jobloffski
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Here's my geeky responses/get out clauses to recently raised geeky points
How is he brainy enough to invent stuff? All his physical attributes are boosted to a massive degree, maybe all his functions to the same degree? Smart already, faster thought processes involved in anticipation/spider sense make him literally faster at processing ideas.
The finances to make stuff? File that under 'swallow without question', if you're accepting being bitten by a spider as the reason anything is happening all'. Maybe they sell stuff cheap at that place that also sells all the superhero costumes these characters use (that's something that's rarely looked at too).
Fears the web shooters running out may be used as a plot device? That IS the main storytelling opportunity they offer. He can't just web up everything, he goads opponents to piss them off and then strikes, and has to do more wallcrawling, sometimes choosing to, sometimes forced to because he's run out of web during a fight (you can't know how much you're going to need if you don't know what is going to happen). In other words, there can be more variety in how the fights go down and how the various abilities of the character are employed to get around the place. If the webbing is infinite, it's basically the equivalent of being able to fly. Without the infinite webbing, Parker would have to be more spider like, lurk in shadows, crawl up walls out of reach, etc. Much more can be done visually and character wise if there is a random element like having to be careful of the use of webs, forgetting about that in a fight leading to 'oops no webs' making it more dangerous, formula not being up to par, shooters getting damaged during a fight,
One thing I kinda hope the new film does a bit of is keep the camera still(ish) around the people he is fighting, and have Spidey moving in and out of shot to create the idea of just how fast he is able to move, attack, retreat, regroup. attack, etc compared to his opponents. Again that's about variety of visual presentation of the character, and it's certainly something I would add to the mix. As well as serving the particular intended purpose, it would then make for a more dramatic contrast when he is fighting someone who can keep up with his pace, or is trapped and unable to move, or being backed into an area where there is no option but to duke it out, and then the depiction of the character then has to rely on his physical strength.
It all got a bit samey under Raimi, and the solution to how to depict the character was a overwhelmingly CGI one rather than a pure filmmaking one. More wall crawling = more freaky visuals, eg, we stay with Peter's perspective at times so he is the right way up in the frame, so he could be hiding under a shadowy ledge looking down at a rainy street, but because we look at the world the way he is seeing it, in the frame he would look like he's looking up at the traffic, and the rain would appear to be going upwards. In other words, we'd be seeing more of how the world appears to a spider. Judicious use of such perspectives could be cool.
< Message edited by jobloffski -- 17/7/2011 5:55:23 PM >
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RE: Spiderman reboot - 
. But saying that, more rendering and tweaking and they could look rather great... especially in 3D. 
Best thing about Raimi's flicks were Raimi, the Bruce cameos and Franco.
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