![]() When Tesla founder Elon Musk tweeted the phrase, "take the red pill," and Ivanka Trump quote-tweeted it with "Taken," Wachowski responded, "F**k both of you." While Trump and Musk did not express which brand of red pill they subscribed to, Wachowski's denouncement is telling. Even Wachowski has denounced prominent people using the meme. Obviously, the hormone therapy subtext in The Matrix does some undermining of The Red Pill's beliefs. Each group's version of taking the red pill serves as a metaphor for being indoctrinated into whatever beliefs they hold. The red pill has also been taken on by the alt-right, as well as conspiracy theorists and white supremacists, according to New York Magazine. Vulture reported that sexual frustration is also a driving force for red-pillers' vehement anti-feminism beliefs. To put it simply, the average Red-piller thinks, "Feminism: bad." The term was popular amongst men's rights activists and birthed the subreddit r/TheRedPill in 2012. According to The Guardian in 2016, the "truth" that men's rights activists have supposedly been awakened to is a world dominated by women, where men can't express their issues without fear of retribution. ![]() The term was originally used to describe people who were aware of the "unpleasant truths" of the world, but it has widely been used by conspiracy theorists and subsequently, the men's rights movement. It also speaks about the red pill/blue pill dichotomy serving as a metaphor for estrogen hormone therapy, which Chu points out was literally a red pill in the 1990's.ĭespite the narrative of the film being loaded with trans subtext, the "red pill" has taken on a vastly different meaning online, especially in terms of men's rights activists. Netflix broke down so many of the allegorical references, including Keanu Reeves' character Neo taking on a new name and subsequently renounces his deadname. Not only is the pill literally Neo’s gateway to seeing the world as it is and the systems built to define and control his identity, but it’s also an apt metaphor for hormone therapy. Alas, Dwight picks the blue bill, realizing he’s happy in his life even if it’s all just “zeros and ones.And then there’s the whole red pill, blue pill connection. And the idea, it seems, was for Jim and Pam to execute an even more epic prank had Dwight picked the red pill (“I hired 30 people!” Jim says). ![]() Dorpheus offers Dwight, a noted “Matrix” fan and technology whiz, the red pill or the blue pill. In the cold open below, Hank is dressed as “Dorpheus,” the brother of Laurence Fisbburne’s Morpheus from the original film, in full regalia with sunglasses and leather trench. The cold open is dedicated to late actor Hugh Dane, who died in 2018 and played security guard Hank throughout the run of the show. ![]() ![]() Watch below.Īccording to Entertainment Weekly, it’s the first time anyone’s been able to watch the scene unfold since the table read of the finale. It involved an elaborate spoof of a certain 1999 science-fiction classic, with Rainn Wilson‘s Dwight Schrute at the center of an elaborate prank staged by Jim (John Krasinski) and Pam (Jenna Fischer). (Its arrival comes after the show was yanked from Netflix.) Timed to celebrate the show’s debut on the platform, right in time to ring in 2021, NBC has released the original cold open, cut for time, for the finale. NBC‘s take on “ The Office” ended in March 2013 after nine seasons of workplace comedy, but fan devotion to the series lives on, especially as it’s available to stream on NBC’s streaming service Peacock. ![]()
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