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Spider-Man 3 Trailer, A Detailed Look

// June 28th, 2006 // My Stuff

Anyone who knows me knows I’m crazy amounts of obsessive about Spider-Man. Anyone who doubts that fact… well… you won’t after you look at the rest of this post. So without further ado, a clip by clip break down of the entire Spider-Man 3 Teaser Trailer!

Opening CGI banner, “How Long…” displayed on a Spider-Man-esque texture.

CGI continues switching quickly to the text: “Can Any Man Fight The Darkness…”. Following the display of the text, in comes an oily black substance. Clearly representing “the darkness” this is also the first clue that the black suit or Venom suit will somehow be involved in this story.

All of the CGI texture is taken over by the black substance, the texture becomes that of a black suit. The text changes to “Before He Finds It In Himself”. The camera begins to pan out.

We now see Spider-Man sitting in the black suit. It is raining. He turns to look straight into the camera. Then jumps from his perch.

From what appears to be Spider-Man’s perspective we look down at his hands. His fingers are clenching and flexing as he stares at them.

As the camera cuts back to third person we see Spidey with his hands on his head. For those familiar with the story of the black suit, notice the bell to the right of the shot. I expect this is significant.

The shot cuts to Harry Osborn in a balcony of some sort. He sneers at the camera.

It cuts back to Spider-Man, he is tearing at his mask. We see the back of his head exposed. The suit does not seem to be flowing as expected… Odd.

The shot cuts to Eddie Brock played by Topher Grace staring upwards intently. He stands on a slate tiled floor. Is this within a church perhaps?

Another cut, Mary Jane Watson is shown for the first time, portrayed by Kirsten Dunst. She is sitting in what would appear to be a formal setting in a black strap dress. The look on her face is not happy.

We switch to Peter lying in bed most likely asleep without his mask, but otherwise in the red and blue costume. As the camera angle changes we can see a black rubbery substance beginning to crawl up his arm.

The scene shifts to a profile shot of Peter Parker. He is not at all happy in this shot. He is wearing a collared shirt with a suit. Did someone die, or is he going to some other formal event? Aunt May does not appear in this trailer, did they kill her off?

The pace changes and we go back to Spider-Man clearly struggling with the suit.

From another angle we see the suit being removed from his back. The setting appears to be the same as all other shots involving the black suit up until this point.

Now we switch back to a shot of Spider-Man with the red and blue suit. From an upside down hanging position we see him spring rapidly towards the ground.

Arguably the sweetest shot from the trailer, we see Sandman in full sand form sweep down and collide with a police officer. If you don’t think this is flippin sweet, there’s no impressing you.

The shot cuts to Peter parker on the street looking shocked at something.

This cuts to the first happy moment with Mary Jane and Peter making out while in a gigantic spider web. Go Pete!

And we’re back to black suit Spidey! He crouches in a window or doorway. We seem to be back in the stone based gothic setting shared by all the black suit scenes to this point.

Our first shot of the new Green Goblin is a quick one. When viewed in slow motion it is clear that something about the glider has changed. Additionally, Goblin is not wearing the same suit as he did in the first Spider-Man movie. Instead there seems to be a loose fitting jacker and either a form fitting mask or just greened skin. I can’t tell you how thrilled I am that Goblin does not in any way look like a Power Ranger!

We see black suit Spidey again, in a subway tunnel. He shoots dual webs at a target.

A-ha! He is shooting towards Flint Marko aka Sandman played by Thomas Hayden Church! He hooks the passing train and propels foot first towards Marko/Sandman.

Here is where we cut to my favorite scene. Peter is dancing with Gwen Stacy! It appears to be some sort of tango or something. As he leads into dipping her, there is the clear appearance of longing in her eyes. I cannot wait to see how this love triangle plays out. The Peter/MJ/Gwen triangle carries years of angst and conflict in the comics, hopefully they do it justice here.

We cut to MJ on the floor? She is in a regular looking whit shirt and looks back over her shoulder. She appears afraid.

It cuts back to some action, Spidey is falling from what appears to be a building, two large chunks of debris travel with him.

A pumpkin bomb hovers over the shoulder of Harry Osborn. As he turns his glance towards it, it suddenly detonates. Is this the causality of him becoming the full fledged Goblin? Is he somehow scarred or damaged by this event?

We then cut to an odd scene. Peter is falling through space, quite high up, obviously in the city. He sees an engagement ring floating in front of him, he is lunging for it. Is this part of some sort of dream sequence? Is it possible he is fighting for MJ with Green Goblin Harry as is implied by the placement of these clips?

We then see un costumed Harry punching aggressively towards the camera. He too is up high with the city scape as a backdrop.

It cuts to an un costumed Peter on the side of a building. The new Goblin is flying towards him on the new glider. The new glider appears to resemble a snow board more closely than any conventional glider from the first Spider-Man or any of the comic gliders. Spidey dodges and the Goblin crashes abruptly into the wall.

Moving back away from the action we see MJ talking with someone. She appears to be making an emotional connection with this male figure. The angle changes and we see it is Harry as MJ reaches out to stroke his hair.

We see Peter briefly looking shocked. In theory this is in reaction to the Harry/MJ interaction we just witnessed. He is dressed in a black suit with a black ties. Ladies in the background are also dressed in black. This clip has me seriously fearing for Aunt May’s life…

We cut back to some action! Black suit Spider-Man is swinging across as a pipe bursts with extreme amounts of water.

The scene changes and we see Peter again. In this shot he looks exceptionally angry. His hair is darker and greasier. My belief is that the black suit is having a negative affect on him. This is also implied by the limited voice over. Shocking here though is that he pulls his coat apart revealing the black suit under his normal clothes. In the conventional Spider-Man continuity, the black suit was able to morph into whatever form or clothing appearance he needed. If the new suit possessed this, he would not be wearing clothes over it… It would appear they have made a significant modification to what the suit is capable of. Let’s hope it’s for the best and not like the stupid organic webbing we’re stuck with…

Finally we cut to black suit Spidey in the most cinematic of all these shots. He is hanging upside down staring into his reflection in a building. Though he is donned in the black suit, his reflection is red and blue! Is this just being done for effect, or is there some significance to this? I can’t wait to know…

There is is, Spider-Man 3. The closing insignia/logo thingy.

We have a release date! You know where I’ll be on May 4th, 2007!

So that’s the rap up of all the visual elements. While all of this is going on, there is an epic sounding Hollywood piece of music playing. This is extremely well edited to match up perfectly with the many cuts. At one point we get some brief voice over.

Eddie Brock: “Parker”

Mary Jane: “What’s happened to you?”

Peter: “I don’t know. I have to stop it”

OK, so doing this rap up made me even more excited about this film… I guess I gotta go read some comics to quench my Spider-Man thirst!

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