From what I remember, in the original comics, Spider-Man shot webs from his wrist because Peter Parker used his science background to design mechanical web shooters.
In the Sam Raimi movies, however, the webslinging is a side effect of the genetically-modified spider bite that gives him the rest of his powers.
My question is this: why would the spider DNA result in webs originating from his wrists? Natural spiders create webs with spinnerets located at the tip of their abdomen. Wouldn't it have been more believable if Spider-Man's webs came from, well, behind him?
Is there some explanation given as to why his web-producing organs appeared in his wrists, and not elsewhere?
Answer
There's no in-universe answer.
Out-of-universe, they would have had to complicate an already long-running movie to add in an explanation of Peter's father's inventions, how Peter finally solved the adhesive problem, his testing of the fluid, etc. It would have taken another 30-45 minutes to give any satisfactory explanation, which would have pushed the running time up to a fiscally inadvisable level.
The spinnerets become located in his wrists for no good reason. The only reason they're there is because that's where Spiderman's webs come from. Anything even approaching an accurate physical location would have taken the movie into an entirely different direction.
The studio would never have gotten behind that. It would have been a waste of their assets to even consider it.
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