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Tuesday 17 July 2018
A Video Essay Guide to the Sam Raimi ‘Spider-Man’ Trilogy
The original Spider-Man trilogy is deep. Here are six video essays to help unpack the themes and messages layered throughout.
Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man films have always stood above modern superhero flicks to me because they carry layers of depth and humanity hardly seen in the superficial MCU films or in the mindless DCEU films. Under Raimi’s direction, these films brilliantly blend action, humor, and comic book cheesiness with thoughtful, emotional stories that resonate with the hero inside us all. Many may believe that these films haven’t aged well, but I would disagree. Spider-Man perfectly demonstrates balance as an ambitious, goofy superhero origin story, Spider-Man 2 still stands as the best summer movie ever, and Spider-Man 3 –– for all its faults –– concludes our favorite wall-crawler’s journey into understanding the complexities of heroism.
For all the depth and balance these films show, they’ve lead to myriad video essays analyzing the themes and structure of this brilliant trilogy. Check out these six video essays, two for each film, that demonstrate how Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy hold much more weight than other simple, careless, one tone superhero films.
How Raimi Strikes Balance in Spider-Man
The small, up and coming YouTube channel LockerPunch shows us how Raimi strikes balance between different tones of seriousness and cheesy, comic-book thrills. It’s clearly difficult to manage tone in superhero films –– we’re looking at you Batman v. Superman –– and Raimi balances two tones in this film that hardly seem co-inhabitable. This video explores how Raimi finds this balance by investing us into the characters, by using his skills of tone balance developed from his previous work in the Evil Dead franchise, and by staying true to the depth found in the comic books.
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