Wachowskis gay cinema

Annalee Newitz recently posted this interesting analysis for why SPEED RACER was not a mainstream success. Annalee was a big fan of the film and she posits the theory that the candy colored creation was simply "too gay" for the large summer audience to handle.

This reminded me of an essay my friend Larry Gross wrote here about the last Wachowski production V FOR VENDETTA. Larry basically makes the case for the film hinging on the politics of gay rights and being "the first gay superhero movie."

Coupled together these two separate articles paint an interesting portrait of the Wachowskis infusing pop culture with a queer aesthetic. Sadly I think I like the theory more than I actually enjoy the films themselves.