The Matrix is a film that greatly influenced creations of sci-fi that came after it, and it continues to do so to this day. It's difficult to find a work of sci-fi that doesn't have some element that could be tied back to The Matrix. Of course, it wasn't the first to do many of the things it's known for, but it certainly stands out for its execution.

When thinking back on this film that many grew up watching, one might think of the creepy AI creatures floating through the air like jellyfish, or perhaps of Neo dodging bullets in the style that the film so famously became associated with. What many remember most, however, are the many gems of dialogue that can be found in this iconic film.

10 Get Up, Trinity. Just Get Up.


This scene in the start of the movie introduces the audience to Trinity's character, and what kind of person she is.

It's clear that she's skilled, but in the moment that she's being chased by the agents and finds herself frozen on the floor pointing a gun in anticipation of them, she reveals her humanity in the fact that she is afraid, but coaxes herself to keep going.

9 I Thought You Were A Guy. "Most Guys Do"


Neo meets Trinity after she has guided him to "follow the white rabbit" and eventually runs into her at a nightclub. The film never overtly states any feminist allegiances, but it doesn't have to.

The actions of the characters and the makeup of the story speak for themselves, in that Trinity's gender is hardly ever mentioned again because her character demands respect through her mere presence.

8 You Are A Slave, Neo. Born Into Bondage.


Neo has not yet taken the red pill. He listens to Morpheus explain that the world he lives in isn't what he thinks and that he is, in reality, leading a life that's been programmed for him.

All of this feels at this point as though it could be a way of metaphorical speaking--Neo finds out, of course, that it very much isn't.

7 Buckle Your Seatbelt, Dorothy


The film uses familiar pop-culture references to further assert the atmosphere of the narrative they are aiming for.

Trinity implores Neo to "follow the white rabbit", Morpheus asks him if he wants to go further "down the rabbit hole", both references to Alice In Wonderland. And then Cypher switches it up by comparing Neo's departure from the matrix to Dorothy leaving Kansas--a trickier comparison, implying that Kansas was the false world and Oz the real one.