When the agents are chasing Neo in his office, he goes to the office room at the end of the hall and opens the window. Only, those windows don't open. I wash skycrapers for a living and trust me, you cant open them.
This is a business building. What if an executive's stock goes down in a second crash (I know that it was set up for this to be VERY difficult)? He could just open the window and jump. It wouldn't open. At least not that big of a window.
Later on in the film, Neo asks for a door, and the team "hack" a door for him. Surely they could have altered the code of the Matrix to allow him to open the window???
Look KGB, If a stock investor person' stock crashed and they wanted to go out a window, it would be alot easier to break a window than open it, those thing are hard as hell to open, I know I work in a high rise building! And dont tell me those things have bullet proof glass in them.
Very large skyscrapers such as that one have windows that dont open for air circulation reasons...so either that building doesnt care about heating costs or the writers or who ever didnt do research into it
Hey people, this is the dream world, remember? And things can be changed. Remember about the deja vu? It happens when something is changed. Perhaps they changed the windows in the building to suit their purposes, or maybe Tank hacked in and changed it for Neo. The possibilities are endless.
Remember that Morpheus gave Neo exact instructions on how to escape.
They (Tank and the rest) probably found an empty office and changed the windows there.
(Also this is a movie, anything (almost) can happen in a movie.)
Well mate, responding to the answer provided before by fluffy, as I live in Australia, no, skyscraper windows don’t open here. But thank you for remembering the movie was filmed in Australia. (most people forget). The air pressure and building standards and codes here are the same as in America and everywhere else (only differences are standard sizes), only our air is cleaner. And yes, trust me, I’m studying the diploma of Architectural Technology and am currently in the second year (out of 2 full-time years).
However, I am NOT a person taking a jab at the marvelous and perfect Matrix. I do agree with the comment made by Tadabiyashi, Lexi and Subzero. Maybe, when Matrix 2 and 3 come out back-to-back in mid 2001 or 2002, and we see that Tank has the ability to change very small and unnoticeable things in the matrix, like a window, the position of a mattress (ie, see the stupid and pointless slip-up above called soft-land) we will all go oohhhhhh!!! So that how the window, and the scaffold were placed conveniently near that room and on the same level.
I am from Australia & the windows don't open in the high rises.i'm also a glazier & I've glazed alot of these buildings.it would take a very long time & make a lot of noise trying to break through one.
I don't think it matters to be honest. This isn't a slip up! The directors obviously included an opening window intentionally, otherwise it would just be stupid having Neo throw himself out a window. And the possibilities are endless as to why a skyscraper has an opening window, and they no doubt were aware of this. Some people obviously can't grasp the entire concept the The Matrix!
People, people . . . . !
Obviously, the writers/directors/etc. didn't think that it was a 'slip-up' to have a window open. They could have had Neo on a fire escape!! So stop kvetching (complaining)!! [that's Yiddish]
This film was shot entirely in Sydney, Australia. The windows open. It's against Occupational Health & Safety standards to not have available natural ventilation in every office, this is nationwide. Trust me, the windows open.
I have to agree with TRiNiTY, this is obviously not a slip-up. It's just another case of movies ignoring reality (or building codes) to tell a great story. I thought this site was supposed to be about mistakes, not artistic liberties.
I don't exactly classify this as a slip-up. It's not like they accidentally put it there. They wanted it there. The Wachowskis just didn't really know that fact. It doesn't really matter, but if they knew that, they would have made him just break the window or something.
Has anyone else forgotten that Neo isn't actually walking on a skyscraper?? He is not actually many many floors above ground. It is a SET folks... built to the needs of the production crew. Therefore if they want the window to open, the window will open.
Skyscrapers and tall hotels that have opening windows can't open enough to let him out. most skyscrapers don't have opening windows. Must've squeezed though a 1ft wide gap! Btw, this is the Matrix; a vr world. Things can be altered, like the chopper that crashed into the building and warped it like water.
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