PLOT
This is a story of Peter Parker who is a nerdy high-schooler. He was orphaned as a child, bullied by jocks, and can’t confess his crush for his stunning neighborhood girl Mary Jane Watson. To say his life is “miserable” is an understatement. But one day while on an excursion to a laboratory a runaway radioactive spider bites him… and his life changes in a way no one could have imagined. Peter acquires a muscle-bound physique, clear vision, ability to cling to surfaces and crawl over walls, shooting webs from his wrist … but the fun isn’t going to last. An eccentric millionaire Norman Osborn administers a performance enhancing drug on himself and his maniacal alter ego Green Goblin emerges. Now Peter Parker has to become Spider-Man and take Green Goblin to the task… or else Goblin will kill him. They come face to face and the war begins in which only one of them will survive at the end.
NARRATIVE
Todorovs Theory of narrative applied to Spider-Man
Equilibrium: Peter Paker, best friend Harry Osborn, love interest Mary-Jane Watson was just a teenager, with slight bullying issues, doing teenager things. Like visiting a genetics lab; with radioactive spiders.
Disruption: After being bitten by a radioactive spider, he gains abilities, making him arrogantand which indirectly cause the death of his Uncle Ben
Recognition: “With Great Power Comes GreatResponsibility” He decides to use his new foundpowers to help others as the iconic “Spiderman”
Attempt t0 repair equilibrium : Meanwhile, Norman Osbornaka “Green Goblin”, has been busy wantingrevenge, and being generally evil. Attackingthe two people Spider-man cares for most,Mary-Jane and Aunt May.
New Equilibrium: Peter Parker now knows what it takes to be Spider-man and continues to be him, while being able tofinally confess his love for Mary-Jane. (and his best friend now wants him dead and blames him for the death of his Father, butthats sequel territory)
MY OPINION
When this film came out I was only 2 years old so at the time i didn’t watch it, but when i was around 8 i watched it for the first time and i still remember it to this day. Spiderman is one of my favourite movies of marvels and thats saying something because believe me i like all of them lol. This film has led to so many newer versions of this film due to the love for the movie
OTHER REVIEWS
7.3/10 by IMDb
89% by Rotten Tomatoes
2.5/4 by Roger Ebert
DIRECTOR
The director of the first spiderman movie is called Sam Raimi.
Sam Raimi has made many other film since then, below are some of his well known films
- Spiderman
- Spiderman 2
- Spiderman 3
- he also produced the new film Don’t Breathe.
ACTORS
The list of actors in the film is to many to put on so i will just list some of them below:
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Tobey Maguire | … | |
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Willem Dafoe | … | |
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Kirsten Dunst | … | |
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James Franco | … | |
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Cliff Robertson | … | |
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Rosemary Harris | … | |
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J.K. Simmons | … | |
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Joe Manganiello | … | |
KLEIN SHELTON 