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Tarango III

Rodrigo Tarango III

ENGL-1301-102

Dr Sharity Nelson

10/13/2023

Remix with power tradition and diversity.

In 2023 Marvel company, Sony pictures animation released the Spiderman across the
spider verse film along with the poster. The goal of this posters besides the obvious goal to
advertise the movie is the underlying goal to show the strength in diversification, while using it
to continue bringing new life to an already existing and constantly worked on franchise with
many variations throughout the world. It is through key elements such as the background setting,
which are silhouettes of buildings along with the many characters with different styles, in
clothes, colors, themes and designs including different straight’s presumably, fading in the
background of the pronounced character who is upside down within the foreground with claw
marks illustrating a mature tone, that unite and succeed in proving its goals.

First of all The character within the foreground seems to be the main character with
elements similar to past projects based on source material and sets a serious tone with key
aspects of his character. The character is placed at the very front of the poster and larger than
many of the other characters behind him, along with not wearing a mask which reveals a serious
facial expression with scrunched eyebrows tense lips, and eyes, all of this alone helps him stand
out from everyone else, while also being the only character upside down. His suit also has
unique design just like every other character within the poster, black being the primary color
while having a spider symbol filled in with red on the inside of a red hollow circle. Located from
his shoulder down to his chest are tears which seem to be from claws helping set a serious
atmosphere. All of the previously stated components help connect to the idea of new and diverse
while tied to the Og concept the movie poster is going for by having a new unique character take
on the mantle of spiderman and saving people with their new skills and talents.

Second of all the silhouettes of buildings underneath the characters, giving viewers an idea
of a familiar setting with enough room for a gallery of possibilities. Underneath all the
characters, including the main character there are silhouettes of multiple buildings. Within the
poster there are silhouettes of multiple buildings outlined by the characters above it and thin grey
lines, with white being the background color for most while a few others have a black
background from the characters. Their other silhouettes of buildings outlined in thin white lines
further in the back. Some silhouettes can be described as tall rectangular pillars, office buildings
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with many windows. There are other facilities which could be apartments, and possibly cell
towers due to long lines that sprout from some roofs, as well as square windows colored in with
bright neon lights, all of this tells me the setting will be urban like that of other spiderman
content. With all the information I’ve listed above I believe that this area is familiar to those who
watched past spiderman films but has new aspect to it which diversifies it compared to its past
versions giving this film strength in diversity where the main character stars in emphasizing his
own uniqueness as well.

Third of all there’s an abundant number of characters with wide ranging colors and
concepts, in the background and spotlight with new takes and inspiration but the overall core
idea created so long ago. Behind the enlarged character there are many characters with different
concepts and colors. one of the character’s has a metal spiked mohawk, and their body being
outline possibly in yellow. Secondly there’s a character with a paper bag for a mask with cut out
eyes. A third character wearing what appears to be a winter coat. A fourth character is the one to
the bottom right next to the enlarged character with a primarily white suit with black being a
secondary color in a hood with white eyes could be a main character as well due to their
proximity to the enlarged character. Another character that may also be potentially apart of the
main cast is the spider person next to the previously stated spider person. They have a suit
colored mainly in red with some blue going from up to down of the body with a large golden
spider and a small diamond above the white eyes at the center. Lastly two other potential main
characters are the two characters on the left side of the enlarged character, wearing a suit with
dark blue being the primary color along with red as a secondary color due to the large red spider
logo starching all over the body and a mask that appears to be menacing or tense with red eyes.
Next to the previous spider person is someone with a blue hoodie and white eyes. I believe with
all this evidence my over all idea is true based on all the characters with similar and contrasting
designs and ingredients that hint at possible specialties/strengths the characters have but keeps
the most important part that help know their all spiderman or Spiderwoman to the core. In
conclusion this poster’s goal is to show how this film can take a preexisting property and add a
new unique spark to it using diversity as one of its tools to do so such as new and diverse cast of
characters, familiar and yet new settings.
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appendix

Marvel company, and Sony Pictures Animations, “Spider Man Across

Work Cited

Marvel company, and Sony Pictures Animations. “[movie poster]

Spider Man Across the Spider Verse.”

https://www.marvel.com/articles/movies/spider-man-across-the-spider-

versefirst-poster accessed October 2023