Spider-Man 2 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Spider-Man 2 or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Spider-Man 2

[bessie]

For his stunt sequences as Peter Parker, Tobey Maguire's glasses contain no glass. This was less for safety reasons but more to avoid reflections. The glass was then added back in digitally later.

[terry]

Peter's landlord Mr. Ditkovitch is named for Steve Ditko, original illustrator of Spider-man.

[nicholas]

According to the novelization: when Spider-Man shows up at Doctor Octavius' failed experiment, Harry assumes he's the reason why it failed.Doc Ock thinks he's helping Aunt May by giving her a quick death, rather than a slow one of old age.the arms speak to Doctor Octopus. They even regard him as a father, something omitted from the film. The closest it ever gets to that in the movie is when Doc Ock says he hears voices inside his head. They also say things like Spidey interfered in his experiment because he was jealous of Otto's success.Uncle Ben appears to Peter frequently, rather than a single dream sequence in the movie.the name of the usher played by Bruce Campbell is Waldo. His scene with Peter was originally longer - Peter would web Waldo's foot to the floor, and go in to see MJ's play just as it was coming to an end.when Doc Ock tries to rob the bank and Peter abandons Aunt May, she assumes that the reason he runs away is to call the police, rather than out of cowardice.the lift scene initially had Spider-Man sharing it with a whole crowd of people, and not just one person. When Peter tells the man he made the suit himself, the novelization tells us he got it from the brother of The Flying Dutchman, the rival wrestler of Bone-Saw, who Peter fought in the first film. He offered his services after Peter beat up Bone-Saw.the police couldn't confirm Uncle Ben's murderer because there were no eyewitnesses. Peter couldn't come forward because of his involvement.in the opening scene, when Peter is late for his pizza delivery job because of a disturbance, we learn that the disturbance came from a man on a construction site nearly crushed by a falling girder.Mary-Jane met John Jameson at Enriques, the diner MJ worked at in the first film. A trucker pinched her bottom and she dumped a plate of spaghetti in his lap. When Enrique demanded she apologise, she was thinking of caving in when John stepped in. His car battery had died, and he was waiting for a tow-truck. He pretended to be an FBI agent causing Enrique to back down, and MJ quit her job. They started seeing each other not long after.Mary-Jane's parents have split up since the first film. Apparently Mr. Watson has changed slightly since the divorce.MJ's line "You can't get off if you never got on" sounded suggestive in her mind.When Peter goes to see a doctor, it's at the university's student health services department. His name is Dr Wally Davis, and he's more emotional in the book. He even sees a therapist.Instead of stealing the money to fund his experiment, Doctor Octopus broke into classified government installations for what he needed. They couldn't risk exposure so they couldn't argue. The tentacles also tapped into an illegal power hookup.Peter muses that all the women in his life wind up dangling from a ledge sometime. E.g. Aunt May taken hostage by Doc Ock, Mary-Jane during the Green Goblin's attack on Times Square. It also bothers Peter that he always photographs MJ with other men. In the case of John more so, because he hasn't done half of the heroic things Peter has done, and he's still celebrated as a hero. While Spider-Man is demonized by the press.Although Jameson is ecstatic that Spider-Man has given up, in the novelization he's secretly not that happy about it, because Spider-Man sells more editions of the Daily Bugle than any other celebrity, and now that he's gone, sales figures for the Bugle have gone into a tailspin.When Peter goes to get his suit back, he was secretly listening to Jameson's eulogy before he took it. Apparently, Jameson had it dry-cleaned so it felt better than ever.Apparently when Peter was a young boy, he distrusted his Aunt May after his mother died. But in the reconciliation scene, he begins to wonder if May knows his secret. In that same scene, because he moves a desk with ease, that's what prompts him to try and jump the gap between two buildings, thinking his powers have returned. He doesn't fall on a car though.Aunt May begins to blame herself for Uncle Ben's death in the film, but in the novelization, Peter wonders is it because Ben is haunting her as well, especially now he's given up Spider-Man. When he confesses his part in Uncle Ben's death, May tells him to leave instead of just getting up and going to her room in silence as she does in the film.What kills Doctor Octopus is when he drowns his experiment, it super-heats the water, broiling him alive. He also goes blind by staring into the eye of the ball of energy without his protective goggles. The tentacles claimed to be afraid that the end had come for them.

[amber]

(at around 55 mins) The lines of poetry that Peter quotes to MJ ('Day by day he gazed upon her / Day by day he sighed with passion') are from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "The Four Winds".

[ray]

According to the novelization, David Koepp contributed to the script, but he's uncredited on the film.

[bernard]

Another one of Spidey's trademarks in the comic book is his homemade tracking device he can pin on people, and although it's mentioned in the script, it has yet to appear in any of the films.

[mathew]

Alfred Molina lost some weight for the role of Doctor Octopus, considering he had had to gain some for the part of Diego Rivera in Frida (2002). He said he wanted Doc Ock to have the build of a "1950s weightlifter".

[veronica]

(at around 27 mins) The violinist Elyse Dinh begins playing the old theme song for Spider-Man (1967). When she sings it for the second time (at around 1h 9 mins), new lyrics are added to the tune ("Where have you gone to now?").

[fred]

Jerry O'Connell auditioned to play John Jameson.

[jesse]

Like Spider-Man (2002), the DVD release of this movie includes a "Spider Sense" subtitles track which provides trivia about the film, characters, actors, etc, as the film is playing.

[chris]

At one time during pre-production, Sam Raimi had 12 storyboard artists working for him.

[edgar]

(at around 1h 17 mins) At the apartment fire later in the movie, the guy (played by Michael Edward Thomas) who tells Peter that someone's still trapped on the second floor is the same guy from the first movie who started throwing trash at the Green Goblin during their fight on the bridge.

[melinda]

30 "nondescript" cars were purchased for use by the film's stunt drivers to wreck during action sequences. By the end of filming, all 30 had been destroyed.

[jessie]

Both this and The Incredibles (2004) are 2004 superhero movies featuring the lead character stopping a moving train.

[javier]

Alfred Molina thought the crew on Spider-Man 2 (2004) were the hardest working group of people he's ever worked with.

[brent]

(at around 16 mins) In a line of dialogue cut from the finished film, when MJ tells Peter she's seeing someone, he at first assumes it's a therapist.

[linda]

Sam Raimi: (at around 9 mins) near the beginning of the movie, when Peter is on campus, he drops his books. When he bends down to retrieve them, he is hit in the head by two backpacks. Raimi, whose face is not seen, is the second "student" to hit him.

[duane]

The original title for this second spin was "The Amazing Spider-Man", a title eventually used when the series was rebooted in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012).

[ray]

In the early stages, the puppeteers had to practice with vacuum hoses when getting ready to design Doc Ock's tentacles. The real ones weighed about 60 pounds altogether.