If I May, I Would Like To Add Some Comments To This Aside From The Final Paragraph AU Talk.

If I may, I would like to add some comments to this aside from the final paragraph AU talk.

I loved Gwen Stacy in this film. Although not on Tumblr at the time, I was an Emma Stone fan, and when she got cast I was thinking this might be the vehicle that really highlighted some of her talent to an even wider audience. I think she more than succeeded in that.

But as the years passed and she has been in some really great movies (and one or two of which I wasn't so fond), I also got curious about the behind-the-scenes with her character (no, not the personal stuff) and there was an interview where she talked about the role etc but tbh the studio keeps some of the promo talks pretty sterile so I was frustrated. But Steve Kloves (one of the three writers for the film, the other two were James Vanderbilt and Alvin Sargent and apparently even for a scene or two Paul Feig) but anyway, Steve Kloves did an interview with Collider and he talked about it as much as he was able at the time (it was July of 2011 so you can imagine again how tight-lipped he had to be). In case you're unaware, Kloves wrote for all of the Harry Potter films save one and he was asked to write for TASM and initially turned it down BUT *changed his mind because he really wanted to write for Emma Stone. Most of his work was for character (especially hers) and dialogue and he emphasized that he and director Webb wanted to keep it grounded in reality.

I think the collaboration between the three: Stone, Webb, and Kloves was absolutely awesome in that. Emma knocked that role out of the park. She was heroic without being a superhero and you want to talk about how amazing (yeah sorry) that was to see on the screen in a genre that frequently has had females as solely love interest, male support staff, and/or simply fainting/screaming with no agency. Just amazing. Every second Gwen was on the screen I was riveted. A large part of that was Emma's brilliance, but I am so glad Kloves worked to add depth to that role that Emma brought to life. (I'm not knocking the rest of the cast, but this is about Gwen).

I don't believe Kloves would ever write for the series any longer, but if they ever do a live action AU Gwen, regardless of whether Emma Stone is available or even wants to be cast, I hope they pick a writer who understands that perspective. Also, I'm not trying to cast bad vibes on Zendaya's Michelle (MJ). She's a wonderful actress but it's a different character and the MCU went in a different direction. But I'd love to see a well-acted and well-written Spider-woman.

*the late Laura Zisken asked Kloves to reconsider; her husband was (also the late) Alvin Sargent who wrote for the Raimi trilogy IIRC as well as TASM.

Additionally, Kloves was not on the script for TASM 2 and although Vanderbilt was hired to write it, his draft was later rewritten by the three writers hired to rework it. Not a fan of their effort really.

Tag: @therese-lokidottir

Can we all just take a moment and appreciate how cool Gwen Stacy is in The Amazing Spider-Man films, Not only risking her life making the antidote, but also making sure everyone else at OsCorp is out of the building safe. That is something thinks of before even considering her own safety is making sure everyone else far way before the lizard arrives.

Also as soon as she the device that the Lizard is planning to take Gwen tries everything to try to keep of away from him.

Look, Gwen is absolutely terrified, but it doesn't stop her from trying her hardest to and going up against a giant lizard man to try to save the city.

Listen, what I'm saying is this Gwen Stacy, this version specifically had all the chops to be a super-hero herself. There's definitely and alternate universe where she got bit by the Spider and became Spider-Woman.

Soooo, champagne or handkerchief or both?

I've just written the last sentence of Angel...

citationless behavior

Acclaimed artist captures the smile of a woman with Renaissance blorbos occupying her thoughts.

Mona Lisa (circa 1503-1506) --artist Leonardo da Vinci

This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.

– Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

Today's Fic Rec comes from talented writer, @thursdaygxrls who has crafted a Peter Parker story, Thin Ice, that's a winner in more ways than one.

Original Character/Reader (can likely work either way) works for the campus newspaper and is asked to fill in for the regular sports reporter. Not an assignment she wants, especially when she is required to interview members of the winning ice hockey team, who've secured a spot in the championship tournament. The interview goes well despite the team captain, Peter Parker, and his gift for simultaneously annoying and beguiling her.

This ongoing series currently consists of three chapters with a fourth on the way, and just as the hockey team keeps winning, Peter keeps up his efforts to win over the Lead as she discovers that the game(s) he plays are exciting in more ways than one. She feels to let go of one's heart is as dangerous as treading on thin ice. Will she take the chance?

Read the story!

Thin Ice (Part One) More parts included on the writer's Masterlist

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