In the 1999 film 'The Matrix', the character played by Laurence Fishburne is Morpheus. He is the captain of the hovercraft Nebuchadnezzar and the mentor who recruits hacker Thomas Anderson, known as Neo, into the fight against the machines.
Morpheus believes that Neo may be the prophesied “One,” a person capable of changing the balance between humanity and the artificial intelligences that control the Matrix. He offers Neo the famous choice between a blue pill and a red pill, symbolising the choice between comfortable illusion and painful knowledge of reality.
The name Morpheus comes from the figure associated with dreams in Greek mythology, an apt reference for a character who helps people awaken from a computer-generated world. Viewers sometimes confuse him with Neo, played by Keanu Reeves, or with Cypher, played by Joe Pantoliano. Fishburne returned as Morpheus in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions.