Denna intervju med filmens regissör indikerar att soldaterna skar upp fisken att skrämma svansändarna innan slaget förenades:
BJH: These moments are what make filmmaking fun and interesting. It wasn’t actually in the script, but when I was making the storyboards, I thought of this idea I mentioned before—a primitive aspect, like tribes in Africa, a ritual before battle to intimidate their enemies. Putting blood on their faces and whatnot. So I came up with this idea of the fish, but I also wanted to bring it back somehow, because it was such a cool concept. We decided to have Chris slip on it. It’s a bit of a strange moment but very natural for me, and Chris took to it immediately. He sort of laughed and said: “We’re doing all this cool action—you want me to slip on a fish? Why not?” We shot it very quickly.
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Q. Is there any cultural significance to put the axe blade in the belly of a fish before the massacre?
BJH: So it’s a sci-fi movie but I thought it would be appropriate to have a primitive type fight, like an ancient tribe ritually putting blood on their face. It wasn’t in the script, but as I was storyboarding I included it. But it was actually hard to shoot on set: the fish smelled awful, getting the blood on the axe was hard, and the timing was difficult (it was fake blood in a condom, and it was hard to cut it with the axe).
Observera att ingen av dessa intervjuer visar att fisken förgiftades.