Spiderman: Homecoming -The Magic of Disney-Marvel
Neha Hooda: Assistant Professor Centre for Post Production Skills “With great power there must also come great responsibility” Films are power and Disney – Marvel seems to live up to the responsibility well. Let us talk about how some of the films and characters we have loved so much and those that have evolved over the years. Peter Parker from Spiderman: Homecoming strikes a chord in this regard. Stan Lee wrote the character of Spiderman somewhere in early 60’s and the first Spiderman comic came out in 1962.The original character was a super hero who had self-obsessions with rejection, inadequacy, and loneliness; something the young high school going everyday kid could identify with. The Spiderman of today is a changed person. Not merely a character, but a more real person; as the audience comes very close to the journey of this digital native who still has Aunt May to look after him, a girl he crushes on but finds difficult to...