Spider-man – a superhero for the 21st century.

SUPERMAN, BATMAN, SPIDER-MAN - they have much in common. In ordinary circum­stances they are ordinary, normal people, not different from anybody else. But when the moment comes, they turn into superheroes and spend most of their time helping good guys and fighting bad guys.

The likeness is not only in that. The three characters began as comic book characters, they all became very popular and they all eventu­ally came to the big screen.

The plot of the Spider-Man is very simple and very much like Super-man and Batman movies. The hero, Peter Parker, is a student and also works as a photog­rapher. He lives in New York with his aunt and uncle. He is a weedy, shy young man. He is in love with a girl next door, but he is very awkward with the ladies, and the girl doesn't notice him much. In short Peter is not a hero at all. But one day he is bitten by a mutant spider, and gets its qualities. Now he has superhuman strength and reflexes, sense for danger, he can stick to most surfaces, walk up walls and shoot strands of webbing from his wrists. Peter decides to use his extraordinary powers to fight crime.

In his stunning red costume, which covers his whole body, Spider-Man patrols the streets to save the good people of New York from all kinds of danger. He climbs the walls of sky­scrapers, swings hundreds metres above the ground on his web...

Certainly ordinary criminals are not enough. Every superhero needs a super-enemy, somebody who is really bad and is usually after the same thing - world domination, very soon Peter finds an enemy like that — the Green Goblin.

A hero who leads a kind of double life - ordinary person by day, superhero at night, a girl who at first doesn't pay much attention to the hero, but finds him irresistible in the role of a superhero, a power-mad enemy... Probably everything sounds too, familiar, but the film is a success. Many people agree that it's one of the few movies that really lives up to expectations. It's a good, clean, funny, action-packed movie with stunning special effects and with no swearing. In short it's a superior superhero movie that is worth seeing.

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Child actor

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I was in a shop with my parents one day. A cast­ing director who was doing his shopping thought I was cute. A month later I shot my first commer­cial. I was five.

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I played Forrest Gump Junior in Forrest Gump with Tom Hanks. My next feauture film was Bogus with Gerard Depardieu and Whoopi Goldberg (Ghost). Then I was in The Sixth Sense with Bruce Willis.

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Bruce is cool. He has a sense of humour. He's so funny that he can make any situation a laughable one. Tom Hanks is more serious, I remember his generosity. As for Gerard, you only have to look at him to feel affectionate towards him. Gerard teaches you friendship, he's your pal.

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The most difficult role I've had was a part in the episode of Ally McBeal. I played a boy who had a incurable illness and was so angry he wanted to sue God.

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I try only to shoot during school holidays. The rest of the time, I go to school like anyone else. I have a tutor on every location we go to. When I'm act­ing, the tutor gets all the lessons from my normal teachers.

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The girls do, yes. Especially the older ones. But round where I live, they leave me in peace.

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When I walk out of the studios, I leave my charac­ter in the dressing-room. I have friends of my own age to play with.

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I know that success can be transitory and all this can disappear overnight. But acting is what I want to do. But I also feel I can do other things, maybe something to do with the environment or saving animals. Like my character in Pay It Forward, I want to make the world a better place.

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Reading. Especially science fiction. I also like to play basketball and golf.

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Tolkien, and Edgar Allan Рое.

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Only at school. I play football in the corridor and that's not allowed. At home, I do everything my parents ask me to do — I make my bed, tidy my room and clean out my animals' cages.

A – Who are your favourite authors?

B – Do your friends treat you like a star?

C – You give the impression of being a very wise and obedient boy. Don't you do any silly things?

D – You've done TV too, haven't you?

E – What do you like doing when you are not filming?

F – What was it like working with Tom Hanks, Gerard Depardieu and Bruce Willis?

G – Why do you like TV?

H – Would you like to continue your acting career when you grow up?

I – How do you manage to make films and to go to school?

J – You spend most of your time surrounded by adults. Do you think of yourself as a kid like any other?

K – What was your first film role?

L - How did you get into acting?

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