So basically the first movie spider man (with Tobey Maguire) is the story of :
- Oncle Ben, a 68-year-old worker, fired from his job after 35 years with the same company, who has to work to survive (no retirement) and who can't find a job because the companies have staggering demands (in his case it is imperative to know how to use a computer, we were in 2002, not the bronze age but still)
Ben Parker: I'm already on my ass, May. When the plant's senior electrician is laid off after 35 years what would you call it? I am on my ass. Hand me that dish. The green one. The corporation is downsizing the people and upsizing their profits.
May Parker: Oh, Ben, you'll get another job somewhere.
Ben Parker: Well, let's look in the paper and see. There are the want ads. What do we got here? Computer… Computer salesman, computer engineer, computer analyst. My Lord, even the computers need analysts these days. I'm 68. I'm too old for computers, and besides, I have a family to provide for. - Norman Osborn, a scientist/Entreneur who has a delay in his project and for fear that it will fail, tests his projects on himself. When, against all odds, his project succeeded against his competitors (by killing some on the way…), the shareholders of the group decided to sell the company to the competitor to raise more money more quickly and expelled the scientist. So the guy is upset and kill them all (small contribution to the war class) .
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: As of today Oscorp Industries has surpassed Quest Aerospace as the principal supplier to the United States military. In short, ladies and gentlemen of the board, costs are down, revenues are up and our stock has never been higher.
Henry Balkan: Wonderful news, Norman. Wonderful. In fact, it's the reason for selling the company.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: What?
Henry Balkan: Yes, Quest Aerospace is recapitalizing in the wake of the bombing. Expanding. They made a tender offer we can't ignore.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Why wasn't I told?
Maximilian Fargas: The last thing they want is a power struggle with entrenched management. The deal is off if you come with it. The board expects your resignation in 30 days.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: You can't do this to me. I started this company. You know how much I sacrificed?!
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Oh, Max. Please.
Maximilian Fargas: Norman, the board is unanimous. We're announcing the sale after the World Unity Festival. I'm sorry.
Henry Balkan: You're out, Norman. - Peter Parker, a relatively smart guy, who fights in a cage for money and gets ripped off by the fight promoter out of the money he's owed. To make more money Parker sells photos of him in pajamas, he sells them to only one company, but this one refuses to hire him and leaves him in precariousness by using him in Freelance.
J. Jonah Jameson: They're crap. Crap, crap. Megacrap. I'll give you $200.
Peter Parker/Spider-Man: That seems a little low.
J. Jonah Jameson: Take them somewhere else then.
ASSISTANT Sir your wife said that tile you want in the foyer is out of stock.
J. Jonah Jameson: Tell her we'll just put a rug there. Sit down. Give me that. I'll give you 300. That's a standard freelance fee.
J. Jonah Jameson: Tear up page one. Run that photo instead. Headline? “Spider-Man, Hero or Menace? Exclusive Daily Bugle Photos.”
Peter Parker/Spider-Man: Menace? He was protecting that…
J. Jonah Jameson: Tell you what, Atticus you take the pictures I'll make up the headlines, ok? all right? That ok with you.
Peter Parker/Spider-Man: Yes, sir.
J. Jonah Jameson: Goody. Give this to the girl up front. She'll see you get paid.
Peter Parker/Spider-Man: I'd like a job, sir.
J. Jonah Jameson: No jobs. Freelance. Best thing in the world for a kid your age. Bring me some more shots of that newspaper selling clown, maybe I'll take 'em off your hands. But I never said you have a job. Meat. I'll send you a box of Christmas meat. Best I can do. Get outta here. Bring me more photos. - Jonah Jameson, a journalist/boss, for whom only the sales count, not the facts. Abuses its employees, pays them the minimum and the embodiment of “money first, second…pff”. Well for his defence he doesn't reveal his source but it is for his journalist integrity or the protection of his company assets ?
J. Jonah Jameson: Spider-Man. And the Green Goblin. The Green Goblin. You like that? Made it up myself. These weirdo's all gotta have a name now.
Peter Parker/Spider-Man: Mr. Jameson Spider-Man…
J. Jonah Jameson: Hoffman!
Ted Hoffman: Yeah?
J. Jonah Jameson: Call the patent office, copyright the name Green Goblin, I want a quarter every time somebody says it.
Ted Hoffman: How about “Green Meanie”?
Peter Parker/Spider-Man: Spider-Man wasn't attacking the city he was trying to save it. That's slander.
J. Jonah Jameson: It is not. I resent that. Slander is spoken. In print, it's libel.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: You don't trust anybody, that's your problem.
J. Jonah Jameson: I trust my barber. What are you his lawyer? Get out of here! Let him sue. Get rich like a normal person. That's what made this country.
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Jameson, you slime. Who's the photographer who takes the pictures of Spider-Man?
J. Jonah Jameson: I don't know who he is. His stuff comes in the mail.
Script sources : https://spidermantrilogy.fandom.com/wiki/Spider-Man_(film)_Script_Script)