The trigger CU looks like it sped up the detonation a bit, & Matrix was filmed wide detonating later.

L.A. Effects get a weird VFX & Live Action Inserts credit. I wonder if they shot the CU of the trigger on the same day, because the sky and tree behind it matches those used for the miniatures.

This article from the time explains that 5 buildings & the watch tower were to be exploded, but we only see 3.
www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/n...

It looks as though in post they realised the 3 pyro'd sheds weren't enough & brought in L.A. Effects to fatten it up with 2 extra buildings earlier.

The two shots of Matrix detonating the trigger at 0:17 & 0:24 share the same background/door & guards behind (maybe 2 camera). Matrix only lowers the trigger after the explosion in the latter shot, even though it's supposed to be a chain reaction.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qpB...

In terms of headroom and lighting, a lot of thought clearly went Into shooting that talking head.

In 1991, Disney even had Ric Ocasek re-record a modern pop arrangement of it, complete with a music video, for the “Simply Mad About The Mouse” project.

youtu.be/PLlqCEmQJsA?...

I've never seen the film on the big screen, but would love to, especially to experience these two amazing musical/audio moments during the title sequence.

It's quite amazing how the brass & the synths on the song sound distinctly different, but at times sound so similar.

It made me think of City Roofs.

John Williams score for Images, with Stomu Yamashta, is one of his best and often sounds nothing like John Williams, or even a film score.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Juzx...

Gloria Gresham was the costume designer on Body Double as well as Fletch, which shares a Nostromo crew hat. Maybe it was hers by that point.

I remember the press for this film in the UK when it was released.

There's a great Gladys Knight song on the soundtrack.

It also continued the innovative prosthetic make-up of Caglione/Drexler for Touchstone (Dick Smith in the photo with John Caglione, Jr).

Kostal's arrangement of The Night On Bald Mountain scene has some really unusual, military-style percussion during the opening.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOMV...

I didn't notice that. I was too busy admiring how you made the dramatic backlight, used to separate Blackthorne from the background, disappear when the hatch opens, to maximise the finality of the closed doors.

Now I'll never unsee that hair!