Arachnophobia (film) Students and staff were used in the football scenes and group events. The locker room and players were the actual students and players from CUHS. To create the sound effects of spiders being stepped on or squished, Foley artists stepped on mustard packs or squashed potato chips. "Arachnophobia" was the first film released by Hollywood Pictures. Advertisers were uncertain as to whether they should market the film as a thriller or a comedy. Therefore, television spots promoting the film billed it as a "thrill-omedy". "Arachnophobia" debuted at #3 behind "Ghost" and "Die Hard 2" with $8 million in its first
What a piece of work is a man lines written by Montaigne: However, rather than being a direct influence on Shakespeare, Montaigne may have merely been reacting to the same general atmosphere of the time, making the source of these lines one of context rather than direct influence. What a piece of work is a man "What a piece of work is man!" is a phrase within a soliloquy by Prince Hamlet in William Shakespeare's play of the same name. Hamlet is reflecting, at first admiringly, and then despairingly, on the human condition. The soliloquy, spoken in the play by Prince Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Act