{"id":1702,"date":"2006-06-28T03:31:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-27T17:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sisterrose.wordpress.com\/2006\/06\/28\/superman-returns\/"},"modified":"2006-06-28T03:31:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-27T17:31:00","slug":"superman-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/sisterrosemovies\/2006\/06\/superman-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Superman Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;margin:0\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><\/font><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cYou know there are only three things that sell newspapers,\u201d Perry White (Frank Langella) practically shouts at reporter Lois Lane (Kate Bosworth) in director Bryan Singer\u2019s new film about the Man of Steel: \u201cSex, tragedy, and Superman!\u201d\u00a0<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><\/font><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:.5in;margin:0\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.killermovies.com\/s\/superman\/brandon_routh_as_superman.jpg\"><\/strong><\/span><\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:.5in;margin:0\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/i><\/font>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:.5in;margin:0\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><strong>Superman Returns<\/strong><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\">, while showing no sex (but implies a one night encounter between Superman and Lois before he left five years earlier), delivers intense action and impending human and environmental tragedy, and brings audiences a new iconic image of a gentler Superman\/Clark Kent transformed by the power of love.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:.5in;margin:0\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><\/span><\/font>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Why the World Needs Superman <\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><\/font><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:.5in;margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\">After a long absence Superman (Brandon Routh) returns from a search for his home planet, Krypton, that he found was truly destroyed. He returns to earth in fire. His \u201cmother\u201d Martha (Eva Marie Saint), driving the same old truck, comes to find him in the same field. Clark remembers his childhood when he discovered his super powers, and hears again the words of his father Jor-El (archived footage of Marlon Brando):<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:.5in;margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><\/font><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0 0 0 1in\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\">\u201cEven though you\u2019ve been raised as a human being you\u2019re not one of them. They can be a great people, Kal-El; they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you\u2026 my only son.\u201d<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0 0 0 1in\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><\/font><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Superman\u2019s return is well-timed because Lex Luthor (Kevin Spacey) has been released from prison since Superman failed to make his court date to testify against him. Luthor gets a rich old woman to sign her fortune over to him on her death bed and with his goons and his moll, Kitty (Parker Posey), he sets out to build a new continent that will displace North America and other countries and land masses. He has melded the crystallized elements of kryptonite stolen from a science exhibition and crystals he stole from the Arctic where Superman used to go to commune with his father. Kryptonite is the only thing that can kill Superman. Luthor\u2019s technological and elemental power-surge, if successful, will kill billions of people.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><\/font><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:.5in;margin:0\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.movieweb.com\/news\/01.2006\/superman_returns_set_20.jpg\"><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:.5in;margin:0\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><\/span><\/font>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:.5in;margin:0\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\">Clark<\/span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"> gets his old job back at The Daily Planet. Jimmy Olsen (Sam Huntington) is thrilled to see him. Clark is startled to learn that Lois has a five year-old son named Jason (Tristan Lake Leabu). She is living with Richard (James Mardsden), an editor, but won\u2019t marry him. She is to receive a Pulitzer Prize for her article, \u201cWhy the World Doesn\u2019t Need Superman\u201d and is stymied because White now demands she write one titled, \u201cWhy the World Needs Superman\u201d. (\u201cDon\u2019t worry,\u201d he tells her, \u201cno one will notice. Pultizers are like the Academy Awards; after a while no one remembers what you got it for.\u201d) The first day Clark gets back, Lois, and a whole plane full of reporters, must be rescued because of Luthor\u2019s machinations. The rescue is beyond spectacular.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:.5in;margin:0\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><\/span><\/font>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:.5in;margin:0\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filmfodder.com\/mt-weblog\/archives\/20060620-superman-returns.jpg\"><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:.5in;margin:0\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><\/span><\/font>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>A Theological Reading of <i>Superman Returns<\/i><\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Many believers who have reflected on the 1978 film <i>Superman: The Movie<\/i> (that starred Christopher Reeve) noticed that it provided imaginative and plausible parallels with the Gospel. It seemed to have been written \u201cwith attention to both the theology of the Incarnation and the words of St. John\u2019s Gospel (John 1:1-18) about the relation of the Son to the Father,\u201d according to <i>Lights, Camera\u2026 Faith: A Movie Lectionary, CycleA<\/i> by Peter Malone, MSH and myself. We assign <i>Superman: The Movie<\/i> to dialogue with the readings for the Second Sunday of Christmas.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>Christian fans of <i>The Movie<\/i> will be happy to see that <i><strong>Superman Returns<\/strong><\/i> continues even more clearly to develop those Gospel parallels, moving from the mysticism of St. John\u2019s Prologue into the reality of the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus as recounted in John 18-20 (see readings for Good Friday or Easter Sunday). Without stretching the metaphor too far, Superman is a Christ-figure, that is, a character that embodies some aspects of the person and mission of Jesus, but with some flaws or imperfections. (In contrast, a Jesus-figure is an actor who actually plays the role of Jesus in films, such as Robert Powell did in <i>Jesus of Nazareth<\/i> in 1977 or Jim Caviezel in <i>The Passion of the Christ<\/i> in 2004.)<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nohayrosasinespina.com\/imagenes\/full\/c_superman_3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><span><\/span><\/font><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><span><\/span><\/font><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Luthor is a parallel to Pontius Pilate or even Caesar, and his guards torture Superman and gamble at cards. He is also diabolical and dark, and everything he touches is ruined, shrouded in thedestructive forces of wind, rain, and fire, and colored with doom. The events in the film do not synchronize perfectly with Jesus\u2019 life, but no matter. Superman, who has saved so many, must in turn be saved, and it is the love of a woman and a child that transform him when he takes the weight of the world on his shoulders. Superman\u2019s side is pierced for humanity and his resurrection is magnificent. The Daily Planet staff, like the evangelists and witnesses of Jesus\u2019 life, writes down everything they have seen and heard.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><\/font><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:.5in;margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\">Three female characters stand out in <i><strong>Superman Returns<\/strong><\/i>. Lois is the love interest, and the question of whose son Jason is begins to emerge early on. Lois\u2019 relationship with Superman is very romantic, and the proof of their love is their willingness to make sacrifices for one another. (This aspect of the plot is one Dan Brown would like; Superman\u2019s super hero powers seem to be genetically transferable and he is interested in a lasting relationship.) Kitty, whom Luthor treats as if she were a poodle, lets herself be used at first, but when the moment comes, she, like the faithful women of the Gospels, becomes a hero. Finally, there is Martha, Clark Kent\u2019s foster mother. She always believes in him, loves completely, waits, is steadfast, and never falters. Martha lets Clark be the man he has been called and sent to be.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:.5in;margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><\/font><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:.5in;margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\">Jason is the little child who leads the grown-ups on their quest and slowly becomes aware of who he is. <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:.5in;margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><\/font><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:.5in;margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/z.about.com\/d\/movies\/1\/0\/x\/s\/M\/superreview2.jpg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/z.about.com\/d\/movies\/1\/0\/x\/s\/M\/superreview2.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/a><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:.5in;margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><\/font><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:.5in;margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><\/font><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:.5in;margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\">Sister Madonna Janet, FSP who came to the screening with me, said that some images of Superman hovering over the world reminded her of Salvador Dali\u2019s masterpiece \u201cThe Christ of St. John\u201d. \u201cWhen Martha finds her son in the field,\u201d Sr. Madonna also observed, \u201cshe holds him as Mary did Jesus in Michelangelo\u2019s Pieta\u2019.\u201d To me, Superman seemed at times like an angel that brings news of salvation and a message of hope for the future, a symbol of God\u2019s nearness to humanity.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><\/font><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Reading the Film<\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Bryan Singer has directed an engrossing pop culture film with high entertainment \u2013 and inspirational \u2013 value, sprinkled with light humor. <i><strong>Superman Returns<\/strong><\/i> was effectively written by Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris, based on a story they developed with Singer using characters from the original DC Comic Books created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster. Here, the action is non-stop, the special effects are over the top and Superman\u2019s feats unbelievable \u2013 but by the time we realize this, we have suspended belief and entered into the world of Metropolis and the lives of a small group of people we care about. The scene at the baseball stadium makes Spider-Man\u2019s train-stopping heroics look feeble. If there is one glaring flaw in the film, it is the lack of ethnic diversity in the cast. Metropolis is a very white world; most cinematic universes today are populated with a real cross-section of humanity. It is also noteworthy that the familiar \u201cTruth, justice and the American way\u201d has been amended to \u201cTruth, justice \u2026 and whatever\u2026\u201d (or something close to this.) <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><\/font><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Brandon Routh succeeds as Superman, mostly because he does not try to be Christopher Reeve, who for many of us <i>was<\/i> Superman, or even George Reeves of the 1950\u2019s television series that I really liked as a kid. But Routh is almost too geeky as Clark Kent and he has really bad hair (Jason has inexplicably bad hair as well), but as Superman his hair is almost plastic perfect. Clark does not know how to be a regular guy and though his co-workers question his identity, his artificial demeanor never seems to enter their heads.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><\/font><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:.5in;margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\">Superman\u2019s physique is chiseled and his facial features so flawless that I wondered if his face was computer-generated. But you get used to it because his is a kind visage \u2013 and very easy on the eyes. Routh never goes beyond the gigantic role he has been given, and flies with humility through the concrete canyons of Metropolis where great men have gone before him. Image-wise, there are several iconic visuals of Superman that are so deliberately crafted that they made me laugh. Others inspired. In the end the movie was so entertaining I just went along for the ride.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent:.5in;margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><\/font><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana\"><font color=\"#ff0000\"><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>For reasons I will not go into here Lois never gets her Pulitzer. As the film concludes she is more than willing to write why the world needs Superman, indeed, a savior. Comic books and science fiction aside, that never changes.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cYou know there are only three things that sell newspapers,\u201d Perry White (Frank Langella) practically shouts at reporter Lois Lane (Kate Bosworth) in director Bryan Singer\u2019s new film about the Man of Steel: \u201cSex, tragedy, and Superman!\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Superman Returns, while showing no sex (but implies a one night encounter between Superman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Superman Returns<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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