THE SPIDER WITHIN: A SPIDER-VERSE STORY | Official Short Film (Full)
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Published 2024-03-27
Sony Pictures Animation has teamed up with the Kevin Love Fund to digitally release the animated short film, The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story, that will be incorporated into the Kevin Love Fund’s new mental health focused lesson plan, “The Hero Within.” The lesson plan invites students to tell their own story through the lens of mental health awareness via an interactive curriculum including a creative storyboard activity. Visit kevinlovefund.org for additional information.
To access the free lesson plan that accompanies “The Spider Within” film, visit kevinlovefund.org/spider-man-lesson/
In the genre-bending thriller The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story, Miles Morales struggles to balance his responsibilities as a teenager, friend, and student while acting as Brooklyn’s friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. After a particularly challenging day living with these pressures, Miles experiences a panic attack that forces him to confront the manifestations of his anxiety and learn that reaching out for help can be just as brave an act as protecting his city from evil.
The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story was developed and produced in the inaugural year of Sony Pictures Animation (SPA) and Sony Pictures Imageworks’ (SPI) Leading and Empowering New Storytellers (LENS) program, a 9-month leadership training program that provides candidates from underrepresented groups with an opportunity to gain valuable leadership experience in animation. The final deliverable of the program is an all-original short film, set in the existing world of a feature produced by SPA and SPI.
The LENS program is backed by Sony Pictures Entertainment’s global, multi-pronged racial equity and inclusion strategy, Sony Pictures Action. The program’s goal is to provide creatives who have traditionally lacked access to leadership roles with a first-hand opportunity to deepen their understanding of every element of the animated filmmaking process including production design, animation, visual effects, lighting, sound, and various post-production processes. Through the program, participants strengthen their ability to effectively articulate their film’s creative vision and collaborate across a variety of disciplines.
The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story is directed by Jarelle Dampier and written by Khailia Amazan, and produced by LENS program creators Michelle Raimo-Kouyate and David Schulenburg. Rounding out the inaugural LENS team are Clara Chan who served as VFX supervisor and Joe Darko who served as animation supervisor.
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All Comments (21)
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They absolutely cooked with the sleep paralysis design. No creepy monster or anything, but rather your silhouette with glowing eyes, standing there
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Miles: I’m buggin. Nightmare: and you see, I just couldn’t let that slide.
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This is the single best portrayal of anxiety I have ever seen in media. It starts off small, you spend an hour just spacing out, staring at a spot on the floor, you crawl into bed, end up a crying mess while not knowing why, then finally talking to someone. Fantastic job.
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Im glad to see such a good family being pushed in mainstream, seems like alot of superhero tropes is dead parents or just terrible parents. But miles trusting his dad is just so insanely wholesome
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that moment when his spider sense goes off and there’s nothing there? Such a powerful, interesting way to visually depict anxiety for this character.
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2:29 I like the way his anxiety is depicted by his spider-sense pulling a false alarm.
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Miles might be the most relatable and down to earth superhero weve had in years. Everyones had nights like this where they feel weak and powerless and afraid and its represented do well here.
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i love how it delves into the mental/psychological effect stress can have on people. this shows awareness for those struggling with mental health and anxiety, this is how it feels.
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With the trope of superheros always having bad or dead parents, it's nice to see Miles' father actually be there to support him.
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Miles: "Nah, I'm buggin" The Spider Within: "Lmao, say less."
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I love how they conveyed the idea of him having a panic attack without being completely straightforward. All his thoughts building up and him recalling the events of the day (which is normally a trigger), feeling like he can' t move, the sleep paralysis creature pushing down on his chest (like when your chest tightens and you can't breath), the swift swaying motions? The colours? The music?. This is amazing.
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One thing I love about Miles in comics is ever since he got put in the 616 universe and got both his parents back, writers have been more willing to get vulnerable with the character. And he always has a support system to go to in his parents and Peter (especially once his parents learned about him being Spider-Man). It's great to read when he starts feeling overwhelmed with everything and can call his parents for support or is willing to ask other heroes to pick up the slack so he can take a breather.
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Miles: Nah, I'm buggin' Spider Within: And I took that personally
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Miles: « Nah, im buggin » The spider within: « I’m an arachnid, dumbass »
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THE ENDING SONG NEEDS TO BE ADDED ON SPOTIFY RIGHT NEOWWW 👏👏👏
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This is hands-down the best representation of anxiety I’ve seen in a while: The heavy breathing, the intrusive thoughts, the voices, the constant replays of all your perceived failures, the spidey-sense false alarm, the sleep paralysis and the feeling of the world turning an alarming RED around you… Sums up what anxiety and a loud mind can feel like to live with, especially on a bad day. Kudos to the team!
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Puss In Boots: praised for it’s panic attack sequence. Spiderverse: hold my beer
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It hurt so bad to see him reject his dad like that when he put in all that effort, and then I realized I’ve done that before. This was fantastic.
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Its crazy to sit here and watch this and think "That was me." That was me when i was that age feeling the weight of the world on my shoulders with stress, "friends", future. Feeling like I wanted and needed to talk to somebody but not wanting to talk to somebody at the same time because "Why bother? Nobody cared, so why should I speak to anyone about it? They wont understand and they wont care to even try to understand, so why bother?" Then dealing with that stress myself only to be riddled with grudges and anger and fear. Waking up in the middle of the night every night seeing shadows move and feeling a sense of dread that if I moved an inch or even turned around in my bed and looked behind me something would be there. And that thing that was there was towering over me and if I even just looked at it, even for a second. It would kill me right then and there and there was nothing I could do to stop it... It took years of constant effort to get through it and to recognize what it was I was doing to myself. I consider myself very lucky to be able to do that because most people cant control it or change their thoughts enough to be able to have some kind of normal life. But I can tell it'll be a life long battle for me, because every once in a while i fall back into it and have to recognize what I'm doing to myself and pull myself back out of it. This short resonates with me more than I was expecting today..
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Miles is actually the most relatable hero
