Ok, let's all write out scenes where/how we would introduce Superman in the movie..
Here is mine..
7:15 AM...Metopolis...
A man in a grey suit walks down a crowded street. He walks against the apparent flow of foot traffic on the sidewalk. His face is obscured by a "Daily Planet" newspaper, held in his right hand, two inches from his face. The only thing that can be seen of him is the top of his head, and the slicked hair that covers it. In his left hand is a classic leather briefcase.
Subtley, it is revealed that though he walks against the flow of people walking the same sidewalk, the man deftly avoids bumping into anyone, though he could not possibly see them with the newspaper in his face....?
The man walks down the block, and the scene slowly turns to pandemonium...fire hoses, fire trucks, and barrier tape suddenly cover the scene... an apartment is on fire, and the man is walking on the sidewalk adjacent to the apartment. The man folds his newspaper, tucks it under his arm, and looks up at the 5 story apartment, as the camera moves to a view from behind the man. We have not seen his face yet, but we see the thick frames of his eyeglasses wrapped around his ears. From behind, we see the man look at the apartment, then at the fire crews on the street. The man turns his head so that his right ear faces the apartment. Close up on his right ear, and we hear what the man hears...the whimpers of an infant who has been left behind in the fully engulfed fire.
Still behind the man, we see him look to the left and the right. He sees the back entrance of the apartment just to his left. He gives another look to the left and to the right; he realized no one pays any attention to him. From behind, we see the man casually walk up to the door of the apartment, and grasp the doorknob in his hand. The knob is so hot from the fire behind it, smoke starts to roll off the man's hand. The man stands up, and squares his shoulders underneath his grey suit. We see for the first time the man is much taller and broader in the shoulders than we realized. The man turns the still smoking doorknob, and steps into the building, and the door shuts behind him as he is engulfed in flames.
The camera view then switches to a view outside the apartment, at window level. The camera tracks along the multiple windows of the apartment, at street level. The camera follows the partially obssucred movements of the man, as we see him walk through the apartment, from right to left. Windows burst from the heat, wall studs fall to the ground, but the man makes constant, slow, steady progression through the apartment. We catch glimpses of the man, and it is apparent his clothes are on fire, buring from his body, but he does not change his slow, steady, deliberate pace through the apartment. The camera speeds up, and moves to the opposite side of the apartment, focusing on the door opposite of the one the man walked into.
A small explosion/flashover blows the door out of it's frame. Flames pour out of the door frame. The camera pans to the small concrete porch of the apartment. From the smoke, flames and chaos, a red boot steps from the smoke, flames, and chaos, followed by the other boot. THE FIRST EIGHT NOTES FROM THE CLASSIC SUPERMAN THEME SLOWLY PLAY OUT. The camera pans up, along the red boots, to muscular thighs in blue tights, to the red trunks, up to the \S/ emblem on the broad chest. The camera stops moving up. The man has a red bundle cradled to his chest. His large hands tenderly unwrap the bundle, to reveal the infant previously heard crying. The infant is completely unhurt. The infant smiles, and reaches up to the face of the man. The camera follows the infant's arm and hand up to the man's face. We see the square jaw, blue eyes, and shock of black hair that we all know. The man steps off the porch, and hands the infant to his mother, with EMS just behind her. We see that the red that bundled the infant was the man's cape. The camera pulls back, and we see Superman in all his glory, standing on the porch of the apartment.
The mother thanks him in sobs.. She asks, "Who are you?"
The man looks up at the crowd that has gathered in stunned silence...
"I am....
...someone who will always be where I am needed."
The man looks up to the sky, raises his right hand, places his left hand at his side, and rises quickly out of frame....
