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School Pranks
The school prank involving High School leavers plaguing the school’s floors with baby oil in between lessons is an enviable insight of the mischief teenagers and young people have the potential to cause in the modern era, and how they exploit technology in doing so. What’s interesting as well is the reaction and demeanour of the other students when experiencing the slippery nature of the floors created by the baby oil: the students are intriguingly yearned, with the perception of the hallways becoming playgrounds, and a place for enjoyment.
Greed, Change Of Personality, Powers Go Wrong: Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Frankly, the movie Spider-Man 3 (2007) was the initial thought that struck me, particularly when the character Peter Parker, who in the sequel, had already embedded and settled himself with a double life as a photographer in New York, and the renowned hero Spider-Man, but the new-found stability is peer-shaped as by an alien symbiote arrives and merges with Peter and his Spider-man costume, consequently blackening his previously red and blue costume: what compels is the fact that when the symbiote ingrained itself into Peter, it alters his personality and attitude, and becomes more egotistical: distancing himself from his girlfriend Mary Jane, getting his rival Eddie Brock fired and stringing along with colleague Gwen Stacy to the place where Mary Jane works, in an attempt to make the latter vindictive.
Moreover, there’s the common saying that was just alluded to: “With great power comes great responsibility,” the symbiote strengthens Peter’s powers, and it can be interpreted that the responsibility increases in parallel with the powers, or the responsibility is now too great to consume, and Peter abandons that for personal gain. One can say this is a subtle example of super powers swaying towards the negative side of things in terms of its use: the symbiote enhancing his powers but simultaneously isolating Peter from Mary Jane, and fracturing their relationship subsequently, as well as revealing a dark side of Peter to the audience in the form of the demonstration of arrogance and selfishness from Peter.
Freezing Powers/Time Manipulation
The selection of these articles was primarily down to the ability to expand the main character’s capabilities in the short film: the freezing powers that’s been frequently referred to, falls under the superpower “Time Manipulation”, which not only includes time being suspended altogether, but also means that the user has the ability to slow, reverse and quicken time to their liking. The “Time Manipulation” power can also feature the power being in use for a finite period of time, or the length of the power in operation is based on the size of the area suspended, for example if the whole world was suspended in time, then it would only be so for approximately 45 minutes, but if it was only a city or town, the time suspension would last longer [beyond 45 minutes], the latter would be almost impossible and implausible to demonstrate in the short film, due to the complexity, so perhaps the main character would only be capable of suspending time in areas within certain perimeters. The second article is an epitome of the possibilities that significantly widen as soon as the user suspends time: escaping car accidents, arriving earlier for interviews, casually completing home-works/assignments. In the story, when the main character gains the time manipulation powers, one of the actions he opt take with the powers is to get back at the bullies that previously tormented him. Instead of solely freezing time, he can reverse time and potentially repress the torment or prevent the bullying full-stop, and then forward to the present again.
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The Mask (1994) is a superhero, fantasy, action-comedy film featuring Jim Carrey, who takes on the role of the unfortunate and shy banker Stanley Ipkiss, who stumbles across mask known to be the mask of Loki, transforming Stanley into a near-mystical, hysterical, green-skinned fraudster referred to as The Mask when he dons the quirky object on his face. Becoming accustomed to it's gifts, Stanley's confidence astronomically increases: doing the things he intensely feared with the aid of his mask, including being able to impress his love interest Tina Carlyle, who is the partner of a gangster that grows aware of the mask and it's power and seeks to gain possession of it.
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Kick-Ass (2007) is a superhero, action, comedy film that's centered on the comic-book franchise the film is named after. The film is the first in a trilogy of films and follows the life of a stereotypically unpopular teen Dave Lizewski, who's inspired by his love and passion for comic-books to become a superhero of his own origin, notwithstanding the lack of superpowers or unique abilities that stand out from the average human being, referring to himself as "Kick-Ass". Although he ends up on the receiving end extremely in his first few engagements with criminals, he becomes known to the public after successfully intervening in a gang-related attack. He later encounters Big Daddy, an ex-cop determined to bring down a drug lord and their son, and his 11-year old daughter, who is a highly-skilled vigilante called Hit-Girl.
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Hot-Fuzz (2007) is a British action-comedy independent film that's set in a small village known as Sandford located in Gloucestershire, where two police officers Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg), who was transferred to the Sandford Police Service from the London Metropolitan Police Service due to his diligence and determination making his fellow officers appear worthless and incompetent compared to his efforts, and Danny Butterman (Nick Frost), a susceptible but humble person who attempts to settle Nicholas into the extremely serene lifestyle lived by the Sandford police force, go onto investigate a series of strange passings that are deemed to be accidental in a village where the crime-rate is very low, however the accident-rate is extremely (and ironically) high.
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