ONTD, what was thought to be a weekend with one gay film at the theaters may have turned into a competition for homosexual rights. Lady Gaga's
A Star Is Born opening this weekend has yanked her little monsters out of the cracks in the floor after they ran away from
Joanne land as they started making up negative reviews for the film's competition, also opening this weekend: Sony's unnecessary disaster
Venom.
But as it turns out, a couple of tweets from viewers who saw the film had the gays questioning: Does
Venom feature a kiss between Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy without a muzzle) and Venom (the evil alien symbiote that wants to consume everything in its path
#relatable)? Have we accidentally pitted two groundbreaking LGBTQ films against each other when we should be sharing all the coins with
both of them?
My investigation led to an emotional rollercoaster... and a harrowing journey.
Phase 1: DenialWe begin with the influx of both the little monsters trashing the movie and the DCEU fans who want to revere everything that isn't Marvel. How else could anyone sit through
"Why did you say that name????" and claim to be a Snyder fan? Bots and fans alike took to twitter to share the following message,
"i am the biggest marvel fan but I just watched #Venom and I don't know what to say. Easily the worst movie this year. I expected so much better and now I'm just disappointed."But one tweet in particular caught my attention,
"Lots of democrat nonsense, pushing LGBT agenda down throat too."Was there an LGBTQ agenda in Venom?
Were there gays somewhere in the movie?
Did they need the audience to buy the album?
Still, it sounded ridiculous. There was no way it was true. Little did I know, my investigation was only just beginning.
PHASE 2: AngerAs I took on my journalistic mantle into the unknown, I quickly discovered that the tweet going around talking about an LGBT agenda in Venom was a joke by a gay person.I started to wonder, was my chain being
yanked? Did
I play
myself, the same way Tom Hardy plays himself in every one of his movies as someone who can't enunciate? That couldn't be the
only reason the gays on my timeline were so confused about this movie, right?
I knew I had to keep going. I had to know if I was being gay baited. And soon Verified Twitter offered me the hope I so desperately wanted, dangling on a string.
PHASE 3: BargainingFilm twitter came through with the answers I was looking for... but were they playing me?"At one point Tom Hardy and Venom make out." wrote Mike Ryan, senior entertainment writer for Uproxx. In a follow up tweet with people asking if the scene he mentioned was real, Ryan wrote,
"Yes it is. I’m just not about to spoil the entire scene on twitter. If you want to, have at it man"This was it, right? This was the answer I was looking for. It
had to be real. Someone wouldn't just go on the internet and make a homophobic joke, would they? Mekler's tweet was obviously not serious, but what if it was just a riff on something that really happened? Why would Ryan
lie about the scene being real in a follow up tweet he didn't need to make? It was real. It was totally real.
The voice in the back of my head who knew better kept saying in a spooky voice,
"Baiting... baiting... baiting..." and soon, I relented. Me was right. My hero's journey wasn't over yet. Even if it must be
partially true, I had to know with absolute certainty. I had to see the unbalmed truth with my own eyes.
I had to go deeper.
PHASE 4: DepressionI realized I had to go straight to the source, where there could be no implied falsehoods or gays desperate to believe there really was a monster kiss: the straight bros on reddit. A spoiler summary of what happens in the movie had to give me the last piece of the puzzle I was looking for.
So I dove in, sifted through reddit posts until I found the right one, pressed command + f, typed in "kiss", and the answer was right in front of me.
Beware: here there be dragons.
Eddie decided to remove Venom from his body, by activating the MRi scanner. Venom was distrubed by the high frequency wave and separated itself from Eddie. Then, escaped via the vent. Eddie barged out from the hospital and ambushed by Drake's henchmen. Eddie was sedated and being taken away. Venom saw Eddie being abducted by the henchmen from far, but unable to do anything because it didn't have a host. Venom found Anne and fused with her, then proceed to rescue Eddie. Drake met Eddie, again, and he sensed that Eddie lost his symbiote, he asked Eddie about the location of Venom. Drake was able to sense a symbiote because he fused with Riot (Riot flew all the way from Malaysia to United States, hopping from host to host, finally met Drake and decided to cooperate with him to launch a spaceship for his invasion plan). Drake asked his guys to kill Eddie, and he went off to his space station for his launch program.
She-Venom arrived the scene and rescued Eddie, kissed him and transfered the symbiote back to Eddie.Venom reached the space station and fought Riot (the camera work is terrible here, Venom vs. Riot, both dark characters fighting in the night, with shaky camera, imagine that). In the end, Riot was killed by Venom by exploding the spaceship. Venom was supposed to be dead (due to the burning and explosion), but later on we found out that he did not died. The movie ended with Eddie Brock getting along with Anne again, and they (Venom and Eddie) decided on hurting bad guys only, then the convenient store scene in the trailer happened. The EndPHASE 5: AcceptanceWhen I got what I was looking for, I had to ask myself: was it what I needed? Did I really need to see Tom Hardy make out with a black symbiote alien thing that ate a guy in a supermarket store, or whatever Venom's origin in this movie is supposed to be?
Well, yes.Hollywood and liberals love to make jokes about gay intimacy between two men. It must lustful and wrong, and it has to always end in tragedy. It must involve some evil conspiracy where the two of them plot suffering behind their backs. Look no further then the gay villains in Hitchcock's
Rope, the homophobic Trump and Putin jokes, or Lefou and Gaston in Disney's live action cosplay
Beauty and the Beast. If both of them aren't evil, then one of them must be brainwashed into the relationship –– like an unwitting civilian and an alien parasite.
There seems to be a misconception in fandom that gays being being played simply as monstrous villains is some kind of profound subverison of the horror of homophobia and experiencing attraction while being closeted. That's why stuff like Hannigram from NBC's
Hannibal is so popular, despite it being heavily implied and never becoming text (since Bryan Fuller likes playing with straight guy homoeroticism), like how Hannibal was arguably queer-coded as a villain in the novels –– in theory, Will meets his seeming opposite who he ends up sharing a lot in common with, and the horrors he experiences is actually slowly awakening the love he feels for Hannibal, a gay love, before he finally gives into Hannibal's seductions and becomes a killer, and Will drags Hannibal and himself to fall over a cliff together to their deaths, as their story must end. At least, that's what their fans argue, and cite
"moral purist" to dissidents.
But these fans, especially the younger ones, don't seem to understand the damage such a portrayal can do. In the end, it's a good thing that the kiss was a weird hetero thing with She-Venom and we can all forget this 12 hour fervor ever happened. Maybe it's weird on screen, but it could've been much worse.
The Venom kiss would have been bad. It probably would've been hot, but it would've been bad.
And myself and the world are better off without it.
ONTD, is the world ready for the love that Eddie Brock and Venom share?Sources:123456789101112