“Madame Web”; The film that takes “female intuition” to another level – 2024-02-17 08:46:36

The film, produced by Columbia Pictures and which recently debuted in Mexican cinemas, tells the story of how Cassandra Webb, a medical assistant played by Dakota Johnson, discovers that she could have mental power to predict the future.

She will have to watch over Julia Carpenter (Sydney Sweeney), Mattie Franklin (Celeste O’Connor) and Anya Corazón (Isabela Merced), who will become Spider-Woman, and together they accept the challenge of building a future that is promising.

But first they must face the present and the problems caused by Ezekiel Sims (Tahar Rahim), the film’s villain.

“All women have intuition and we are taking it to another level with (Webb’s) clairvoyance,” said director SJ Clarkson, who made her debut with this film in the world of feature films.

He highlighted the “connection with reality” that this ability has and assured that it was “exciting” to explore a “more cerebral and psychological” superpower through a fantastic plot.

Johnson, also in an interview with EFEshared the director’s point of view, highlighting how one of the main reasons for accepting the role was the character of the three protagonists, who are intertwined by a strong sisterhood, sisterhood between women.

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“Women who genuinely support and protect each other, who want everyone to be the most powerful version of themselves and who guide each other to achieve it,” said the actress, who lamented that it is a dynamic that “is not frequently seen” in the screens.

During the film’s red carpet in Mexico City, Johnson, recognized for her leading role in Fifty Shades of Greyexplained days before that it is “very important” for her to address these issues, such as the empowerment of women, in the projects in which she participates.

Chiapas, scene of Madame Web

Mexico has an important role in the production of Madame Websince some of its scenes were recorded in Palenque, in the southern state of Chiapas, in an “incredible” experience although not without difficulties, in the words of Clarkson.

British director SJ Clarkson during the red carpet of the film “Madame Web”, in Mexico City. (Free Press Photo: EFE)

“We had a big storm the night before we started recording and the whole set was destroyed,” he said.

Still, thanks to the film’s “extraordinary team,” they rebuilt the sets in time.

The Mexican cinematographic panorama also has its space in ‘Madame Web’, since the actor José María Yazpik has a relevant role: his character, Santiago, must help the protagonists during their life process.

A different Madame Web

On the other hand, Johnson explained that the film differs from the historical Madame Web of the eighties comics, since this new installment of the Spider-Man imaginary explains the origins of the superheroine.

While in the illustrated vignettes Madame Web is a blind old woman who lives in a wheelchair, the character played by Johnson is a young woman from the early 21st century who has just discovered her clairvoyance.

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“We meet her (in the film) before her powers have started to take effect,” he said.

Thus, he was able to build “a complex human being” that allows us to understand the superheroine of comics and her abilities that, in the future, will be used to decipher the future of the Spider-Man and the superheroes of this imagination.