Andrew Garfield heartbroken over ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’
Actor feels Marc Webb films missed many opportunities
Garfield is known for his work in The Social Network. PHOTO: FILE
“Spider-Man was my favorite superhero. It was my first superhero costume when I was a 3-year-old at Halloween,” actor Andrew Garfield told The Hollywood Reporter. If anyone thought he wasn’t given the material he deserved in Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2, the one-time wall-crawler might agree with them.
Garfield described the experience of working on the superhero movies as brutal. “It was like looking at a stranger and feeling like you were perpetuating something that’s toxic and something that’s shallow, that has no depth, no matter how much depth was attempted,” he said. “I was like, there are millions of young people watching but more often than not, the opportunity is not taken, and it is absolutely devastating and heartbreaking because there is so much medicine that could be delivered through those films.”
This isn’t the first time Garfield shared his frustrations with The Amazing Spider-Man movies. In 2014, he told the LA Times that he felt like there were lots of missed opportunities in the first of the two movies, adding, “It was heartbreaking in a lot of ways.”
More recently, he criticised the final edit of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, claiming, “There was this thread running through it. I think what happened was, during the preproduction, production, and postproduction, you have something that works as a whole. And then you start removing portions of it. There was even more of it than in the final cut, and everything was related. Once you start removing things and saying, ‘No, that doesn’t work,’ then the thread is broken.”
Published in The Express Tribune, December 5th, 2016.
Garfield described the experience of working on the superhero movies as brutal. “It was like looking at a stranger and feeling like you were perpetuating something that’s toxic and something that’s shallow, that has no depth, no matter how much depth was attempted,” he said. “I was like, there are millions of young people watching but more often than not, the opportunity is not taken, and it is absolutely devastating and heartbreaking because there is so much medicine that could be delivered through those films.”
This isn’t the first time Garfield shared his frustrations with The Amazing Spider-Man movies. In 2014, he told the LA Times that he felt like there were lots of missed opportunities in the first of the two movies, adding, “It was heartbreaking in a lot of ways.”
More recently, he criticised the final edit of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, claiming, “There was this thread running through it. I think what happened was, during the preproduction, production, and postproduction, you have something that works as a whole. And then you start removing portions of it. There was even more of it than in the final cut, and everything was related. Once you start removing things and saying, ‘No, that doesn’t work,’ then the thread is broken.”
Published in The Express Tribune, December 5th, 2016.