Word: spiderman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uses his character Spiderman, one of his most popular heroes, as an illustration of his approach. "He's got super powers, and he fights crooks; he's just like anybody else. So we gave him an aunt who's always dying of a heart attack; he has all these personal problems; he's sort of a nebbish...
...difference between a Rolls-Royce and a skateboard. Marvel has a more adult vocabulary. Marvel has a sense of humor--everything is done in a lighthearted way. We have a lot of satire in our books. Our stuff is much more realistic. If we take a character like Spiderman, we say, 'What would it be like if there were a guy like Spiderman? How would he get along in the real world?' I don't think anybody ever thought that way at some of our competitor outfits. If there really were a guy with a big S on his chest...
...collection of the original issues of Marvel Comics, Son of Origins, Lee describes Spiderman's creation: "we recklessly flew in the face of all established tradition and dared to create a hero out of a shy studious, insecure, mollycoddled momma's boy." As Lee puts it, "He's the Woody Allen of the superheroes...
Last year in New York Resnais met Stan Lee, the creator of Spiderman and the Fantastic Four comics. They had dinner together and Resnais, a comic book collector and connoisseur since childhood, was delighted. "I had read everything he had written for the last ten years. I was totally hooked, and I was surprised to find that the writer was such a lovable person. He told me that he has written more than 7000 stories, and would like to try something else...
...ever realized, may well be a combination as significant and as perfect as that, eleven years ago, of Resnais and the French author Alain Robbe-Grillet, in the creation of Last Year at Marienbad. Filmmaking, of course, has always made strange bedfellows: as different as the American father of Spiderman is from the French creator of the "nouveau roman", and as different as both of these are from the novelist Marguerite Duras, who wrote the script for Hiroshima Mon Amour. Resnais has affinities with all three...