“A Quiet Place: Day One”: Spoilers follow.
“A Quiet Place: Day One” director Michael Sarnoski has explained the film’s mysterious egg scene.
The prequel film delves into the beginning of the alien invasion that plagued Earth in the first two films, and one particular scene may shed more light on the alien creatures.
At that moment, Eric (Joseph Quinn) witnesses the aliens feeding on an egg-shaped creature while trying to save the cat Frodo.
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Sarnoski spoke about the series and thought about expanding the franchise’s lore, admitting that there was “no bible” from the first two films to follow and that he didn’t want to “over-explain” the creatures.
“Part of what makes them so funny is that they’re very alien and we don’t quite understand them,” he told SlashFilm. “So I wanted to point out a few things.
“I mean, for me, the egg thing wasn’t the focus – I didn’t want to make the scene so that you think, ‘Hey, here’s what’s going on,’ and that’s important because it’s not important to Eric at that point.
“He’s just trying to save Frodo, and you get some kind of hint that there’s an ecosystem of these creatures around him.”
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Sarnoski elaborated on the pools of pink liquid that the bodies were in, saying, “The idea is that in the other movies, you kind of get the impression that the creatures are eating people, and they never really say what they’re doing to them. And I think everyone just thinks, ‘Oh, they’re eating the people or something.’
“But I like the idea that the creatures are some kind of leaf-cutter ants that are farming and using the organic material of humans to grow their food source, which are these weird melon, egg and mushroom things that they kind of feed the little ones with.”
He added that the scene “indicates that these are farmers and that there is a certain family dynamic within them.”
“I liked that idea, especially after the first Quiet Place, which is about a rural farming family,” Sarnoski continued. “So yeah, that was kind of what I was hinting at without emphasizing it too much.”
A Quiet Place: Day One is in theaters now.
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