From the interview I heard they pitched the matrix terribly.
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This feels like a spot-the-difference thing, and I’m failing badly. I can’t tell what changed.
Alot of Scientologists I see as using it as a way to grift and enrich themselves. Smith I can see being dumb enough to fall for it.
IDK he might be, he certainly is a dick. but also you don't usually get to read the whole script (definitely not the final script) before choosing to accept a role, they may only get a scene, maybe just an elevator pitch etc.
Challenging ideas
really?
But he took Wild Wild West, Hancock, and I Am Legend. Okay.
Hancock was fantastic, fuck the ending being coherent it's an action comedy
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“It’s [current year] blazing saddles.”
“It’s Martian manhunter but demon in a bottle”
“It’s Dracula, but from Dracula’s perspective.”
They’re interesting premises and easily understood. I can’t knock smith for choosing them. You never know what’ll end up on the editor’s floor. There might have been a better cut somewhere in there
I wonder if someone explained to him The Matrix is a transgender allegory.
Clearly no one told Elon.
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Well, hindsight is 20/20, but he also doesn't have the best history of choosing hits. Maybe it's his manager? Maybe he's dumb.
He's definitely an asshole, though.
Not everyone likes convoluted scifi.
I personally do.
But there are a lot who don't.