One more thought on Spidey...
Jul. 6th, 2004 07:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ivyfic...and then I need to watch it again.
This is just for you, veryschway. I loved the credits. Really. First off, we have the identical opening credit music to the first film, which I always love. A part of what makes a sequel "match" its predecessor is having the same composer. (This was one of my beefs about X-Men 2 (I know, I know, Michael Kamen died.).)
Interspersing the spiderwebby thing we had last time with drawings of the first film was brilliant. I like the fact that it harkens back to its comic book origins. It does this not only by using drawings, but by the whole "Previously, on Spider-Man" concept. Comic books are always continuations, so this film is conforming to that standard much more than I've seen in previous superhero films (even X-Men 2, which still makes sense if you didn't see the first). Everything in this film is a continuation of the last, so jogging the viewers memory is essential.
At the same time, this was a subtle way of accomplishing the task. It also shows what graphic novels look like now - all their elegance and artistry - when I'm sure many viewers still expect the primary-colored pixelation of the sixties.
As for whether this knocks you out of the reality of the film - Spider-Man is a comic book superhero. How could he not be? For me the effect was a magical bringing to life of a comic book. The characters leap off the page, fully three-dimensional in both the spatial and emotional sense.
This is just for you, veryschway. I loved the credits. Really. First off, we have the identical opening credit music to the first film, which I always love. A part of what makes a sequel "match" its predecessor is having the same composer. (This was one of my beefs about X-Men 2 (I know, I know, Michael Kamen died.).)
Interspersing the spiderwebby thing we had last time with drawings of the first film was brilliant. I like the fact that it harkens back to its comic book origins. It does this not only by using drawings, but by the whole "Previously, on Spider-Man" concept. Comic books are always continuations, so this film is conforming to that standard much more than I've seen in previous superhero films (even X-Men 2, which still makes sense if you didn't see the first). Everything in this film is a continuation of the last, so jogging the viewers memory is essential.
At the same time, this was a subtle way of accomplishing the task. It also shows what graphic novels look like now - all their elegance and artistry - when I'm sure many viewers still expect the primary-colored pixelation of the sixties.
As for whether this knocks you out of the reality of the film - Spider-Man is a comic book superhero. How could he not be? For me the effect was a magical bringing to life of a comic book. The characters leap off the page, fully three-dimensional in both the spatial and emotional sense.