Unfortunately, the main themes of control and digital slavery resonated deeply with the audience, who saw a real message behind all the cool effects.
Furious, those in charge had the Wachowski’s draft two sequels, which both lowered in quality since they had no more original work to pillage from Althouse.
While the two sequels may have weakened the franchise, people still seem to love the first one and the message it gave of overcoming an impossible situation of blind slavery.
That first movie’s success led to the Wachowski’s punishment: devolution into Hollywood depravity and forced gender reassignment.
Since then, the Wachowski’s (at least Lana) have produced films REALLY dependent on the fakeness of Hollywood. Over-reliance on cgi led to abysmal failures like Jupiter Ascending. While Speed Racer is a visual spectacle and a fun romp, not exactly an original idea. Same goes for V for Vendetta: visually exciting, still someone else’s property.
Seems kind of odd that a smash hit like the Matrix came from two siblings with very little creativity. Their only hits were other people’s bastardized works. Coming from an art background, one-hit wonders are plentiful. I just find it so odd that these siblings came up with the Matrix, and their quality of creative original writing, directing, and editing dropped off a cliff.
Sorry for the novel; I find this rabbit hole insanely interesting.
The following comment is my theory:
The script/idea of the Matrix was stolen from Thomas Althouse, and the Wachowski’s were tasked with butchering it up and making the film.
Althouse site explaining it all
Unfortunately, the main themes of control and digital slavery resonated deeply with the audience, who saw a real message behind all the cool effects.
Furious, those in charge had the Wachowski’s draft two sequels, which both lowered in quality since they had no more original work to pillage from Althouse.
While the two sequels may have weakened the franchise, people still seem to love the first one and the message it gave of overcoming an impossible situation of blind slavery.
That first movie’s success led to the Wachowski’s punishment: devolution into Hollywood depravity and forced gender reassignment.
Since then, the Wachowski’s (at least Lana) have produced films REALLY dependent on the fakeness of Hollywood. Over-reliance on cgi led to abysmal failures like Jupiter Ascending. While Speed Racer is a visual spectacle and a fun romp, not exactly an original idea. Same goes for V for Vendetta: visually exciting, still someone else’s property.
Seems kind of odd that a smash hit like the Matrix came from two siblings with very little creativity. Their only hits were other people’s bastardized works. Coming from an art background, one-hit wonders are plentiful. I just find it so odd that these siblings came up with the Matrix, and their quality of creative original writing, directing, and editing dropped off a cliff.
Sorry for the novel; I find this rabbit hole insanely interesting.