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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.
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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."
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]
However, a woman with blue hair and a trench coat appears besides him. The woman introduces herself as Bugs, who tries to reopen his mind through a White Rabbit tattoo. Bugs then shows Neo her crew in an abandoned theater. Morpheus, part of Bugs' group once again, offers a blue pill and a red pill to Neo, who takes the red pill.
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Neo takes the red pill. The Nebuchadnezzar crew is then able to eject Neo's body from the Matrix power plant and retrieve him from the cold sewers beneath the Earth's surface. Morpheus takes a risk in helping Neo escape the Matrix, as human minds that live too long in the Matrix may have trouble in comprehending the reality.