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Mr. Mxyzptlk, Susie Tompkins, and Bizarro have to be in the next Superman. You can introduce Lex Luthor here being a philanthropist and being at fundraisers where Perry White is who loves him because they fund him, all the while he's building a military base at Metropolis Airport and bribing members of the military to work for him, that way in the next one, he can start sending all those missiles and warheads at Superman. What you do here as Superman's just arriving in Metropolis is explain why Metropolis? He was flying along the eastern seaboard, saw a commotion around New Yorkish, and then after saving the day, he's on his way out and notices a tiny planet above a building. He's intrigued. What the heck is going on with that? He flies in. It's the Daily Planet. He thinks it over -- how better to figure out what's going on in the world so the people who get saved by me aren't just lucky to be in the wrong place at the right time? He's falls for Lois of course who is one of those ambitious journalists who's so restless and wants to achieve things so bad that she's got no patience to wait for a story to come to her. Susie Tompkins is Lois Lane's niece and he's staying with...
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Below is an essay I had to write for a college Film Genre Class:
In 1978, when Christopher Reeves flew on to the silver screen as the Last Son of Krypton, the superhero film genre was born. The film Superman: The Movie would go on to establish the narrative structure that is still used in the superhero films made today. Budgeted in 1977 at $55 million, it would set many precedents for the popcorn blockbuster, “not the least of which was the idea of hiring big stars in action genres that previously were made under mostly B-picture budgets” (McAllister, 110).
The first and most important thing of the narrative structure in superhero films is of course, the origin story. The Man of Steel’s origin reflects many of the same themes as some biblical stories. But the closest of the stories that it resembles is the story of Moses, who was sent down a river by his mother when a Pharaoh ordered all newborn Hebrew boys to be killed, and ended up being adopted into the Egyptian royal family. He was later commanded by God to deliver the Hebrews from slavery. This closely resembles the origin story of Kal-El a.k.a Clark Kent in the way that he was sent to Earth in...
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1. WTF is wrong with Superman Returns?
2. Did anyone know that Superman is an American staple? Is it save to say Mickey Mouse will soon be a sewer rat? The American flag will have polka-dots? Coca-Cola will taste like warm Michelob? Sony will start making crappy defective video game products?.......oh.
3. The kid was too young. He was an excellent Clark Kent. Teenage Superman is stupid. I got a film idea for Brandon Routh's teenage Superman (go and look! It sucks but look anyway!) but here it didn't work.
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