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- Lana Wachowski (born Larry Wachowski; June 21, 1965) and Lilly Wachowski (born Andy Wachowski; December 29, 1967) are American film and television directors, writers and producers. The sisters are both trans women.
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Lana Wachowski (born Larry Wachowski; June 21, 1965) [1] and Lilly Wachowski (born Andy Wachowski; December 29, 1967) [2] are American film and television directors, writers and producers. [3] The sisters are both trans women .
Mar 9, 2016 · As children, Lana and Lilly grew up with their two sisters in Chicago. Early on, the pair developed an affinity for film and would spend hours with their parents at the cinema.
- Lindsay Kimble
Mar 10, 2016 · Director, screenwriter, and producer Lilly Wachowski (formerly Andy) announced Tuesday that she is a transgender woman. Wachowski’s statement comes about four years after her sister, Lana...
- 'Bound'is of A Genre That’S Often Been Unkind to Queer People
- 'Bound' Let Queer People Be The Heroes Instead of The Villains
- 'Bound' emphasises The Importance of Community For Queer Peoples
- 'Bound's Cinemtaography Conforms to Classic Noir Motifs
- 'Bound' Is Full of Queer Metaphors
Part of what makes the Wachowski sisters and their handling of queer material so fascinating is the genres they’ve chosen to explore as filmmakers. Typically, the duo has entered terrain that has often embraced reinforcing cis-het norms and turning the norms on their head. The Matrix, for instance, was the latest in a long line of sci-fi “chosen on...
This title is rooted in many of the visual and thematic hallmarks of classic noirs but is also conscious of subverting the default approach to gender and sexuality in these vintage titles. Conceptually, these films were supposed to reinforce the idea that subversive women were “wrong” and that all queers were evil. The Wachowskis established their ...
One fun queer element of the Wachowski’s is the emphasis on community. Characters coded as queer have families or chosen families that provide them with love and support. Individuals that can represent queer experiences and people aren’t surviving alone, they’re surrounded by those who embrace their unique attributes rather than erase them. They al...
Though that element bucks the trend of noir standards, the cinematography of Bound is still dripping with shadows, dark lighting, and moody framing, all visual hallmarks of the genre. Here, these details are used to quietly reinforce how the very existence of queerness is often suffocated to the point that it can only exist in the margins of societ...
The film also establishes this directorial duo’s affinity for endearingly on-the-nose visual metaphors for queerness. The most notable example of that here comes from two separate interactions Caesar has with the film’s leading ladies. The first sees Caesar interrupting Violet’s plans to pack her bags and get out of her marriage, with Caesar stuffi...
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Aug 7, 2020 · Lana was the first of the siblings to transition, telling the New Yorker in 2012 how much she was struggling with her gender identity around the time of the second and third Matrix films.
Aug 4, 2020 · Twenty-one years after her breakthrough film’s release, Lilly Wachowski has finally confirmed theories about the trans allegory at the heart of The Matrix, the blockbuster film franchise she...
Aug 7, 2020 · Lana was the first of the siblings to transition, telling the New Yorker, external in 2012 how much she was struggling with her gender identity around the time of the second and third Matrix...
