{"id":160591,"date":"2025-11-30T03:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T03:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/160591\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T03:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T03:05:07","slug":"lilly-wachowski-talks-crazy-ideologies-inspired-by-the-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/160591\/","title":{"rendered":"Lilly Wachowski Talks “Crazy Ideologies” Inspired By ‘The Matrix’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMore than 25 years after The Matrix<\/a>, Lilly Wachowski<\/a> is not surprised by the right-wing misinterpretation of her and sister Lana Wachowski\u2019s magnum opus.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter the movie\u2019s mind-opening \u201cred pill\u201d accidentally became a symbol for the MAGA<\/a> movement, the co-writer\/co-director chalked it up to an example of \u201cwhat fascism does\u201d as she opened up about separating herself from her work.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou have to let go of your work. People are gonna interpret it however they interpret it,\u201d she explained on the So True with Caleb Hearon<\/a> podcast. \u201cI look at all of the crazy, mutant theories around The Matrix 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\tIn the now iconic scene from The Matrix, Laurence Fishburne\u2019s Morpheus offers Neo (Keanu Reeves) the option between taking a blue pill, which will keep him in blissful ignorance of the simulated reality in which he\u2019s living, and red pill, which will unplug him from the Matrix and open his eyes to the truth.<\/p>\n

\n\tHaving previously noted that the trilogy was a metaphor for the transgender experience<\/a>, Wachowski told Hearon, \u201cRight-wing ideology appropriates absolutely everything. They 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

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\t\t\t\t\tCarrie-Anne Moss and Keanu Reeves in \u2018The Matrix\u2019 (1999)<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWarner Bros\/Everett<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat is what fascism does,\u201d she added. \u201cIt takes these things, these ideas that are generally acknowledged as questions or investigations or truisms about humanity and life, and they turn them to something else so that they remove the weight of what those things represent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWith The Matrix\u2018s red pill being warped into a symbol for Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s followers during his presidential career, Wachowski has called out his followers<\/a>, like Elon Musk and daughter Ivanka Trump, for misinterpreting the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 25 years after The Matrix, Lilly Wachowski is not surprised by the right-wing misinterpretation of her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[65,156,105041,61815,409,111,139,69,58412],"class_list":{"0":"post-160591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-lilly-wachowski","11":"tag-maga","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-the-matrix"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}