The Superman Look: Shaping Superman

[superduperhero]

Routh is 6'3 while Gerard Butler is 6'2, height makes alot of difference too.... AND, the guys from 300 were airbrushed, i'm sure their cut, but the airbrushing makes them looked ripped as hell. So i think Routh did good as far as bulking up.

 

[Axl Van Sixx]

Truthfully, I really have no problem with the suit at this point. The more I watch the movie, the more I can see that it really looks great on film, and that's all that matters to me. As for Routh's build, he looks perfectly muscular enough in the movie to play Superman. Any comparisions between him and Reeve, for me, are beside the point. In the end, he WAS Superman in the movie for me, and the performance is what really matters. Now if only they could give him more dialogue for the sequel...

 

[dark_b]

Routh is 6'3 while Gerard Butler is 6'2, height makes alot of difference too.... AND, the guys from 300 were airbrushed, i'm sure their cut, but the airbrushing makes them looked ripped as hell. So i think Routh did good as far as bulking up.

thats what i asked them months ago. i mean it is impossible to get so much actors that have so good abs.

 

[superhey]

like this picture dark hair and SHORT HAIR WITH MESSY HAIR LOOK BUT WITH ONE CURL
Superman's hair should look:

 

[DorkyFresh]

i, personally, think that looks too trendy and messy. that hairstyle makes Routh look teeny and "hip".

 

[El Payaso]

Depths of hell.

 

[I Am The Knight]

Who cares....I thought he looked fine.

 

[Eros]

movie superman never seems to be able to gow a beard, or ever need a shave. He spent 5 years in space, and yet he returns with perfect length hair, and a clean shaven face.

 

[Brainiac 2009]

Does your hair grow when youre in stasis?


Regardless his hair in Returns was the same length as Chris' in Superman II

 

[DorkyFresh]

Chris's hair was perfect for the time...late 70's, early 80's. not to mention his hair was curly/wavy. Routh's hair is pretty straight...which is why i think they should make his hair to look like Bale's in that one picture on the last page.

 

[kieron39]

i have jus been watching Superman the movie again, and i just realised that jor el say 12 years goes from when he 1st goes in the FOS at the age of 18 out as Superman, so wouldnt that make him 30 when he comes out?? and then a few go by, then another 5 for his visist to destroyed krypton??

 

[GreenKToo]

He ages slower,but I would say around 36 to 38.

 

[kieron39]

so how old is lois spose to be?!

 

[kaijunexus]

Probably early 30s.

 

[kieron39]

wow, well i jus find it strange...
ive also got another question, jor el said that he would been dead 1000 of earth years from when he sees the message, but then superman goes to krypton and back, but the still only 5 years has gone, the time it would take to get there and back? so can some one explain the 1000 yea thing

 

[Scarlet Spider]

SR uses STM as it's origin but there timelines are different. In SR, Superman is 31 years old. There's a reference in the film, that Clark landed in Smallville in 1978 (an homage to STM). It took Clark three years to get from Krypton to Earth, so that would make him 31 in 2006. One could assume that the twelve year absence never occured in SR's timeline and he started his career in his early to mid twenties.

 

[Matt]

This question HAS been raised before and is simply one of the many problems of Bryan Singer's lazy film making.

 

[kieron39]

yea, i finally see what people meant, i saw the old superman time ago, but after watching returns and then re watching the old one again, it's alot more obvious..i jus hope he goes into his own on # 2

 

[Lead Cenobite]

This question HAS been raised before and is simply one of the many problems of Bryan Singer's lazy film making.

Yeah thanks for that answer.

It's pretty simple. In Superman Returns, Clark arrived at the DP when he was 24 or 25 rather than 30 like in Superman, and Lois was around the same age.

 

[kieron39]

well singer did say it wasnt a sequels to the other 2 movies, he said the other 2 was a kind of background we already know, but it still doesnt explain the 1000 year thing (the answer the other guy was refering to)

 

[Lead Cenobite]

I dunno. It seems to me there's a lot going against Brando's line. Lex says Krypton blew up in 1948 for one thing, and Jor-El himself mentions Einstein in his recording in Kal-El's ship.

 

[kieron39]

well it would be 1948 for the old movie, because how it takes kal-el a couple or 3 years to get to earth, he was about 5 or 6 by the time he was there leaves at 18, and is superman by age 30 (in the old movie) and the movie was out in 1979?? i didnt do the match i jus think it might be around the right time.. i duno the numbers are there work it out...

 

[FanboyX_Returns]

well singer did say it wasnt a sequels to the other 2 movies, he said the other 2 was a kind of background we already know, but it still doesnt explain the 1000 year thing (the answer the other guy was refering to)

IN the original the 1000 year thing is explained at the start of the movie.... Clark goes from one galaxy to the next in less then 3 years meaning he was going faster then the speed of light.

So while he only aged 3 or 4 years outside the ship a good 1000 years had passed by.

Knowing this since he was a scientist himself Jor-EL's said what he said to young Kal-EL.

This all connects to Einstein's theory of relativity, and time travel theory.
Einstein theorized that if you were in a ship going at light speed (Because to him nothing could break or be faster then lightspeed) you would age alot slower then the world around you.

Mario Puzzo who wrote the original screenplay for "Superman: The Movie" was trying to be as accurate about the science as he could.

It just took Bryan Singer & his two idiot writers who lack the intelligence to know how to keep up with even the simplest science facts!
They either never noticed this or were to ignorant on how it all works to write it in their awful script... This is why they had Clark go, and come back in 5 years while NOTHING, and NOBODY aged on earth.

Bad writing guys...

Earth should have aged a lot in the 5 years it took him to go back to Krypton & come back.

It's stuff like this that makes me mad about what they did in the last movie... Total hack job! From top to bottom.
It's like they weren't even trying!

Everyone was to busy worrying about the size of Brandon's package to worry about the more important things.

Like the fine details which make a story good or great.

But that's what you get when you get three idiots run the biggest franchise name at the WB.

A total hack job...

 

[Mr. Socko]

I'm pretty sure Singer was worried about the size of Brandon's package, I know I was!

 

[Brainiac 2009]

Heres a somewhat definative answer;

Superman is 32/33 in SR age-wise. He crashed on Earth as a baby in 1978 (at the age about 4).

According to the Requiem of Krypton DVD, his first appearance as Superman was in 1996.........which means the 12 year Fortress training never happened


The Return to Krypton scenes also showed Superman in some kind of Cyro-stasis pod during his journey, so physically he may not have aged much since he left....as his body was in stasis....so he would likely appear late-20s in appearance (which is basically how Brandon Routh looked).