.:. Amazing Spiderman .:.
First and foremost, let me apologise to the consistent (if any) readers of my blog. I know that for the past few weeks there has been totally no updates at all. So so sorry. I've been so busy. In summary, had to prep go on a tour with my family, come back rest 1 day then go Scamp liao. N been busy going out after that till now. Phew~~ For this post I'm squeezing into my sleeping time to type it out, in fear I'll lose the inspirations.
Here goes...*Spoiler alert*
Before going to watch the movie, I saw many comments about it on facebook, mostly being negatory. Like it was not as good as the previous, failed to meet expectations etc etc. Naturally I went in without much hopes, was planning on just watching it as an action flick, no brainer. BUT...I was sooo wrong. The movie totally blew me out of my mindset from the start, and for the rest of the 2 plus hours, I was amazed at how well the script was written and the movie directed.
Let's begin with the pre-movie. The reason why there's so many negative comments about the movie, I think its because its a "remake". The problem with 2nd releases of movies is that there will always be a standard to meet. Regardless of whether the predecessor was a hit or not, it will still leave an impact on the latter. If it was a hit, people expects it to be even better. If it was bad, people expects it to be as bad. Either way, there's this mold that is created in everybody's mind for the film to fit in. And naturally in that way you can set it was set to fail?
But on the contrary, I think it was because of this that the movie shined for me. The scriptwriter didn't work towards following the footsteps of the predecessor, instead he/she chose to totally go in the opposite direction, sort of a reverse from the first release. By jumping out of the mold, it helped to make the story shine more, and the film is no longer comparable to the former, but instead now lives in its own light.
No 1: With great power comes great responsibility. This is the famous line that I believe everybody in the cinema is looking out for, but NO. They decided to not put it into the script. That's a "in your face!" for stereotyping I guess.
No 2: He dosen't shoot webs from his wrist. Well he does, but the webbing dosen't come out from his wrist, instead he uses a simple technological contraption to shoot webs. Reason...I also dunnoe haha!
No 3: The way he fights is totally different from in the former. Remember in the corridor fight with the lizard, where he was crawling around the walls and literally running around on the lizard's body. That's the way I expected spiderman to fight in the first place. Very agile, fast, able to use his reflexs to dodge close encounters, and massive spammage of webbing to stick the bad guy. Unlike the former, the fights were more "open", more elaborate, involving more running and larger fighting area.
No 4: Flash is like a nice guy now??!!
No 5: The points are interwined with the next reason, so I wun repeat.
The other reason why I liked the movie so much is because it portrays Spiderman as a superHUMAN. Yes he has special abilities, he can climb walls, stronger, faster, sixth sense, have web coming out from the back of his neck, but all in all he is still a HUMAN! A guy with a normal human attitude.
Many movies tend to forget this point. I would say even the comic books themselves sometimes misses out this point. We're all so used to the stereotype that because they are superheroes, they can do so many amazing things like saving the world and not die, that we tend to forget they are still flesh and blood, with emotions. And this movie brings this point out very very well.
No 1: Unmasking. This Spiderman unmasks himself/reveals his identity so easily. He takes out his mask to give a kid, tells his gf who is he, and even tells the gf's dad who is he. I tink even Aunt May nows (reference to scene where Aunt May is watching a tv report on Spidey's final battle and looks super worried). So much for secret identity? No longer your Friendly Neighbourhood Spiderman. More like Friend already.
No 2: He get's injured sooo easily. First fight with lizard he tio huge scratches liao. Needless to say the last battle. I dun remember the former movie seeing the hero tio huge gashes like the one in here. And when he's injured he dosen't treat himself, he goes to his gf for help. You don't see ironman doing that do you.
No 3: Swinging. The way the shots for spidey swinging/climbing around was very well thought out. Instead of the usual wide 3rd person view, they swapped it with a 1st person view, meaning as a viewer you're seeing from the eyes of Spiderman. So you dun see the smooth swing or straight climb up the wall, rather most of the time you see him bouncing up and down and the view abruptly changing as Spiderman abruptly jumps from one point to another. Removes the grandeur of the swinging, but in turn gives you a sense of how real it is, how Human spiderman actually moves. Kudos to the director for this point. Super good strategy.
No 4: Attitude. Maybe because he unmasks more, or just cos its on purpose. But this Spiderman seems to talk more. And because of that alot of emphasis is placed on his words, actions and emotions as a superhero. Like the carpark scene, where he owns the car theif, and even to the extent of bully him. Isn't that just a normal behaviour of a spoilt bully who has the power to make fun of others? This just slams home the point. Spiderman here is just a teenager still. He also has attitude problems like us that needs to be sorted out.
No 5: Help. Somehow this Spiderman requires alot of help from people. Like how did he get to stay in oscorp for the intern tour to be bitten by the spider, why he went to the police department to tell the chief warn him about the lizard's identity or most evidently the last swinging scene with the cranes all aligned. It just keeps saying that while Spiderman can do certain things we can't do, he still requires help from normal people to make it. Dosen't that make him like a normal human being...
In conclusion, I find this movie a very successful and entertaining one, despite the many critques out there. It has provided me with a taste of another perspective of how a superhero can be protrayed that no other movie has done before, much less a "remake" of one. The above are just my reasons for justifying, purely self deduced and as usual without substantiation or what so ever, so you can choose to disagree. But for me, I would say the movie was definitely worth the watch for me :)
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