Edades promedio, año 2014
LAS SALIDAS PEDAGÓGICAS UNA HERRAMIENTA DE APRENDIZAJE EN LA FORMACIÓN INTEGRAL DE LOS ESTUDIANTES DEL PROGRAMA DE TURISMO
What can you tell us about your character Michelle? She’s new to the Spider-Man movies… She’s very different. And very smart – she always has a nose in a book. I think she feels above everyone else, which leads to her not really making many friends. She’s weird… but she’s cool. Jon Watts says she’s like Ally Sheedy’s character in The Breakfast Club… fair comparison?
Yeah. He actually gave me a few different references to draw on. We had a lot of freedom, but he knew exactly what he wanted – the books Michelle reads, the picture on my shirt… they all mean something.
Going in, did you know much about the comics? No, I didn’t! I was thankful that all the boys in the cast filled me in. So now I know more about comic books than I ever thought I would. People are like, “How do you know all of this?”
The trailers suggest that you get some of the funniest lines…
I definitely have some one-liners. Was there much improvising? Well, some of the lines were just too funny to change, but Jon would say “Just go for it!” And watching everyone just go for it was hilarious. It’s set in school – were there many pranks? I don’t know if there was a practical joker; I think it was pretty much an even distribution of everyone constantly making fun of each other.
What was the toughest part of the shoot? I didn’t really have any tough parts. I had it easy. Tom [Holland] was great. He was super-hardworking – and because he was so nice and so warm to everyone, that made our little group so tight-knit. I think that’s how it’s supposed to be! ML
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comic-book strand that retold our hero’s teenage origin story with modern trappings. Kevin Feige, meanwhile, cites “the first dozen issues or so” of Stan Lee/Steve Ditko’s template-setting run. “Those first years where [Peter] was based in high school, meeting characters for the first time, building a group of friends that made up part of his ensemble… those were very much influences on this movie.”
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ut one key inspiration isn’t rooted in Marvel comics old or new. “If you know John Hughes, or are a fan of John Hughes, you’ll absolutely see that influence on the movie,” says Feige, doffing a metaphorical cap to the writer/director/producer who rescued the teen flick from the sticky mitts of the Porky’s/Screwballs set with his indelible ’80s run: Sixteen Candles,The Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off… Homaging Hughes
isn’t just for nostalgic feels – it’s a way of staying true to the MCU modus operandi, explains Feige: “We want to do different genres every time, and graft different genres on to our characters. And doing a John Hughes high-school adventure is something we’ve always wanted to do; we’ve been fans since we were kids. And how happy it’s made us that we were actually able to do it on Homecoming!”
Which defining trait of Hughes’ cinematic syllabus will the movie most embrace? The humour? The emotion? The impossible-to-separate-from-the- images soundtracks? “All of the above,” laughs Feige. “All of the above!” For director Jon Watts, Homecoming’s kid’s-eye perspective is something that particularly chimes with Hughes’ work. “I’ve always felt that John Hughes movies were about teenagers, about
letting them be themselves on screen and letting them talk,” says the helmer of the kid-centric Cop Car (his 2015 breakout). “The movies didn’t feel written and produced by adults.”
Homecoming may not contain any
Molly Ringwald cameos (as far as we know…), but does feature two Hughes alumni: Michael Keaton (1983’s Hughes-scripted Mr. Mom) and Robert Downey Jr. (1985’s Weird Science). And then there’s actor/singer Zendaya who, as Peter’s classmate Michelle, may remind viewers of a classic Hughes
heroine. “For me, she’s the Ally Sheedy character [Allison] in The Breakfast Club,” says Watts. As trailer-watchers will already have seen, Michelle is set to steal scenes with well-aimed barbs from the sidelines. “I remember a lot of people like that in my high school,” recalls Watts. “And the idea of having the weirdo, outsider, wisecracking kid commenting on a scene… I really wanted to have that in this movie. And Zendaya was perfect at it. She has a lot of good lines.”
To prep his cast, Watts dished out DVDs of The Breakfast Club and Pretty
In Pink, as well as Cameron Crowe
rom-dram Say Anything… (1989). It turns out, though, that actor Laura Harrier had done her research without even realising it. “The funny thing is, those John Hughes movies take place in Evanston, Illinois, which is where I went to high school,” she reveals. “Jon was like, ‘This is so crazy, that you lived in this place that we’re basing the movie on!’” Harrier’s role, meanwhile, is a significant one in Spider-history. “I play Liz Allan, who was kind of Peter’s first love interest and girlfriend in the comics,” she says. The character may’ve existed since ’62 (she appeared
Director jon watts offers some web- slingin’ tips on-set.
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