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Responding to a question posed about this Matrix fan theory, Wachowski said she was “glad that it has gotten out that that was the original intention.”

“The world wasn’t quite ready yet,” Wachowski said during a Netflix video interview that was posted Tuesday. “The corporate world wasn’t ready for it.”

Lilly Wachowski and her sister Lana Wachowski, both trans women, together created the "Matrix" franchise and directed the first three films, released between 1999 and 2003. Lana is directing the fourth "Matrix" film herself, currently slated for a 2022 release.

The theory that the films are a trans allegory has flourished since Lana and Lilly both came out as trans after the films were released. Lilly herself alluded to that possibility in the acceptance speech for a 2016 GLAAD award for her Netflix series "Sense8."

In the YouTube video posted Tuesday, Wachowski said she loves how “meaningful” the films are to transgender people.

“The way that they come up to me and say: these movies saved my life,” Wachowski said, “I’m grateful that I can be throwing them a rope to help them along their journey.

She said the "Matrix" series was about a “desire for transformation, but it was all coming from a closeted point of view.”

She described Switch, “a character who would be a man in the real world and then a woman in the Matrix," as representative of where her and her sister’s “headspaces were” when they were making the films.

“I don’t know how present my transness was in the background of my brain as we were writing it,” Wachowski said, “but it all came from the same sort of fire that I'm talking about.”

Lilly Wachowski confirms 'Matrix' series is a transgender allegory

In a YouTube video, one of the two directors of the "Matrix" trilogy said the film was about a “desire for transformation, but it was all coming from a closeted point of view."

www.nbcnews.com

 

[oagboghi2]

So it's even dumber in hindsight

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

Redpill me on trans rights

Based

 

[SirKicksalot]

“I don’t know how present my transness was in the background of my brain as we were writing it,” Wachowski said

 

[eot]

2postmodern4me

 

[mcz117chief]

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Anything for attention.

 

[Duallusion]

Was there a character who was a man in the real world and a woman in the Matrix? I honestly can't remember.

Didn't know both of them are trans now either...

 

[mcz117chief]

Anything for attention.

Reminds me of JK Rowling and her attempts to retcon everything in Harry Potter. Everyone is gay, everyone is black/brown etc.

 

[brap]

Reminds me of JK Rowling and her attempts to retcon everything in Harry Potter. Everyone is gay, everyone is black/brown etc.

 

[BadBurger]

OK. I don't see them that way but still love the first two films. I'm glad art can be interpreted in numerous ways. If that was her intention I don't see it.

 

[cormack12]

Must feel great when you put an allegory in your film that people only get 20 years later.

 

[Brian Fellows]

Series? I don’t remember any sequels!

 

[Master Of Illusion]

It's an allegory for a lot of things, but I guess it checks out.

 

[TyphoonStruggle]

I thought Switch was a woman in the real world and a woman in the matrix. But the name Switch checks out for a trans character.

Next up: how is bullet time and Kung fu an allegory for trans people?

Next up: the matrix is gun porn, is it a dog whistle for the 2nd amendment and white supremacists?

Next up: if Neo is literally Jesus the matrix a vehicle for Christianity and white supremacists?

 

[Grinchy]

The advantage of writing a bunch of bullshit is that you can just pretend it means anything. It's like painting a bunch of shapes on a canvas and letting some art student make up what it means and saying, "Yeah! That's exactly what I was going for!"

 

[GymWolf]

these chicks literally only made one good movie and then only trash, between matrix sequels, jupiter ascending and sense 8...

 

[GymWolf]

how do i lived until now without knowing anything about dumbledore's foreskin?

thanks brap.

 

[-Arcadia-]

Definitely sounds like artistic revisionism, if it wasn't blatantly obvious.

Fear for Matrix 4, though. There's almost no chance it's just going to be a straight-up story created for entertainment.

 

[Skyfox]

these chicks literally only made one good movie and then only trash, between matrix sequels, jupiter ascending and sense 8...

Which suggests that maybe they weren't the only contributors to the production of The Matrix.

Which probablys explain why Neo wasn't wearing a bra for example, during the residual self-image scene.

 

[Stilton Disco]

Reminds me of JK Rowling and her attempts to retcon everything in Harry Potter. Everyone is gay, everyone is black/brown etc.

Again, this is blown way out of proportion.

Dumbledore makes perfect sense in hindsight being gay, and is hinted at several times if you reread the books. The guys love of knitting alone should have tipped people off.

Meanwhile she had no say whatsoever in who the producers of the non canon Cursed Child cast as Hermione, but did anyone really expect her to not support it and handwave it away?

Everything else she gets accused of is mostly made up bollocks, while she is constantly attacked by SJW's for being a racist, homophobic TERF.

Hell, she's probably the most high profile and influential person in the media right now, actually standing up to the insanity of the far left and cancel culture.

 

[mcz117chief]

Again, this is blown way out of proportion.

Dumbledore makes perfect sense in hindsight being gay, and is hinted at several times if you reread the books. The guys love of knitting alone should have tipped people off.

Meanwhile she had no say whatsoever in who the producers of the non canon Cursed Child cast as Hermione, but did anyone really expect her to not support it and handwave it away?

Everything else she gets accused of is mostly made up bollocks, while she is constantly attacked by SJW's for being a racist, homophobic TERF.

Hell, she's probably the most high profile and influential person in the media right now, actually standing up to the insanity of the far left and cancel culture.

I'm just saying that the books themselves should be enough to tell you whether someone is gay, black or whatever and not just write it on twitter years later like it is some grand revelation. I personally have no issue with the facts themselves only in how they were delivered.

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

Everything is a transgender allegory when you see everything through the lens of trans rights.

 

[Stilton Disco]

I'm just saying that the books themselves should be enough to tell you whether someone is gay, black or whatever and not just write it on twitter years later like it is some grand revelation. I personally have no issue with the facts themselves only in how they were delivered.

And I'm saying the books do, it's just never brought up explicitly because he's an old geezer, well passed the point of romantic entanglements, by the time the stories were taking place.

Dumbledore is written as being camp as hell, and all his backstory with Grindlewald was dripping with homoerotic subtext.

Confirming she was writing him as gay down the road was just that; confirming what she had already written.

 

[and 3 others]

these chicks literally only made one good movie and then only trash, between matrix sequels, jupiter ascending and sense 8...

Wait, they're both trans? That has to be a statistical anomaly right? What are the chances of a set of twins being, let's say, gay?

 

[Virex]

Is Lilly Wachowski family of the Wachowski brothers?

 

[Forsythia]

That both brothers turned out to be trans still baffles me. What are the odds.

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

That both brothers turned out to be trans still baffles me. What are the odds.

Both were sucked into Hollywood, so 90% odds. Remember, science bends its will to the opinion of the elite, just like BLM not spreading covid.

 

[brap]

That both brothers turned out to be trans still baffles me. What are the odds.

Same how all those speedrunners are trans...

 

[buizel]

i remember finding out about this a few years ago and being like wtf they girl now

 

[Cunth]

That both brothers turned out to be trans still baffles me. What are the odds.

Maybe they are both just cross dressers. Do those exist anymore?

 

[brap]

Maybe they are both just cross dressers. Do those exist anymore?

No. Neither do tomboys. Flamboyantly gay men are dying out too.

 

[Bernd Lauert]

Reminds me of JK Rowling and her attempts to retcon everything in Harry Potter. Everyone is gay, everyone is black/brown etc.

That's nonsense. Dumbledore being gay makes sense, and Hermione being black never happened. It was a cast for a theatre role.

 

[Jack Videogames]

The Wachowskys are shitty moviemakers. The Matrix 1 was a stroke of dumb luck but everything they've done before and after is mediocre.

Yes even V and Sense8.

 

[Birdo]

Maybe they are both just cross dressers. Do those exist anymore?

Crossdressers and drag queens actually outnumber trans people by a HUGE margin.

However the trans community is quite hostile to them because they see it as mocking. It's a giant clusterfuck. I try to avoid all that shit.

 

[belmarduk]

Most authors relate personal experiences into their works.. Should we be surprised transgender authors do it as well?

 

[Grinchy]

That both brothers turned out to be trans still baffles me. What are the odds.

I'll go with a safe bet and say 0%.

 

[GeorgPrime]

Lilly Wachowski confirms 'Matrix' series is a transgender allegory

In a YouTube video, one of the two directors of the "Matrix" trilogy said the film was about a “desire for transformation, but it was all coming from a closeted point of view."

www.nbcnews.com

Dear Lilly,

its 2020. Nobody gives a shit about Matrix anymore.

Best Regards

 

[O-N-E]

 

[Falcs]

So the character Switch was trans? To me she looked like a woman in and out of the Matrix.
That's good. They didn't shove her identity in our face for no good reason.

 

[mcz117chief]

And I'm saying the books do, it's just never brought up explicitly because he's an old geezer, well passed the point of romantic entanglements, by the time the stories were taking place.

Dumbledore is written as being camp as hell, and all his backstory with Grindlewald was dripping with homoerotic subtext.

Confirming she was writing him as gay down the road was just that; confirming what she had already written.

Ok, fair enough.

 

[Alx]

It's an interesting trivia point about a side character (and a detail that actually didn't make the cut from the original script), but it doesn't really make the whole movie "a transgender allegory".

 

[Alx]

The Wachowskys are shitty moviemakers. The Matrix 1 was a stroke of dumb luck but everything they've done before and after is mediocre.

Yes even V and Sense8.

What about Speed Racer ?

 

[#Phonepunk#]

So if Matrix is a trans allegory then who irl is harvesting trans people for life energy? Would that make the SJWs the machines? Also does that mean nobody in Zion is trans, since they would all know their true identity?

Let me guess it wasn’t that thought out. In fact it wasn’t thought out at all and this is on the level of JK Rowling making a character gay after the fact.

 

[ricardo_sousa11]

These directors need to stop coming out 10-20 years later saying the movie is about some #insertminority bullshit.

J.K did the same thing, it only comes off as desperate and ludacris.

 

[lifa-cobex]

 

[Riven326]

Everything is a transgender allegory when you see everything through the lens of trans rights.

That pretty much sums up my thoughts. I don't know why they have to go back and try to ruin something great with their woke bullshit of today.

 

[NeoGiffer]

 

[Breakage]

Who was talking about “transgenderism” in 1999?

 

[FreedomOfSpeech]

Wasn't that kid in TLOU2 also named Lily?