ViBen (like Vibin')Feb 22

I'm sure for many of you this won't be news but it was for me and I thought it was interesting so I'm sharing!

"In the film The Matrix, Switch was originally meant to change genders upon entering the Matrix, which coined their name "Switch". In the real world, Switch would be male, and in the Matrix, Switch would be female - a very clever and critical point of the 'residual self-image' idea. When actress Belinda McClory auditioned for the role, she was going for only half the role - Switch's Matrix form.

Warner Brothers made the decision to cut this and give Switch one form for both environments.

Switch's presentation is deliberately androgynous to pay homage to their original concept."

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@TheBreadmonkey You might be interested in reading the book "Begin Transmission: The Trans Allegories of The Matrix" by Tilly Bridges! (Tilly's on Fedi, you can even get a copy directly from her. 🤓 )
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@buffyleigh @TheBreadmonkey Aw yea!🤩 It's so cool to see all the trans allegories the Wachowski sisters built into the Matrix, like the ambiguously-gendered ghosts in 'Reloaded' (whom I'd heard were self-inserts of the sisters? Tho I can't remember where I heard that...🤔).

Really makes you rethink some of the conspicuous mysteries in "V for Vendetta" (which the sisters also produced & wrote the script for, adapted from the graphic novel)👀🌹🩷🤍🩵🔪