{"id":429,"date":"2022-04-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/?p=429"},"modified":"2022-01-20T11:26:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T11:26:18","slug":"spider-man-aka-tom-holland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/04\/01\/spider-man-aka-tom-holland\/","title":{"rendered":"Spider-Man AKA Tom Holland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WARNING:<\/span> <\/strong>This Article May Contain Spoilers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A little fact that you may or may not know in terms of Tom Holland as Spider-Man, specifically when it comes to Avengers: Infinity War, <\/em>is that the line \u2018I don\u2019t want to go. I don\u2019t want to go, Mr. Stark\u2026\u2019 <\/em>was completely improvised. Now, that scene makes me cry anyway but once I found that out it made me cry even more. Yeah, I\u2019m an adult but I don\u2019t care! Truthfully, there have been three Spider-Men in my lifetime and, in my opinion, Tom\u2019s is the best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Impossible<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                This true story about one of the families affected by the tsunami that hit Thailand in 2004, is actually Tom\u2019s first starring role at the age of 16. I\u2019ll be honest, I don\u2019t know if the boy that Lucas is based was 16 himself but if he was younger \u2013 Tom definitely fits the bracket as he only looks about 13.  The first half of the film is based around Lucas and his mother Maria and it\u2019s beautiful to watch the transitions his character takes on. He starts out as this bratty teenager, mocking his mother and brother for their fear on the plane but the moment he is washed away by the tsunami and is trying to get to back to Maria, he turns into a scared boy \u2013 but it doesn\u2019t stop there. Maria ends up so injured that Lucas has to take on the role of care-giver and be brave for both of them. What happens to him next is impossible to explain without giving too much away but it\u2019s heart-breaking to say the least.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                This is probably going to sound really weird but what I actually find the most touching moment is when Lucas turns away both times his mum\u2019s breasts are uncovered. It\u2019s just a reminder that no matter what, he\u2019s still a child.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In The Heart of the Sea<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Starring alongside each other as Spider-Man and Thor wasn\u2019t the first time Tom Holland had shared the screen with Chris Hemsworth. In a way Tom has the most significant role because, even though the story is based around Owen Chase (Chris Hemsworth) and Captain George Pollard (Benjamin Walker), he is playing the younger version of our narrator Thomas Nickerson \u2013 a survivor of The Essex<\/em>. Now, unlike The Impossible, <\/em>Tom actually looks older than his character is supposed to be \u2013 Nickerson was 14, Tom looks about 16 (even though he was 19 when he made it, the kid\u2019s got a gift).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                He even provides a little bit of humour to what at times is quite an intense film. Specifically when they all decide to send Nickerson into the whale\u2019s carcass for the oil but he tries to back away from them as he mops the deck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How I Live Now<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Like the other films mentioned in this article, Tom once again has an ancillary role. I\u2019ll be honest, I think Spider-Man may have been his first leading one. This doesn\u2019t mean that his role isn\u2019t important. Daisy wouldn\u2019t have met her other cousins without him. The character of Isaac does come across as a little bit of an annoying brat in the beginning and his attitude towards his little sister isn\u2019t great but he really does grow on you. It\u2019s a heart-breaking moment when the family are separated and we do not see the boys again for a long time. It is made worse when you finally see how Isaac\u2019s story actually ends. I\u2019m not going to go into detail because I don\u2019t want to ruin it for anyone but it made me both angry and confused. I even wondered if may be his older brother had something to do with it \u2013 but I don\u2019t mean voluntarily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honorary Mentions<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                This is probably going to come across as a pretty pointless paragraph considering that outside of the 3 films already mentioned in this article, Tom only featured in another 2 feature-length films and 2 shorts. He did voice work for both The Secret World of Arrietty <\/em>(Studio Ghibli anime film, check them out in general) and Locke. <\/em>In the two shorts he was Boy in Moments <\/em>and Tom in Tweet <\/em>so you get the feeling his role wasn\u2019t too big. It seems the role of Spider-Man jettisoned his career on the silver screen. He did, however, have a pretty decent role in the mini-series Wolf Hall <\/em>(based on the book by Hilary Mantel of the same name) as Gregory Cromwell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers A little fact that you may or may not know in terms of Tom Holland as Spider-Man, specifically when it comes to Avengers: Infinity War, is that the line \u2018I don\u2019t want to go. I don\u2019t want to go, Mr. Stark\u2026\u2019 was completely improvised. Now, that scene makes me … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-before-they-were-marvel-ous-heroes","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}