Lodivico, James Alexson E. ARC51 SYNOPSIS OF THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 PLOT Scientist Richard Parker records a video message to explain his disappearance. Later, he and his wife, Mary, are aboard a private jet hijacked by a man sent to assassinate Richard. With the pilot dead, the plane crashes. In the present, Richard and Mary's son, Peter, fights crime as Spider-Man. He apprehends Aleksei Sytsevich, who attempted to steal a truck containing plutonium vials, and rescues OsCorp Industries employee Max Dillon. While speaking by phone with Gwen Stacy, Peter sees a vision of her deceased father, police captain George Stacy, reminding him to leave Gwen out of his affairs as Spider-Man. After their high school graduation, Peter meets with Gwen at a restaurant outside, insisting he needs to keep his vow to her father by staying away from her; upset, Gwen ends their relationship. Peter's childhood friend, Harry Osborn, returns to Manhattan to see his terminally ill father, Norman, CEO of OsCorp. Norman explains his illness is hereditary and Harry is at the age where it first develops. He gives Harry a small device he claims contains his life's work. The next day, Norman dies and Harry is appointed the new OsCorp CEO. He accuses the OsCorp board of trying to wrest control from the Osborns, as they have been privy to Norman's secret biogenetic projects for foreign military powers. Thinking they have become "best friends", Max idolizes Spider-Man. While tending to maintenance in an OsCorp laboratory, he gets electrocuted and falls into a tank of genetically modified electric eels. They mutate him into a living electric generator. Meanwhile, Peter attempts to maintain a friendship with Gwen, but, as she reveals that an opportunity for a scholarship at Oxford University means that she may move to Britain, Max wanders into Times Square and accidentally causes a blackout. Spider- Man attempts to calm him down, but the police fire at Max, and Spider-Man's resulting rescue of the endangered citizens draws media attention away from Max, making him lose his temper and attack. Spider-Man eventually stops him, and Max is taken to Ravencroft Institute. Harry's illness begins to show, and he deduces Spider-Man's blood will save him, later asking Peter to find Spider-Man. Peter attempts to dissuade him, unsure of what effects the transfusion would have, and, although he does come to Harry as Spider-Man, he still refuses; Harry begins to hate Spider-Man. The OsCorp board members frame Harry for covering up Max's accident, and remove him as CEO. Harry's assistant informs him of equipment that could help him; he works with Max to get him back inside the OsCorp building and, there, finds a suit of armor made by Norman, and venom from genetically altered spiders. The venom accelerates his illness and transforms him into a goblin-like creature, but its built-in emergency protocol restores his health. Peter uses information left by his father to find a video message in a hidden lab; Richard explains that he had to leave because he refused to cooperate with Norman's biogenetic weaponization plans. Peter gets a voicemail from Gwen, telling him she got the scholarship at Oxford and is leaving for Britain earlier than expected. Before she leaves, he catches her and professes he loves her. When Max causes another blackout, Peter and Gwen go to confront him. They restore power and overload Max's body, killing him. Harry arrives equipped with Norman's armor and weaponry; he deduces Spider-Man's true identity and kidnaps Gwen. He fights Spider-Man at the top of a clock tower. Spider-Man subdues Harry, but despite his attempts to save Gwen, she falls to her death. A distraught Peter gives up being Spider-Man and he spends several days throughout the year at Gwen's grave. Over the next five months, Harry has healed from his transformation at Ravencroft. His associate Gustav Fiers visits him and breaks Sytsevich out of prison. Equipped with a mechanical suit of armor, Sytsevich calls himself the "Rhino" and rampages through the streets. Peter, inspired by Gwen's graduation speech, returns to battle him as Spider- Man. THE STRUGGLES OF TWO CHARACTERS PETER PARKER Peter Parker has a lot of responsibilities not only to his family and to his girlfriend, Gwen. But also to the population of New York City whom he protects as Spider-Man. With these responsibilities on his hands, it is not easy to balance his time it is very evident on the first appearance of Spider-Man in the film where he first save the plutonium from the criminals and Max Dillon then Gwen calls him telling him that he is late on their graduation. For Peter, it is time management at its worst because he cannot tell when he will be needed to fight crimes and also he cannot tell when he will be needed by his family and friends. Taking into account as well, he just graduated from high school meaning that Peter is at his youth making these responsibilities more difficult for him because he cannot perform what other people at his age does. Also Peter had lost his biological parents when he was a child. He had no clue on whether where they are or if they are still even alive. So peter, on one hand tries to find his authentic self. Of course he wants to find out why he is like that, why he is Spider- Man? There are a lot of questions that lingers on him specially on the film where he is curious on what is in the brief case of his father, but due to bitterness he keeps on ignoring that case but eventually when he cannot anymore stand the curiosity he open it up only to find out that there are documents, pictures and other paraphernalia of his Father’s experiments that will eventually lead him to the old Roosevelt Station where his father kept a video explaining his disappearance and the shocking part is, where Peter knew that the experiment of his father is related to him becoming Spider-Man. Richard Parker Explains that he injected the chemical on him making all his bloodline carriers of that experiment which explains of being Spider-Man of Peter Parker. Sometimes Peter show absurdity meaning he acts extremely foolish or unreasonable to people and things in one scene where Peter saw an apparition of Gwen’s father when catching the criminals who stole the plutonium, Peter remembered his promised to him that he will stay away from Gwen because he is Spider-Man. That is why he meets up with Gwen after the graduation to explain this but for Gwen it was unreasonable because Peter told him that he loves her, but he is afraid of what bad might happen to Gwen when he is already Spider-Man. But as we all know their love story continues throughout the film. Adding to this, there is a scene on the film the Peter always looks after Gwen during their temporary break-up because Peter is always feeling the fear that something might bad happen to Gwen, in short, Peter is always dreadful about Gwen. Maybe that is also the reason why they did not really separated when Gwen broke-up with Peter because Peter will always shows up where Gwen is. Also when Peter knew that Gwen has an opportunity to enter Oxford University, of course Peter was happy but also there is a feeling of dread because Gwen would be away for quite some time and Peter is not there to look after her. In line with this, we see Peter’s commitment to Gwen but also he must commit to the subjectivity that he possesses which is Spider-Man. On the climax part where Spider- Man is already dealing with the Green Goblin, he also faces another problem which is Gwen that is also on the fight scene. We could see Spider-Man trying his best to beat the Green Goblin so that he could save Gwen. But unfortunately, as he tries to save Gwen as she falls from the top of the clock tower, he was able to catch Gwen before she could able hit the ground. But to his surprise, Gwen still died. As Gwen was laid to rest, we could see that Peter almost stayed at her grave everyday and every seasons of the year because of his commitment and love for her. That is why for that particular time, when he is grieving, Spider-Man is missing because he could not be Spider-Man. Because his commitment and focus is not on Spider-Man but merely on Gwen alone. But Gwen is also the reason why Spider-Man came back. It is the scene where Peter, watched the Commencement Speech of Gwen talking about hope. So that is the turning point where Peter suddenly realized that he has more to do as Spider-Man. That why, on the last scene we could see that he came back and fight crime again. HARRY OSBORN Harry arrives home to see his ailing father, Norman Osborn, they have a fractured relationship. It is as bitter as Norman's illness. He implies that Harry will suffer the same fate. He asks to see Harry's hand and notices that it is shaking a symptom of the illness. He hands Harry a drive with his research. Minutes later, his father died. with his father not around he takes full responsibility of the his father’s company, OSCORP.