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Scene from the 1990 film Total Recall. Historians of film note that the trope of a "red pill" as decisive in a return to reality made its first appearance in the 1990 film Total Recall, which has a scene where the hero (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) is asked to swallow a red pill in order to symbolize his desire to return to reality from a dream-like fantasy.
The red pill has been compared with red estrogen pills. [184] Morpheus's description of the Matrix creating a sense that something is fundamentally wrong, "like a splinter in your mind", has been compared to gender dysphoria. [184] In the original script, Switch was a woman in the Matrix and a man in the real world, but this idea was removed. [185]
The first film was an important critical and commercial success, winning four Academy Awards, introducing popular culture symbols such as the red pill and blue pill, and influencing action filmmaking. For those reasons, it has been added to the National Film Registry for preservation. [4]
The Matrix film franchise consists of four main feature films and an animated series: "The Matrix," "The Matrix Reloaded," "The Matrix Revolutions."
Red pill or blue pill, anyone? The beloved “Matrix” movie franchise is expanding with an upcoming fifth installment, with the film’s original co-writer and co-director Lana Wachowski leading ...
The Red Pill is a 2016 American documentary film directed by Cassie Jaye. The film explores the men's rights movement , as Jaye spends a year filming the leaders and followers within the movement. It premiered on October 7, 2016 in New York City , followed by several other one-time screenings internationally.
Keanu Reeves recently joined Reddit for an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session, where he revealed he is the owner of the original red pill from “The Matrix” franchise. In Lilly and Lana Wachowski ...
Agent Smith (later simply Smith) is a fictional character and the main antagonist of The Matrix franchise.The character was primarily portrayed by Hugo Weaving in the first trilogy of films and voiced by Christopher Corey Smith in The Matrix: Path of Neo (2005), with Ian Bliss and Gideon Emery playing his human form, Bane, in the films and Path of Neo respectively.