![]() Minority Report presents us with a Big Brother future, in which eyes are the key to identity, allowing access into buildings, right down to the advertisements seen on billboards. This is the second entry for both Philip K Dick and Steven Spielberg, and at least one of these guys will get a third nod in a moment. This sequence was cut from the 15-rated cut of the film in the UK. One can’t accuse Renny Harlin of tainting his films with symbolism or cinematic poetry, as evidenced in Die Hard 2. But he does go for the gusto with an action sequence in which a resourceful Bruce Willis saves himself from almost certain death by using a well-placed icicle through his adversary’s eyeball. So it’s fitting that when replicant Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) decides to exact fatal vengeance on his father Tyrell (outfitted with a pair of spectacles that would do Harry Potter proud), it’s with a very graphic thumbs-through-the-eyeballs gouge. There’s a ton of eyeball imagery in Blade Runner, from the exaggerated ocular close-up that opens the film to the reflective tapetum lucidum of the owl in Tyrell’s offices. As Willie (Kate Capshaw) gears up for a tasty soup, she stirs the bottom to uncover a quartet of floating eyeballs, causing her meal to stare back at her. The appetiser, a disarmingly fragrant broth, is the most shocking. Still, as a kid, I delighted in the grotesque meal that included “Snake Surprise” (a large python contained live wriggling babies which the locals slurp with relish) and chilled monkey brains (served in severed baboon heads). Sometimes he can even use their eyes to see the future.One can argue there’s a certain xenophobia running through all of the Indiana Jones movies, ranging from the depiction of spear-carrying Peruvian aboriginals in both Raiders and Crystal Skull down to the stomach-churning Pankot Palace menu in Temple Of Doom (which I’ve never encountered in any Indian restaurant). We don’t get an exact meaning regarding that explanation, but in the comics, Corinthian allows him to see a human’s past life, their memories, and that sort of thing. In the show, he tells Dream he does it because it gives him a “taste” of what it’s like to be human. Why does the Corinthian take the eyes of his victims in The Sandman?Īlthough we only see it happen once (sort of, it’s off-screen mostly), the Corinthinian is known for taking his victim’s eyes and then eating them, often through the creepy eye-teeth he has. Dream gives the skull to Lucienne to put into safekeeping, which implies that it is possible for him to return someday. Toward the end, Dream destroys him and he shrinks down into a tiny skull with matching empty sockets lined with two opposing rows of teeth. The nightmare is one of the primary antagonists in the show’s first season.īut what exactly does he do with his victim’s eyes? Why does he take them? And does he survive the season? Does the Corinthian die in The Sandman?ĭreams and nightmares cannot really die, but the Corinthian does, more or less, die in the show’s first season. ![]() He is a serial killer who enjoys killing people and cutting out their eyes, later consuming them. The season begins with Dream trying to hunt down the Corinthian, who is played by Boyd Holbrook, but before he can dispatch him, Dream is captured by Roderick Burgess.Īs such, the Corinthian preys on the waking world and gets into all sorts of mischief. ![]() The Corinthian is a dangerous nightmare created by Dream that escapes from The Dreaming realm in the first season of The Sandman.
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