Please, not another lonely god...

[tysolna]

I've just seen a trailer for the new Superman film "Superman Returns" (remind me again why I need to install iTunes when all I want is Quicktime?), and at the end you hear Jor-El's voice - this won't get a spoiler cut, because those who don't know who Jor-El and Kal-El are obviously don't care about Superman comic books - anyway, Jor-El says, "They can be a great people, if they wish to be. All they lack is a light to show the way. For this reason above all I sent them you, my only son." All this with very heroic music.

Good Grief! Since when is Jesus Superman's secret identity?


... and yes, I am probably going to watch it anyway. I grew up on DC Comics!

Comments

[tysolna]

I never saw it in English, which is probably why I didn't realize the dialogue thing, although a lot of scenes looked very familiar. Only this time, Lex didn't have hair.

But - why? Isn't it enough that he can fly and is faster than a speeding bullet and whatnot, they don't have to make religious allusions, do they? Or am I missing something (it's been known to happen!)?

[manchester-red.livejournal.com]

But that dialogue is from the original film - it's spoken by Marlon Brando. So it is the original film you must aim the accusation at, not the new one. And Lex was, indeed, bald in the first movie - at the end, when he and Otis have been dumped unceremoniously in the prison, he whips off his wig as he goes into a rant.

I had a feeling you'd say that...

[tysolna]

a) Do you know how many years it was since I saw it?
b) ... and never in English.
c) Alright! I messed up with the hairstyle. OK?

:-D

Re: I had a feeling you'd say that...

[manchester-red.livejournal.com]

you forgot

d) Jeremy is a smart-arse!

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

By the by, why is your LJ switched off for comments? I felt like saying hello.

[manchester-red.livejournal.com]

'cos I'm teetering on the edge of deleting it, I'm afraid.

[tysolna]

Um. Don't? Please?

It's my source of Pili Pili Chicken!

[manchester-red.livejournal.com]

Better write the recipe down quick, then!

Re: I had a feeling you'd say that...

[tysolna]

I thought that went without saying? ;)

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

Otis also gets freaked earlier, when he spots the wig in Lex's bed.

The biblical stuff was in from the start, of course, though JS/JS were actually alluding to Moses rather than JC (possibly because they were Jewish).