I was not interested in superheroes before, and I never watched Spider-Man. I don’t know why it is so popular. After watching the old trilogy, I discovered that this series of movies is worthy of its name. Although it is wrapped in a coat of fantasy elements, this is actually a story with a serious drama core and fully in line with the definition of Renaissance tragedy.
Someone saw Spider-Man fighting mutants to defend justice, and what I saw was a story of a father-slayer.
The protagonist is an orphan, raised by his uncle Ben and aunt Mei, from a poor family. He has a wealthy friend, whose father is rich and knowledgeable, and appreciates him, but he declined his help. He became strong through mutation (growth) and began to realize spiritual and material accumulation. His uncle was killed by a gangster, so he chose to defend justice, and he finally found out that the most evil and powerful enemy he was fighting against was his friend's father Norman.
The father is an important role in the mythological narrative of mankind. The father is both loving and rude. In this movie, Spider-Man’s father is absent and played by two people-one is Uncle Ben who represents the ordinary and kind, and the other is the green demon Norman who represents power and cruelty.
Ben told him that the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. Norman told him that people only want to see the fall and death of heroes, and they will hate you no matter what you do.
The identities of Ben and Norman and the hidden information behind them are also quite interesting.
Ben is an ordinary technician with 46 years of work experience, but his income is meager. I lost my job during the economic crisis, and I am still busy looking for a job when I am over 60 years old. His wife "May" seems to indicate that they are the immigrants of the Mayflower, the first group of Puritans to come to the New World. He has a very good relationship with his wife, and he has grown old in love.
Norman is an arms dealer with both talent and wealth. He graduated from Imperial University in New York. According to the comics, he is the son of a New York industrialist. His family went bankrupt in the Great Depression. He chose to go to the sea to do business to revive his family business. . The movie gave us more information: the Osborne family mansion is a typical 19th century style, one of the few old Gothic buildings in New York, and the rough modernist buildings of the Osborne Group controlled by the shareholders. completely different. There are many Indian masks in Norman's office-most likely trophies, and his office decoration is in the style of the 19th century. This shows that the Osborne family may be an American family, or even the Boston Brahmin, who once wiped out the Indians in the west and accumulated military exploits. Different from his ancestors, we can see that Norman was a bookish person, and he had no ambitions in the group. He was run by the military and shareholders, and he was also facing unemployment. Although the apartment he rented for his son was not small, it was only a warehouse remodeled, which shows that although he drove a luxury car, he was not financially rich.
Regarding the topic of Ben, I don’t need to say much, Peter has already answered Norman at the end of the first book: My father is Ben Parker. I want to talk about Norman.
Norman appreciates Peter very much, in the words of his own son: My dad is eager to adopt you. When a boy grows up, he needs not only his father's care, but also a little worship. Powerful, knowledgeable, able to write papers on nanomaterials, and cleverly funded Peter (in the name of tutoring his son to ask Peter to live in an apartment to save rent), this kind of wise elderly (+1S), the average boy is very good. It’s hard to refuse—for example, the old Iranian King Pahlavi selected the young sergeant Faldusla in the name of finding a companion for his son. The latter served Pahlavi and his son until the very last moment, even if he continued to serve the country. No matter how disappointed, I never betrayed.
Perhaps the screenwriter deliberately did it. Norman in the movie is not as arrogant and domineering as in the comics, but a tragic guy-his bad personality only broke out later. Before, he was responsible to the company, helpful, and sincere to others. He wanted to maintain his image as a strong and generous father, was betrayed by shareholders, and did not tell his son when he fell ill in the office. And when he was young, he should look a lot like Peter, both stupid doctors, deceived by the watery women. (Mary Jane is too similar to Emily) I said when I chatted with my friends that if you didn't get the ability of Spiderman, or if you missed it, Peter Parker might be the next Norman Osborne.
But Peter refused to be him, and instead became another uncle Ben. He was very angry. The preaching section after he kidnapped Peter was like a father teaching his son. He wanted Peter to obey him and build an evil empire together. This reminds me of the black warrior in Star Wars teaching the protagonist and pulling him into the gang (true father and son).
Neither Ben nor Norman killed Peter, but both died because of him, one because of his malice and the other because of his sense of justice. The role of the father is divided into two halves, and the children make their own choices as they grow up. He buried malice and weakness.
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