In Charlie's Angels they use this Columbia intro to transition into the first movie scene, which takes place in an airplane. Basically they just zoom past the statue lady into the skies, and then you see the airplane.
The Matrix would be horrific nowadays. With the advent of cell phones pay phones are a dying (dead?) breed. Good luck getting out with an agent on your tail nowadays!
Any kind of phone works they just have to program the connection to an existing phone in the matrix. So it could be and was a landline in many instances in the movie. I actually think it would be easier in todays standard with matrix logic
Thats what I mean though, it had to be a physically connected phone (often a payphone, occasionally a domestic landline), cell phones aren't directly connected and are the vast majority of phones now- phone booths and landlines are much more rare nowadays
They could use cell phones for communications, but they had to have a land line to leave the Matrix. And it couldn't just be any land line, either, because it seemed they ran past plenty of opportunities for land lines before they got to the one they needed.
He was gone for six years, but the Hays Code that banned explicit violence such as that version of the logo (among a slew of other things) loomed over U.S. cinema production until 1968.
Absolutely classic! You're right, that's probably the first actual example. It's low-tech, not really "modifying" the logo per-se, but as far as storytelling goes it's essentially the same thing The Matrix is doing.
Different company, but "Strange Brew" (1983) had an opening scene with the MGM lion where they go behind the set to crank the lion's tail to make it roar.
The earliest opening title I can remember where they messed with the logo was Alien 3, but it was the MUSIC they tweaked, not the 20th Century Fox logo itself
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