Spider-Man (film)

Spider-Man is an extremely successful film released in 2002, directed by Sam Raimi, which stars Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, and Willem Dafoe. It is an adaptation of the Marvel Comics comic book The Amazing Spider-Man, focusing on the title character's origins and his fight against his first major enemy, the Green Goblin, even while he struggles to show his feelings to his love, Mary Jane.

Trivia

• In Spider-Man, Peter's Uncle Ben drives a 1978 beige Oldsmobile Delta. This model of car has appeared in all but one of director Sam Raimi's films.
• Spider-Man creator, Stan Lee, makes a cameo appearance for three seconds during the parade sequence of the film, appearing shocked by Spider-Man and the Green Goblin fighting.
• Oddly enough, actor Cliff Robertson, who plays Uncle Ben, has the middle name "Parker," which is Ben's last name.
• Both in the movie and comic adaptations, Peter Parker has a poster of Albert Einstein.
• The climax of the film is loosely based on Amazing Spider-Man #121-122, in which the Goblin kidnaps Spider-Man's girlfriend, Gwen Stacy and suspends her over a bridge. Gwen is killed by the fall and the Goblin is later impaled by his own glider. The main differences in the movie is that it's Mary Jane and she survives.