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‘…Garfield’s movies had been dumped on the ash heap of comic-book movie history and his Peter Parker often considered best forgotten. That context makes Garfield’s return as a scene-stealing, wise-cracking, emotionally fragile Peter Parker all the more triumphant. He emerges from No Way Home as the film’s MVP in a stacked cast of Oscar winners and bright young Marvel stars, elevating the overall impression of his superhero turn in the process. But the truth is Garfield has always been the best and most interesting actor to slip into Spidey’s red-and-blue spandex suit.

There’s always been something theatrical and almost operatic about the way Andrew Garfield attacks a role…Garfield first caught the eye of mainstream American audiences in 2010’s The Social Network playing Mark Zuckerberg’s real-life maligned friend and business partner Eduardo Saverin. At the time, director David Fincher told the Los Angeles Times that he couldn’t cast Garfield as Zuckerberg because his “incredible emotional access to his kind of core humanity” wouldn’t work for the dispassionate Facebook CEO. Garfield ran away with the movie anyway: though he was (criminally) overlooked in the Oscar race, Garfield’s melodramatic rendering of Saverin’s break-up scene with Jesse Eisenberg’s Zuckerberg remains one of the film’s most defining moments…

…The Amazing Spider-Man is unquestionably a mixed bag…But what is unquestionable in both of Garfield’s movies is the romantic spark between Garfield and (eventual) real-life girlfriend Emma Stone. It might be heretical to say so, but their scenes generate far more chemistry than even that iconic upside-down rain kiss between Kirsten Dunst and Tobey Maguire…

If the Spider-Man movies were simply romance films, we wouldn’t even be having a debate about who is the best Peter Parker. But Garfield had equal (if very different) chemistry with Sally Field, who played Aunt May. In one scene in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 she reluctantly tells him the truth about his father while declaring, in her best Steel Magnolias angry cry, that he’s her boy. Garfield matches the queen of hysterical sobs tear for tear.

…Garfield even manages to find a spark with Dane DeHaan’s Harry Osborn, one of the most misbegotten elements of The Amazing Spider-Man 2. James Franco and Tobey Maguire had an entire trilogy to play out the collapse of Harry and Peter’s friendship into tragedy, whereas Garfield and DeHaan had to cram it all into just a few scenes. But as long as the two of them are sharing the screen, it works. The spark is there.

…beyond his uncanny ability to profoundly connect with whoever he was playing against, Garfield’s performance was also often fun, funny, and deeply kinetic.

If there’s one legitimate criticism to levy against Garfield in this role, it’s that he comes off as a little too self-possessed & a little too old (he was 28 when his first Spider-Man film premiered) to play the awkward, teenage Peter Parker. Those concerns play no part in his return in No Way Home as an older, worn-out Peter who carries the grief of losing Gwen Stacy in every line on Garfield’s (still young!) unshaven face.

Since he hung up the Spidey suit in 2014, Garfield has been digging even deeper into the open-wound extremes that make him such a watchable actor. He put himself through actorly hell, starving his already slim frame to play a religious zealot of one kind in Martin Scorsese’s Silence, and picked up an Oscar nomination after playing a different flavor of religious fervor in Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge.

…Garfield spent the better part of 2017 and 2018 playing Prior Walter onstage in Angels in America. The lengthy play…is an emotional marathon at the best of times, and Prior Walter is an intensive, highly dramatic role. But Garfield played Walter (to great acclaim, some criticism, and a Tony win) dialed up to 11.

You can’t do that for two years without either tapping into some new level of ability or burning yourself out entirely. Garfield’s other crowd-pleasing 2021 performance, as Jonathan Larson in Tick, Tick … Boom!, proves he did the former. All the hallmarks of a classic Andrew Garfield performance are on display in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s directorial debut, including gutting emotional climaxes… … and unexpected acting choices that land nonetheless.

But it’s worth noting that he delivered all of the expected Garfield goods while also studying to sing for the first time professionally…He’s actually phenomenal in the role—not just “good enough” for a movie star trying to sing. The whole Tick, Tick … Boom! experiment speaks to a kind of fearlessness in Garfield and a willingness to risk looking like a fool in order to deliver an unforgettable performance.

Which brings us back to Spider-Man…Garfield is as funny and as weird as you hope he might be in the role, but it’s the raw way he plays Peter Parker as someone with completely exposed nerve endings that makes his appearance so special. Using that uncanny knack for connection, Garfield as Peter bonds instantly and believably with Ned, MJ, and the other Peters. His Peter is gentle with Tom Holland’s younger version of himself while also marinating in the grief of losing Gwen. The fact that Gwen Stacy’s death has suffocated him for so many years makes Sony’s decision to bump off Emma Stone—one of the worst moves in comic-book movie history—feel a little weightier than it once did.

Garfield’s rescue of Zendaya’s MJ in No Way Home is a fairly heavy-handed call and response to Gwen Stacy’s fall in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. It’s a moment that, in all its obviousness, shouldn’t work at all. But, of course, Garfield sells it. “Are you OK?” he asks MJ through his tears. “Are you?” she asks back, as he delivers a shaky nod in a response that’s both funny and devastating. The moment is a true Garfield special and just one of many reasons that Spider-Man’s most maligned Peter Parker is suddenly everyone’s favorite. But the real ones know that Andrew Garfield deserved that praise all along.’

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A little study of Quannah Chasinghorse at the met tonight because she’s just so 😭

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An attempt at drawing the iconic capture the flag scene from pjo!!!

I'm really winging the designs rn so they might change later on (the cast was announced halfway through this so yk)

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someone tell 6th grade me the PJO show is about to be filmed and then catch her when she faints

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Art by Davood Moghaddami

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Birch tree woman🌿

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drawing shots from films i love #1 - little miss sunshine (2006)

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Ink Series - 4/? Part 3: here

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When the sun loves the moon ✨

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fairy cow

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Delicate spring florals

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First two chapters of my Moulin Rouge Hannigram AU are out!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/38331037/chapters/95780965