Look at this scene where Agent Smith “bugs” Neo.
There certainly appears to be a serious “dimple” to the lower-left of the actual navel.
Wrong place for an appendectomy scar.
Discuss.
There certainly appears to be a serious “dimple” to the lower-left of the actual navel.
The image in question is around 4:24. Immediately before that, around 4:18, there is no such dimple in the view from the other side. I therefore conclude it’s an artifact of the CGI. Maybe they had some piece of equipment or model pushing into his stomach, and they digitally removed the equipment but not the dimple.
Or maybe this was many takes in, and in one of the earlier takes, the bug burrowed a hole in the wrong place rather than going through his belly button. Whoops!
One of my aunts has a second belly-button, from an accident with a fishhook.
On a related note: gene roddenberry - Why does Lyra-a have two belly buttons? - Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange
I have a scar just like that, from having a feeding tube inserted during radiation treatment. Perhaps Keanu had to have a tube for some reason.
It looks too low to be a feeding tube scar, but it might be from a surgical drain.
From an Esquire interview, in relation to his habit of riding motorcycles:
"As a hobby it is not without its risks. In 1988, he took a hairpin bend too fast and lay on the pavement for half an hour thinking he was going to die. The accident left a thick scar up his abdomen and necessitated the removal of his spleen. Since then there have been other surgeries, fake teeth, veneers. Some broken ribs. "
If anything, they probably CGI’d scars out rather than in, and were inconsistent.
ETA: https://www.keanu-reeves.net/post/162864242206/abdominal-scar-keanu-reeves-first-big-spill-came
It wasn’t Keanu:
He doesn’t appear to possess such a dimple.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/349591989797670576
Google “john stamos bellybutton”
But when do we discuss Frodo’s nipple?
Just in case I decide to run for public office… no.
He has something like a dozen umbilici (there’s a word you don’t use often) later in the movie. Nothing to see here.
Here’s a better view.
