Keymaker

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Keymaker
Key maker

The Keymaker is a fictional character, portrayed by Korean-American actor

Matrix
. He appears as an elderly, bespectacled Korean man dressed in a button-down shirt, smock, and an apron hung with bunches of keys.

Backstory and role

The Keymaker is an "Exile", a program whose usefulness has come to an end and that has chosen to hide in the Matrix rather than be deleted. The

Merovingian. Neo, Morpheus, and Trinity are rebuffed when they demand that the Merovingian release the Keymaker, but his wife Persephone
betrays him and takes them to where the Keymaker is being held: a small room in which he toils over a key-cutting machine. Thousands of previously made keys hang in bunches on the walls.

Morpheus and Trinity, separated from Neo, flee with the Keymaker as the Merovingian's Twins, the police, and three Agents (sent to terminate the Keymaker as he is an Exile) pursue them onto the city freeways. The Keymaker assists in the escape by quickly providing Trinity with the ignition key needed to start a motorcycle, saving her the time of waiting for hot-wiring instructions to be uploaded into her mind.

Following the escape, the Keymaker meets with three crews of Zion rebels to describe the security measures in place around the building which houses the door that leads to the Source. Two electric power stations must both be shut down in order to disable the alarm system, after which Neo will have only a short time to reach the Source before the building is destroyed by explosives; in addition, if the door is opened while the alarm is still active, the explosives will detonate. As the other two crews attack the power stations, the Keymaker leads Neo and Morpheus to a hall within the building, filled with doors that represent backdoor access to other parts of the Matrix.

They are interrupted by the arrival of Agent Smith and dozens of copies he has made of himself. The Keymaker hurriedly opens a door, allowing Neo and Morpheus to take cover inside a room as the Smiths open fire, but sustains multiple gunshot wounds to the chest. Before dying, he gives Neo a single key on a chain around his neck—the one needed to reach the Source—and points Morpheus toward a door that will allow him to re-enter the Matrix proper.

Role experience

Casting director

Alice in Wonderland and then got lost in the Matrix.[2] The Wachowskis' thoughts on Keymaker were coming on the spot as various takes were done.[2] He is a creation of collaboration;[3] for example, Lana Wachowski suggested that Kim cut his stride in half, so that the Keymaker's movements appeared as more of a scurry, than a normal gait.[2]

In an interview with Tim Lammers to promote the DVD release of The Matrix Reloaded, Kim said, "I'm so happy to be part of such a wonderful tale as this. I was a fan before I even got the audition call for Reloaded".

stunt drivers in the freeway motorcycle chase scene were some of the most amazing people he had ever met.[4] "That was real. I would say Carrie and I did about three-quarters of what's seen up there," he revealed.[4] Kim was backed by professional motorcross racer David Barrett in a jump that was a double on the Ducati motorcycle used in the freeway chase. In a June 2001 interview, stunt player Debbie Evans said it was "pretty ambitious, because those bikes aren't made to do that sort of thing, but we pulled it off".[5]

The Keymaker also appears in the short lampoon MTV Movie Awards Reloaded, produced for the 2003 MTV Movie Awards.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b Terry Hong. "The Key To Randall Duk Kim". KoreamJournal.com. Archived from the original on May 20, 2009. Retrieved 2008-12-17.
  2. ^
    EW.com. Archived from the original
    on 2008-01-19. Retrieved 2007-12-16.
  3. ^ "MxOS Exclusive Interview: Randall Duk Kim". Matrix.Stratics.com. Archived from the original on November 20, 2008. Retrieved 2007-12-17.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "Keymaker Actor Unlocks Wonders Of 'Matrix Reloaded'". Fox5Vegas.com. Archived from the original on 2009-05-20. Retrieved 2008-12-21.
  5. ^ "Interview - Debbie Evans". WhatIsTheMatrix.WarnerBros.com. Archived from the original on August 21, 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-21.

External links

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