Synopsis:

An all-new version of the film, Peter’s descent into the dark side is more established and compromising than ever before. Eleven minutes were cut and many subtle changes to the film were made to bring it into a new light, making Peter’s morally questioning journey darker, creepier and psychologically challenging.

Intentions:

To remove any goofy elements and make the film dark and serious, while retaining some of the lighthearted Spidey fun where it is warranted (eg Jameson scenes, Bruce Campbell).

Change List:

1. Changed the opening title music so that the percussion instruments heard when “Marvel” flickers by is the same as in the first two films. 2. Removed the backstage scene 3. Removed Harry’s scene in the Goblin’s Lair 4. Removed Aunt May saying “We’d be married fifty years come August, if…” 5. Cut Peter’s facial expression when he falls down the side of the building during the New Goblin Air Battle. 6. Cut the scientists from Sandman’s creation 7. Cut down the conversation between Peter and MJ about her review. MJ comes across as less whiny, and Peter comes across as more of a **** (he doesn’t even give her any words of advice, as soon as he hears the radio he says “I’m sorry” and walks off. He’s a real jerk ) 8. Cut the line “Okay Gwen, I’ve got a secret, it’s my copiah!” 9. Added a Wilhelm Scream to the Crane scene (just for giggles :P) 10. Cut Peter dancing with the Marching Band 11. Removed the little boy telling Spider-Man not to kiss Gwen. 12. Cut out Peter tipping sand from his boot and spitting sand. 13. Removed Mary Jane seeing the headline on her way to dinner with Peter. 14. Got rid of the random shot of Spider-Man swinging through the water when Sandman is getting washed away. 15. Removed Peter shutting the suit in the chest after he first uses it; he looks in the mirror, opens his shirt, looks own at the suit, then looks back up at his reflection, and the sound fades into his conversation with Aunt May. It works quite nicely. This was done so that I could incorporate the shot of Black Suit Spidey swinging to meet MJ; in this edit, he never decides not to use the suit, and therefore is entitled to wear it to see her. 16. Removed MJ arriving at Harry’s penthouse. 17. Removed the dance sequence between Harry and MJ. 18. Added a short scene of Black-Suited Spider-Man swinging through the city on his way to meet MJ. 19. Toned down the breakup scene; I basically just removed the crying and a couple of lines from Peter. 20. Cut the waitress talking to Harry at the diner. 21. At the end of the shot of Peter sitting on his bed thinking about Harry, instead of having Peter look towards his trunk, we fade into the now black-and-white shot of Peter looking at the symbiote symbol in the mirror. This way we can really feel that he’s thinking carefully about what he’s doing. 22. Heavily edited the Harry/Peter battle in Harry’s mansion. It’s now much more climactic and intense. I took out the original score and placed James Dooley’s “Trinity” over the top, and pasted in any sound effects that were needed for the scene. 23. Changed the music and sound effects for the scene where Peter finds Brock’s headline, and did a bit of re-structuring. Peter doesn’t wink or glance at any girls. 24. Removed the entire “Funky Souls” montage. This was originally going to remain in the film, with all of the strutting removed and a shot of Black Suited Spider-Man swinging through New York inserted into the montage. However, when I watched the film through, the music didn’t really fit in with the dark tone that I had set for the film, so I removed it. 25. Cut out Peter’s dance in the Jazz Club, he now only dances with Gwen. 26. After Gwen leaves, while Peter rubs his chest again, we once again fade into the B&W shot of Peter looking in the mirror. 27. As a continuation of the flashback added after Gwen leaves Peter at the Jazz Club, the scene of Venom jumping out at Peter from the mirror is added just before Peter spins around and hits MJ. It’s a very sudden moment, and fits in well with the notion that it wasn’t Peter hitting MJ, it was the suit. Also, All flashbacks up until this point are in black-and-white; given the sudden nature of the scene (it lasts for 11 frames, less than a second) and the fact that it isn’t a flashback at all, and more of an intrusion of his mind, I decided to make that scene in colour. I quite like the way I’ve done it. 28. Another addition to the whole black suit portion of the film is that I changed the greyscale of the film for all the scenes after the Harry fight. The scene in the street with the news headline, Brock’s humiliation and the Jazz Club scene have all had a black-and-white blend with the colour to make the image a lot paler and kinda darker. As soon as Peter hits MJ, the colour surges back to the normal colour scheme, so that we see Peter being pulled out of this dreamlike state and back into the real world. 29. At the end of the Church scene, Venom swallows the camera and we stay black for a couple of seconds while the roar echoes out, and then fade onto Peter in the shower. 30. Modified Venom’s voice, to make it deeper. This was the only change I could make to Venom; at one point, someone suggested I add a huge slimy tongue, but that would require a LOT of CGI for a LOT of shots. 31. Cut as much of the news report as possible. This meant cutting Venom’s message in the web, but all in all, it’s not really missed too much. The film cuts straight from Peter looking at the suit to Harry.

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