{"id":567,"date":"2026-08-01T10:44:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T10:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/longdistancemoversusas.com\/?p=567"},"modified":"2026-08-01T10:44:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T10:44:27","slug":"in-spider-man-brand-new-day-great-power-comes-with-great-loneliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/longdistancemoversusas.com\/?p=567","title":{"rendered":"In \u2018Spider-Man: Brand New Day,\u2019 great power comes with great loneliness"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In his comic book origin story, Spider-Man, aka Peter Parker, painfully learns that \u201cwith great power comes great responsibility.\u201d The focal point of \u201cSpider-Man: Brand New Day\u201d is a corollary of that truism: True heroism often requires selflessness and sacrifice. Those old-fashioned values resonate all the more forcefully in this era of social media\u2019s showboating and clout-chasing influencers.<\/p>\n

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Tom Holland\u2019s fourth solo outing as Spider-Man features the requisite action sequences, including the best use of the Hulk on screen that we\u2019ve seen in some time. At the movie\u2019s core, however, we see a hero wrestling with loneliness, having given up relationships with his closest friend and the woman he loves in the previous\u00a0 installment, \u201cSpider-Man: No Way Home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those action sequences notwithstanding, \u201cBrand New Day\u201d is\u00a0 a more deeply personal film, and it\u00a0 comes at a particularly fraught time both for the comic book movie and \u2014 without sounding too high-handed about it \u2014 America. \u201cBrand New Day\u201d appears destined to become a big fat hit \u2014 to the anticipated tune of more than $250 million in North America for its opening weekend, and better than twice that worldwide \u2014 and to provide Marvel a lift before the larger-scale \u201cAvengers: Doomsday.\u201d For the country, it offers a welcome distraction from a seemingly endless barrage of dreary headlines and general anxiety.<\/p>\n

The central theme empowering \u201cBrand New Day\u201d is subtle, but it shouldn\u2019t be overlooked. Thanks to Holland\u2019s sensitive performance as Peter Parker\/Spider-Man, a genuine angst permeates the film, reflecting the emotional wounds that New York City\u2019s guardian angel carries.<\/p>\n

Stan Lee, who co-created Spider-Man with artist Steve Ditko in 1962, frequently discussed that angst as a fundamental aspect of the character. Indeed, Lee was fond of regaling interviewers with the story of his publisher calling his Spider-Man pitch \u201cthe worst idea I have ever heard.\u201d That publisher said\u00a0teenagers in comic books were strictly sidekicks (think of Batman\u2019s Robin) and that the wall-crawling protagonist \u201ccan\u2019t have personal problems if he\u2019s supposed to be a superhero. Don\u2019t you know who a superhero is?\u201d<\/p>\n

Tellingly, Lee, Ditko and Jack Kirby \u2014 who collaborated with Lee on signature Marvel titles like \u201cFantastic Four,\u201d \u201cX-Men,\u201d and \u201cAvengers\u201d \u2014 all came of age during World War II. Just this week, we heard Senate candidate James Talarico, a Texas Democrat, call for a\u00a0 return to \u201cthe values of the Greatest Generation,\u201d describing them as \u201cservice, sacrifice, doing what\u2019s right even when no one is watching.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those values have long formed\u00a0 the core of Spider-Man, but it\u2019s especially true in \u201cBrand New Day,\u201d which finds the hero remaining quietly anonymous, stoically suffering alone and forgoing the accolades and rewards his powers could easily bring him.<\/p>\n

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Of course, most people flocking to \u201cBrand New Day\u201d will simply be looking for a good time, the same way the throngs seeing director Christopher Nolan\u2019s \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d have mostly been drawn to its wide-screen spectacle, leaving the terminally online to debate its politics and ginned-up controversies.<\/p>\n

Lee often noted that Marvel\u2019s commitment to humanizing superheroes and conveying the personal struggles they face beyond overpowering villains defined that comic book universe during its breakthrough years in the 1960s.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Though those comic books were originally dismissed and disrespected by Hollywood, a generation of filmmakers weaned on them gradually gained enough clout to translate them as Lee and his collaborators intended, without campy flourishes and winks at the audience. One of those initial modern translations was \u201cSpider-Man\u201d starring Tobey Maguire in 2002. A revolution in visual effects clearly helped, but a more evolved attitude was actually pivotal in launching Marvel\u2019s theatrical march with \u201cIron Man\u201d in 2008 \u2014\u00a0even as the studio grapples with questions of \u201csuperhero fatigue\u201d today.<\/p>\n

Lee liked to call comics \u201cfairy tales for grownups,\u201d and there\u2019s an element of that in this latest adventure, which portrays a more mature Peter Parker\/Spider-Man, swinging into theaters at what feels like a crossroads for movies culturally and commercially.<\/p>\n

In that sense, although \u201cSpider-Man\u201d the\u00a0franchise might be near retirement-age eligibility, by nobly placing the welfare of others ahead of \u201clikes\u201d and fame, Spider-Man the character feels like a hero in the truest sense of the word, and one that we could especially use right now.<\/p>\n

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