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[SPOILERS] The Human Elements Added To 'Spider-Man: Homecoming'

Time for more spoilers for Spider-Man: Homecoming. We're going to be talking about various aspects of this movie for a while, so if you haven't seen it yet — and you should, because it's great — this time we're here to talk about some smaller scenes within the movie so there are spoilers but not major ones. Most of them have to do with certain personality traits that we see in this version of Peter Parker.

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You can't have a good movie until your audience finds a way to relate to the characters. This is even harder to do with the super hero genre because some of these people are literal gods, so how could I, a human being, relate to that? The good writers know how to bring these people down to Earth and in the case of Spider-Man: Homecoming they had to make us to relate to a teenager as well as a person. Jonathan Goldstein spoke to Cinema Blend about the two scenes in the movie where we see some real human characteristics in Peter Parker.

The first one takes places toward the middle of the film. Peter has to scale the Washington Monument to save his friends and he gets nervous from the heights. A fear of heights and a sense of vertigo when being high up is a feeling a lot of people can relate to and Goldstein wanted to address it.

We wanted the movie to focus on him coming to terms with his new abilities and not yet being good with them, and carrying with him some real human fears and weaknesses, like a fear of heights, because nobody ever dealt with that before. You just sort of assumed, 'He gets bitten by a spider, he's totally comfortable on top of tall buildings,' but why did that have to be the case?

The other scene was toward the end of the movie when the Vulture has just buried Peter under a pile of rubble. Peter is a teenager and teenagers are full of self doubt which writer John Francis Daley believed was the thing that was holding Peter back. He talked to The Hollywood Reporter about the scene and how it was about Peter accepting that he was both Spider-Man and Peter Parker.

We have him starting the scene with such self-doubt and helplessness, in a way that you really see the kid. You feel for him. He's screaming for help, because he doesn't think he can do it, and then in the context of that flashback, he kind of realizes that that's been his biggest problem. He didn't have the confidence in himself to get himself out of there.

The scene is similar to one from classic issue Amazing Spider-Man #33 and the scene itself works really well. The desperate cries for help sound exactly like the cries of a child which is what Peter is at the end of the day. Both of the scenes make Peter feel even more like a well rounded and real person despite the fact that he can "stop a bus with his bare hands".

Summary: Following the events of Captain America: Civil War (2016), Peter Parker attempts to balance his life in high school with his career as the web-slinging superhero Spider-Man.

Spider-Man: Homecoming stars Tom Holland, Robert Downey Jr., Marisa Tomei, Donald Glover, Zendaya, Tony Revolori, and Michael Keaton. Swing on down to your local theater and check it out now.

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