Hey guys. This is my first article so please forgive me if it's not exactly the best thing you read all day. Anyway, you all may know this article came out today that stated that the original Spider Man movies by Sam Raimi did not have clear messages about responsibility.
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/news/?a=78881
Well my article is about what I found inaccurate there and about the Spider Man reboot's own lack of clear perception on responsibility. *CAUTION SPOILERS*
Lets start with the inaccuracies of that article. Okay lets see:
1. Peter beating the crap out of the killer: Before he realised who he was , blamed himself and learned that with great power comes great responsibility.
2. Second attack on killer: Peter simply twisted his hand out of self defense and the guy accidentally fell over.
3. beating the crap out of the Green Goblin: Green Goblin had been beating him senseless and threatened to kill his love slowly. It was self defence and he wasn't ready to kill.
4.Harry knocked out: that was an accident, Harry was attacking him and he simply wanted to stop him. He took him to the hospital afterwards.
The rest: Wasn't he under the influence of that symbiote?
Thus, I found an article to be inaccurate and out of context.
Now lets proceed with the flaws in 2012's Amazing Spider-Man's perception of responsibility.
1. Peter went out for vengeance, attacking random criminals even after uncle died and he realized that he was responsible for it.
2. He only proceeds to save the people on the bridge to prove something to himself and not out of responsibility.
3. He has no trouble randomly revealing his secret identity to his girlfriend for no real reason but refuses to tell his aunt what is happening to him and yells at her.
4. He spends three minutes bothering a petty thief in a very forced scene which only exists to not so subtly say:" HEY LOOK! SPIDER MAN JOKES! HE'S TORTURING A PETTY THIEF HOORAY! LAUGH EVERYONE! I KNOW HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE PISSED OFF AND OUT FOR VENGEANCE BUT JUST LAUGH!"
5. Saves one kid from fallling to his death but leaves aa the other cars hanging from the bridge.
6.*SPOILER* Breaks a dying man's promise just so he can keep a hot girlfriend, regardless of responsibility. Promises you can't keep are not the best kind. If that were true, anyone could get away with anything.
The original Spiderman trilogy had deep themes of responsibility and sacrifice which are mixed and lost in this reboot. I know Peter Parker is still young, but uncle Ben's that is supposed to affect him in a way that makes him become more mature and responsible.
Messages:
Spider man (2002): With great power comes great responsibility.
Spider man 2 (2004): Sacrifices must be made to do the responsible thing.
Spider man 3 (2007): Revenge is poisonous.
Amazing Spider man (2012): With great power comes great responsibility (unless there's a hot chick involved).
So feel free to voice your opinion guys. Just go easy on the trolling since this is my first article.
HOTSHOT OUT.