The Dark Jeremy twist from Beetlejuice 2 was cleverly foreshadowed by his very first scene

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

Jeremy subtly foreshadows his shocking villain twist in his very first scene in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice – Thanks for a well-placed Dostoevsky reference. When Jenna Ortega’s Astrid Deetz has had enough of her family’s nonsense, she gets on her bike and rides through Winter River. After running off the road from an American truck, she fell through a fence and hit a tree. There, she meets her love interest, Jeremy, who’s hanging out in his tree house, reading Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

As Astrid and Jeremy discuss their love of Dostoevsky’s works, they quickly fall for each other and Jeremy invites Astrid to spend Halloween night with him. However, when she comes to his house on Halloween, she’s shocked to know that he is one of Beetlejuice 2It’s a lot of dead letters. He initially tells her that he needs her help to get his life back, but he is actually planning to trade her life for his. This is a surprising twist, but it was already established in the first conversation about Dostoevsky.

Jeremy and Astrid’s crime and punishment conversation foreshadows his dark plan for her

Crime and Punishment is all about a character justifying his crime to himself

The Jeremy villain twist was foreshadowed in Jeremy and Astrid’s conversation about Crime and Punishment. Jeremy’s plan to switch Astrid’s life for his own is somewhat similar to the plot of Crime and Punishment. Dostoyevsky’s novel revolves around a poor man who attempts to kill a woman Who stores money and valuables in her apartment. He convinces himself that killing the woman and stealing her wealth is justified if he uses that money to do good things after the deed is done.

Jeremy similarly convinced himself that he was justified in taking Astrid’s lifeBecause he believes that he will do something more valuable than her. Jeremy even notes that he has read the book three times. This means that he had a lot of free time on his hands, a hint that he is obsessed with his parents’ property, and this means that he studied Dostoevsky’s ethical pontifications quite closely. However, where the character in Crime and Punishment Beginning to feel remorse for his actions, Jeremy has no such turning point.

Betelgeuse hilariously turned Jeremy’s crime and punishment obsessions against him before his death

“I believe it’s Dostoevsky who said… ‘Later, f*****!'”

Jeremy’s final scene brings these Crime and Punishment Reference complete circle and uses his love for Dostoevsky against him in one of Beetlejuice Beetlejuices best quotes. Right before sending Jeremy into the fires of damnation in Beetlejuice BeetlejuiceThe third act, Betelgeuse hilariously played, “I believe it is Dostoevsky who said… ‘Later, f***er!’“Dostoevsky’s writing deals with the complexity of morality and the human condition, but Betelgeuse’s view of good and evil is much more black-and-white than that. Finally, the spirit with the utmost indifference to Jeremy’s deep self-importance undermines it and turns it into a joke.