Spoilers for Madame Web follow.
Fans who will venture to watch Madame Web on the big screen will be disappointed not to hear the infamous line that single-handedly made the trailer go viral.
In the clip released last November, Dakota Johnson's clairvoyant heroine Cassandra Web crammed in as many words as possible to provide a backstory for Tahar Rahim's villain Ezekiel Sims.
That's when the probably ADR'd line "He was in the Amazon with my mum when she was researching spiders right before she died" was shoehorned in, a 17-word masterpiece of robotic exposition that instantly threw any attempt at natural dialogue out of the window.
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As Vulture reported, however, the now-iconic line isn't even in the movie, confirming it was probably added solely to the trailer to provide prospective moviegoers with all the details on Ezekiel.
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Does the line's noticeable absence mean that Ezekiel was *not* in the Amazon with Cassie's mum when she was researching spiders right before she died? Not at all.
In the Spider-Man spin-off, Johnson's character does tell the three teenagers she's trying to protect (played by Sydney Sweeney, Celeste O'Connor and Isabela Merced) that Ezekiel was indeed in the Amazon with her mum when she was researching spiders right before she died, but does not so in one sentence.
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The protagonist ultimately trades the bizarre line for a more organic account in which just four of the 17 words ("She was researching spiders") are uttered together.
After all, the very first scene in the movie shows the audience exactly what happened when Ezekiel was in the Amazon with Cassie's mum when she was researching spiders right before she died, making that tongue-twisting line virtually useless, though not less amusing.
Madame Web is in cinemas now.
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Stefania is a freelance writer specialising in TV and movies. After graduating from City University, London, she covered LGBTQ+ news and pursued a career in entertainment journalism, with her work appearing in outlets including Little White Lies, The Skinny, Radio Times and Digital Spy.
Her beats are horror films and period dramas, especially if fronted by queer women. She can argue why Scream is the best slasher in four languages (and a half).
