A complete worldview that is timeless “Spider-Man 2” [Mizumaru Kawahara’s CINEMONOLOGUE Vol.62]

An addictive role that looks like it came straight out of a comic book

Above all, these are iconic characters that are strongly associated with the faces of the cast. Of course, the main characters are Tobey Maguire's Peter Parker, James Franco's Harry Osborn, Kirsten Dunst's Mary Jane Watson (MJ), but as mentioned above, Alfred Molina's Doctor Octopus aka Otto Octavius. J. Jonah Jameson, the Daily Bugle's ghoulish editor-in-chief, played by J.K. Simmons, is a particularly appealing role.

Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin (Norman Osborn) in the previous film left a strong impression, and Doctor Octopus was just as great as that. Like Osborn, Octavius ​​becomes a monster due to the failure of his own nuclear fusion experiment (he loses his wife due to an accident during the experiment). He freely manipulates the four working arms that were originally used to assist in experiments, and raids banks to collect funds to restart experiments, and his appearance earns him the nickname Doctor Octopus. The combination of the creepy arm twisting and Danny Elfman's music is also great.

The working arm connected to the cerebellum with nanowires moves as if it had a will due to an out-of-control artificial intelligence, and Octavius ​​treats them as if they were his own children, but the second experiment When he fails again and realizes that the city of New York is in danger, he tells the Arms to work with Spider-Man to save the city, and uses his strong will to overcome the madness that was awakening inside him. I'll show you. He uses his arm to stop the expansion of a small sun created in an experiment, and sinks into the river at the same time, setting him apart from the Green Goblin, who died as a cunning enemy. I'll never forget the line, "I can't die as a monster."

You could say that J. Jonah Jameson needs no introduction. He has a angular profile, a shaved head, and a cigar tucked under his mustache as his trademark, and he is a demonic editor-in-chief who bangs his fist on the desk and cries loudly. Peter Parker's employer (or rather, the buyer of his photographs), he has an almost paranoid hatred for Spider-Man, but he is still a lovable character, and in Raimi's version, J.K. is acting. It's one of the legacies of Raimi's version, so it's no wonder he was the first to be imported into the MCU Spider-Man films. The scene where Peter obtains the Spider-Man suit (described below) left at a garbage dump from a homeless person and secretly wears it and poses with joy is great, and it also shows that Spider-Man has gone out of business. The way he becomes depressed after learning this information sums up the reason why I can't hate this character. After all, he's also a big Spidey fan.

On a side note, Ursula, the daughter of Diković, the landlord of the apartment where Peter lives, is also my favorite. An impressive character who first appeared in ``2'' and continued in ``3'', albeit in a minor role (in my opinion, along with Betty Blunt, played by Elizabeth Banks). She seems to be in love with Peter, and she is such a good girl that she continues to have feelings for Peter even when she got ``getting carried away'' in ``3''.

It depicts the connection between “dear neighbors” and citizens.