Now, about the impact of Superman in the world, that is also part of what you expect when Pa Kent dies in order to prevent Clark to expose himself. And then Clark gets this wonderful suit and decides to help the world. But few people knew about it.
If movies become about too many things sometimes that leads to actual legitimate critics about pacing and congestion and confusing themes..etc.
I'm happy to think this movie is about Kal finding himself and his purpose which is fully satisfactory for my expectations of a singular film. And the next film to be about what it was Lois hinted at with the final line of the film.
The point is that at the very least the disguise has to look half convincing.
Hard to argue this in any tangible way except to reference the source material. Glasses, Presence and Demeanor. Oh, and no super suit
The dynamics between Lois, Superman and Clark were essential part of the Superman myth. Now that is gone. If you think that's nice, I'd ask you if you have problems with the source material.
Depends, are you talking about the source material that has lois knowing and protecting(and marrying) Kal or the Lois that doesn't. I've seen both on smallvile, I've seen both the books, I've even seen both in donner. The real question now is which dynamic is better and for today's audiences, especially in a second reboot.
I would immediately think the latter because it hasn't been done to death. But that's me.
Again, Clark's disguise as a journalist had to at least look effective. In the Donner movies, with all its camp, Clark the journalist looked and acted differently than Superman. In MOS, he acted exactly like the usual Clark, which again acted a whole lot like Superman. And those glasses didn't work as the rest of his face was clearly the same as Superman's.
I personally don't think you've seen how he's acting as clark. If anything the only person you've seen him "act" for is Lois, who happens in on it.
..but I know how you feel about that.
When superman proclaims to the general that he doesn't want to be toyed with, or when he hovers about them all like a god, that's him acting like superman as far as those people know. I don't think I saw that in clark, again we haven't seen it yet. Mind you in that Birthright book we are presented with a different approach to clark, one that just blends in and isn't an attention seeking clown. There are lots of ways to go about it.
And we have a family going to the Kents house to talk about it. And we have all those students and the teacher who knew about little Clark's problems.
Again, pete ross. I believe that his mother there talking to the kents. I also believe that's the way it is in the source material?
As for Clark's problems at school? Not sure how a kid having a panic attack implies anything otherworldly. More like this kid needs to be picked on later for being a spazz, a wimp and an easy target. I mean to anyone not in the audience, aren't these the symptoms of a simple panic attack?
Yes, I do. In a small religious town you don't just perform a miracle and everybody gets quiet about it.
So you do infact believe the reason those bullies wanted to fight him was because they thought he had super powers? We'll have to disagree on that.
That's why I said I would have liked if STM had ended with the three Kryptonian villains being freed from the Phantom Zone.
But if you had problems with that, then how come you weren't worried about so many people knowing Clark is Superman or having solid clues to follow if the movie itself proposed Clark's identity must be kept a secret.
I suppose that would have helped that film, however it wouldn't have done it any wonders for this self contained discussion.
To answer your question, the stress point that clark's identity be kept a secret stemmed from Jon's belief that clark was meant to find his true calling/destiny without a bunch of kids on a bus squealing and ruining any chance of him saving the world at the age jesus did. He advised clark to keep his powers and origin on the down low. Seeing as that destiny is now found I think the thematic pressure is relieved.
As for me being worried about people knowing clarks ID. As I've expressed, I'm not sure how many people in fact know. Especially when he was in nameless drifter mode(to those people that was always a bearded superman). I do think there has always been a small contingent of people that are allowed to know before it becomes an issue, that's the way it's been in the source material as well. If anything it's batman that needs to practice greater care and so far hasn't.
Laslty, I think anyone that knows by way of being saved is probably indebted in some way and I like the idea that they would want to keep his secret. That's the difference between the message in superman and Lucius Fox having to threaten a man into shutting up about it(and the league of shadows knowing and the ability for the gov't to track the batmobile)...
I like how they included that the gov't can't do any such tracking with superman.
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