I love the film “Spider-Man 2”. Last time, I began detailing why. Let’s get right back to it.
Compassionate
Speech
Peter is as lost as ever.
He has tried to shirk his responsibilities as Spider-Man, but he still
wants to protect others. He gets the
help he needs in one of my favorite scenes of the film. Aunt May is moving. And she, along with a boy named Henry, are
working hard at organizing everything and putting them into boxes. Henry brings up Spider-Man, and Aunt May
chimes in on his absence of his picture in the papers. The subject then turns to Henry himself, and
how he actually wants to be Spider-Man one day.
When Peter asks why, his aunt replies with a touching speech:
“Lord knows kids like Henry need a hero. Courageous, self-sacrificing people, setting
examples for all of us. Everybody loves
a hero; people line up for them, cheer them, scream their names. And years later, they’ll tell how they stood
in the rain for hours, just to get a glimpse of the one who taught them to hold
on a second longer. I believe there’s a
hero in all of us, that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and
finally allows us to die with pride.
Even though sometimes, we have to be steady, and give up the thing we want
the most, even our dreams. Spider-Man
did that for Henry, and he wondered where’s he’s gone. He needs him.”
These words inspire Peter to choose the hard life of
Spider-Man again. This is the moment he
chose Spider-Man in his heart and soul.
Complete
Surprise
One of the more intriguing aspects of “Spider-Man 2” is the Peter and Mary Jane relationship. The ‘will they/won’t they’ storyline is
something I find quite fascinating.
Remember it was Peter’s decision to protect MJ from his dangerous life
that drove her into the arms of John Jameson in the first place; when she
accepted John’s hand in marriage, Peter’s future with MJ looked very
bleak. But, at this point in the film,
some dramatic surprises regarding her relationship with Peter begin to occur. First off, Peter is surprised when MJ
contacts him and asks him meet her in a local café.
Mary Jane had previously realized that maybe she didn’t
really love John Jameson, and her heart lies elsewhere. Thus, the surprise invitation. At the café, there was another surprise: she
boldly asks Peter if he loves her. In
another desperate attempt to protect her, Peter lies, and says he doesn’t. Undeterred, she asks Peter to kiss her,
because she “needs to know something.”
But Doctor Octopus appears, (after Peter, in a dazzling cinematic
moment, saves them both from a car Ock had tossed at them). Doc Ock demands that Peter find Spider-Man,
and he kidnaps Mary Jane for good measure.
This sets the stage for more surprises in the next act of the film.
Crazy
good sequence
After Peter takes back his Spider-Man suit that his boss,
J. Jonah Jameson, had displayed on the wall in his office, he immediately goes
after Ock. Their fight ends up landing
them both on a train. I could go on and
on with the breathtaking moments that occur in the entire marvelous scene, but
I want to focus on Doctor Octopus’ speeding up the train, and cutting the
brakes, forcing Spider-Man to stop it before the train falls off the unfinished
bridge. There’s a you tube video where
someone details this entire train scene; he comments:
“This decision may seem out of place, but when you think
about it, it’s actually a brilliant move on Octavius’ part. He’s fully confident that Spider-Man will
stop this train. After all, he has a
deal with Harry Osborn to trade Spider-Man for the fusion material. He has no reason to kill Spider-Man at this
point; meaning, it’s all done to tire him out as much as possible, since he
knows he’ll always find a way to keep chasing him. No better way to tire a superhero than forcing
them into a life and death scenario.”
Ultimately, he does stop the train, inches before everyone
would have fallen off the unfinished tracks.
But Peter is so exhausted that he has no strength left; he loses
consciousness, and would have actually fallen to his death, had the passengers
of the train not caught him. This same
you tube video continues: “In “Spider-Man
2”, the scene is executed gracefully by having the passengers pull Peter up
into the train, in a Christ-like manner.”
Then Ock returns, easily subdues Spider-Man, and takes him to Harry
Osborn.
Kevin
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