Some Venom (the organism) story ideas, separately or combined as seem good:
Venom is not terribly aware of the concept of gender and has certainly no concept of it as corresponding to any particular anatomy.
Venom basically considers all mammals to be one sort of organism, and is still waiting for Eddie to chew hraka.
Venom considers gametic reproduction to be, frankly, so primitive as to be mortifying, but doesn’t bring it up out of politeness. (Venom’s concept of politeness is not recognizable as earth-politeness.)
Venom is not able to watch television/read/etc without Eddie’s vision and language centers doing the heavy lifting.
Venom is an obligate anaerobe and finds Eddie’s ability to breathe oxygen badass (but probably wouldn’t tell him that.)
Venom thinks Eddie’s endoskeleton is hilarious: opposable thumbs! Sure, I’ll just contract a muscle to pull on a tendon to pull a lever to pull on another tendon to pull on another lever! What a great way to interact with your environment at all.
Venom doesn’t know what a slime mold is but surely it must be the pinnacle of earth’s creations.
Person A: You know… the thing Person B: The “thing”? Person A: Yeah, the thing with the little-! *mutters under their breath* Como es que se llama esa mierda… THE FISHING ROD
As someone with multiple bilingual friends where English is not the first language, may I present to you a list of actual incidents I have witnessed:
Forgot a word in Spanish, while speaking Spanish to me, but remembered it in English. Became weirdly quiet as they seemed to lose their entire sense of identity.
Used a literal translation of a Russian idiomatic expression while speaking English. He actually does this quite regularly, because he somehow genuinely forgets which idioms belong to which language. It usually takes a minute of everyone staring at him in confused silence before he says “….Ah….. that must be a Russian one then….”
Had to count backwards for something. Could not count backwards in English. Counted backwards in French under her breath until she got to the number she needed, and then translated it into English.
Meant to inform her (French) parents that bread in America is baked with a lot of preservatives. Her brain was still halfway in English Mode so she used the word “préservatifes.” Ended up shocking her parents with the knowledge that apparently, bread in America is full of condoms.
Defined a slang term for me……. with another slang term. In the same language. Which I do not speak.
Was talking to both me and his mother in English when his mother had to revert to Russian to ask him a question about a word. He said “I don’t know” and turned to me and asked “Is there an English equivalent for Нумизматический?” and it took him a solid minute to realize there was no way I would be able to answer that. Meanwhile his mom quietly chuckled behind his back.
Said an expression in English but with Spanish grammar, which turned “How stressful!” into “What stressing!”
Bilingual characters are great but if you’re going to use a linguistic blunder, you have to really understand what they actually blunder over. And it’s usually 10x funnier than “Ooops it’s hard to switch back.”
Venom is 100% as ridiculous as everyone makes him out to be
Through no fault of my own, I ended up watching the Jim Carry Grinch movie last night, and forgot how unbelievably hilarious it is
Like, he won the award thing and the mayors like “here’s your very own old biddies!” And the two lesbians who raised him descend on Jim Carry like a bunch of vampires, and suddenly he’s in an xmas sweater and they shove him on the cheer chair and parade him round
And next thing they’re making him judge pudding and they’re just shoveling this bright colored crap in his mouth and that one guy goes “this is not pudding” whilst pushing a spoonful into his mouth, and Jims Carrys muffled and slightly horrified “What is it then?!”
Also, knowing how much he struggled with this role, I get the feeling that Jim Carry was barely acting throughout this film, they just filmed, and I got to watch him have a genuine mental breakdown on screen.
I don’t want to give people the impression that Venom (2018) is like a Thor: Ragnarok or something.
A lot of what the critics are saying is true – about the plot, the pacing, the…everything really – and yet
When a sweaty Tom Hardy tears open a bag of frozen tater tots and just starts pouring them into his mouth, while an alien symbiote screams ‘HUNGRY!’ and then makes him eat chicken out of the trash…
I’m sitting there feeling like yes, 10/10, movie of the year, give that man an Oscar
Finally, a protagonist who represents the people.
when he just sits in a lobster tank and goes “alright, i’m okay now” like thats such a mood
y’know something Venom (2018) captured unusually well that a lot of stroytelling doesn’t is what it feels like to be sick and trying anything you can to get some relief
Also how ungodly disorienting it would be to try to assimilate and achieve symbiosis with an alien entity while not knowing what the fuck was going on and still trying to go about your business.
Honestly from the moment his head was in the toilet and he helplessly cried out to the universe “what is wrong with me,” my heart was 100% invested.
Jab loves robots 