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Acting Out.(Spider-Man 3)(Critical essay)
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There is one great scene in "Spider-Man 3," and you can pretty much leave the theatre once it's over, but for those three or four minutes you wouldn't want to be anywhere else. An escaped convict named Flint Marko (Thomas Haden Church) flees the New York City police and tumbles, as you do, into a Particle Physics Test Facility. He finds himself in a sandpit, subjected to what we are told is "demolecularization," a process familiar to anyone who pounds crackers to make a cheesecake crust. Once the experiment is over, the sand lies still; then it stirs and heaves, and, like a crumbling Lazarus, Marko rises again, his legs ...
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