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...ready for high-flying, edge-of-your-seat action. Director Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man 3” keeps the adrenaline rushing as he presents the darker side of everyone’s favorite web-slinger. The story follows Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire), the unassuming alias of our hero Spider-Man, as we witness his trials and tribulations: girl troubles, job troubles, and friend troubles. The latter is especially problematic—it’s a friend who is hell-bent on killing Parker, in order to avenge his father’s death...
Preparing for the role of the irradiated Sandman, a.k.a. Flint Marko, in Spider-Man 3, Thomas Haden Church researched the Golem of Jewish folklore and the Frankenstein monster--creatures as pathetic as they were horrific. He wanted to give a nuanced reading of a mutant steeped in self-knowledge. "I remember the performances of Lon Chaney Jr.," he says, "where there was the physical aggression with that kind of sadness and regret that he [was] physically aggressive and could terrify people...
HARRY OSBORN HAS BEEN STEWING IN rancor throughout the Spider-Man series--just as Franco has been skulking around the edges of the films. He's been ready for his bad-guy close-up for five years now, so, as he says, "it wasn't like I had to practice a villainous cackle or anything like that." This time, Peter has a triple-gnger: as he recognizes and fights his own weakness for celebrity, he's up against Harry, who must avenge his father's death by killing Peter-Spider. "It's two superhumans battling it out," Franco says...
...maybe Spider-Man 3 has a quadruple-gnger. Peter also must confront his photographer rival Eddie Brock (a.k.a. Venom), played by Topher Grace. "He gets very similar powers to Spider-Man; they work in the same place, they're after the same girls," he says. The difference: Grace can be extreme without worrying about breaking character. "When you play a protagonist, a bell goes off every time you do something outside the range of normal behavior," Grace says. "But when you're a psycho from outer space, there's something very freeing. With great powers comes great...
...FANTASY FILM, THE VILLAIN OFTEN NEEDS TO look very ugly or old or outr. That depends on the skill of the makeup-effects artist--and the patience of the actor. "Putting on the makeup and the fangs took four hours," says Grace about his Spider-Man 3 rig. "Then another 45 minutes to put on the suit--and you can't go the bathroom in it, which is a problem they still haven't solved after three of these films...