camera focuses on a very attractive woman who makes eye contact with the padawan.
This actress, for the most clueless, is Fiona Johnsonor what is the same, the interpreter who in ‘Matrix’ was known as “the woman in red”a computer program programmed to distract people in the virtual world that, curiously, had been created by Mouse himselfas the boy assured Neo.
The most interesting thing about the matter, and what makes it completely clear that this is a guide to ‘Matrix’is that Johnson’s role in the George Lucas film It turns out to be that of a certain Hayde Gofaia woman whose job is to look for potential partners in the clubs on Coruscant (probably to make customers have fun and want to pay for drinks). So, It doesn’t seem like a coincidence at all. that these two extras were the same actors that we had seen in the Keanu Reeves film.
Now you know. The next time one of your friends sees ‘Attack of the clones’, can you let him know this curiosity so little known.
