The tech-bro has become our go-to movie villain. BilgeEbiri writes on why films keep going back to this well
Photo: Warner Bros. In retrospect, it should not have come as any kind of surprise that The Matrix Resurrections replaced Hugo Weaving’s stone-faced, black-suited Agent Smith with a sleek, sociable, no-socks corporate douchebag played by Jonathan Groff. Regardless of what one thinks about the actual recasting — I did miss Weaving’s eternal glower, myself — a new Smith makes sense not just for the new film’s world, but also for our current reality.
Even when they’re not tech-bros, they’re tech-bros: Andrew Scott’s C in the James Bond movie Spectre, while technically a high-level government functionary evangelizes a consolidation of all British intelligence under a high-tech surveillance program; he is clearly no ordinary bureaucrat. And then of course there’s Mark Rylance’s Steve Jobs-ian billionaire Peter Isherwell in the recent deadly-comet satire Don’t Look Up.
So, why do movies and shows keep going back to this well? The tech-bro is safer, certainly, for a Hollywood understandably wary of offending international audiences or unintentionally wading into hot-button political debates. The tech-bro is fair game because everybody despises him. The Right hates him because he’s a cosmopolitan know-it-all, the Left hates him because he’s a rich businessman know-it-all. The Olds hate him. The Youngs hate him.
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