My friend says that Clark Kent guy looks like superman but I don’t see it. Clark wears glasses and superman doesn’t so I don’t know what he’s on about
Daddy issues and James Gunn films go hand in hand.
Average Joe in Metropolis wouldn’t put it together. They wouldn’t expect Superman to have a secret identity. Why would someone like Superman want to be a normal person?
This looks like a clip from some analog horror youtube channel."Leaked" Footage of David as Superman.
To be fair, and I know “realism” has little place in a Superman movie, but any billionaire being self-made is just not something that exists in nature.I only care in terms of what it suggests for Lex’s backstory - LuthorCorp is typically used when the company was founded by Lionel. So it may suggest we’re getting “grew up wealthy” Lex instead of “self-made billionaire” Lex. But who knows. I prefer the latter backstory myself, but am honestly fine with either.
As a name alone, I’ve always preferred LuthorCorp because it just sounds more real to me lol. Like for some reason LexCorp has always sounded a bit silly to my ears (maybe because people more rarely name corporations after their first names? So when I hear this, I think “SteveCorp” or “KarenCorp” and it amuses me). But whatever, it really doesn’t matter.
Even Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey?
They may have come from humble beginnings, but they had help along the way.Even Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey?
Yeah, I prefer Luthor to have come from nothing but there's also something to be mined from the Daddy Issues. Particularly if the story has a lot of Daddy Stuff for Clark.So I shall just rephrase - I tend to prefer Lex being the founder of his empire, built on the back of his own genius/inventions/ambition, rather than Lionel. But I'm cool with the daddy issues version as well, as long is it's not like...whatever Eisenberg was.
I keep having "this movie is supposed to be a love letter to his dad" shouting in the back of my brain and I don't know how to expect him to interpret that.
as long is it's not like...whatever Eisenberg was.
Super interesting Jor-El seems absent.I keep having "this movie is supposed to be a love letter to his dad" shouting in the back of my brain and I don't know how to expect him to interpret that.
Which I'm frankly glad about, that's one Donner beat that has been recycled over and over again, and I can make do without it this time.
So, you don't see any distinction? Because that is the larger point being made.
What about Rosenbaum then? I recall you telling me once that Lex's daddy issues (on Smallville) accounted for a large part of what you found objectionable in his take on the character.But I'm cool with the daddy issues version as well, as long is it's not like...whatever Eisenberg was.
The happy medium version would be that Lionel started the company, but Lex made it an empire.
Rosenbaum's monotonous line deliveries were my biggest issue with that portrayal. John Glover completely overshadowing him was partly by design, but partly by him acting circles around him. Making Lex All About His Dad was like #4 or #5 down on my list of complaints. As long as you don't make that his whole personality like they did, I'm good.
