At the end of the movie Hell Detective, Constantine, with the help of Chas Kramer, reads a Bible prayer to temporarily suppress the demon in Angela's body (Satan's son "Mammon"), but before the two can celebrate, Chas is killed by a mysterious force.
Constantine rolled up his sleeves, showed off the tattoos on his arms, and tried to combine the two tattoos so that gabriel, who was hidden in the shadows, revealed his true identity.
“Into the light ,I command thee!”
The film does not make more explanations for Constantine's tattoo, in fact, there are more stories behind it, and even involve a hidden character in the play, and today I will explain it for you.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Succubus Ellie</h1>
Few people know that in the director's cut of the film, Constantine also has a girlfriend named Ellie, who is actually a Half-Breed, and the two met in the "work" of "Scum Kang" and gradually developed a physical relationship.
Of course, "Zakang" knows that Ellie is a charmer, and also knows that she is close to herself is probably the idea of her boss Satan (Lucifer), and it doesn't matter about this", "Zakham" doesn't matter, anyway, both sides take what they need. From time to time, he also revealed some insignificant information to Ellie, giving her a little sweetness to go back to the errands.
However, the magic Ellie did give "Scum Kang" real help, and the tattoo on his arm was obtained with Ellie's assistance.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right">“红王之印”（sigil of the red king）</h1>
In an interview about the film, director Francis Lawrence confirmed that the tattoo on Constantine's arm was related to Ellie the Charmer. During a "work" for the Alchemists Guild, in order to find an invisible demon that the alchemists had inadvertently summoned to the world, the Alchemist Guild gave Constantine a seal ("Seal of the Red King") that could be used to make the hidden monsters appear.
Originally, "ZaKang" intended to take this seal for himself after the completion of the "work", but of course the Alchemist Guild refused, and the seal was forcibly recovered. But "Za Kang" was "Za Kang" in the end, he actually found someone to copy a fake seal in advance, deliberately let the Alchemist Guild take it, and secretly embedded the seal in his arm with the help of the enchanted Ellie, so that he took the other people's things for himself.
The so-called Red King is a term used by ancient Western alchemists to refer to sulfur, one of the most commonly used raw materials in alchemy, as opposed to the White Queen, or mercury. Alchemists believed that the transfer of energy between sulfur and mercury through fire could create everything in the world, and this process was the process of combining the Red King and the White Queen.
In the film's director's cut, Constantine has a premonition that something might happen to his friend Beeman, but it's too late when he arrives, and Beeman dies a horrible death surrounded by a swarm of flies. In order to find out who was behind it, Constantine used the "Red King's Seal" once there, but found nothing (mainly because the perpetrator Gabriel had already left the scene).
After Chas's inexplicable and tragic death, Constantine realized that this would not be "Mammon" at work, because it had not yet been able to cross Angela's body into the human world, the power of hell could not be used for the time being, and there must be other forces behind it, so he cast the "Seal of the Red King" again, this time just to catch Gabriel who was hiding.
Mammon does not refer to demons in the Old Testament, but to money, which was the predecessor of the later word "money." Later, it was used to describe the greedy person's unbridled pursuit of material enjoyment, and then gradually evolved into "greed" as one of the seven deadly sins. In Constantine's world, Satan (i.e. Lucifer, here the two are the same person) is the ruler of hell, representing "arrogance," while Mamen, who was his equal, was changed to his son.
Mammon
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Ellie's ending</h1>
By the way, the ending of the enchanted Ellie in the movie, she is played by Michelle Monahan, and the role was originally quite a lot. Constantine learns that he has lung cancer and is about to die soon, and the only person he talks to is this demon. However, it caused Ellie's ruthless ridicule, she satirized "Za Kang" this life is a joke, for heaven to fight for the end but finally ended up such a fate, and her boss must be very happy, will definitely personally come to the scene to harvest the soul of "Za Kang".
During Constantine's rescue of Angela, he uses holy water to drench the entire room with demons, including Ellie the Charmer (the only time she makes her face appear in the film).
After Constantine had wiped out all the Demons in the room, he also found Ellie, the Demon, who was hiding under the table, shivering, and thinking of his old feelings, he finally let the Demon Race go and allowed her to leave.
It is a pity that these contents have been abandoned in the release version, it is said that the director wants to present a lonely Constantine for the audience, then his original emotional life must be abandoned, personally feel that the charm played by Michelle Monahan is still quite in place, in fact, does not affect the overall style of the film.
Maybe the director felt that the actors were invited, and there was no need to feel panicked, and finally Michelle Monahan's charm Ellie only had a very short shot when the fire sprinkler was turned on, which looked a bit inexplicable.
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