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Venom
毒液：致命守护者

Venom is a 2018 American superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character of the same name, produced by Columbia Pictures in association with Marvel and Tencent Pictures, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. It is the first film in Sony's Spider-Man Universe (SSU) and is directed by Ruben Fleischer from a screenplay by Jeff Pinkner, Scott Rosenberg and Kelly Marcel. It stars Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock and Venom alongside Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, Scott Haze, and Reid Scott. In the film, struggling journalist Brock gains superpowers after becoming the host of an alien symbiote, Venom, whose species plans to invade Earth. After Venom's appearance in Spider-Man 3 (2007), Sony attempted to develop a spin-off film based on the character but it did not move forward due to issues with Sony's ongoing Spider-Man franchise. In March 2016, work began on a new version that would start a new shared universe featuring the non-Spider-Man Marvel characters that the studio possessed film rights to. Sony also intended for Venom to share the world of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), but ultimately distanced the film from Spider-Man. In March 2017, Rosenberg and Pinkner were set to write, with Fleischer and Hardy added in May. Filming took place from October 2017 to January 2018 in Atlanta, New York City, and San Francisco. The film was primarily inspired by the comic book miniseries Venom: Lethal Protector (1993) and the story arc "Planet of the Symbiotes" (1995). Venom premiered at Regency Village Theater on October 1, 2018, and was theatrically released in the United States on October 5, 2018. The film was unfavorably received by critics, who criticized its pacing, screenplay, tone, and unfaithfulness to the source material, but the chemistry between Brock and Venom was praised, and Hardy's performance was met with mixed responses. The film was a box office success, becoming the seventh-highest-grossing film of 2018 with over $856 million worldwide and setting several box office records for an October release. A sequel, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, was released on October 1, 2021, while a third film is in development.

《毒液：致命守护者》（英语：Venom，香港译《毒魔》，台湾译《猛毒》）是一部于2018年上映的美国超级英雄电影，改编自漫威漫画旗下的反英雄角色毒液，本片由哥伦比亚影业和漫威娱乐共同制作，并由索尼影视娱乐负责发行，为索尼影业蜘蛛侠宇宙的第一部电影作品，由鲁本·弗雷斯彻执导，斯科特·罗森堡、杰夫·皮克纳、凯莉·马赛尔和威尔·贝尔编剧，并由汤姆·哈迪、米歇尔·威廉姆斯、里兹·阿迈德、斯科特·荷兹和雷德·斯科特主演。关于以毒液为主角的电影的发展，最初是在2007年由制片人阿维·阿拉德提出。经过不同的迭代后，限制级独立电影于2017年3月被证实，目的是为了开创一个索尼影视娱乐拥有电影版权的漫威漫画角色的新共享宇宙，尽管索尼有意与华特迪士尼公司旗下的漫威电影宇宙共享世界观，这是由于索尼和漫威影业之间的特殊交易而在漫威电影宇宙中所设。2017年5月，鲁本·弗雷斯彻和汤姆·哈迪加入电影，罗森堡和皮克纳为电影编剧。主体拍摄于2017年10月在亚特兰大、纽约和旧金山进行。本片于2018年10月1日在西木区的摄政村影院首映，10月5日在美国院线上映。续集《毒液2》于2021年10月1日在美国上映。

Starring演员
Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, Scott Haze, Reid Scott

Plot
While exploring space for new habitable worlds, a probe belonging to the bio-engineering corporation Life Foundation discovers a comet covered in symbiotic lifeforms. The probe returns to Earth with four samples, but one escapes and causes the ship to crash in Malaysia. The Life Foundation recovers the other three and transports them to their research facility in San Francisco, where they discover that the symbiotes cannot survive without oxygen-breathing hosts, which often fatally reject the symbiosis. Investigative journalist Eddie Brock reads about these human trials in a classified document in the possession of his fiancée Anne Weying, an attorney preparing a lawsuit defense for the Life Foundation. Brock confronts Life Foundation CEO Carlton Drake about the trials, leading to Brock and Weying losing their jobs. Consequently, Weying ends their relationship. Six months later, Drake's symbiosis trials are closer to success, though one of his symbiotes dies due to carelessness. Brock is approached by Dora Skirth, one of Drake's scientists, who disagrees with his methods and wants to expose him. She helps Brock break into the research facility to search for evidence, and he learns that an acquaintance of his, a homeless woman named Maria, is one of the test subjects. Brock attempts to rescue Maria, but the symbiote possessing her transfers to his body without him realizing, leaving her dead. Brock escapes and soon begins displaying strange symptoms. He reaches out to Weying for help, and her new boyfriend, Dr. Dan Lewis, discovers the symbiote on examining Brock. Drake exposes Skirth to the remaining captive symbiote, killing both. This leaves the symbiote inside Brock as the only known surviving specimen. Drake sends mercenaries to retrieve the symbiote from Brock, but it manifests around his body as a monstrous creature that fights off the attackers. It later introduces itself to Brock as Venom and explains that the comet is searching for planets where the symbiotes can possess and devour the inhabitants. Venom offers to spare Brock if he helps the symbiotes achieve their goal, and Brock uses the superhuman attributes that the symbiote imbues him with. Brock breaks into his old workplace to turn in evidence of Drake's crimes but is surrounded by SWAT officers. Weying sees him transform to escape and takes Brock to Lewis's office, where they explain that the symbiote is rotting Brock's internal organs. Brock notes that the symbiote has two weaknesses: high-pitched noises and fire. Although Venom claims the organ damage can be reversed, Weying uses an MRI machine to separate him from Brock, whom Drake's men then capture. Meanwhile, the fourth symbiote, Riot, makes its way from Malaysia to San Francisco by hopping from body to body. It bonds with Drake, who agrees to take Riot in a Life Foundation space probe to collect the rest of the symbiotes and bring them to Earth. Weying reluctantly bonds with Venom so they can free Brock. When Brock and Venom are bonded again, the latter promises that it has been convinced to help protect the Earth from his kind through its interactions with Brock, and the pair attempt to stop Riot and Drake with Weying's help. Venom damages the probe as it takes off, causing it to explode and kill both Riot and Drake. After the incident, Brock returns to journalism, while Weying believes Brock is no longer bonded to Venom after this, and that Venom also died in the explosion. However, the pair remain secretly bonded and set out to protect San Francisco by killing criminals. In a mid-credits scene, Brock is invited to interview incarcerated serial killer Cletus Kasady, who promises "carnage" when he escapes.

剧情
由生物工程企业生命基金会发射的太空船在外太空探索能让人类定居的新家园的过程中偶然发现了一颗存在着大量外星共生体的彗星。太空船在回收彗星上的其中四种共生体后返航地球，但其中一种共生体在途中逃出导致太空船失控并坠毁在马来西亚东部的一座森林里。生命基金会派出队伍寻获三种共生体并把共生体送回位于美国旧金山的研究中心，执行长卡尔顿·德雷克开始研究共生体，发现共生体在没有人类宿主的情况下无法生存，于是不惜找生活在旧金山街头的游民接受人体实验。记者艾迪·布洛克一直非常厌恶生命基金会隐藏的黑幕，偷偷从他的检察官未婚妻安妮·威宁手中的机密资料得知生命基金会采用的非法人体实验。艾迪替电视台采访德雷克时利用人体实验一事与其对峙，结果导致他和安妮都丢掉各自的工作，安妮还因此跟艾迪解除婚约，让他的生活从此支离破碎。六个月后，德雷克的共生体实验仍然未能跟人体结合，其中一种共生体更因为研究员的大意而死亡。随着大批自愿者在实验中失去性命，生命基金会的科学家朵拉·斯克斯逐渐认为这项实验违反了医学伦理，因此将整个实验的内幕爆料给艾迪，随后还趁下班时把他带进实验室内部。在斯克斯引开保全时，艾迪独自在实验室中拍照取证，同时发现一位他认识的游民玛莉亚也成为了实验对象之一，在敲碎玻璃准备救出她时，玛莉亚体内的黑色共生体随即寄生到艾迪身上，使他获得了强大的能力而逃出研究中心。而艾迪在回家后开始出现一系列不寻常的征兆，身体时常失去自控能力，吃东西时会狼吞虎咽，甚至还听见另外一把“声音”跟他说话。艾迪找到安妮和她身为医生的新男友丹·路易斯求助，路易斯检查后得知艾迪的体内有某种“寄生虫”，因此让艾迪先回家观察。德雷克将背叛他的斯克斯留给他的最后一种共生体当成食物吃掉后，该共生体在不久后也死去，唯独剩下艾迪体内的共生体。德雷克派遣保全主管罗兰·崔斯率领队伍去向艾迪要回共生体，在家中被攻击的艾迪在受袭之下，身体被共生体操纵，还变成一只攻击性极强的怪物。逃脱后，共生体向艾迪介绍自己名叫“毒液”，解释它们种族当时正在寻找别的星球来进食该星球上的居民，乘载的彗星却被生命基金会发现。毒液称只要艾迪愿意与它合作并协助它达到目的便会饶他一命。开始享受这股新力量的艾迪跑回他原先工作的电视台，在他的上司的桌上留下他拍的德雷克的犯罪证据，下楼时却被SWAT队伍团团包围。艾迪被迫变身成毒液击退警察，但过程被一旁的安妮目睹，其将艾迪带回医院寻找解救的方法。艾迪得知共生体的弱点是高频噪音和火焰后，安妮开启核磁共振成像机好让艾迪和共生体分离。与此同时，六个月前在马来西亚逃脱的第四种共生体“暴乱”连续转移至多名宿主的身上后一路来到旧金山，闯入生命基金会的研究中心并寄生在德雷克的体内。艾迪刚要离开医院时被崔斯抓回去拷问，而德雷克则伴随着暴乱现身，称他们即将搭上另一架生命基金会的太空船回到共生体的母星并带来更多同类吞噬地球。安妮不情愿地暂时让自己被毒液寄生及时营救艾迪，毒液杀死崔斯后再次回到艾迪身上，但受艾迪的正义感所影响而决定制止暴乱并守护地球。在毒液不敌暴乱之下，安妮在远处释放噪音使艾迪和德雷克均脱离各自的共生体，但暴乱仍然刺伤艾迪，再次和德雷克合体并爬入驾驶舱准备发射。而艾迪靠和毒液再度合体保住性命，在太空船发射之际破坏火箭推进器引发爆炸，让德雷克伴随着暴乱共同葬身火海。但毒液在爆炸一刻自行形成屏障为艾迪挡下爆炸造成的火焰，过程也看似牺牲它自己。事后，艾迪随着生命基金会的证据公开而成功挽回名誉，在安妮认为毒液已经消失的同时，毒液其实仍然在艾迪的体内，并和艾迪成为保护城市的拍档，而艾迪亦对毒液立下“不准伤害好人，只能吃掉坏人”的规矩。不久后，艾迪成为一名自由记者并来到一座监狱，采访一位指名道姓要见他的重刑犯克莱图斯·卡萨迪，其对艾迪扬言他一旦成功逃狱便会开始大肆杀戮。

Cast and Character 演员阵容与角色
Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock / Venom 艾迪·布洛克／毒液
Brock is an investigative journalist who becomes the host of Venom, an alien symbiote that imbues him with super-human abilities.

Michelle Williams as Anne Weying / She-Venom 安妮·威宁 / 女毒液
An attorney and Brock's ex-fiancée.

Riz Ahmed as Carlton Drake / Riot 卡尔顿·德雷克／暴乱
A genius inventor and leader of the Life Foundation experimenting on the symbiotes.

Scott Haze as Roland Treece
Drake's head of security

Reid Scott as Dan Lewis
Weying's new boyfriend, a doctor who tries to help Eddie.

Jenny Slate portrays Dora Skirth
Life Foundation scientist

Melora Walters as Maria
A homeless woman who briefly hosts Venom

Peggy Lu as convenience store owner Mrs. Chen

Michelle Lee as Malaysian EMT who briefly hosts Riot