I’m think there’s more gritty reboot superheroes than whiney humanized superheroes, at least for movies.
I’m deducting points because it looks like he’s walking through a rehearsal of Transformers.
I call CG shenanigans.
I don’t want either one. I want a goddamned idealist.
I don’t care if it’s a good Superman, so long as it’s a good movie.
You can make a good movie about an idealistic non ironic, sincere, Superman; it’s just that it is more difficult.
New trailer. Wow.: http://www.iwillfindhim.com/
I wonder about the voice over line of the woman saying, “My son was on the bus. He saw what Clark did.” Unless she and her son and everybody they talked to dies, it seems like this is going to be another superhero movie where the hero’s secret identity isn’t much of a secret.
It will be interesting to see how Jonathan Kent handles that kind of problem.
In the comics, I am pretty sure it was handled in the usual manner of that medium (that is to say, not at all, usually because next issue Superboy was on Mars or something.)
But movies? Somewhat different.
So, if this trailer isn’t just clever editing, Clark’s dad has some ethical issues to deal with.
Usually, in the comics, at least in the 60’s when I was a regular reader, Supe would come up with some ruse to explain how (usually) Lois Lane was mistaken about what she saw that made her think Clark was Superman. Frequently involving Bruce Wayne (one of the few people who knew Supe’s secret identity) or a human-looking robot, which he had a whole closet full of.
Apparently it means hope.
I think it’s one of those curious events that you’d question at the time, and file away in your memory as an odd thing, but over time it would fade from the public view (if the general public are even made aware of it). It’s probably part of the reason he wanders off to hide under the guise of Deadliest Catch Fisherman.
It’s clear from the trailer Lois seeks him out, and it seems to me that most likely she will always know he’s Clark Kent, Mild Mannered Reporter, but everyone else will remain unaware of his secret identity.
Yeah, that seems to be the more sensible way to go. I’d love to know how they ‘realistically’ explain everyone else at the Daily Planet not recognizing him in glasses, though.
Apparently Christopher Reeve did a really good job at this.
Did Donner and Reeve create the “bumbling insecure clumsy Clark Kent” aspect of the disguise?
Or did that aspect of Superman’s performance of Clark Kent exist in other media prior to the 1978 movie?
The secret is in the hair-part, not the glasses.
The way he was portrayed in the movies was a pretty good average of how he was done in the comics. Not as extreme as the depths of the Silver Age when he would claim indigestion every time something happened, or pretend to be knocked down by a stiff wind, but with enough of that to click with people familiar with his Silver Age portrayal.
Thanks, Kamino Neko. I’ve randomly happened upon some of the old black and white George Reeves television Superman episodes and Clark Kent certainly seems sturdy and confident- really just Superman with glasses in a jacket and tie. So, I didn’t know whether Donner and Christopher Reeve developed the alternate interpretation or not. Interesting to hear that there was a period in which the comics took it to a broader extreme.
I do really think Christopher Reeve’s handling of the back-and-forth was very well done, a really great performance.
The stupidest thing Superman ever did was to tell people that he had a secret identity in the first place. He wasted half of his time in the old stories just trying to maintain the ruse. Why he didn’t just have one of the afore mentioned robots fly overhead each time he was out with Lois I don’t understand.
Here’s how dumb Superman was capable of being: He had a gigantic key for the door to his Fortress of Solitude fashioned to look like an arrow, supposedly to aid in aircraft navigation. But the lock was so huge, that at one point an intruder just crawled through it.
Same with Dean Cain’s crappy performance. He didn’t even try to differentiate. Christopher Reeve was distinctive for that very reason across all TV and movie performances. Even Brandon Routh didn’t manage it.
He’s smarter than most people on the internet, since the ‘keyhole’ was filled with nigh-impenetrable security measures, and the only person to infiltrate that way, to my recollection, was Lex Luthor, who’d found a way to outwit the security.