Weekend Vid Picks: Lego Matrix Trinity Help, an Epic Feat of Nerdity

When The Matrix was released in 1999, its revolutionary use of “bullet-time” photography made the franchise the target of a long list of imitators and satirists — a phenomenon that continues even now, 10 years later. But for Trevor Boyd and Steve Ilett, recreating a scene from the film was less an act of imitation and more a sort of Last Full Measure of Devotion, if only by virtue of their medium of choice: Lego.

It took 440 hours for Boyd and Ilett to create Lego Matrix Trinity Help, which is a perfect shot-by-shot remake of a short but memorable scene from the Wachowski Brothers’ masterpiece, executed via stop-motion animation and a nearly infinite amount of Legos. And, fascinatingly, the duo documented extensively on their YouTube channel:

And for those who doubt the scene’s veracity, they’ve even provided a side-by-side comparison.

It’s unlikely that we’ll ever see a full remake of the film by this team, as they calculate on their official site that it’d take 25 years working full time to do so. But it’s still an impressive achievement, despite the occasional continuity problem — though, in their words, there are actually no continuity problems in The Matrix at all: “All actions take place inside The Matrix. What you see is just the rendering level of detail being turned down during the faster sequences due to inadequate Matrix CPU processing power. It is just more evident during bullet time sequences.” I’ll take their word for it.

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