10 Things You Need To Know About James Cameron's Spider-Man
4. There Was A Weird Amount Of Sex
Cameron's take on Spider-Man looked to be pitched at an older audience in a lot of ways. Besides the literary references and scathing social satire, the movie looked to be taking the sexual metaphor of the character to a ludicrous degree. It's in there in most versions of Spider-Man: y'know, teenager's body starts going through weird changes. Including, in Raimi's Spider-Man movie, expelling sticky white substances in the night and then having to awkwardly hide it from his aunt. Somehow Cameron's version was even more hormone-fuelled, with Electro's introduction involving him undressing a woman he's accidentally shocked unconscious. The film's hero, meanwhile, initially uses his wall crawling abilities to go peep on his childhood crush Mary Jane in the process of getting changed from right outside the window. Which is hella creepy, but they eventually end up consummating their mutual attraction!....On the Brooklyn Bridge, in a web, in the manner spiders actually mate. Ahem.
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