There are no 100% completely new ideas in Hollywood. We all know this. Every film is either inspired by or is an homage to something that came before it. In fact, this isn't even something that is particular to filmmaking. Every form of media, be it music, literature, etc. is inspired by those things that came before. Nothing in the world is created in a vacuum. Culture is omnipresent and every creator, filmmaker, writer and singer grows up immersed in it. We grow up watching films, reading books, listening to music and as we become adults and start to make our own pieces of work, that which we grew up loving inspires us to take those ideas and to twist them into new creations.
This video is an excellent example of that. The first Matrix movie was a groundbreaking moment in Science Fiction filmmaking and special effects work, but just like every movie, the men who created it are themselves fans of other films that have come before and these films inspired elements that were used to create something new. Are the basic ideas behind The Matrix original? No, of course not. But is The Matrix a rip off of other ideas? No. It's something new that was created by taking elements from several other works and combining them in an original, unique and creative way. This is the process by which all artists ever create art.
In this particular instance, it's just really cool to see how specific elements were used in the creation of one film to make something new out of something old.
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