. . . Bang bang bang. . . Don't be dirty, all you hear is the sound of slaps.
The new version of Spider-Man finally met with the domestic audience today. As early as 2 months ago, Dah Cong had already brushed the new version of Spider-Man twice in the cinema.
At that time , I couldn't bear it and wrote with excitement: Redefining superheroes, I only serve "Spider-Man: Homecoming".
Since it is Spider-Man, I must compare it with the previous Spider-Man.
In the past two months, I have revisited Toby Maguire’s classic version of the Spider-Man trilogy.
Dah Cong suddenly discovered that if we explore from the depth of " ability and responsibility ", the cumulative weight of the earlier Spider-Man trilogy is much heavier than the new version of Spider-Man.
Of course, the new version of Spider-Man is still recommended by Dah Cong, but what I want to discuss today is how many intricate connections are there between ability, responsibility, and morality.
"With great power comes great responsibility!" . This is a sentence we are familiar with.
Because of this sentence, we have a lot of stories about superheroes saving the world. Since then opened the golden age and silver age of American comics .
The American comics of these two eras, whether it is Marvel or DC, all interpret the issue of "the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility!"
But with the end of World War II and the rise in crime rates in the United States, American comics entered the "Bronze Age" and "Modern Age". Superheroes in the United States are beginning to become more complicated. The most typical is the superhero role of DC. The character is more gray, but also more three-dimensional.
Gradually, "the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility!" began to evolve into "the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility?" in the superhero story.
What is ability?
The ability of a superhero is superpower; the ability of a rich man is the ability to change something with money; the ability of an athlete is a skill that is too ordinary; the ability of an ordinary person is within his ability.
What is responsibility?
Responsibility is the responsibility you have to bear, such as firefighters, doctors, soldiers, government, etc. These are the representatives of the people and taxpayers, and they must bear corresponding responsibilities for their own work.
Speaking of superheroes, they have superpowers, but do they need to take on the responsibility of saving the world?
To put it another way, with such a high box office of Wolf Warriors 2, does Wu Jing have to donate 100 million for the Jiuzhaigou earthquake? Not to mention the forced donation incidents often staged on the Internet.
Therefore, from this perspective, ability and responsibility are not actually equated. At this time, a new vocabulary appeared, moral kidnapping .
Morality is not the same as responsibility, and morality does not need to bear corresponding responsibility. To give a simple example, if you see an old man falling down on the road, do you need to support it? If you use the phrase "the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility", every passerby has the responsibility to support the elderly.
But this is not the case. Whether passers-by help the elderly is a moral issue, not a responsibility issue.
In recent years, superhero movies have done a lot of articles on ability, responsibility, and ethics, which has given people a lot of extended thinking.
For example, Batman of DC , the reason why he feels he has a responsibility to fight crime is because of Batman's childhood shadow.
For another example , after Superman saved the world , people turned around and asked Superman, who gave you this responsibility?
Even the earlier "Watchmen" pushed the topic of "ability and responsibility" to the top.
Marvel has also made a lot of attempts from the perspective of "ability and responsibility". Therefore , the civil war in "Captain America 3" is actually a confrontation between responsibility and ability.
In the Sony version of Toby Maguire’s Spider-Man series, the death of Uncle Ban directly discusses the issue of "the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility".
In this trilogy, the relationship between ability and responsibility is well explained through the experience and growth of Spider-Man.
In the Toby version of the trilogy, Spider-Man Pete has superpowers at the beginning. What he does is to beat classmates like a kid and participate in wrestling competitions. At this time, although he has the ability to fight crime and bring justice, he But I had a lot of fun in the world of little kid.
The new version of Spider-Man, with super powers, directly wanted to learn from the superheroes of the Marvel Universe to do justice. He was also directly selected by Iron Man, participated in the civil war, found a justice organization, and then became a community in the new version of Spider-Man. hero.
From the initial comparison, the old version of Spider-Man Pete may be closer to the real kid.
After that, the first change of the old version of Spider-Man Pete was because of the death of Uncle Ban. Pete felt for the first time what he should do for this society.
But at this time, he did not really understand the relationship between "ability and responsibility", but instead projected Uncle Ban’s death on the criminal who killed Uncle Ban, and then attacked the criminal like revenge to redeem himself. heart.
Then in the second part of the old version of Spider-Man, Spider-Man became confused, and then gradually lost his superpowers and became ordinary people just like us.
At this moment, there was a fire. As an ordinary person without superpowers, he rushed into the fire to save people. Through this experience, Pete realized that the true ability and responsibility are not whether he has superpowers, but whether he really wants to take it up.
Therefore, the film tells us that it is not "the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility". But "the greater the responsibility, the greater the ability" .
After saving people through the fire, Pete regained his superpowers, and at this time, he completed the second transformation, that is, Pete relied more purely on his own abilities to help more people instead of Redeem yourself.
In our words, Pete is morally and sincerely trying to help the old man who fell, not because of responsibility.
In the third part of the old version of Spider-Man, Pete's father-killing enemy successfully escaped from prison, and the film began to explore Pete's inner gray area, and the evil side of Spider-Man began to appear.
But in the end, Spider-Man's inner good and evil were constantly colliding, and he finally chose to "put down the butcher knife." He didn't use his anger and ability to kill the sand man for revenge.
At this moment, Spider-Man put down his hatred and created his third transformation. He also truly realized what is ability, what is responsibility, and what is morality. Pete even realized the truth of becoming a Buddha on the spot.
To exaggerate, the old version of Spider-Man, Pete's inner transformation is from " little kid-redemption of self-blame-justice-choice to forgive".
In the new version of Spider-Man, without the role of Uncle Ban, the topic of "ability and responsibility" no longer becomes the core, instead it simply tells the story of "Little Pete's youth growth".
The focus of the film is on the issue of Pete proving to Iron Man whether he is a true hero. In terms of structure, it is much smaller than the "ability and responsibility" discussed in the old version of Spider-Man.
Of course, in this article, Da Cong simply compares the new version with the old version of Spider-Man from the perspective of the size of the format and the "ability and responsibility".
But from the perspective of how to show the story, the new version of Spider-Man’s narrative is more convenient and likable.
At the same time, the success of this new version of Spider-Man is also inseparable from the role of the Dutch brother who plays the new version of Spider-Man.
Therefore, from these perspectives, the new version of Spider-Man, of course, cannot be regarded as the best-looking Spider-Man in history. He should have their own merits and differences from the old version of the Spider-Man series.
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