Were the Matrix trilogy some of the first fully Woke movies?

Bore off with your repetitive woke crap nonsense , if you have issues with Black dudes being in movies then delete your account and watch Gone with the wind.

Why are you counting Bane as evil? He was a good guy that was possessed by Smith. Also, the Trainman was more neutral than outright evil. Oh, and for evil characters who are female, you forgot Persephone.

If that's the case the main character shouldn't have been white.

They are for all over the world, is normal if they are from diferent nationalities and ethnicity, woulnd't been realistic if all of them or even the majority were white

Why everybody have to be in one extreme or the other?

Is like people need to be or totally woke to the level of a mental disability or extreme paranoic and kinda of racist

It is my understanding that Keanu Reeves is of 8 different heritages. So in that sense, it puts his casting as The One in more perspective.

Very good point. I remember hearing that they made lots of the ‘freed minds’ minorities because wealthy white people would be happy in The Matrix, but that’s a very American-centric view of the world. Whites are a relative global minority, the elites of each nation will rarely be white, and the divide between rich and poor is far greater outside the liberal, capitalist, democratic West.

I sort of didn’t notice the racism because Keanu is white (although actually kinda mixed race as another poster pointed out) and he’s the Jesus figure. It’s not like Last Jedi where the villains are all white males and the heroes are every combination other than white and male.

Also, the sequels feature a fair few white male good guys in Zion, so your theory loses some credibility if you include them, but you’re right - The Matrix is massively woke.

Also, let’s not forget that The Wachowskis wanted Will Smith or Brandon Lee to play Neo. I’m guessing the studio told them to have a white lead couple and they gritted their teeth.

Nope. 23 years ago didn't have the same political perspective we have today. Internet wasn't used as much, cell phones weren't common everywhere, 24 hr network news was still a distant luxury of cable and satellite, and DVD just started to become more affordable though VHS was still an option.

This was pre 9/11. The directors have said that the matrix is a representation of everything from religion to transgenderism. They do this every time they need cash for a project.

It's only a movie series and the first one is the only decent film (IMHO). It's your typical heroes journey that got bogged down by overuse of CGI and club culture.

Woke and diverse aren’t the same thing. Movies have been diverse long before the wokists started complaining about it, and they haven’t contributed anything to diverse representation since they infiltrated entertainment media.

Diversity is about promoting new characters from different regions and putting in actual effort to make people like them; wokeness is about making pre-existing characters look bad and promoting new characters relying only their race, gender, and/or sexuality, and prioritizing agendas over characterization and entertainment.

Now V for Vendetta? THAT was a woke movie:
- anti Christian
- anti American
- pro Muslim
- pro LGBT
- straight white bad guys
- female protagonist
- deformed possibly asexual male protagonist

Of course, I'm purposefully reaching with some of those points, but V for Vendetta fits the woke mold a lot more than the Matrix movies do.