http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euJvz0shUlo
In my opinion, this intense fight scene from the first Spider-Man movie is an excellent example of a classic theme, good triumphs over evil. The conflict in the movie between the villainous Green Goblin and heroic Spider-Man builds throughout the entire story until this final moment when the two characters battle for one last time. This scene demonstrates a didactic theme that also applies to the movie as a whole which intends to teach the audience that good will always triumph over evil in the end.
There are several techniques used to intensify the action going on in this scene. The first and most obvious thing I noticed was the use of space to exaggerate the characters strengths and abilities. This fight scene extends past the boundaries of four walls into the entire city due to the characters abilities to fly and swing through the air from building to building. This use of an enormous space gives the scene additional weight and makes the scene appear to be much more intense. The characters fast-paced movement adds to the intensity of the large space that they are fighting within. Their sporadic and continuous movement across the screen creates visual interest that keeps the audience interested throughout the entire fight as they fly and swing from building to building, bursting through windows and crashing through walls. When it comes down to the final moment of this epic battle, the theme of the movie is demonstrated in an explosive finale. The visual space of the scene gets smaller to focus on the two characters who stand bloody and beaten in a fiery room. Green Goblin shoots a missile from behind Spider-Man's back as he says, "Bye bye, Spidey". But as the theme goes, good will always triumph over evil and Spider-Man utilizes his super-human abilities to sense the missile coming and backflip over it as it launches forward into the villain and killing him. I think that this final use of movement was a great way to demonstrate the theme one last time and show that good will always defeat evil.
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