Question: In Venom, Dora Skirth explains to Carlton Drake that a host can only survive symbiosis if they're a match for the symbiote. If they're not, they die. How is it in this movie and "Venom: The Last Dance" that every person or animal that Venom inhabits is able to survive? They can't all be a match.
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Question: Every Sith apprentice is supposed to eventually kill their master and become the new master, if I'm correct. Isn't this quite risky to the survival of the Sith Order? What if an apprentice defeats their master and decides not to continue?
Answer: They are not "supposed to" do that. In the Sith religion, there are no more than 2 Sith, a master and apprentice. Also, in the Sith religion is the embrace of greed, hatred, and selfishness. This basically encourages every apprentice to eventually kill their master, both convinced that they are more powerful than their master and no longer required, as well as wanting to become a master themselves and take on an apprentice, as part of their religious beliefs. It is a risky way to exist indeed, but that's what the Sith are all about, and it's better than before when there were a lot of them and they had devastating wars amongst themselves that indeed did almost manage to wipe them all out several times. Ironically, this system is better to maintain balance.
Question: Hartman compliments Pyle after his round of shooting at the range. How could Hartman possibly know how accurate Pyle was from that distance? There's no way he could see if Pyle had hit the target.
Answer: Hartman compliments Pyle based on what he *thinks* happened based on what he saw; this is the same with almost all shooting ranges. When drill sergeants are watching you at the range, they aren't just looking to see if they can see you hit a target; they are looking at your movements. How was your stance? How was your trigger control? How were you holding the weapon? How steady was your aim? Usually, if you're good at things like the aforementioned, they just assume it all worked together in harmony and you hit the target.
Answer: He wouldn't be able to, no. I think this comes under the class of "deliberate mistake", i.e. an inaccuracy that was a choice by Kubrick to advance the plot quickly (establishing Pyle's marksmanship/rifle skills) without an extended sequence showing all of the steps taken to verify how well he'd done.
Question: Can anyone translate what Mama and Jake are saying in Italian just after the Goonies enter the restaurant?
Answer: Jake wants to know who the boys are, and Ma says they're customers. Jake replies the place isn't a restaurant, with Ma telling him to shut up and that he doesn't understand anything. Jake finally understands, and after telling the boys to make themselves comfortable, he looks at Ma and tells her to throw them out.
Question: As I understand, Beetlejuice would come back to life if he successfully married Lydia. So why don't more deceased people marry a living person and come back? The handbook says that most of the living won't see the dead, not all.
Answer: Maybe the marriage requirement is for Beetlejuice in particular, just like him being released when someone says his name three times.
Answer: As you said, most living humans could not see or communicate with the dead. This appears to be a requirement for the deceased to return to the living world. Lydia had the rare ability to see and speak to the dead. Also, many departed souls may not want to return to the living world.
Question: Why are there a lot of recent internet jokes about Padmé being twice Anakin's age or them having a huge age difference? I thought she was only five or six years older. Of course, age 14-15 is a lot different than being 9-10, but they don't even see each other for another 10 years before they get married.
Answer: While their age difference was a minor consideration, fans had issues with other factors. Padmé was a sophisticated, high-born individual who served as queen and senator and was far more mature, educated, and worldly than Anakin, a former slave. Even ten years later, Anakin, barely beyond his teens, was emotionally immature, somewhat reckless, impulsive, self-centered, and often demonstrated poor judgement. He had little real-world experience, being constantly constrained by Obi-Wan. Plot-wise, Padmé's eventual attraction seemed forced, illogical, and unrealistic given their differences in age, temperament, maturity, and status.
Good points. Five or six years is not an age difference (if both people are legal adults), in my opinion, but Anakin could seem "younger," considering that Jedi don't have "normal" lives.
Question: Joker says he "drew" fire watch. Do they draw for it, and he was the unlucky one, or is it on a rota and "drew it" is just his way of wording that it was his turn?
Answer: He's saying it was his turn, and it happened to fall on the last night of boot camp.
Question: Joker says he drew fire watch. What is fire watch? I assume it's that someone has to be on guard in case they come under fire, but I don't think that would happen at boot camp (which I get is an ironic thing to say given what happens a few minutes later in that scene!).
Answer: Fire watch is just an informal term for sentry duty (to stand watch). I think it is derived from the fact that he will be the only one awake, so he is the only one to warn if there is indeed a fire, even though that's not the main duty. But that's just a guess.
Answer: Would add that the term "fire watch" has a long-time origin and several meanings. A fire watch is someone responsible for observing hot work activity to spot any fires during work operations. It applied to watching for and reporting forest fires during the summer. Also, "signal" fires were once a communication or warning system over long distances that assigned watchers continuously monitored. In the Army, a "fire watch" refers to a security duty assigned to soldiers, particularly during basic training, to monitor the barracks, especially at night. The colloquial phrase, "putting out fires," has come to mean dealing with problems as they occur.
Question: What is the reference from Joker regarding John Wayne at the start of the movie? Was it related to what Gny Hartman was saying?
Answer: It was directly related to Gny. Sgt. Hartman. Joker was imitating John Wayne to mock Hartman for his over-the-top behaviour when addressing the recruits. He's implying that Hartman was acting like he was Wayne, a famous movie star known for playing tough, "gung ho" military heroes.
Question: When Chucky and Andy are in the police station after Chucky kills his ex-partner Eddie, Andy tries to get Chucky to talk to the police. Then, Andy runs over to his mum and says, "He told me never to tell about him or he'd kill me!" When did Chucky say this?
Answer: In those private moments, when they were alone. At night, when Andy was talking to his "imaginary" friend.
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Question: About 5 minutes into this episode, Andy is sitting on the couch with a newspaper in his hand. It's folded and at the top banner of the paper, you can see "Airy." If the newspaper was fully in view, could the full banner reveal "Mt. Airy," as in Andy's real hometown of Mt. Airy, NC?
Question: We're Barnaby, Stannie Dum, and Ollie Dee based on actual nursery rhymes, or were they made up for the movie?
Answer: Stan and Ollie were based on Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee. I believe the character of Barnaby was created for the movie.
Question: Early in the movie, Jack Warden says he has tickets for the Yankees-Twins game. The Minnesota Twins didn't come into the league until the early '60s. Why the deliberate error?
Answer: He doesn't say Yankees-Twins; he says Yankee-Cleveland.
Question: Elisabeth is a rich and famous TV celebrity and former Oscar-winning actress. How come she has to live in an apartment with a such working-class-looking lowlife creep like Oliver? Why does she even have neighbours? She must be a millionaire at a minimum.
Answer: M.C. Hammer amassed a multi-million dollar fortune, but within ten years he lost it all. She believed in her own hype. She believed she was on top forever. By the end of the 1980s, the whole fitness craze went the way of the dinosaur.
Answer: In addition to the other answers, it should also be reaffirmed that the movie isn't meant to be 100% realistic. It's purposely written to be very hyperbolic, cartoonish and almost like a "dark fairy tale." And one of the themes is the predatory way women in the entertainment industry (and the world at large) are treated. Even someone as famous as she being forced to stay in an apartment with a creepy, leering neighbour contributes to that theme… she can't escape predation, even at home. (I think it should also be noted that her apartment is fairly large and luxurious, especially for an expensive city like LA. The rent in a place like that is probably about 5X what I'd pay to rent an entire house in my city. So it's not like she has no money.)
Answer: There's a false belief that an Oscar winner automatically becomes a megastar, raking in millions and getting many movie offers. That's true for some, particularly established actors, but many find that their careers did not significantly improve and even diminished. Unfortunately, Oscar awards can be less about acting ability and more about Hollywood political wrangling, a popularity choice, a PC vote, personal bias, or a sympathy win. Some believe in an "Oscar Curse," where winning actually hurts an actor's career.
Question: In the episode "Demon", it was discovered that the silver blood was capable of mimicking biomatter. How is it in this episode that the silver blood was able to mimic Voyager and all the technology it had?
Answer: A 3D printer can make an exact copy of a working gun. But it can only be used temporarily as it would come apart. The same thing applies to Voyager. It was duplicated but was not structurally sound. That's why it came apart.
Except that Voyager wasn't made out of biomatter, so replicating it should be impossible.
Question: Am I wrong? Didn't Sara write her name and number on the $5 bill and buy mints with it at the newsstand? Then, when she was on the airplane and saw the $5 bill again, it had Johnathan's name on it?
Answer: Jonathan was the one who wrote his name and number on the $5 bill Sara used to buy the mints and then got back later on the plane. Sara actually wrote her name and number in the front of a book she had on her, which she then sold to a bookseller, and Jonathan's fiancée bought it as a wedding gift for him, not realising that it happened to be the same copy Sara had written her details in.
Question: In the Apollo vs Drago fight, is the arena set up so that the crowd only surrounds the ring on three sides? I've always gotten this impression, but it's hard to tell for certain when watching the movie. They never really give a good enough angle.
Answer: Yes, because the golden bull's head of which Apollo descended upon would have obstructed the view from people sitting behind it.
Question: What exactly does Richard die from? In a matter of seconds, he goes from running full-speed and screaming for help, only to suddenly fall over dead once he reaches Elliot. If it was from internal injuries, wouldn't it take longer for him to succumb to them, especially with how mobile he was shown to be?
Answer: Seconds after he drops dead, an ape comes from where he'd been running from and throws a human brain at the living humans. This is Richard's brain, torn from his head. In the context of the film and employing a (fair) bit of suspension of disbelief, he must have had enough brain stem (where reflexes are governed) left to run and scream a bit before dropping dead. In reality, of course, this is an extremely unlikely if not impossible scenario, invented by the screenwriter for the purposes of a gruesome death. Perhaps inspired by stories like Mike the Headless Chicken, an animal which survived for months after having most of its head/brain chopped off.
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Answer: Presumably everyone is a match, no matter how implausible that seems. The more likely scenario: this plot element was dropped for the sequels because it limits story possibilities and was never explained. It was already somewhat absurd that Eddie, his ex-girlfriend and the owner of his favourite convenience store are all matches for Venom.
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