Ah, see, I don’t want Clark to be a full-on performance à la Reeve this time. That’s where a Supes story loses me because that’s where most of his most important daily relationships are formed. He has to be mostly genuine in them for me to invest, just downplaying certain super qualities. That’s the part I really loved about Dean Cain’s Clark. He was naturally a dork who used his powers in cheesy ways to amuse himself, played off uses of superpowers as klutzy moments and came up with lame excuses for always rushing off for Super-emergencies that just enhanced the “dork” image, making everyone just roll their eyes and think, “typical Clark.” He had goofy moments, but he was still being himself at the end of the day. That’s what I want for Clark this time around.
But I agree Hemsworth in Ghostbusters ain’t it, lol.
Great example, also, with Cain, you truly felt that he didn't rate himself, he just wanted to present himself as a gentleman. He was a normal guy but that's also what made attractive as he was a 'keeper'.
I do feel though, that Clark, at times, for certain people, should def play up the dork part. He interviews a kid and the kid starts to see through it, he should then just do something so dorky the kid rolls their eyes, in an embaressing dad way.
Also, Cain never showed off his muscles or meant too, he was conservative - that's how you do handsome but unassuming, compared to Hemworth where you kinda felt he was in on the joke... but also, that's just lazy - let's reverse the hot bimbo role.
I said this before, but when superman, I want that the be an act too, not all the time, but in crowds, or certain people, I want clark to actually be different, like I had this idea that when superman is first introduced to the public, he is not so much awkward, but stiff to alienate him almost, not in a bad way, but the movie starmen with Jeff bridges, an alien in human form and you can tell. I had this idea, which clark alludes to when talking to his parents or Lana, that he like, infant of criminals, turns into a t800 just to present something scary for them to tell others, I dunno, like imagine a bank robber running down an alley and out of the shadows comes superman, eyes glowing, not talking, bullets flying of him, he grabs the crook cold, throws him down, he's winded and going no where, then the as the van pulls off, in super speed superman is infront and it crashes into him, glad everywhere, the driver dragged out, thrown to the floor, he's winded, a garbage bin, those large ones superman tips over, debris everywhere, superman places them in there, closes the lid, bashes it so it warps and stays shut... then as they stare through a crack, superman stares back and just levitates and flies away.... that's badass.
I just didn't want superman to be too human too soon - just so that when sat next to clark in the DP, the superman people talk about seems different too. Also, do we want people knowing he grew up here or did he just arrive or do we want them not knowing?
