"Spider-Man" the Musical Vs. "Spider-Man," the movies: A web of links
Like any regenerated beast, the Broadway debacle-turned-semi-saved-but-still-bad "Spider-Man" -- with music and lyrics by Bono and the Edge -- mixes and matches various parts. So, here's a quick rundown of elements the Great White Way took from Hollywood -- and what was bitten off and spit out.1) Does Spidey do his patented "upside-down, legs-akimbo' dangle from the ceiling? A bit; actor Patrick Page goes into an experimental orb and screams. Only his altered appearance is more spiky and repitlian, since here, the Goblin is supposed to be an amalgam of various and sundry insect and reptile venom, blood and DNA. Which explains the crazy porcupin-like things coming out of his shoulders. In the movie -- as in the comics -- Osborn looks the same, it's just his strength and his mind that have changed. The first two are on stage (briefly) at the Foxwoods. They're joined by the Lizard, Carnage, and two new characters; Swiss Miss (think Grace Jones in the James Bond bomb "A View to a Kill" crossed with Edward Scissorhands) and a guy who's made up of bees.
5) The Lizard will be the villain in the new Spidey movie, "The Amazing Spider-Man," due in summer of 2012. How's he look here? J. Jonah Jameson's secretary Betty Brant gets a shout-out, but no appearance, as she did when Elizabeth Banks played her in the movies. There's a scene of Mary Jane dangling from a bridge as in the first film. There's a guy in a Spider-Man mask...and, thankfully, he never sings when he has the mask on. It's hard to be a musical when your lead character has no mouth.
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After listening to a passage from Mr. Lethem's book praising one famously long fight scene involving Keith David and the wrestler Roddy Piper, Mr. Carpenter scoffs. “Dude, he was a wrestler,” he says. “I cast a wrestler. We just wanted to put on a show
6) How about Uncle Ben's death, the fight with the wrestler, the and the brush-off with the thug -- all those comics/movie touchstones? The first two are here -- although the wrestler is another giant balloon toy. Who the hell cooked this thing up?
a sumo wrestler's tooth into the third row; a boxer beaten while wearing just one glove; a karate fighter/refrigerator repairman repeatedly punching the groin of a guy who went on to have a small role as a henchman in an "Austin Powers" movie.
Hawkes is returning to Alexandria this week to present "Earthwork," and MPR's Euan Kerr caught up with him to talk about the new film, and how he went from life in rural Minnesota to that of a movie star. Hawkes said he was a high school wrestler,
There's no denying that Darren Aronofsky -- the Oscar nominee behind movies such as Requiem For a Dream, The Wrestler and Black Swan -- has made a name for himself on the big screen. It looks like he's hoping to do the same on the small tube;
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Sometime in my early primary school years, I had an argument with a classmate that lasted for almost an entire day. We debated whether professional wrestling was real or fake.
Prior to this, I had seen a professional wrestling match where one of the participants accidentally bit his tongue and it was bleeding pretty badly. He went on to finish the match occasionally sticking his bloody tongue out to wind up the audience. Having witnessed an actual, unintended injury, I was on the wrong side of this debate: at the age of ten, I was convinced that professional wrestling was real.
Later of course I came to see the truth, but couldn’t really blame myself for being mistaken before. For several decades, pro wrestlers never broke kayfabe (the fourth wall in the pro wrestling world) and the subject of an orchestrated storyline can be a tricky one to bring up even today with some wrestlers. It was brought into the public’s eye in 1984 with the notorious footage of journalist John Stossel being assaulted by wrestler David Schultz after Stossel stated that pro wrestling was ‘fake’.
As recently as 1999, documentary filmmaker Loius Theroux had a nasty run-in with a group of mainstream wrestlers after politely enquiring about the planning behind the scenes.
Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler feels like the last chapter in the slow process of professional wrestling ‘coming out of the closet’. It’s an uncompromisingly honest film about this secretive world told through the title character played by Mickey Rourke.
Aronofsky left no stone unturned and goes beyond the issue of predetermined outcomes; he deals with steroid use, the health problems that come with the craft and a wrestler becoming a social outcast in the new millennium as pro wrestling becoming somewhat obsolete.
Robin Ramzinski (Rourke) formerly known by his stage name Randy “The Ram” Robinson is struggling with a bleak everyday life and craves for the celebrity status he enjoyed in the 80s.
His former glory is only remembered by a few hard core wrestling fans while he is frequently mocked by his boss at the supermarket where he earns just enough money to pay the rent. Everything is a reminder that he’s no longer relevant: a neighbour’s kid reluctantly plays a video game with him that was released about 20 years back, but tells him of the latest popular first person shooter based on the Iraq war.
Currently watching THE WRESTLER. I love this movie
Watched "The Wrestler" last night. Amazing movie but not sure if I enjoyed it. "True Grit" tomorrow.
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good movie for The Wrestler, but all I saw was Mickey Rourke's back
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Directed by Darren Aronofsky. With Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, Mark Margolis.
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