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Jeremy subtly foreshadows his scandalous villain turn in his very first scene inBeetlejuice Beetlejuice – thanks to a well - place Dostoevsky reference . WhenJenna Ortega ’s Astrid Deetzhas had enough of her kinfolk ’s nonsense , she get on her bike and rides through Winter River . After being run off the road by an emerging truck , she doss down through a fencing and bumps into a tree diagram . There , she meets her sexual love interest , Jeremy , who ’s hanging out in his treehouse , readingCrime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoevsky .
As Astrid and Jeremy talk about their love of Dostoevsky ’s work , they quick fall for each other and Jeremy invites Astrid over to pass Halloween night with him . However , when she gets to his house on Halloween , she ’s dismayed to learn that he ’s one ofBeetlejuice 2 ’s many dead characters . He initially tells her he needs her assistance getting his life back , but he ’s actually plan to swop her life for his . This is a surprising twist , but it was already coif up in that first conversation about Dostoevsky .
Jeremy & Astrid’s Crime & Punishment Conversation Foreshadowed His Dark Plan For Her
Crime & Punishment Is All About A Character Justifying His Crime To Himself
The Jeremy villain twist was foreshadowed in Jeremy and Astrid ’s conversation aboutCrime and Punishment . Jeremy ’s plan to switch Astrid ’s life for his own is somewhat alike to the game ofCrime and Punishment . Dostoevsky ’s novel revolves around an impoverished serviceman who plots to kill a womanwho computer storage money and valuable item in her apartment . He convert himself that killing the woman and stealing her wealth is justifiable if he uses that money to do good things after the deed is done .
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice features a major plot twist around the new character , Jeremy , and there are many hints leading up to the reveal .
Jeremy has similarly convinced himself that he ’s justify in taking Astrid ’s sprightliness , because he believe he ’ll do something more worthwhile with it than she will . Jeremy even note that he ’s show the script three times . This have in mind he ’s had a mickle of free fourth dimension on his hands , hinting that he ’s a specter trapped on his parents ’ property , and it imply he ’s been studying Dostoevsky ’s honorable pontifications pretty tight . However , where the character inCrime and Punishmentbegins to experience self-reproach for his actions , Jeremy has no such turn full point .
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Betelgeuse Hilariously Turned Jeremy’s Crime & Punishment Obsessions Against Him Before His Death
“I Believe It Was Dostoevsky Who Said… ‘Later, F*****!'”
Jeremy ’s final panorama work theCrime and Punishmentreference full circle and uses his love of Dostoevsky against him in one ofBeetlejuice Beetlejuice ’s best inverted comma . Right before sending Jeremy into the blast of damnation inBeetlejuice Beetlejuice ’s third act , Betelgeuse hilariously gag , “ I consider it was Dostoevsky who said … ‘ afterward , f***er ! ’ ” Dostoevsky ’s writing deals with the complexness of morality and the human condition , but Betelgeuse ’s view of good and iniquity is much more smutty - and - clean than that . In the end , the specter with the most ’s unconcern to Jeremy ’s vivid self - grandness undermines it and turns it into a gag .
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is the subsequence to the original Tim Burton classic that starred Michael Keaton and Wynona Rider in a repulsion - comedy that involved touch trying to scare off raw homebuyers from occupy their house . The subsequence brings back Michael Keaton as the hilarious and sleazy ghost with selfish intentions , now join by Jenna Ortega in a new purpose .
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is the sequel to the original Tim Burton classic that starred Michael Keaton and Wynona Rider in a horror-comedy that involved ghosts trying to scare off new homebuyers from taking their house. The sequel brings back Michael Keaton as the hilarious and sleazy ghost with selfish intentions, now joined by Jenna Ortega in a new role.
