BvS Clark Kent The Reporter

[X Knight]

I'd like to see mild mannered Clark.

not bumbling fool.

but quiet, unassuming, perhaps a bit nerdy/awkard.

 

[Superman_200]

I'd like to see mild mannered Clark.

not bumbling fool.

but quiet, unassuming, perhaps a bit nerdy/awkard.

Exactly, he should be a shadow, easy to forget. All of us have worked/gone to school with some people that we completely forget about the minute we leave. That is what Clark should be, the person you can't remember. I don't know why anyone would want a bumbling funny Clark. He should be someone you forget. I want Clark to be that person you see that you work with/go to school with that if you saw them walk by you on the street, you would probably not realize who it is unless they say something, and then you do one of those "Oh, hey.... hmmm Steve? Bob? Jerry? .... Yeah... So... how is... hmm... yea..."

One think they should probably do with Cavill is to make him look as different as possible is to film the Clark scenes before or something so he is in as different of a shape as possible from Superman. I would also have him put cotton inside his mouth, slouch, perhaps wear whatever around the waist to make him look a bit more out of shape, etc. even veneers for the teeth but not explain it the audience of course. He could even wear contacts or be made to look a bit different by using CGI. Enough to where the audience might think, "wow he really does look different in glasses". Of course, it would be played as if he only put on the glasses and changed his posture, but I'd still use other tricks, make up, etc. to make him look different.

 

[The Batman]

Even a guy like the Clark Kent from Reeves you'd notice his face more than if he just didn't do anything silly at all. Like I said, lets say you and I work at the same place. I act like Reeves Clark Kent or I act like anyone else you see at your job, I don't say much, or do much other than just do my job, etc. I am just a boring person. Which one of the 2 would you notice more?

It's irrelevant. The point of the disguise is to create a persona that people would not believe is Superman. It's easy to say "oh, well anyone would notice that bumbling Clark is Superman" when we already know that Superman is disguising himself. For all this complaining about bumbling Clark, Christopher Reeve's Clark Kent is the only live action portrayal that has a modicum of plausibility as a disguise. Guys like George Reeves and Dean Cain were essentially just "Superman with glasses".

Not only that, but this whole idea of "Clark should just be a quiet, boring guy" sounds...boring. I'll take Birthright/All Star/SR Clark over that any day. That kind of Clark would actually be entertaining to watch.

As for Batman, I don't see why anyone would think that Batman would have to be a millionaire. You would also think that for the movie they won't be making it seem again like Wayne returns and Batman appears. He could have a motive but it would make more sense that a millionaire would hire a fighter (if he were actually behind it) than go do it himself. If people were to suspect a millionaire with a tragic past with beating up criminals 20 years after the fact, they would probably assume a hit-man paid off by a Wayne rather than actually Wayne doing it.

You would have to be pretty rich to ride around in a Batmobile, Batplane, etc. And you're still forgetting that Bruce comes back around the same time Batman initially appears. He could've hired a hit man at any point he wanted from any location.

For Bruce Wayne, I'd think he should be portrayed more like a Wayne Huizenga character, that if anyone suspected him of anything, they'd suspect him (like they did Huizenga) of having ties to crime, or more likely to hire someone to do his dirty work than to him actually doing it himself. If they play it right, it can be done very well. If there were a vigilante running around in the world no one would say that it is probably Patrick Duffy (whose parents were murdered during a robbery) or Michael Jordan, or Kelsey Grammer or Dylan McDermott or anything like that. If someone was running around Chicago beating the crap out of criminals I seriously doubt anyone would say, "You know what? Michael Jordan did it".

Except that Duffy's parents were murdered when Duffy was well into adulthood. Jordan too was an adult when his dad was killed.

Grammar barely knew his dad and was 13 when he died. And when his sister was killed, he was 20.

Dylan McDermmot was 5 when his mother was shot and may not even have recollection of it happening.

The point is...none of these guys were 8-10 and had their loved ones murdered right in front of them...so it goes to reason that they wouldn't be traumatized like Bruce was.