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Spider-man
Plot
Peter Parker, his best friend Harry Osborn, and secret crush Mary Jane
Watson visit a genetics laboratory with their high school class. While
taking photos in the laboratory, Peter is bitten on the hand by a
genetically engineered "super spider", and arrives home and passes out
with the bite wound considerably swollen. Meanwhile, Norman Osborn,
Harry's father, attempts to preserve his company's military contract
from a rival firm, personally experimenting with his company's new but
unstable performance-enhancing chemical vapor to increase his speed,
strength, and stamina. Afterward, he goes into an uncontrollable rage
and kills his assistant. The next morning, Peter finds that his
previously impaired vision has improved to 20/20 and that his body has
metamorphosized into a more muscular physique. When Peter goes to
school, he finds himself producing webbing and having the quick
reflexes to avoid being injured in a fight with Flash Thompson. Peter
escapes from the school and realizes that he has acquired spider-like
abilities from the spider bite. Peter quickly learns to scale walls,
long jump across building rooftops and swing via webs from his wrists.
Lying to his aunt and uncle about where he is going, Peter decides to
enter a wrestling tournament to get money to buy a car and impress
Mary Jane. During an argument, Uncle Ben advises Peter, "With great
power comes great responsibility." Peter lashes out at his uncle and
leaves for the tournament. Peter wins, but is cheated out of the
contest money. In retaliation he allows a thief to escape with the
promoter's gate money. Afterward, Peter finds his uncle has been
carjacked and killed. Peter tracks down the carjacker only to find out
it was the same thief he allowed to escape earlier. During the
struggle, the carjacker falls out of a window and dies. Upon
graduating, Peter decides to use his abilities to fight injustice, and
dons a new costume and the persona of Spider-Man. Peter is hired as a
freelance photographer when he arrives in newspaper editor J. Jonah
Jameson's office with the only clear images of Spider-Man.
Spider-Man fights with the Green Goblin Norman, upon finding out that
Oscorp's board members plan to sell the company, attacks them at the
World Unity Fair. Although he successfully murders them, Peter engages
him as Spider-Man and drives him off as he threatens Mary Jane Watson.
Jameson quickly dubs Norman as the Green Goblin. The Goblin offers
Spider-Man a place at his side as he sees how the authorities mistrust
him, but Spider-Man refuses, knowing that it is the right thing to do.
The Goblin commits arson to engage him with a final offer, which
Spider-Man refuses, and the Goblin becomes set on killing him. At the
Osborn and Parkers' Thanksgiving dinner, Norman notices Peter's wound
from the masked confrontation and leaves shortly thereafter. Feeling
betrayed by Peter, and having found a personal annoyance with Aunt
May, he attacks her. Whilst she recovers in the hospital, Mary Jane
admits she has a crush on Spider-Man, who rescued her on numerous
occasions, and asks Peter whether he ever asked about her. Peter
reflects on his own feelings, during which Harry Osborn enters.
Feeling betrayed by his girlfriend, Harry becomes fully loyal to his
father, and tells him whom Peter loves the most.
The Goblin strikes, holding Mary Jane and a tram car full of children
hostage on top the Queensboro Bridge. The Goblin tells Spider-Man to
choose who he wants to save, and when Spider-Man refuses to choose,
the Goblin drops his hostages. Spider-Man manages to save both Mary
Jane and the tram car, whilst the Goblin is pelted at by civilians,
showing loyalty to Spider-Man and proving him wrong by telling the
Goblin that if "you mess with him, you mess with New York." The Goblin
then grabs Spider-Man and throws him into an abandoned building and
begins to beat him. The tables turn as the Goblin boasts of how he
will later kill Mary Jane, and an enraged Spider-Man forces him into
being unmasked. Norman begs for forgiveness, but his Goblin persona
attempts to remote-control his glider to impale Spider-Man. The
superhero evades the attack, causing the glider to impale Norman
instead, and he dies asking Peter not to reveal his secret to Harry.
At Norman’s funeral, Harry swears vengeance toward Spider-Man, who he
believes is responsible for killing his father, and asserts that Peter
is all he has left. Mary Jane confesses to Peter that she’s in love
with him, but Peter, feeling that he must protect her, hides his true
feelings. As Peter leaves the funeral, he recalls Uncle Ben's words,
"With great power comes great responsibility."
Why Spider-Man is the Number One Movie
Superhero
By
Tim
Spider-Man the movie came out in 2002, breaking
records with a over $114 million in one weekend. It finished with
over $400 million in the US alone. The sequel ended it's run with
just a little less, with a little over $373 million in the US.
Compare that to Superman Returns' take at $192 million currently
which may squeeze out a few million more before it's done at the box
office. Batman Begins made it to $205 million, X-men's last movie X3
made $233 million, and the big green money making machine the Hulk
made $132 million. All respectable numbers, but compared to Spidey
there just isn't any comparison.So
what's Spider-Man got that the others don't? Spider-Man isn't the
strongest superhero; that goes to Superman and the Hulk. He isn't
necessarily the smartest; that would have to go to Batman. He's not
as bad as Wolverine. So, what makes kids and adults alike flock to
see Spider-Man in such great numbers?
Maybe it's Peter Parker, Spider-Man's alter
ego. Audiences relate to Parker's struggles. He comes across as a
real person, who just happens to end up with incredible powers.
Tobey Maguire does a great job portraying Peter Parker's emotions,
from his highs to his lows, throughout both Spider-Man movies. When
Uncle Ben dies, the audience feels the pain of Peter Parker.
Spider-Man isn't portrayed as a overconfident hero who feels he
might be somehow above us mere mortals, but behaves as insecure and
backward as we all do at times.
The other reason Spider-Man beats out the
competition is Sam Raimi, director of Spider-Man, who related well
to the material, being a big Spider-Man fan himself. Raimi is also a
big fan of the Three Stooges, and he created the fan favorite "Army
of Darkness" that relies heavily on good old slapstick comedy. The
star of "Army of Darkness," Bruce Campbell, is a longtime friend of
Raimi and has made cameo appearances in both Spider-Man movies.
Having a real fan who also knows how to make great movies is key to
bringing a superhero film to the big screen. No one can hope to
completely capture the imagination of not only the core comic book
audience, but also your average Joe, if the director doesn't
completely get what he's making. Sam Raimi gets it. If someone other
than a big Spider-Man comic book fan had gotten the reigns of the
movie, another superhero would be at the top of the list. Raimi has
been quoted as saying, "I love the Spider-Man character. And that's
what's at the heart of it."
Fans, get ready, Spider-Man 3 is coming in
summer 2007. Sam Raimi is back directing with actors Tobey Maguire,
Kirsten Dunst, James Franco coming back again. Newcomers to the
Spider-Man franchise include Thomas Haden Church, best known for his
work on the sitcoms "Wings" and "Ned and Stacey," who will be
playing Sandman, one of Spidey's oldest foes. Topher Grace from
"That 70's Show" will be portraying Venom, the opposite side of the
coin from Spider-Man.
Hollywood's Fascination with the
Comic Book Superhero
By Dave Gieber
Movie production companies and TV have been creating feature length
movies, movie serials and TV shows for years exploiting the public
fascination with Superheroes. But as special effect technology and
costume designs became better and better, Hollywood kicked it up a
notch with feature-length high budget productions. Superman, the
Movie and the 3 sequels started in the 1970s and the '90s and beyond
brought us Batman, The Hulk, the X-Men and the now infamous
Spider-Man, to name a few.Why all this
interest in producing Superhero movies? Big bucks!! The two
Spider-Man movies alone have netted about 800 million dollars apiece
in worldwide ticket sales. That's not chicken feed. This kind of
income could not be generated without an avid public interest in
Superheroes. So if you feel you are alone in your voracious passion
for your own comic book collection, think again.
And now a new twist has been added. Directors,
screenplay writers, and even actors are writing for, of all things,
comic books now. Big name Hollywood writers are helping to sell more
comics. For example, Joss Whedon, perhaps best known for creating
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has written stories for Marvel in the
series Astonishing X-Men. Back in the 90s, who would have known that
all these fan boys had been hiding in the Hollywood woodworks
waiting for comics to gain some cultural credibility?
If you haven't followed some of the comic news
of the last several months, Stan "the man" Lee has been fighting his
personal battle with His life long employer, Marvel Comics. Stan is
probably one of the most well known character creators in the comic
book industry. He has characters like Batman, Spider-Man and the
Hulk credited to his creative imagination. Seems Stan had a
contractual agreement with Marvel for 10% of any revenue acquired by
Marvel from movies and TV projects centered on Stan characters. But
apparently the high dollar superstructure of the corporate mind
doesn't want to part with all their income. Now this is nothing new,
but Stan Lee managed to win the first round for the little guy. The
judge presiding over Stan's case agreed that Stan should receive his
share of the agreed on profits. Now maybe Stan will get his share
and maybe he won't. Sounds like Marvel will be appealing the
decision. At any rate, if there weren't big bucks involved in the
production of comic book Superhero movies, this case would not have
been such an issue.
I believe the near future is going to bring
many more of my favorite heroes to the silver screen. I have already
started my own DVD collection and as more heroes get transferred
from the screen to round disc, I will continue to increase the size
of my collection. Do you think a DVD superhero collection will be
worth as much as a comic book collection in the future? Probably
not, but that won't stop me from building my collection anyway.
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