We are getting a little bit annoyed at trailers finding their way on the www, and the latest trailer to come online is one for THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN. The Hollywood News’s policy is not to post these grainy, crappy promos because really, what is the point? Sure we want to carry all of the latest bits and pieces associated with the films coming to screens near you soon, but we’d much rather see trailers in high definition on our computer screens, or even, more ideally in cinemas. Not in a rubbish 450 pixel wideby 300 pixel tall window with shaky camcorder, blurry type footage. I will admit that I do not want to piss off the film studios as we have a superb working will all of them, but my main reason is the former. Rant over.
So, we won’t be posting the new Spidey trailer. Not yet anyway.
Okay. What we can reveal is the film’s director Marc Webb talking about his interpretation of the film to the LA Times.
“Peter Parker is a science whiz. If you look back to the early Stan Lee and Steve Ditko comics, he’s a nerd with big glasses. The idea of what a nerd is has changed in 40 or 50 years. Nerds are running the world. Andrew Garfield made a movie [called ‘The Social Network’] about it. Nerds are no longer pariahs and knowing how to write computer code is no longer a [mocked] quality. What was important in those early comics was this notion that Peter Parker is an outsider and how we define that in a contemporary context. That, I think, was one of the challenges for us — getting Peter Parker’s outsider status to be current. Peter Parker is a real kid. He’s not a billionaire. He’s not an alien. He’s a kid who gets picked on and gets shoved to the outside. The 90-pound weakling, that’s who Spider-Man is when he gets bit. So much of the DNA of the character is the fact that he was a kid when he got bit. He is imperfect, he is immature and has a bit of a punk rock instinct. In his soul he’s still a 90-pound weakling even after [the transformative bite].”
Sounds kinda bang on right? I agree. Webb also started to talk about how they are bringing Spidey’s swinging abilities to the new film.
“One of the things we tried to do was keep the stunts more grounded physically and that was a huge challenge because you have a character whose abilities are superhuman. How do you do that in a way that’s convincing and real? We spent months and months and months developing rigs so he could swing in a way that wasn’t computer-generated. Obviously there’s going to be enhancements and CG [sequences], but it’s based in a physical reality and that’s a new technique [for this film brand]. When you walk out of the theater, I want the world you see to resemble what you saw on the screen. Part of the joy of cinema [is that] you make the impossible look real. I wanted it to be more grounded and more realistic and that went for the emotion of the scenes, the physical action and wardrobe. It’s less based in Steve Ditko world and probably closer visually and more influenced by ‘Ultimate Spider-Man’ but it is also very much a world of our own devising.”
Expect THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN to have a huge presence at this coming weekend’s Comic Con.
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