Of course we can’t know how much of the Toomes’ choices in home decor is Adrian’s and how much is Doris’. She spends more time at home than he does, but I like to think they’re co-creators.
The audience first sees this house as Liz’s in the school party scene, when they have no idea Adrian is her father.
Up to this point the audience has only seen Adrian in rough settings: the destruction beside Stark Tower, his salvage company with worn sofas and work spaces, and on the working-class ferry. They know him as hot-tempered, but a man who loves his little girl’s drawings and who will do anything to protect his family.
The stereotype is set for the audience: Toomes is a rough, quick-to-anger, working class guy.
So when the audience sees this gorgeous house again, a home you’d expect of an attorney, brain surgeon, or CEO…
… the lastperson anyone expects to open the door is the working-class guy.
Because working-class folks have no taste, right? The audience would expect Adrian’s home to look like this:
and its interior to look like this:
What a shock that this guy’s house could appear on the cover of Architectural Digest Magazine.
Most people would probably expect Adrian to have one of the dogs-playing-poker paintings. Instead, the entryway has what looks like a Mid-century Modernist painting.
The interior includes a two-story entryway and dining room.
The Toomes really like Modern decor. Clean, straight lines.
Another great painting in the kitchen.
Andwhat a kitchen, jeezus fuck. The fridge has a glass door.
Marble counters, chrome, and what looks like an espresso machine.
Two sinks, one behind Adrian and one in the kitchen island, which is also marble. Look at that stream-lined pepper grinder in the foreground. Adrian and Doris must love to entertain!
And that subtly threatening rack of knives.
The colors are understated.
What this tells the audience (in my opinion) is that Adrian has moved his family into the upper-middle-class. He loves beauty, he can afford it, and he wants his family surrounded by it. The fact that Liz isn’t spoiled shows Adrian doesn’t allow their higher economic status to change his values. Except when it comes to crime. But then, anyone who’s working-class, like me, can absolutely understand Adrian having no qualms about screwing the rich who screw us. And Adrian does everything to keep his family from learning what lines he’s crossed.
I absolutely love that the people who chose this as the Toomes’ residence wanted to shatter the audience’s stereotypes about what a working-class man’s home – a murderous villain’s home – would look like. Villains who come from the Upper Class, like Oswald Cobblepott, are the ones who have gorgeous mansions. Villains with lower class roots almost always have cold, ugly lairs. Typically abandoned warehouses by a filthy river.
The lightning of the Toomes’ home hints at darkness. With its stone and chrome and soft track lightning it feels a bit cavernous. This is the lair where Adrian protects his wife and child.
But its huge windows suggest openness. You know that on a sunny day the home must be filled with warm sunlight. Adrian isn’t all dark. He has love.
How Adrian Toomes Become The Vulture - Spider-man : Homecoming
@vandeverefan This is one of my favorite scenes of Adrian (minus all the others, of course!) Honestly, I think I sympathized with him more than Spider-Man.
He should have won. I mean, I know it’s a Marvel superhero film so the “good guy” has to win, but I personally would have liked to see Adrian successfully scare Peter away from interfering with his business and just live happily ever after with his family. He deserved it.
I really wish Adrian had taken that last big haul from the plane, made billions, and retired with his family in some nice New England town, “under the radar,” as he says. All the rest of the crew would live off their cuts, but Mason would live near the Toomes, being an eccentric uncle to Liz.
I dunno if he deserved it – he’s a murderer, after all – but I wanted that for him, and for Doris and Liz.
