Text/ Easter Egg Jun KL
According to the professional version of Maoyan, the box office of "Venom: Deadly Guardians" is about to break 100 million, and Marvel's annual finale is stable this time! But there are still many interesting Easter eggs, comic tributes, and references to popular culture in the film, and the following Easter Egg Jun will analyze these elements in detail.
The Deadly Guardians film Venom: Lethal Protector is based on the 1993 short comic strip Venom: Lethal Protector.
The comic tells the story of Eddie Brock, who moves to San Francisco with Venom after an armistice with Spider-Man and takes him to San Francisco to start a new life of heroism.
The story mentions an organization called the Life Foundation, led by Carlton Drake, who used alien symbiote samples taken from Venom to combine with other human bodies to create five powerful monsters: Riot, Scream, Lasher, Phage, and Agony.
Symbiotes
The symbiotes that appear in the film are:
Venom with Eddie Bullock (Tom Hardy) ♂ (Black Symbiote)
Riot with Carlton Drake (Ritz Ahmed) ♂ (Grey Symbiosis)
Yellow symbiote possessed by a rabbit (suspected howl)
There is also the unknown blue symbiote that kills the female doctor.
Before the release of the movie, many people thought that the character played by Michelle Lee in the trailer would be Donna Diego, the host of the comics, but in fact she was just one of the hosts of the riot parasitism.
Eddie with Venom
In the film, Eddie Bullock is attacked while investigating the Foundation for Life and infects the Black Symbiote, thus becoming a host for the venom.
In the comics, the origin of Venom is closely related to Spider-Man. In the 1984 comic book Secret Wars # 8, Spider-Man's uniform is torn during the battle, and just when Hulk discovers an alien machine that can give people a free change of clothes, Spider-Man happily goes forward to test it, and gets a black ball.
Spider-Man holds the ball in his hand, but it suddenly grows, wrapping Spider-Man's whole body into an all-black uniform. (Actually a living alien symbiote)
Later, in order to get rid of the shackles of the symbiote, Spider-Man comes to the church to use the bell to eliminate the alien aliens attached to the body, and the result is that the symbiote is possessed by the new host, Eddie Bullock, and because Eddie himself has hatred for Spider-Man, he becomes the murderous villain "Venom".
Eddie was a former daily newspaper reporter who had a career success reporting on serial killers, but it was later discovered that his intelligence came from a liar, and the real culprit had been captured by Spider-Man. Eddie loses his job and becomes the laughing stock of the press, putting the entire blame on Spider-Man and hating him terribly.
After becoming Venom, Eddie inherits the abilities of the symbiote's predecessor host, and Spider-Man's spider sensing, spraying spider silk, climbing walls, etc. can be achieved on him. Moreover, Venom also retains a white spider logo on its chest.
But there is no spider logo on the movie poison.
In the film, Eddie's apartment is littered with dumbbells, echoing his habit of exercising by lifting weights often in the comics.
Eddie was overeating after being possessed by Venom, and even more crazy to nibble on lobsters, this scene is reminiscent of the comic book Venom: The Hunger," where Eddie eats any food under the influence of venom that feels like garbage, resulting in the desire to eat human brains.
So the question is, why does Venom always want to eat the brain? This is because the main food source of symbionts is phenylethylamine, a substance that is usually found in the human brain or chocolate, so in the absence of chocolate, the symbiote will require the host to eat the brains of enemies, a behavior that is one of the most common means of attack for venom or other symbiont characters.
Symbiote emotions
Symbiotes tend to amplify human emotions and show them endlessly, so the venom attached to Eddie, although violent, also inherits the character of the host who is jealous and hateful.
Similarly, the possessed female ambulance crew in the opening scene of the film brutally kills the little in the night market, but also uses the symbiote to heal the lame grandmother. After Anne becomes a female venom, she returns the symbiote to Eddie by kissing (although it seems to have a little bit of basic feelings), which actually reflects anne's state of mind that still loves each other.
Carlton Drake
Drake initially mentions that studying symbiotes is to find a cure for cancer, and in the comics Drake studies a serum to treat his own cancer, only to be injected and transformed into a humanoid spider monster.
It has been revealed in the comics that Eddie suffered from cancer before encountering Venom, because the symbiote constantly devoured the cancer cells to allow him to survive.
In addition, in the Marvel Ultimate Universe, the symbiote happens to be set as an artificial substance for the treatment of cancer, and it was developed by Peter Parker's father and Eddie Bullock's father.
Roland Tris
In the film, Roland Treece is a bald villain under Carlton Drake. In the comics, Roland Tris is an upscale character who owns his own company and is a member of the Life Foundation.
Pop culture memes
Describing the use of sound waves against symbiotes, Anne mentions Superman's Achilles heel, the Kryptonite. Although this is an element of the DC family, in fact, kryptonite can be regarded as a kind of popular culture, and Americans often use it to describe things they hate or are not good at, so this expression actually closes the distance between the movie and the real world.
In addition, when Eddie and the female doctor chatted awkwardly, he also mentioned E.T., like Superman, a famous alien in popular culture.
When Eddie called for a job, he said he could use a female pseudonym and asked if he had seen Tootsie. This is the 1982 American comedy romance film "Tootsie" starring Dustin Hoffman, which tells the story of an unfamounted actor who dresses up as a woman to get a job offer.
William screamed
In the melee between Venom and Special Forces, the famous "Wilhelm Scream", a sound effect commonly used in film and television works, is generally used when the character is attacked or falls. The call was first included in 1951 and was carried forward by a character named William in the 1953 film The Attack on the Flying Sand River.
Cameo Maniac
Although the film does not belong to the MCU, how can a Marvel hero movie be less than Stan Lee? But at the end of the film, the old man appears and gives Eddie emotional advice, and it seems that he already knows the secret of Venom?
slaughter
The red-haired criminal who appears in the easter egg at the end of the film is the murderous "Carnage" in the comic. Real name Cletus Kasady, who became a terrifying monster due to his combination with Venom's descendant Red Symbiote in prison, he became a fierce enemy of Spider-Man after escaping from prison, and it is estimated that Eddie will be abused in the sequel to the movie.
In addition, actor Wade Williams plays the prison guard escorting Eddie in this clip, and he has played a prison guard in the classic American drama "Prison Break", and it seems that the director's hint is obviously easy to see.
The second Easter egg?
After the first Easter egg ends, a line appears in the screen that reads "Meanwhile, in another universe...", followed by a clip from Spider-Man: Parallel Universes, which tells the story of Myers Morales, a little black spider, who meets Peter Parker from a different time and space, and develops a funny story. However, due to the temporary release plan in China, this clip was not retained in the end of "Venom".
About the Author: Movie Easter Egg Don, an amateur movie lover.