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Spider-Man

Sam Raimi · 2002 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

A high-school photographer is bitten by an engineered spider on a class trip and wakes able to climb walls and feel danger coming. He uses it for a wrestling purse and a car until a robbery he chose not to stop costs him the uncle who raised him, and his best friend's father tests a military serum on himself. Raimi's hit set the template that made the superhero picture Hollywood's default tentpole.

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Attributes

Genre
AdventureScience FictionComing-of-Age
Theme
Coming of AgeDuty & HonorGuilt & ConscienceIdentity & Self
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
HeroShadowLoverMentor
Plot structure
Hero's JourneyOrigin MythOvercoming the Monster
Symbol / motif
The WebThe MaskThe City
Conflict
vs Personvs Self
Mode / tone
AdventureMythic
Culture / tradition
Modern / American

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