Lodivico, James Alexson E.

ARC51

SYNOPSIS OF THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2

PLOT

Scientist Richard Parker records a video message to explain his disappearance. Later,
he and his wife, Mary, are aboard a private jet hijacked by a man sent to assassinate
Richard. With the pilot dead, the plane crashes.

In the present, Richard and Mary's son, Peter, fights crime as Spider-Man. He
apprehends Aleksei Sytsevich, who attempted to steal a truck containing plutonium
vials, and rescues OsCorp Industries employee Max Dillon. While speaking by phone
with Gwen Stacy, Peter sees a vision of her deceased father, police captain George
Stacy, reminding him to leave Gwen out of his affairs as Spider-Man. After their high
school graduation, Peter meets with Gwen at a restaurant outside, insisting he needs to
keep his vow to her father by staying away from her; upset, Gwen ends their
relationship.

Peter's childhood friend, Harry Osborn, returns to Manhattan to see his terminally ill
father, Norman, CEO of OsCorp. Norman explains his illness is hereditary and Harry is
at the age where it first develops. He gives Harry a small device he claims contains his
life's work. The next day, Norman dies and Harry is appointed the new OsCorp CEO.
He accuses the OsCorp board of trying to wrest control from the Osborns, as they have
been privy to Norman's secret biogenetic projects for foreign military powers.

Thinking they have become "best friends", Max idolizes Spider-Man. While tending to
maintenance in an OsCorp laboratory, he gets electrocuted and falls into a tank of
genetically modified electric eels. They mutate him into a living electric generator.
Meanwhile, Peter attempts to maintain a friendship with Gwen, but, as she reveals that
an opportunity for a scholarship at Oxford University means that she may move to
Britain, Max wanders into Times Square and accidentally causes a blackout. Spider-
Man attempts to calm him down, but the police fire at Max, and Spider-Man's resulting
rescue of the endangered citizens draws media attention away from Max, making him
lose his temper and attack. Spider-Man eventually stops him, and Max is taken to
Ravencroft Institute.

Harry's illness begins to show, and he deduces Spider-Man's blood will save him, later
asking Peter to find Spider-Man. Peter attempts to dissuade him, unsure of what effects
the transfusion would have, and, although he does come to Harry as Spider-Man, he
still refuses; Harry begins to hate Spider-Man. The OsCorp board members frame Harry
for covering up Max's accident, and remove him as CEO. Harry's assistant informs him
of equipment that could help him; he works with Max to get him back inside the OsCorp
building and, there, finds a suit of armor made by Norman, and venom from genetically
altered spiders. The venom accelerates his illness and transforms him into a goblin-like
creature, but its built-in emergency protocol restores his health.

Peter uses information left by his father to find a video message in a hidden lab; Richard
explains that he had to leave because he refused to cooperate with Norman's
biogenetic weaponization plans. Peter gets a voicemail from Gwen, telling him she got
the scholarship at Oxford and is leaving for Britain earlier than expected. Before she
leaves, he catches her and professes he loves her. When Max causes another
blackout, Peter and Gwen go to confront him. They restore power and overload Max's
body, killing him. Harry arrives equipped with Norman's armor and weaponry; he
deduces Spider-Man's true identity and kidnaps Gwen. He fights Spider-Man at the top
of a clock tower. Spider-Man subdues Harry, but despite his attempts to save Gwen,
she falls to her death. A distraught Peter gives up being Spider-Man and he spends
several days throughout the year at Gwen's grave.

Over the next five months, Harry has healed from his transformation at Ravencroft. His
associate Gustav Fiers visits him and breaks Sytsevich out of prison. Equipped with a
mechanical suit of armor, Sytsevich calls himself the "Rhino" and rampages through the
streets. Peter, inspired by Gwen's graduation speech, returns to battle him as Spider-
Man.


THE STRUGGLES OF TWO CHARACTERS

PETER PARKER

Peter Parker has a lot of responsibilities not only to his family and to his girlfriend,
Gwen. But also to the population of New York City whom he protects as Spider-Man.
With these responsibilities on his hands, it is not easy to balance his time it is very
evident on the first appearance of Spider-Man in the film where he first save the
plutonium from the criminals and Max Dillon then Gwen calls him telling him that he is
late on their graduation. For Peter, it is time management at its worst because he
cannot tell when he will be needed to fight crimes and also he cannot tell when he will
be needed by his family and friends. Taking into account as well, he just graduated from
high school meaning that Peter is at his youth making these responsibilities more
difficult for him because he cannot perform what other people at his age does.

Also Peter had lost his biological parents when he was a child. He had no clue on
whether where they are or if they are still even alive. So peter, on one hand tries to find
his authentic self. Of course he wants to find out why he is like that, why he is Spider-
Man? There are a lot of questions that lingers on him specially on the film where he is
curious on what is in the brief case of his father, but due to bitterness he keeps on
ignoring that case but eventually when he cannot anymore stand the curiosity he open it
up only to find out that there are documents, pictures and other paraphernalia of his
Fathers experiments that will eventually lead him to the old Roosevelt Station where his
father kept a video explaining his disappearance and the shocking part is, where Peter
knew that the experiment of his father is related to him becoming Spider-Man. Richard
Parker Explains that he injected the chemical on him making all his bloodline carriers of
that experiment which explains of being Spider-Man of Peter Parker.

Sometimes Peter show absurdity meaning he acts extremely foolish or unreasonable to
people and things in one scene where Peter saw an apparition of Gwens father when
catching the criminals who stole the plutonium, Peter remembered his promised to him
that he will stay away from Gwen because he is Spider-Man. That is why he meets up
with Gwen after the graduation to explain this but for Gwen it was unreasonable
because Peter told him that he loves her, but he is afraid of what bad might happen to
Gwen when he is already Spider-Man. But as we all know their love story continues
throughout the film.

Adding to this, there is a scene on the film the Peter always looks after Gwen during
their temporary break-up because Peter is always feeling the fear that something might
bad happen to Gwen, in short, Peter is always dreadful about Gwen. Maybe that is also
the reason why they did not really separated when Gwen broke-up with Peter because
Peter will always shows up where Gwen is. Also when Peter knew that Gwen has an
opportunity to enter Oxford University, of course Peter was happy but also there is a
feeling of dread because Gwen would be away for quite some time and Peter is not
there to look after her.

In line with this, we see Peters commitment to Gwen but also he must commit to the
subjectivity that he possesses which is Spider-Man. On the climax part where Spider-
Man is already dealing with the Green Goblin, he also faces another problem which is
Gwen that is also on the fight scene. We could see Spider-Man trying his best to beat
the Green Goblin so that he could save Gwen. But unfortunately, as he tries to save
Gwen as she falls from the top of the clock tower, he was able to catch Gwen before
she could able hit the ground. But to his surprise, Gwen still died. As Gwen was laid to
rest, we could see that Peter almost stayed at her grave everyday and every seasons of
the year because of his commitment and love for her. That is why for that particular
time, when he is grieving, Spider-Man is missing because he could not be Spider-Man.
Because his commitment and focus is not on Spider-Man but merely on Gwen alone.
But Gwen is also the reason why Spider-Man came back. It is the scene where Peter,
watched the Commencement Speech of Gwen talking about hope. So that is the turning
point where Peter suddenly realized that he has more to do as Spider-Man. That why,
on the last scene we could see that he came back and fight crime again.

HARRY OSBORN

Harry arrives home to see his ailing father, Norman Osborn, they have a fractured
relationship. It is as bitter as Norman's illness. He implies that Harry will suffer the same
fate. He asks to see Harry's hand and notices that it is shaking a symptom of the illness.
He hands Harry a drive with his research. Minutes later, his father died. with his father
not around he takes full responsibility of the his fathers company, OSCORP. Not only
that, he is also responsible to fulfill his fathers legacies, his fathers researches. It is a
burden for him because the way I see him, he is a passive young man who is not
capable of achieving more than is fathers. Adding to his burden is the illness that he
also inherited from his father. So it will be really hard for him to take full responsibility of
all of OSCORP because he is also dealing with his illness. With a fractured relationship
with his father, the board doesnt believe that harry can take over OSCORP they dont
respect him . With this, he really finds it hard find his place most especially now that he
is all alone with no family and friends to share his grief. Luckily he has Peter that helped
him unwind a little bit after his fathers funeral.

When Harry is getting sicker he is desperate to find for a solution or a treatment for his
illness. He found out that there are special experiments that his father kept in the hard
drive that was given to him. He found out that there are spider experiments that can
help treat his illness. So he called Peter to his office asking him to convince Spider-Man
to donate some of his blood for him so that the effect of the Spiders Experiment would
work on him. But Peter refuses due to the danger might happen during the transfusion.
But Harry insisted because Peter might think it was absurd but it is the only way that he
could survive his illness. Harry becomes dreadful that he may died or may suffer the
same fate of his father. That is why, Harry walks in with Electro and forces Menken to
grant him access to Special Projects where the Spiders Experiments is hidden. Electro
dashes off to reclaim his stolen power grid design and cripple the city. In Special
Projects, Harry injects himself with the spider venom "cure", which sets off a painful
transformation into the Green Goblin as Menken escapes. Harry is in extreme pain and
looks up to see the special armor from the hard drive video. Crawling painfully while
green light flashes all around him, he makes his way to the suit. Upon entering it, a
healing protocol begins to repair the damage to his ravaged system. So his dread of
being dead turn quite more horrific because it doesnt turned out to be a cure but a
transfiguration vial that would turn him into a villain.

His anger with Spider-Man is the turning point or the trigger why he commits to his new
subjectivity which is the Green Goblin because Harry wants revenge because he thinks
Spider-Man/Peter Parker turned his back on Harry that is why Harry doesnt care
anymore about his former friend Peter.