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My favorite bit of trivia was about 'residual self image'. Originally the character "Switch" was to be a man in one reality and a woman in the other - it is the
by analognoise 10y ago
My favorite bit of trivia was about 'residual self image'. Originally the character "Switch" was to be a man in one reality and a woman in the other - it is the digital projection of your mental self, after all.
This idea was discarded (I don't remember why), and it's interesting that the Wachowski brothers became the Wachowski sisters.
It would have been so much more philosophically interesting if that part had been left in.
- maxerickson 10y agoI expect it is because it would take too much time to make it clear for the audience that it is the same character and as far as the cinematic impact it isn't real different than giving them different hair and clothes in the Matrix. (I'm not arguing about it being an interesting thing to put in the story, just speculating that they didn't think it added enough to the movie)