The amazing detail that everyone misses about "Spider-Man: There is no way home"
Those who do not blink will notice the Jewish context of "Spider-Man: There is no way home."
What is it about, and how and why did it happen?
Avner Shavit
22/12/2021
Wednesday, 22 December, 2021, 00:04 Updated: 00:09
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Trailer for the movie "Spider-Man: There's No Way Home" (Film Forum)
"Spider-Man: There's No Way Home" continues to fill halls despite the corona, and the network is also filled with a variety of theories about the film, its various readings and trivia details, esoteric or less. In all of this, there is also a place for the Jewish point.
Like many American superheroes, Spider-Man is an invention of a Jew - Stan Lee, who co-created it with non-Jewish illustrator Steve Ditko. In addition, Spider-Man operates in New York, one of the Jewish cities in the world, so it is only natural that in the comic books and film adaptations over the years there were a variety of Jewish elements, more or less explicit.
The same goes for "Spider-Man: There's No Way Home."
One-eyed users noticed, among other things, that the yeshiva university starred in the background, and also that one of the extras was wearing a kippah and Hanukkah decorations in one of the stores.
In addition, those who did not blink also noticed a special issue of Forverts, a Yiddish-speaking American newspaper and one of the oldest and most important in the Yiddish-speaking media, which today is best known for its English-speaking incarnation - The Forward.
Disclosure: I did not notice this while watching the movie.
Neither did the forward editors, and the attached photo they took from the official Marvel app.
However, they contributed behind-the-scenes information about the circumstances behind this mention.
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Screenshot published by the forward (Photo: screenshot, screenshot from the official Marvel app)
Well, it turns out that in 2020 the film's production approached them, with the intention of adding some Yiddishkeit to the New York film, and the Jewish media corporation specially created the issue, whose headline in Yiddish presents a picture of Spider-Man and asks "Is this good for Yodan?".
That is, "Is this (Spider-Man) good for the Jews?".
Like many things in the film, it is also unrealistic and illogical - for like many legendary newspapers, the Forward also no longer exists in the printed version but only in the online version, so its existence in the film is nothing but nostalgia.
And my addition: if anyone is forcibly looking for Israeli connections in the film, then here are two.
Spider-Man, his beloved and best friend are all trying to get accepted to MIT, the university where Netanyahu earned a master's degree;
And Zendaya, who plays Spider-Man's lover, broke out in "Euphoria," an American adaptation of an Israeli series.
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