The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is two puzzles crammed into
one, but with a lot of missing pieces. It's like the editing bay was on auto,
and it was randomly choosing what scenes to cut in and out.
While promoting 99 Homes at TIFF (Toronto
International Film Festival), Andrew Garfield spoke about how he felt when the
bad reviews started pouring in.
"It’s interesting," he said. "I
read a lot of the reactions from people and I had to stop because I could feel I
was getting away from how I actually felt about it. For me, I read the script
that Alex [Kurtzman] and Bob [Orci] wrote, and I genuinely loved it. There was
this thread running through it. I think what happened was, through the
pre-production, production, and post-production, when you have something that
works as a whole, and then you start removing portions of it—because there was
even more of it than was 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, and it’s hard to go with the flow of the story. Certain people at the
studio had problems with certain parts of it, and ultimately the studio is the
final say in those movies because they’re the tentpoles, so you have to answer
to those people."
Awhile back Sony CEO, Kaz
Hirai was quoted saying (among other pearls of wisdom) that he "can't edit a film -- I just know if this scene and that scene
don't come together quite right. And so maybe we want to explain why this plane
is out of control or blind in the air. I know if something is confusing."
The results of this type of behavior
are what ultimately killed the film for most fans, and the general audience. A
CEO giving a personal opinion is one thing. A CEO forcing his un-educated
opinion is completely different thing all together. But the mess is done.
"But I’ll tell you this," Garfield continued. "Talking
about the experience as opposed to how it was perceived, I got to work in deep
scenes that you don’t usually see in comic book movies, and I got to explore
this orphan boy—a lot of which was taken out, and which we’d explored more.
It’s interesting to do a postmortem. I’m proud of a lot of it and had a good
time, and was a bit taken aback by the response."
"It’s a discernment thing. What are the people
actually saying? What’s underneath the complaint, and how can we learn from
that? We can’t go, “Oh God, we [frick]ed up because all these people are saying
all these things. It’s shit.” We have to ask ourselves, “What do we believe to
be true?” Is it that this is the fifth Spider-Man movie in however many years,
and there’s a bit of fatigue? Is it that there was too much in there? Is it
that it didn’t link? If it linked seamlessly, would that be too much? Were
there tonal issues? What is it? I think all that is valuable. Constructive
criticism is different from people just being dicks, and I love constructive
criticism. Hopefully, we can get underneath what the criticism was about, and
if we missed anything."
What do you guys think of Garfield's comments?
Source - The Daily Beast
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