The principal camera-wielder is Andrew Detmer (Dane DeHaan), a senior at a Seattle high school.

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The movie's nominal villain is Jamie Foxx's Electro, plus maybe also Paul Giamatti's Rhino, and that's not to mention new arrivals like Dane DeHaan's Harry Osborn and Shailene Woodley's Mary Jane Watson.

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Cianfrance has cast two intense young actors, Dane DeHaan and Emory Cohen, as the boys, who are both into Ecstasy and Oxycontin, and he sustains a nasty friction between them, sandpaper rubbing sandpaper.

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