{"id":317787,"date":"2025-11-30T03:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T03:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/317787\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T03:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T03:34:06","slug":"lilly-wachowski-on-right-wing-misinterpretations-of-the-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/317787\/","title":{"rendered":"Lilly Wachowski on Right-Wing Misinterpretations of ‘The Matrix’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDuring a recent appearance on the \u201cSo True with Caleb Hearon<\/a>\u201d podcast, co-director Lilly Wachowski<\/a> was asked about certain right-wing groups attaching their ideologies to her 1999 sci-fi masterpiece \u201cThe Matrix<\/a>.\u201d Wachowski said she\u2019s unbothered by conservative misinterpretations and knows how to separate herself from her films once they\u2019re released to the public.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou have to let go of your work. People are gonna interpret it however they interpret it,\u201d Wachowski said. \u201cI look at all of the crazy, mutant theories around \u2018The Matrix\u2019 films and the crazy ideologies that those films helped create and I just go, \u2018What are you doing? No! That\u2019s wrong!\u2019 But I have to let it go to some extent \u2026 You\u2019re never gonna be able to make absolutely every person believe what you initially intended.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Matrix,\u201d specifically the iconic \u201cblue pill or red pill<\/a>\u201d scene, is the most famous example of the film being appropriated by the right. In the scene, Keanu Reeves\u2019 Neo must take the red pill in order to be freed from the Matrix. In the political context, \u201cred pilled\u201d is a term for someone who has \u201cwoken up\u201d to the truth about society and often aligns with radical far-right ideology.<\/p>\n

\n\tWachowski has previously explained that the \u201coriginal intention\u201d of \u201cThe Matrix\u201d was to be a transgender allegory<\/a>. Even so, she said she\u2019s unsurprised the right has latched on to the film since \u201cright-wing ideology appropriates absolutely everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe added, \u201cThey appropriate left-wing points of view and they mutate them for their own propaganda, for their own to obfuscate what the real message is. This is what fascism does. And so, of course, that\u2019s going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During a recent appearance on the \u201cSo True with Caleb Hearon\u201d podcast, co-director Lilly Wachowski was asked about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,179266,344,128788],"class_list":{"0":"post-317787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-lilly-wachowski","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-the-matrix"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}