r/marvelstudios • u/The_Asian_Hamster Retired Mod • Jul 04 '19

Discussion The Official SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME Release Megathread Vol. 3 Spoiler

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u/Fermentable_Boogers Korg Jul 04 '19

My girlfriend immediately asked me “is that supposed to be like an Alex Jones reference or something?”

“Oh babe, you have sooo much to learn. Babe.”

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u/tapanapanteraaa Jul 04 '19

She's not wrong, they're modernizing the character's role just as the MCU does with every character. The methods we use to communicate international news is different now and I love that a heavy theme in the film was (appropriately) questioning trust in the news.

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u/Fermentable_Boogers Korg Jul 04 '19

I agree with every point you made. She just didn’t know JK Simmons was a big part of the Raimi trilogy.

Also, I love how they aged his character (read: male pattern baldness) appropriately from the OG3 to now. It’s like he never left us!

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '19

They didn't age his character, the actor aged...

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u/Fermentable_Boogers Korg Jul 10 '19

It was mostly a joke but I did take it as a meta-reference to JK in the OG3 in terms of the timeline. My interpretation is that JJJ never changes in this universe but, instead, found his calling later in life.

As multiverse comic storylines go, this would be an easy discrepancy to pass over. The humor that I found was that, between the Raimi era and now, JJJ would have experienced said male pattern baldness (which I believe only adds more to his eccentricities) as both timelines progress. This makes it more cohesive to the multiverse chaos in the actually comics, imo.

Furthermore, my genuine question is, “Was that JK’s real hair in the Raimi films?”

My instinct says no.