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The Viral ‘Madame Web’ Line Isn’t Even in the Movie

The viral line from the Madame Web trailer — 'He was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died' — was cut.

So much movie-making these days seems tragically engineered towards ginning up that one perfect shot, expression, quote, needle drop, or moment that’ll go bonkers viral and juice the box office receipts. Madame Web, the newest addition to the cinematic Spider-verse, reached these heights spectacularly when its first trailer dropped, and star Dakota Johnson put everyone in a chokehold with her cosmically bored line reading of a piece of exposition: “He was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died.” Wouldn’t you want to reward those who paid good money to see Madame Web if only to hear that lone line in context and gain some deeper understanding of the tragedy endured by Johnson’s character, Cassie Webb, following the death of her mother in the Amazon while she was researching spiders?

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