Captain Marvel Easter egg: Did you see THIS takedown of sexist 90s film in Captain Marvel?

March 14, 2019
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Captain Marvel and its star Brie Larson have been on the receiving end of the vitriol of Internet trolls. For the most part, the trolling is in response to Captain Marvel being about a woman, and its star speaking out about wanting more women working in film. The film does take aim at the sexism in society, but Captain Marvel takes exception with one thing in particular…

Did you spot this takedown of a sexist 90s movie during Captain Marvel?

The Easter egg was spotted by Slate journalist Sam Adams.

To understand the Easter egg, you have to know some of the first moments of Captain Marvel.

As you will know from the trailer when Captain Marvel crash lands on Earth she plummets through the roof of a Blockbuster.

From this point on, there are spoilers ahead for Captain Marvel.

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An understandably confused Captain Marvel catches sight of something in the corner.

She takes aim with her photon blaster and fires straight at a cardboard cut out.

The cut out is of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis, and she blows Schwarzenegger’s head clean off.

Curtis is draped over Schwarzenegger’s shoulder in an ad for their 1990s film True Lies.

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True Lies, as Adams points out, is a deeply misogynistic and racist movie.

Adams writes True Lies is “a movie that is deeply invested in leering at women and letting men watch”.

True Lies is about Schwarzenegger’s Harry Tasker, a spy who lies to his family about his job.

Harry suspects his wife, Helen, is cheating – and the lengths he goes to prove this fact are criminal, traumatic, and horrifying.

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The whole thing has a hefty dose of lascivious male gaze when Helen ‘transforms’ from frumpy, disappointed wife into slinky-dress-wearing spy (or so she thinks) who strips and dances for a disguised Harry at his command.

So Captain Marvel blasting a hole in Harry’s cardboard head was quite a moment of catharsis.

Adams also points out: “[T]he stench around True Lies is profound, and it’s not the kind of thing a 4K restoration can clear up.

“That’s not to say it shouldn’t be seen, if only as a reminder of the benighted past that movies like Captain Marvel—and hopefully, the better ones that will be greenlighted in its wake—have to fight against.

“You can’t blame Carol Danvers for taking her shot.

“You can only congratulate her on her aim.”

Captain Marvel is now playing in cinemas.



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