{"id":291077,"date":"2025-11-30T07:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T07:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/291077\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T07:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T07:59:11","slug":"the-matrix-co-director-talks-appropriation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/291077\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Matrix” Co-Director Talks Appropriation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Warner Bros. Pictures<\/p>\n

In a recent appearance on the So True with Caleb Hearon<\/a> podcast, filmmaker Lilly Wachowski was asked about co-directing 1999\u2019s sci-fi classic \u201cThe Matrix\u201d and how the film has been interpreted and re-interpreted over the years.<\/p>\n

It is, after all, a film that questions a range of topics, from technology and artificial intelligence to gender identity, conformity, and control. The film has been immensely popular with a wide array of people across all political spectrums, with people taking away different interpretations.<\/p>\n

In recent times, one scene has seen itself become the subject of minor controversy \u2013 the one in which Neo (Keanu Reeves) is offered the blue pill, which will return him to his mundane life, or the red pill that will awaken him to the \u2018real world\u2019 \u2013 one ruled by artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

The scene has become something of a symbol for the American MAGA movement. In times past, Wachowski took issue with this. In her new interview, she\u2019s come around to separating herself from her work and accepting that it\u2019s out there and how people and even whole movements will understand and even appropriate it how they may:<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to let go of your work. People are gonna interpret it however they interpret it. I 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.<\/p>\n

Right-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\u2026They take 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

Wachowski stepped away from the franchise after the original trilogy, leaving sister Lana Wachowski to develop \u201cThe Matrix Resurrections\u201d on her own. Drew Goddard is currently attached to develop a new instalment in the franchise with neither of the Wachowskis involved.<\/p>\n

Lilly Wachowski most recently was involved the upcoming comedy \u201cTrash Mountain\u201d from a script by Rubey Caster and Hearon. That project was directed by Kris Swanberg (\u201cI Used to Go Here\u201d).<\/p>\n

Hearon reveals in this interview that Wachowski was originally slated to direct, but then \u201cwe lost windows and things shifted, and it was circumstances\u201d that prevented it, but Wachowski remained aboard as executive producer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Pictures In a recent appearance on the So True with Caleb Hearon podcast, filmmaker Lilly Wachowski…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-291077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-bigslider","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}