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After seeing a bit of the Sam Raimi Spiderman movie again I kinda had a realization about what bothers me about a lot of geek self-projection protagonists. It's that a lot of them have this thing where their meekness or darkness is partially a facade and there's a cool, confident badass hidden aside them. Like when shit gets real with one of these characters and they become a cool, confident, cold-blooded badass and shit, or they turn into raging unstoppable berserkers, and all the women secretly want to bone him.
Contrast with Tobey Maguire's Peter Parker, who is pretty much a complete dork through and through, and never really becomes "cool", when he tries to be all cool and shit when he has the venom symbiote he makes himself look like a complete clown. He never gets a moment where he transforms into a total badass, the only time this really happens is when he beats the crap out of the bullies, which makes people think he's a freak more than anything. The movie isn't afraid to make him the butt of slapstick humour or make him look like he's totally out of his depth. Except when he fights dudes as Spiderman, but that's expected for a superhero movie. And yeah he has a hot girlfriend by the end, but it's pretty clear in the movie that MJ likes Peter for Peter, and not some badass Super-Peter hidden inside. Hell, the superhero persona even fucks up their relationship!
It just feels refreshing to me compared to how these characters tend to be handled today.
I really like this Heritage Minutes bit as a counterpoint to the gun toting bullshit surrounding wild west romanticism.
Not to say that I don't like the gun toting bullshit. But too many people have a weird ideological hangup with the wild west.
Contrast with Tobey Maguire's Peter Parker, who is pretty much a complete dork through and through, and never really becomes "cool", when he tries to be all cool and shit when he has the venom symbiote he makes himself look like a complete clown. He never gets a moment where he transforms into a total badass, the only time this really happens is when he beats the crap out of the bullies, which makes people think he's a freak more than anything. The movie isn't afraid to make him the butt of slapstick humour or make him look like he's totally out of his depth. Except when he fights dudes as Spiderman, but that's expected for a superhero movie. And yeah he has a hot girlfriend by the end, but it's pretty clear in the movie that MJ likes Peter for Peter, and not some badass Super-Peter hidden inside. Hell, the superhero persona even fucks up their relationship!
It just feels refreshing to me compared to how these characters tend to be handled today.
"Libertarian frontier town".
I really like this Heritage Minutes bit as a counterpoint to the gun toting bullshit surrounding wild west romanticism.
Not to say that I don't like the gun toting bullshit. But too many people have a weird ideological hangup with the wild west.
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