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INTERVIEW WITH SAM RAIMI
There you have it. Take it as you will.
And, as you'll see in the film, some very distinct things were added in light of September 11. "Well, I was devastated by September 11th and I didn't know anybody in the buildings. I was moved like every other American when I watched the real heroes go in there and help those people in the tragedy at the attack site risk their lives and many times lose their lives. So, in the storyboards I had always had in the idea - it wasn't in the script. Some ideas come from myself and the artist - after Spider-Man has been misunderstood by the New Yorkers throughout the course of the whole movie, he does nothing but risk his life for them, I wanted a small group to appreciate him because I thought it would give him back something. I had put in before September 11th a bunch of New Yorkers seeing what Spider-Man was doing risking his life to save these kids and helping him a little. I thought that would be cool. I wanted the audience to go, 'Finally, somebody appreciates this guy. If not the whole city, somebody.' Then there was September 11th and I decided to add and slightly change their dialogue because I really wanted it to be a tip of the hat to those brave rescue workers who risked their lives to be heroes."
And one of the most talked about scenes, already, is Spidey sitting on the pole with the American flag. "Yes, I put the American flag in after September 11th, but I've always been a big American and I think I would have had that flag in anyway. It didn't come out of how can I put the flag in? It came out of where is he going to land? How about a building top at the end? Yeah, land at the building top. What'll be there, a spider? Oh, I'll put a flag there, yeah. Yeah, Spidey and the flag, he really is a great American or represents a great American who's not real."
And one of the most talked about scenes, already, is Spidey sitting on the pole with the American flag. "Yes, I put the American flag in after September 11th, but I've always been a big American and I think I would have had that flag in anyway. It didn't come out of how can I put the flag in? It came out of where is he going to land? How about a building top at the end? Yeah, land at the building top. What'll be there, a spider? Oh, I'll put a flag there, yeah. Yeah, Spidey and the flag, he really is a great American or represents a great American who's not real."
) - that because so much of the movie (nearly the whole damn thing) had to be redone because of WTC sensitivities, perhaps in the final product it was thought that a slight show of support should be shown. Although the movie hasn't made NZ yet, I would like to see that American flag at the end NOT as anything to do with supprt for the US, UN etc, but for the thousands of citizens from MANY coutnries who died Sept 11 - the only reason it was an American flag was that the event was in NY.
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