Introduction to Spider-Man 3

Mary Jane Watson (kirsten dunst)

At the end of spider-man 2, Mary Jane's anxiety indicates new troubles. Peter parker, whose brain was corroded by poisonous spider clothes, gradually revealed his dark side. Mary Jane can't stand that she made a mistake but didn't want to face it. She can face bad guys and dangers, but she can't stand Peter's arrogance and arrogance. And because of Spider-Man's girlfriend status, her acting career suffered an unprecedented blow. Besides, Peter stepped on two boats, and harry osborn took advantage of it ... Mary Jane, who has always been brave and independent, gave up.

Gwen Stacy (Bryce Dallas Howard)

If you have read the original comic book, you should know how important this character is to "Spider-Man". She even fell in love with peter parker before Mary Jane ... In fact, Sam Raimi also considered letting her star in the first episode of Spider-Man, but considering that her final death had a decisive impact on Spider-Man, her appearance time was postponed. Gwen Stacy is crazy about "Spider-Man" because he once saved her. She is naive and straightforward, willing to give her life for the people she loves. She is a girl with a different personality from Mary Jane. In the original book, she died at the hands of the green devil. In the movie, she can only die at the hands of the green goblin's son.

Three enemies, three villains

Sharon (Thomas Haden Church)

The most attractive thing about the Spider-Man series is that the good guys have bad sides and the bad guys have good sides. "Sandman" is definitely a poor and pathetic typical villain. If he hadn't killed Spider-Man's uncle, he shouldn't have been treated so cruelly. However, his appearance was for "redemption", and it was also a relief to die at the hands of "Spider-Man".

"Sandman" has a super power, which can not only turn into quicksand and change its shape at will, but also turn its body into sand, thus defusing the opponent's attack. I really don't know how "Spider-Man" killed such an undead freak. The only thing I know is that the thrilling fighting scenes in Sandman and Spider-Man are definitely much better than the train fighting part in spider-man 2.

The Green Devil (James Franco)

Harry osborn, who finally inherited his father's mantle, is completely on the verge of schizophrenia. Perhaps this is also the reason why poisonous spider clothes refused to choose him, because he is not as calm as Eddie. In fact, the main contradiction between him and peter parker did not come from the revenge of killing his father, but the difference of their personalities led to this result. In addition, he was spoiled since childhood, and his will was completely defeated by continuous failures, but it was also an opportunity for him to get to know himself again. However, after Harry decided to get back at Peter, he took a villain behavior that was despised by most people: purposefully approaching the enemy's girlfriend, Mary Jane Watson.

Poisonous Spider (Topher Grace)

The real person is Eddie Brock, a clever and cunning photojournalist and peter parker's colleague in the newspaper. He dresses well and knows how to please women. Eddie has nothing to do with Peter, but Peter, whose brain is gradually controlled by poisonous spider clothes, actually has a playboy. Although Mary Jane has always been with him, he has a crush on Eddie's woman Gwen Stacy ... So Eddie developed a second self because of endless resentment, and was taken in by a poisonous spider, becoming Spider-Man's biggest enemy-a poisonous spider. Eddie will be endowed with super powers very similar to Peter's, but unfortunately, Peter has his uncle Ben's guidance like his father, but Eddie doesn't. The role of Eddie is a hypothesis of Peter's another possibility: what would happen if Spider-Man's superpowers completely fell into the wrong hands? Will the poisonous spider suit abandon Eddie Brock like in the cartoon? The answer is yes, so the actor Topher Grace will definitely appear naked.

Off-screen sound

"kirsten dunst is obviously blonde, but you have to let me dye it red ... a blonde finally appeared in this episode. However, in Los Angeles, at least millions of blondes are walking down the street at the same time. Why do you have to choose a red hair? Are you afraid that the makeup artist is too idle to do it? " Lusa Abel, a makeup artist, can only complain about Sam Raimi's old trick and choose a red-haired actress to play the blonde Wenger Stacy.

"When I was a child, when I was reading Spider-Man's cartoons, my mother always appeared at the right time and asked me: Did you do your homework? Do you expect it to give you a job when it grows up? " -Topher Grace recalled his childhood experience of reading comics. I didn't expect comics to really give him a well-paid job.

"A lot of people told me that the scene of Peter bargaining with the newspaper owner in spider-man 2 was very interesting. Would you like to see a similar dialogue in the third episode Even if I promise you, it will be more interesting and worth seeing here? " -Sam Raimi said that repeating the past is a dead end, no matter how great and brilliant the past is.

"What matters to me is not money, but peter parker, his beloved Mary Jane Watson and his good friend harry osborn ... I think any anxiety and distraction may develop into a problem." -Sam Raimi's answer to the $250 million investment seems a bit evasive.

"Spider-Man will continue his proud journey. He thought he had solved all the problems, but it turned out that he was still the same silly boy. " With regard to the accusation of tampering with the original comic book without authorization, Sam Raimi said that he just wanted to make the story more dramatic.

"I belong to the readers of the original comics in the 1970 s, and the' poisonous spider' appeared in the 1980 s ... I don't know him, and he doesn't know who I am. To this end, I was called to the office by the producer Ivy Alide and taught me a lesson. He told me that movies are an art of "pleasing" the audience. Now is the time when comic fans rose in the 1980s. After all, Spider-Man is everyone's fantasy, not mine. " -Sam Raimi's implication is that "poisonous spider" was not in his original plan.

When 1000 people work towards the same goal, ...

Spider-Man was able to wave his spider silk so freely for three consecutive episodes, thanks to Sony's graphics and image company: this digital animation production team won an Oscar nomination for the first Spider-Man, and then brought the golden statuette home in the second one ... so they are definitely the best candidates for CG production after Spider-Man 3. Laura Ziskin, one of the producers, said: "According to the progressive reasoning logic, Spider-Man 3 is undoubtedly the biggest film in the series at present. Director Sam Raimi made sure that the bet we made was the most likely to win. You only need to look at the related action scenes and digital special effects to know what a huge project this movie will be. It has achieved a great ideal. When 1000 people work hard for a common goal, you will see amazing results. "

As for the director of Scott Stokdyk, a digital special effects company for graphics and images, he shared the responsibility of managing more than 200 animators and CG technicians among the 1000 people. The biggest challenge they face in this film is to surpass the "self" in the first two episodes. Indeed, Spider-Man 3 is bound to have more characters and more villains, and peter parker, the adult of Spider-Man, will also face greater obstacles in life. Sam Raimi has a stubborn temper that likes to be serious, which will definitely connect all parts of the film perfectly, but in this process, he has to rely on the backbone of the behind-the-scenes production team ... However, Sam Raimi thinks CG is a fantastic movie tool for action movies, and it has completed some parts that human beings can't complete. But for the fields that human beings can touch, Remy still wants actors to do it.

As a stuntman, I have already made full preparations for this film, not to mention the actors, especially bryce dallas howard. Don't underestimate that she is a woman, but she personally completed the stunt shooting that even "Spider-Man" Toby Vincent Maguire couldn't estimate. The scariest time was undoubtedly that she was hung from a big iron frame. Howard described the situation at that time: "This part tells the story of a runaway crane falling into the crane. My character Gwen Stacy happens to work here. She fell from the collapsed floor several stories high and tried to catch anything she could, but failed ... what happened later? Of course,' Spider-Man' took over and landed safely. " Part of this series of scenes was completed on the set in Los Angeles, so Howard is eager to go outdoors and finish the rest, including being carried by Spider-Man and flying over the whole block. You know, even Spider-Man himself is only a body double, but Howard personally completed the aerial stunt that even boys will be scared: "The greatest fun of making this kind of film is that you can choose to shoot some crazy stunts and do them. I know that I am in a safe state of 100%, because Sam Raimi and the action director have been trying to protect us, so I can give it a try, which is very interesting and exciting. "

Compared with Bryce Dallas Howard, who is as excited as a child, Thomas Haden Church, the actor of Sandman, seems to be less lucky, because he faces far more physical challenges than Howard. Church's cruel challenges include: being stretched five feet in the air; Face and mud are in close contact; Chased by a pack of mad dogs; Swing around in the sky; Fall on the rails; His face was smashed into pieces ... Church found that his body was always scratched repeatedly during the filming. Because of improper defense, it is common to be really hit, but he is psychologically prepared for this situation, because as producer Grant Curtis said, "These injuries are not intentional, but strangely, if someone is accidentally injured in a fighting scene,

They are all indispensable and important behind-the-scenes heroes in Spider-Man 3.

In order to ensure that the action scenes of the film are both safe and spectacular, two people in the behind-the-scenes production team played an indispensable and decisive role. They are stunt master John Fraser and second deputy director Dan Bradley. Among them, Fraser is a veteran who has worked for three Spider-Man films in succession. He said: "If you want to make an action movie on the scale of Spider-Man 3, you have to work for at least 9 months from the initial scene design."

With so many special effects scenes produced, John R. Frazier is most satisfied with only one set of scenes, that is, the thrilling battle between "Spider-Man" and "Sandman" ... but it's not just Frazier's credit. Sam Raimi, dan bradley and special effects master Scott Stokdyk played an important role in perfecting this scene. This scene began when the "sandman" was suddenly attacked by the water column from the burst water pipe and finally washed into the sewer leading to the subway. In Remy's original imagination and setting, the "sandman" must be completely melted under the strong impact of water.

John R. Fraser, who has designed many shipwreck scenes for the new version of Poseidon, said: "This is a group of scenes that use the most water in all the films I have made. We used about 50,000 gallons of water, and then sprayed it out of the pipeline through a device 50 feet away from the site ... but we modified the hollow part in the middle of the pipeline and installed a flow restrictor there to completely control the size of the water column. Used water can be recycled by a water pump with a flow rate of 3000 gallons per minute. In other words, we only need five minutes to refill the water storage tank and prepare for the next re-shooting. " A total of eight hidden cameras serve this group of scenes together. At the same time, there are no real people here, only digital people. Scott Stokdyk said: "Because Spider-Man discovered that the sandman's weakness is water, he created this set of methods to effectively suppress the sandman's ability. But here, we must use the' sandman' made entirely by CG, because the huge pressure generated by the current is beyond the ability of Thomas Haden Church or any stuntman.

Dan bradley's view seems to be slightly different from that of John R. Fraser. His favorite scene is the scene where peter parker and Harry fight in Osborne's secret room. Although these two superheroes have met in the air before, they feel completely different here. Bradley said: "This will be a great war, because it is the kind of pure hand-to-hand combat between two people. The difference is that the two warring sides used to be brothers, and they have many common memories. But because of confusing facts, misunderstanding and immaturity, they ended their friendship and began to hurt each other. " Sam Raimi also has his own unique views on this place. He hopes that this place is not the kind of ability competition between superheroes, but a bit like two friends quarreling for face because of friction ... I believe that the audience can also vaguely find the shadow when getting along with friends from Peter and Harry.

Of course, there is another part of the film that John R Frazier and dan bradley both like, that is, the bank robbery they made together ... Here, a guard became the victim of the "sandman" to vent his anger, and his actor was none other than the producer Grant Curtis. At this point, Bradley couldn't help laughing: "As a producer, Curtis seems to have great potential to become a miser, which is similar to a bank guard who is responsible for transporting banknotes. Therefore, Sam Raimi seized Curtis' personality in this respect, specially arranged such a role, and then invited him to stay on the set for a few days, playing the guard of armored vehicles that were eventually buried under a lot of sand. " Curtis seems to accept his "fate" calmly, because according to his experience of working with Remy for ten years, any argument is meaningless.

This set of scenes started in a very spectacular way: Sandman smashed the roof of an armored car with his fist-in fact, he smashed a foam armored car, which was completed by Fraser and his production team, about 8 feet high, 6 feet wide and weighed 500 pounds. Then, the "sandman" split countless sand streams from him and rushed to Curtis ... he was buried alive. Shooting here needs to lift the cash truck and tilt it at a 50-degree angle to pour out the sand. Despite all the measures, Curtis's role is bound to bear some of the weight of the sand-when shooting, the producer found that it was not the sand but the ear of corn, which was originally a substitute that Frazier came up with and could be cleverly disguised as sand.

Of course, the magic formula of using corn ears is not immediately thought of. James acheson, a fashion designer, first made an in-depth study on it. After all, Acheson, as one of the designers responsible for the appearance of the characters, needs to solve some key problems in the pre-production. For example, a person is made of sand. What should he look like? Should his face be uneven or smooth? Should his clothes be made of sand, too So he shipped different kinds of sand from all over the world for comparative experiments, and soon found a series of insurmountable problems in his research: first, importing sand is a very expensive transaction; Secondly, the weight of sand is very dangerous for actors and body double ... Therefore, using ear of corn is a perfect choice, because it is safe and effective: it looks exactly like sand, but its weight is less than half that of sand.