The first film to gross $100 million in its opening weekend alone. At the time, no movie had done so, even when adjusted for inflation.
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Tobey Maguire said he had never read a Spider-Man comic book but took the role because he liked the script.
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The first Marvel movie to showcase the flipping pages Marvel logo.
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One of the chief difficulties that Tobey Maguire experienced in the now-famous upside-down kissing scene was that his sinuses kept filling up with water as it was performed in driving rain.
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Stan Lee: (at around 1h 7 mins) The creator of Spider-Man appears in the scene where the Green Goblin attacks the balcony at the World Unity Festival.
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Bruce Campbell: (at around 37 mins) the wrestling referee who gives Peter the name The Amazing Spider-Man. Campbell makes a cameo appearance in each Sam Raimi Spider-Man movie, but always as a different character.
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Lucy Lawless: (at around 55 mins) as a punk rock girl who says "Guy with 8 hands. Sounds hot." Sam Raimi previously worked with Lawless on Xena: Warrior Princess (1995). Lawless kept the punk rock costume, and wore it on the plane ride home.
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Nicholas Hammond: actor who played Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man (1977) is at the World Unity Festival.
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Sam Raimi: [car] The 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88, also known as The Classic, appears in the movie as Uncle Ben's car.
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Sam Raimi: [mirror] Dual personalities of one person looking in a mirror, also exhibited in Evil Dead II (1987), directed by Sam Raimi.
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Sam Raimi: [supporting cast] Cameo appearances by longtime friends Bruce Campbell and Lucy Lawless, and by brother Ted Raimi.
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Sam Raimi: [whip pan camera shot] (at around 1h 26 mins) when Norman Osborn walks into Peter Parker's bedroom.
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Sam Raimi: [shaky cam shot] This technique, created by Raimi, is used on a shot of the Green Goblin.
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