Posted: 04 July 2013 at 9:38pm | IP Logged | 6
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The Organic Webshooters:
In 'Movie-ese' it sounded good to me when I first heard the idea for the Tobey Maguire outing. But I thought, too, how pointless it seemed to trash the webshooters. Why not, I asked, meld the 2? He simply utilized the shooters to adjust consistency and accuracy. I mean who'd be that good at masturbating from the wrists anyway?
BTW, since "disabilities" is the main thread here, Tobey Maguire never filled the bill for me as Parker. That constant blank look in his eyes in itself was a disability, only it was HIS! Parker, as we all remember, had very visible emotional reactions in the books to people abusing him or alienating him. He did not passively accept it as Maguire seemed to when being tripped or made fun of by peers. It was very bad casting and poor judgement on Raimi's part. Andrew Garfield is a better actor and brings more of Parker's tension to the movie, but, still, they leave out the other thing: Parker's attitude just after he gained powers - total self-promotion, and "screw the world" (beyond his Aunt and Uncle).
Parker's manic highs and lows were a major part of the "superhero's disabilities" fashioned by Stan Lee, Steve Dikto, and others of the seminal Marvel Bullpen.
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