One Step Ahead of the Crowd: Bound and the Stealth Storytelling of the Wachowskis
10 min readMay 20, 2019
“Sex and crime forever” boasts the first promotional one-sheet for 1996’s Bound, the feature film debut from the Wachowskis. Awash in blue light, Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly stare smoldering holes into the hearts of any horny teenage boy who happened to cross the poster’s path. Another poster reads “For Money. For Murder. For Each Other.” This…