The credits also drop many hints as to how instrumental the Widows were in securing Dreykov’s influence by once again using Photoshop to convincingly place the Widows at the scene of various tragedies that have occurred throughout the world. The real-world commentary in Black Widow does not stop at what the film creates within the timeline of the Marvel movies in order. It is also one of the few times that Marvel Studios has dabbled in more overt real-world commentary, with Dreykov representing concerns over the all-too easy task of achieving "undetectable influence," as he describes it.Ī Montage Of The Widows' Involvement In Devastating International Events While Dreykov’s association with that last individual likely would not have taken as much effort, his apparent success in achieving a peaceful rapport with American political officials whom the audience knows he really wishes to control holds a testament to him as a slippery threat. presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton and the current president of Russia, Vladimir Putin. The image of actor Ray Winstone as the former Soviet general is convincingly doctored into many photos with political figures, including former U.S. The credits also reveal how Black Widow’s central villain ( sorry, Taskmaster), Dreykov (who oversaw the selection and training of the Widows), practices his talents for manipulation outside of the Red Room. Indeed, this is easily the most horrifying moment in already thoroughly depressing sequence.ĭreykov's Association With Various World Leaders This is preceded by squealing pigs, which foreshadows Melina's mind control demonstration, symbolizes how the Red Room perceives these helpless young women, and briefly adds a tone to Black Widow that is reminiscent of horror movies like the Saw franchise. The credits present close-ups of the young Widows being prepped for what is essentially a lobotomy that can only be reversed with an antidote that cures Yelena while she is on a mission to repossess it. As Yelena Belova points out to her adoptive sister at one point, she and other were not manipulated psychologically, but surgically. The process involves everything from training with weapons, lessons in ballet dancing, and even watching violent Disney cartoons, which appears to be one of the Red Room’s methods of psychological manipulation.
I would not be surprised if the daughters of those families became Widows themselves.Ī Hint At The Widows' Mind Control ProceduresĪs previously established, Black Widow’s opening credits sequence offers a glimpse into how Natasha Romanoff and other young girls like her are made into Widows. A brief clip from a news broadcast reports of a “Russian sleeper cell discovered in suburban Ohio” with a voice over adding that there were even more operatives shacking up in burbs and raising families. citizens during the Cold War and even in the 2000s, which The Americans on FX cited as inspiration.īlack Widow’s opening credits reveals that David Harbour’s Alexei Shostakov ( formerly known as the Red Guardian) and his faux wife Melina Vostokov (Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz) were not the Red Room’s only agents hiding in plain sight. This is based on real-life accounts of Russian spies posing as U.S. We learn in the cold open, set in 1995, that Natasha’s family was really a front for a covert surveillance operation orchestrated by the Red Room. Natasha Romanoff’s dark upbringing also has some historical relevance, and I do not mean Black Widow’s faithfulness to the comic book source material.
A News Report Exposes Russian Spies Undercover In Suburbia
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