Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
- warm
- kinetic
- redemptive
- tender
- epic-stakes
Warm, breathless, measured animation / action, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Struggling to find his place in the world while juggling school and family, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is unexpectedly bitten by a radioactive spider and develops unfathomable powers just like the one and only Spider-Man. While wrestling with the implications of his new abilities, Miles discovers a super collider created by the madman Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk, causing others from across the Spider-Verse to be inadvertently transported to his dimension.
Our read · Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive animation · action · superhero entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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