What will people really love about Man of Steel? When Zack [Snyder] and I were talking about it the first time, he was saying how Superman, they want to give it a more edgy feel like The Dark Knight but also make it more realistic and emotional so it’s not just the all-american superhero that saves everyone. He has dilemmas and love and struggles throughout the whole movie, especially when he’s a kid.
That's what all characters need: internal conflict.
And that's what makes many fans suffer: he can't have dilemmas, he's Superman, he never doubts, he never makes the wrong choice, he never fails, morals for him are black and white.
That's how you get a bidimensional character that doesn't hold for long in a movie.
I like how Snyder seems to be saying that what's important here is to portray the character not the icon.
Sound promising to say the least, though the part about "love struggles" has me "slightly" concerned since whenever I hear "love struggle" associated with Superman on film now, I'm immediately reminded back to the whole Superman-Lois-Richard White Love Triangle from SR and that didn't do Superman's character any favors.
I think the Richard-Lois-Superman triangle gave Superman problems he couldn't solve just being 'heroic' or 'moral.' It was great to have the audience really thinking, wow, who should Lois choose? The average thing would have been making Richard some unbearable smug we could hate so the choice was dead easy.
But from Snyder's words I read that he's going to doubt if he should be a hero and renounce a normal life. That alone sounds like gold to me. Now if that makes some fans furious, even better.
Also, i'm hoping that they don't repeat a similar scene with Clark and Lois that they did back in the New 52, where he (Clark) goes to visit Lois to say sorry about something, only to see that she's busy with another guy from work, thus making Clark leave all sad and angsty.
Simply put, don't give Superman in MOS the Peter Parker-MJ crap from the Raimi films.
Well, Raimi's Spider-man and its results shouldn't be neither the referent nor the monopoly for romantic problems. Raimi's treatment for romance was pure crap. It doesn't have to be the ultimate evidence that that way can't/shouldn't be done.
I never appreciate when Superman decided to erase Lois's memory in SII that Clark left like nothing had happened and then we just had a ever-smiling Superman. I'm sorry but that moment our hero renounced the love of his life, don't give me the 'meh it's just a movie, let's just have our happy ending and let's go home.'