And for anyone who wants to check: US release of "The Matrix" was March 31st 1999
The character of Switch was originally meant to be male in the real world and female in the Matrix. Warner Brothers put a stop to that.
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Not sure why, would have been a pretty cool addition to the universe.
I can imagine nowadays people saying it's "too woke" though.
All studio execs do is "mitigate" movies to appeal to a broader audience...
An analogy would be a corporate chef who removes garlic from a tomato sauce so that people who don't like garlic will eat it, and those that do will know something is missing but can't complain too much because... endless salad and breadsticks, plus mom likes the "atmosphere"
Replace garlic with trans character, and endless salads and breadsticks with the MCU
If you think that society was friendlier to trans people in 1999 compared to 2024, you are mistaken.
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I can think of one reasonable reason for it. They'd be harder to identify between the two versions. It makes some sense to not change the look that much (or the actor if that was the plan) to not confuse the audience.
Makes sense. Sucks it never happened though because that would have been a cool idea.
Why am I suddenly so fucking old?
The problem is it didn't happen suddenly 😭
There’s a good joke here somewhere that ends “Instead, only try to realize the truth… there is no dick”
Or different body parts or gendered terms as appropriate for the speaker, of course.
It is too bad they weren't able to make Switch a trans character.
Yeah, I don’t think I’ve heard about the trans plan for the character before. But, it sounds like the perfect kind of thing to have in the Matrix. :(
chainsaw revving in the background
"Not like this... Not like this!"
I mean, that version works pretty well for the Wachowskis.
Doesn't even put "Switch" in the pictures
We're talking about the realness of reality here.
This gender stuff seems rather petty, comparatively.