THE WACHOWSKIS – A Rivetting and Revealing Interview

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Matt Irvine Interviews THE WACHOWSKIS (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARoKJ00cEZ8)


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The Wachowskis’ interviews are as rare as they are fascinating and funny.

This one is especially spectacular. It sees Matt Irvine of DePaul University interrogating every aspect of their careers; he even gets them to spell out the key themes of the allegedly opaque Matrix sequels. Their latest film, Jupiter Ascending, is out February 6th.

A special thanks to Prince Kabala for bringing this to my attention.


For your convenience, I’ve taken the trouble (you’re welcome, assholes!) to split the 90-minute interview into digestible chapters:

00:00:00 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARoKJ00cEZ8) – Introduction: Beyond Business and Being On “The Timeline”
00:02:19 (http://youtu.be/ARoKJ00cEZ8?t=2m19s) – Rosetta Stone: From Graphic Novels to Graphic Cinema
00:06:42 (http://youtu.be/ARoKJ00cEZ8?t=6m42s) – Industrial Rage: Questioning Paradigms and The Problem With Virtual Reality
00:10:19 (http://youtu.be/ARoKJ00cEZ8?t=10m19s) – Artificial Intelligence: Bound to Breaking Ground
00:14:20 (http://youtu.be/ARoKJ00cEZ8?t=14m20s) – Systemic Scarring: What Assassins Could Have Been
00:16:54 (http://youtu.be/ARoKJ00cEZ8?t=16m54s) – Cash Flow: The Struggle to be “Bankable”
00:20:00 (http://youtu.be/ARoKJ00cEZ8?t=20m) – Group Dynamics: How and Why to Work Together
00:22:29 (http://youtu.be/ARoKJ00cEZ8?t=22m29s) – Aesthetics: The DNA of Art
00:22:27 (http://youtu.be/ARoKJ00cEZ8?t=33m27s) – Aesthetic Shift: Pushing Boundaries with The Matrix
00:37:51 (http://youtu.be/ARoKJ00cEZ8?t=37m51s) – Aesthetic Terrorism: Exploding Boundaries after The Matrix
00:58:42 (http://youtu.be/ARoKJ00cEZ8?t=58m42s) – “Jordon Won The Championship During The Dojo Scene”

Q&A:

01:02:59 (http://youtu.be/ARoKJ00cEZ8?t=1h2m59s) – Creating Performances in the Edit
01:06:16 (http://youtu.be/ARoKJ00cEZ8?t=1h6m16s) – Why Not Direct V for Vendetta?
01:08:14 (http://youtu.be/ARoKJ00cEZ8?t=1h8m14s) – Disagreeing with The Directors’ Interpretation of The Matrix Sequels’ Themes
01:13:57 (http://youtu.be/ARoKJ00cEZ8?t=1h13m57s) – How to “Make It” in Hollywood
01:19:37 (http://youtu.be/ARoKJ00cEZ8?t=1h19m37s) – Plastic Man and Other Unproduced Scripts
01:23:12 (http://youtu.be/ARoKJ00cEZ8?t=1h23m12s) – Writing as Writers Vs. Writing as Directors
01:24:08 (http://youtu.be/ARoKJ00cEZ8?t=1h24m8s) – Directors who Inspired Them

[Henry Gale]

Nice, I'll definitely watch this later.

Even though interviews with them have become significantly more frequent in recent years, it's still always a surprise and a joy to hear them talk so much at all, especially about projects they were never seen or heard from in public for in the moment. And then of course there are things like Lana's Human Rights Campaign speech which is just incredible in ways completely outside of their work.

[Skitch]

Yeah Im all over this soon as I can.

[D_Davis]

Very cool. I always forget how much I really like them as artists.

It's weird. They make big budget Hollywood action films, and yet they come across as being totally not Hollywood in the way they act and talk.

[Skitch]

I'm enjoying this video, but this interviewer is painfully horrible.