

The film plays out to the singularly brilliant psychedelic rock track The Master Of The Mystic End Credits by the film’s composer, Michael Giacchino. Mordo cannot cope with it, and that's why the big jump at the tag makes total sense.” 9. The difference is Strange can accept that contradiction. He becomes disillusioned with the Ancient One’s. “When someone gives themselves over to an extraordinarily strict moral code, the process of breaking out of that is a violent one. Mordo’s inflexibility leads him to a darker path, Derrickson explains. The problem is when the messiness of real life enters and the inflexibility of a moral code cannot cope with the realities of moral relativism.” I went to a fundamentalist Christian high school and went to a fundamentalist church, and they were the greatest people, there was an amazing sense of community. In my experience, that's not usually what it looks like. “Fundamentalism is such a pejorative word and immediately evokes images of angry extremism. “He's a fundamentalist,” says Derrickson.


A villain in the comics, he is a trusted ally of Strange for most of the movie, before being revealed as an antagonist in the late post-credits sting. Mordo (Chiwitel Ejiofor) is a character that fascinates Derrickson.
