{"id":73257,"date":"2022-01-05T14:21:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T14:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=73257"},"modified":"2022-01-05T14:21:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T14:21:59","slug":"spider-man-no-way-home-earns-the-words-with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2022\/01\/spider-man-no-way-home-earns-the-words-with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Spider-Man: No Way Home&#8217; Earns The Words, &#8220;With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-align-justify wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Spider-Man: No Way Home<\/em> may just be the greatest Spider-Man film, and perhaps among the greatest Marvel Cinematic Universe films in general. <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-align-justify\">In part, it\u2019s weaponised nostalgia: drawing upon nineteen years of Spider-Man in film, <em>No Way Home<\/em> has the advantage of using the best parts of previous films, while respectfully making fun of some of the worse things we\u2019ve seen before. For the rest, <em>No Way Home<\/em> manages to tell a strongly emotional story, with likeable characters and an easily understandable plot. The general assumption this film makes is that you\u2019ve seen Sam Raimi\/Tobey Maguire\u2019s 3 <em>Spider-Man<\/em> films, and Marc Webb\/Andrew Garfield\u2019s 2 <em>Amazing Spider-Man<\/em> films &#8211; you can absolutely watch <em>No Way Home<\/em> without having watched these, but some of the referential humour, and the backstory of several characters will be lost on you. I highly recommend seeing this film, either way. If you haven\u2019t seen it yet, don\u2019t continue reading, because there are major spoilers further on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-align-justify\"><em>No Way Home<\/em> has a fairly simple and easily understandable story, in that the actions and goals of the characters can be summarised fairly easily. Where <em>No Way Home<\/em> excels is portraying themes and crucial character development for Holland\u2019s Spider-Man through way of his motivations, and how they evolve throughout the story in reaction to the challenges he faces. Picking up right where we left off, <em>No Way Home<\/em> immediately presents Peter Parker the challenge of having his identity as Spider-Man revealed &#8211; the first act of the film revolves around the issues this creates, how he tries to solve them, and the way in which this motivates Peter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-align-justify\">Time and time again, Peter puts others first, even when it may actively harm himself to do so. This is really the core of Spider-Man\u2019s character, more so than other heroes, and it shows an understanding of that character, as well as a great quality of writing, to repeatedly hammer that point home without coming off as obvious. When Peter goes to Doctor Strange to erase the world\u2019s knowledge of his identity, he does so because Ned and MJ are suffering, not just him. When the spell fails, and the villains enter his universe, his first encounter with them involves him making active choices to save the admissions counsellor &#8211; at the cost of taking a few hits, and ultimately losing to Doctor Octopus if not for his nanotechnology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-align-justify\">He makes the choice to save the villains who would otherwise die fighting their versions Spider-Men, at great personal risk to himself, and continues in his resolve to do so even after experiencing great personal loss. At the end of the film, Peter, a seventeen year old who\u2019s just lost the last remaining parental figure in his life, chooses to sacrifice his life as Peter Parker in order to seal off the multiversal breach and save the day, and he does it with little to no hesitation. It\u2019s here we\u2019re seeing the birth of Spider-Man: ushered in by his older and wiser counterparts; the tragic death of Aunt May; and his maintaining his morality, not killing the Green Goblin despite his causing him immeasurable suffering. With its top-notch portrayal of Spider-Man\u2019s selflessness, sacrifices, and what it means to be a hero, <em>No Way Home<\/em> earns the words \u2018with great power comes great responsibility\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-align-justify\">The action is mostly standard Marvel fare &#8211; good, solid, dependable, but not much to write home about. Among the best action scenes are Spider-Man\u2019s fight with Doctor Strange, and his two fights with the Green Goblin. Doctor Strange\u2019s powerset simply makes for amazing visuals and geography to wow the viewer, and allow the artists to flex their VFX muscles. The <em>Inception<\/em>-style folding cityscape continues to be an outstanding effect that\u2019s simply visual wildfire, while also preventing Spider-Man\u2019s signature use of web-slinging, forcing him to get creative. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-align-justify\">The writers and choreographers also were fairly imaginative with how the two character\u2019s powers interacted, with Spider-Man\u2019s spidey-sense allowing him to reflexively dodge even while Strange had separated his astral form. I don\u2019t know if movie tie-in videogames are still a thing, but I\u2019d love to play a boss-fight like this, using these concepts (perhaps Sony should note that down). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-align-justify\">That\u2019s not to mention Cumberbatch and Holland\u2019s chemistry, and the overall friendly\/sparring tone of the match, despite the strong difference of motivation. One can only hope that the crew for <em>Multiverse of Madness<\/em> found just as much creativity and imagination for their action scenes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-align-justify\">As for Spider-Man\u2019s first fight with the Green Goblin, it\u2019s notably shorter, but far, far more tense, and emotionally weighty. Willem Dafoe is four times Oscar Nominated, and it shows: he gives off an almost &#8220;Heath Ledgerian&#8221; vibe, as if this is <em>The Dark Knight<\/em> and not <em>Spider-Man<\/em>. His facial acting and maniacal cackling, while getting hammered repeatedly in the head by Holland\u2019s Spider-Man, and no-selling it all the way &#8211; it\u2019s genuinely frightening, made all the worse for Aunt May\u2019s presence, her mere proximity instantly ratcheting up the tension to a fever pitch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-align-justify\">The fight\u2019s ending leaves Spider-Man destroyed: both physically and emotionally battered to a level we\u2019ve never seen him at before. His second fight picks up right where it left off, but almost reverses the roles Spider-Man and Goblin play. I\u2019ve never seen Tom Holland play an &#8220;angry&#8221; character, but you can\u2019t walk away from the scene not admiring his chops for it &#8211; he\u2019s brutal, almost feral in his blows. It provokes a visceral reaction, seeing an almost completely different person, wrought with grief and fury in equal measure. The emotional beat that follows &#8211; the older, wiser Spider-Man of Tobey Maguire\u2019s films, stopping him right as he\u2019s about to kill the Goblin &#8211; is one of the strongest in the film, perhaps second only to Aunt May\u2019s death and deliverance of the famed \u2018great responsibility\u2019 line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-align-justify\">We can\u2019t discuss <em>No Way Home<\/em> without mentioning the returns of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield as their versions of Spider-Man in further detail. They\u2019re the MVPs of the plot, delivering emotional beats, referential quips and in-jokes, as well as giving Holland\u2019s Spider-Man much-needed motivation to continue his mission to save the villains.\u00a0 The three Spider-Men form an almost brotherly bond &#8211; it feels truly earned, like it\u2019s the culmination of nineteen years of Spider-Man films, despite not being planned like that. It\u2019s pure payoff: it allows us to see the continuation of characters we thought we\u2019d never see again, not to mention their excellent portrayals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-align-justify\">Tobey Maguire is great, exuding inner peace and acceptance, in a character usually wracked with emotional torment, but Andrew Garfield may just be the greatest performance of the film, alongside Dafoe. He brings closure and weight to a character portrayal that suffered from less-than-excellent writing and directing. It\u2019s amazing to see what Garfield\u2019s Spider-Man can bring to the table in a film that isn\u2019t &#8220;just alright&#8221; (Amazing Spider-Man 1) to &#8220;fairly terrible&#8221; (Amazing Spider-Man 2), and he\u2019s retroactively made those films better in my eyes. His moment of saving MJ from her fall feels like the conclusion of a character arc we never got to see, yet still felt the satisfaction of seeing it finished. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-align-justify\">Willem Dafoe and Alfred Molina\u2019s performances pick up right from where they left off in \u201802 and \u201904: Molina as the calculated, single-minded scientist, Dafoe as the cackling, raving madman. It\u2019s as if no time has passed at all &#8211; which for the characters, it hasn\u2019t. Molina\u2019s performance is wonderful, excelling as a Freudian &#8220;Id&#8221; type, utterly driven by Otto Octavius\u2019 desire to advance science, and utterly ignorant of any morality in achieving that objective. Upon being cured, he shifts back into the warm, kind mentor figure without skipping a beat, sharing emotional moments with both Holland\u2019s Spider-Man, and especially Maguire\u2019s, who he considered a friend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-align-justify\">Similarly, Dafoe\u2019s performance is amazing, and arguably the best of the film, although hard to rank above or below Garfield\u2019s. The Green Goblin will likely go down as one of the best MCU villains &#8211; he\u2019s a terrifying screen presence, effortlessly posing a threat, with his echoing, hyena laugh and contorted smile, you\u2019re given the impression he\u2019s not quite there, reinforced by the blurry line where Goblin begins and Norman Osborn ends. Jamie Foxx\u2019s Electro is perhaps the most improved character from the previous films, no longer an odd-looking blue-thing, but now just regular Jamie Foxx-looking Jamie Foxx, delivering solid comedy lines. Thomas Haden Church and Rhys Ifans as Sandman and the Lizard, are far less present than their three comrades, mostly because they were unable to be on set &#8211; understandable, with Covid travel restrictions and the like. Lizard gets away with it, with his already being a CGI monster. Sandman doesn\u2019t &#8211; his constant use of his sand form is slightly jarring, but it\u2019s not that big of a deal when Dafoe and Molina are working double-time with their outstanding performances, pulling us back in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-align-justify\">As for the hero\u2019s side, Zendaya, Jacob Batalon, and Marisa Tomei turn in solid jobs as the sidekicks. Their role for the film is essential &#8211; without their presence, Holland\u2019s Spider-Man lacks the motivation to do the things he does, and also lacks the emotional grounding that makes some of this film\u2019s moments hit so hard. It\u2019s made better that the chemistry between them is so obviously real, and clearly extends off-screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-align-justify\"><em>No Way Home<\/em> is, ultimately, just an excellent film. Not only is it that, but it\u2019s also a 150-minute character study of Spider-Man: His selflessness, his heroic idealism, his emotional struggles, his relationships with friends and family &#8211; and even more, if you just want to watch it for the fights and the big-screen action, it\u2019s one of Marvel\u2019s best. There\u2019s something here for everyone, even if you\u2019re not familiar with the characters, or the story, you absolutely will be by it\u2019s end &#8211; and if you\u2019re not a fan of Tom Holland\u2019s Spider-Man, or just the character in general, I challenge you to still not be by the end of the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spider-Man: No Way Home may just be the greatest Spider-Man film, and perhaps among the greatest Marvel Cinematic Universe films in general. <\/p>\n<div class='heateor_sss_sharing_container heateor_sss_vertical_sharing heateor_sss_bottom_sharing' style='width:39px;left: -10px;top: 100px;-webkit-box-shadow:none;box-shadow:none;' data-heateor-sss-href='https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73257'><div class=\"heateor_sss_sharing_ul\"><a aria-label=\"Facebook\" class=\"heateor_sss_facebook\" 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