Spider-Man Musical's Legal Web Grows More Tangled
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Mostly for name recognition to try and validate themselves with the uppity ups that just eat that kind of theater stuff up, when they find out that their favorite director/writer is working on a play.Nouw said:
I had one professor that during the tragedies section of his Shakespeare class, it seemed he couldn't go more than couple weeks without mentioning something that Taymor had done with one of Shakespeare's plays.
Suicide, sex and death, all things that have happened in Spider-Man. All things that have happened a lot actually. I'm going to make a short, one-example list of each of those that no one will fucking read:
Suicide: After the trauma of dealing with Venom's symbiote Anne Weying (ex-wife of Eddie Brock) is left traumatized and throws herself out of her own appartment window right in front of her ex-husband and Spider-Man, causing her to die.
Death: Let's just lead with the best example, Death of Gwen Stacey; During a battle with the Green Goblin she is throw off the bridge, Spider-Man shoots down a webline to save her only to have the webline result in wiplash, thus snapping his own girlfriend's neck.
Sex: Most fun example; in the most recent issues you see the immediate aftermath of his many, many, MANY sexual exploits with the black cat, not to mention they're always running off to fuck eachother again (well, he's got a GF again now, so that's over now, but still).
EDIT: Also, that song and dance linked; that was fucking attrocious, what was all that shit they added? The goblin doesn't look like that (in ANY of his iterations) and with the exception of Kraven and Electro (SPARKLERS! WOOOO!) those are not the members of the mother fucking sinister six! Hell, what the fuck was with those made up retardations with the bees and the knife dress? Putting aside the dumping on the source materiel, the dancers were often out of sync and a few didn't seem to know what the fuck they were doing.
Suicide: After the trauma of dealing with Venom's symbiote Anne Weying (ex-wife of Eddie Brock) is left traumatized and throws herself out of her own appartment window right in front of her ex-husband and Spider-Man, causing her to die.
Death: Let's just lead with the best example, Death of Gwen Stacey; During a battle with the Green Goblin she is throw off the bridge, Spider-Man shoots down a webline to save her only to have the webline result in wiplash, thus snapping his own girlfriend's neck.
Sex: Most fun example; in the most recent issues you see the immediate aftermath of his many, many, MANY sexual exploits with the black cat, not to mention they're always running off to fuck eachother again (well, he's got a GF again now, so that's over now, but still).
EDIT: Also, that song and dance linked; that was fucking attrocious, what was all that shit they added? The goblin doesn't look like that (in ANY of his iterations) and with the exception of Kraven and Electro (SPARKLERS! WOOOO!) those are not the members of the mother fucking sinister six! Hell, what the fuck was with those made up retardations with the bees and the knife dress? Putting aside the dumping on the source materiel, the dancers were often out of sync and a few didn't seem to know what the fuck they were doing.
I wonder if more people are watching it due to the bad press or if its the Nascar effect where people show up just to see it when shit goes wrong and people get hurt on set.
I suppose this would be the same 'family friendly' Spider-Man where Peter Parker aborted his unborn daughter and ended his marriage with his wife in a deal with the devil to save his eighty year old aunt?
Oh wait, they said family friendly films, where Doctor Octopus commits suicide in the conclusion of the second film thus absoving himself of the sins of having nearly slaughtered the entire population of New York City.
Wait, which family friendly Spider-Man are we talking about here? Because I can't remember a single incarnation of him that hasn't featured death as, y'know, the entire inciting incident for why Peter Parker uses his powers responsibly.
Perhaps the producers are reading an entirely different comic, or perhaps they're just talking out of their arses.
Oh wait, they said family friendly films, where Doctor Octopus commits suicide in the conclusion of the second film thus absoving himself of the sins of having nearly slaughtered the entire population of New York City.
Wait, which family friendly Spider-Man are we talking about here? Because I can't remember a single incarnation of him that hasn't featured death as, y'know, the entire inciting incident for why Peter Parker uses his powers responsibly.
Perhaps the producers are reading an entirely different comic, or perhaps they're just talking out of their arses.
Damn you Nouw, now I have to listen to that entire album again when I should be listening to dubstep remixes of pony songs!Nouw said:That would ruin the surprise wouldn't itDVS BSTrD said:? But I can assure you the message will be subtle and in the theme of the album. Especially the message it gives at the very end...maybe the beginning *wink *wink.
OT: I remember seeing the NCchick review of this, it looked incredibly cheesy and incredibly well... Bad. I don't know why a play based on Spiderman, one of the most famous and profitable comic characters can have such poor production values. Well I'm sure it has lots of pretty lights, but when you can't even do safety right that shows that the person making it did a rather shity job.
If they use the Batman: The Brave and the Bold Aquaman, I'd totally go see it.Screamarie said:
A musical relies on being ostentatious, loud, and energetic. He is ALL of those things. I'm just unsure as to who they'd cast as his adversary. Black Manta is the obvious choice, but then you run into the problem of a blond haired blue-eyed guy beating up a black guy. At any rate, I'm sure they could re-use a bunch of stuff from/for a "The Little Mermaid" musical.
I actually saw this play, and while sex and death may have been themes, suicide was not. Unless you count the stunts, those may be considered "Suicidal".
I liked the play, it had nothing to do with Spider-Man or any of the established cannon, or anything in general, but it wasn't horrible considering it's a musical.
I liked the play, it had nothing to do with Spider-Man or any of the established cannon, or anything in general, but it wasn't horrible considering it's a musical.
Reading that is still going, I somehow felt like I heard Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom sing in some New York prison. Where did they go right?