Italian Spiderman

Italian Spiderman is a film parody of Italian action–adventure films of the 60s and 70s, first released on YouTube in 2007. The parody purports to be a "lost Italian film" by Alrugo Entertainment, an Australian film-making collective formed by Dario Russo, Tait Wilson, David Ashby, Will Spartalis and Boris Repasky. It is widely known throughout the Internet as a famous character due to his 'bad ass' personality, catchphrases and use of guns
Ostensibly an Italian take on the comic book superhero Spider-Man, the film is a reference to foreign movies that misappropriate popular American superheroes such as the Turkish film "3 Dev Adam" and the Japanese TV series "Spider-Man", both of which alter the character of Spider-Man for foreign audiences. Other notable entries include the Indian version of Superman (1987), I Fantastici Tre Supermen (3 Fantastic Supermen) (1967) and La Mujer Murcielago (The Batwoman) (1968). It also resembles the movie The Bathman dal pianeta Eros (1982).

History

The project began as a trailer for a non-existent film, produced as a student film at Flinders University by director Dario Russo for his final year Screen Production project. The "trailer" was shot, over the course of one day, on 16 mm film using an older style camera to achieve an authentic look for the films of that era.

Popularity

Publicized as an actual lost Italian action film from the late 1960s, the film was later uploaded onto YouTube on 8 November 2007 where it has gained a massive cult following with 4,117,618 hits as of 7 February 2012. With some of mainstream media taking interest in the film, this led to the South Australian Film Corporation giving the filmmakers funding for ten more short films.

(Playlist Link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL31F9635F8E0806B8)

The first installment of the "feature film" premiered across the Internet on 22 May 2008; further installments followed on a weekly basis.
The series was well-received, but ended on a cliffhanger. The May 2010 announcement of the end of Alrugo Entertainment cast doubt on the possible continuation of the project.

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Retirement

On 24 October 2011, a video announcement was made declaring the end of the Italian Spiderman project and the formation of a new production company between Dario Russo and David Ashby, called Dinosaur. The same video also officially announced the duo's television show, Danger 5 which is set in a bizarre 1960s interpretation of World War II and follows a group of five international spies on a mission to kill Adolf Hitler and thwart his plans of world domination

Italian spiderman gif (WTF GIF)

This GIF (Animated Image) showing a guy with a shocked reaction has been used as a WTF response image within others. It is known as "talian spiderman gif" for most of the users of the image.

Shut Your Mouth Pussycat!

A scene which has been known as one of the most remembered is when the personality of Italian Spiderman is taken place where after saying a female's life from 'two group of smartass teenagers, he then slaps her saying:

"Shut your mouth, pussycat, and find me a Machiatto, Pronto!"

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Notable Other Multimedia Items

Music

NAPT ft FireFlowerz “Italian Spiderman” (Fool’s Gold)

Pictures

Fan Made Videos