What If the glasses are gone!

[David Destructs]

Losing the glasses would suck...more than losing the trunks imo.

We haven't had loads of set pics of Cavill as Clark in metropolis have we? Was it just the bicycle ones that surfaced a while back?

 

[Silvermoth]

I could probably loose the glasses to be honest. It's a shame and it's probably something that would happen for no good reason but the world wouldn't end without them.

I wonder if the filmmakers would be brave enough to give Superman a fake gut like in All Star Superman. It would definitley help defeat the naysayers who laugh because no-one can recognise Superman if he wears glasses.

 

[Rust]

I dunno what this thread is so anxious about. Looking at the way MOS' plot, origin and style is going I'd say, like it's been suggested many times, that the Metropolis Clark wont be introduced until the very end ALONG with his trademark glasses.
Of course, that's just an assumption.

 

[Rodrigo90]

I think the glasses will remain. We all know there's a habit of twisting or eliminating certain aspects of comics characters to fit the tone of the film, especially when Nolan is involved. But I can't think of a solid good reason why the glasses should go, for any reason. Even if they aren't the major thing that stops one from seeing Clark Kent as Superman, the filmmakers might have another trick up their sleeves, they are still part of his image...a reinforcing of the weak and meek person that he pretends to be.

Honestly though, I think they will remain and will remain there for the reason that's given in the comics.

 

[Rust]

Maybe that'll be one of the "realistic" aspects. They'll add more than just the glasses. Posture, rhetorics, walk etc. He might even study acting classes in school or something. Study old Cary Grant-films.

I also think they might touch upon Clark being slightly frustrated about identity when he settles into the "role" of Metropolis Clark. A small identity crisis. Who's is he really, who's Clark, who's Kal-El, who's Superman. You know, stuff fans are debating as well. An aspect rarely touched upon in CBMs oddly enough.

 

[Rodrigo90]

I liked what Morrison did in All Star. Making Clark look overweight with the biggish clothes, and making him more like a quiet oaf, rather than a cheerful clutz like Reeve.

 

[Rogzilla]

Maybe that'll be one of the "realistic" aspects. They'll add more than just the glasses. Posture, rhetorics, walk etc. He might even study acting classes in school or something. Study old Cary Grant-films.

I also think they might touch upon Clark being slightly frustrated about identity when he settles into the "role" of Metropolis Clark. A small identity crisis. Who's is he really, who's Clark, who's Kal-El, who's Superman. You know, stuff fans are debating as well. An aspect rarely touched upon in CBMs oddly enough.

I think you're right. That was, more or less, what he did in Birthright and I think they are being very influenced by that.

 

[Kal-El.9859]

glasses gone= people cry

 

[Black Narcissus]

Team no glasses.

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[Marvin]

Superman has a secret identity? And works at the daily planet? But he doesn't wear a mask and he quite literally flies up into the clouds every day. Next you people will be claiming Jimmy Olsen is Jesus Christ.

 

[sethypants]

Maybe he doesn't need the disguise?

Maybe he acts gay?

Nobody would imagine Clark being Superman if he talked like Harvey Fierstein.

lol

 

[B]

I'd be quite annoyed with the glasses went..

The trunks I can deal with, I'm actually at a stage were I think the suit actually looks better without them & furthermore in a realistic tone for the film it kinda gives the character/film a little more credibility.. or as much credibility as a film about an alien that looks human & can defy gravity can.

However the glasses.. no. There must be some form of visual disguise for the character & a fake beard or slouched stance just won't cut it for me. It just wouldn't be Clark Kent/Superman without glasses.

I've no problem if he is without glasses for a large portion of the film as Clark Kent.. so long as he has them by the time he is working regularly at the Daily Planet & so long as hes never identified in Metropolis as journalist Clark Kent without glasses.

 

[manofsteel4life]

Someone suggested maybe with the glasses also a different hair color to go along with it, maybe a dark brown instead of jet black.....I don't know, I'm fine the way it is now, just saying if they went that route, I wouldnt be opposed to it

 

[kal-elrebooted]

I hope the glasses will be used and that Clark is not portrayed as an clumsy buffoon. I seen enough of that on the superman movies and season 10 of smallville which i want to forget. I hope they portray clark as confident and assertive.

 

[Rockstar]

And that doesn't work because Superman is confident and assertive.

 

[Bruce Malone]

I still have no idea how they're going to pass cavill off as not being recognized as superman by a building full of journalists without insulting the audiences intelligence? He has a very distinctive facial structure and wavy hair.

I think superman may indeed gain the power of super fast beard growth.

 

[Binker]

I think they are going to take cues from Smallville, Birthright, All Star Superman and Superman: Earth One. I think Lois will help, the glasses will help in masking a different look, they will probably add more than just glasses and thus have Clark create a "role" for Metropolis Clark, and Clark will have them because, even though Superman defeats Zod, the world on aliens is mixed, so Clark does all this in the first place so he can "hide" and yet be seen and still have a life while sorting his "Superman business" with the people, the government, and the world at large.

Also, even if Cavill as Clark isn't as much different than him as Superman, the best realistic way to explain it to audiences is still simple: people like me, you, anyone, has a "twin" because they look similar. Maybe they could pass off as your brother/sister or cousin from the POV of a stranger, even a friend. If someone brings up that Clark, from the DP staff, even Lois if that's how they go for her character, looks like Superman, but obviously isn't, and Clark now must have to "face that" for now on because people will think he is Superman, like a real life thing, people will buy that with no question. I think.

 

[Project862006]

I still have no idea how they're going to pass cavill off as not being recognized as superman by a building full of journalists without insulting the audiences intelligence? He has a very distinctive facial structure and wavy hair.

I think superman may indeed gain the power of super fast beard growth.

hobo disguise

 

[hopefuldreamer]

I still have no idea how they're going to pass cavill off as not being recognized as superman by a building full of journalists without insulting the audiences intelligence?

I really really don't understand how a man defying gravity is any more believable than a man disguising himself with a pair of glasses.

People can have theories and explanations for both, but ultimately, in real life it would never happen that way.

But we don't care. Because it's not real life. It's Superman.

And Superman disguises himself with a pair of glasses and a meek submissive everyman personality.

 

[Boosted]

how are you gonna hide that jawline though.

WHAT IF superman used his confidant at Star Labs to make him glasses that put a hologram over his face, or just change it up a bit. I can already see him put on the glasses, a quick hologram scan goes over, his face looks the same to us, but when he looks in the mirror, it's changed.

._.

 

[Dr.]

I really really don't understand how a man defying gravity is any more believable than a man disguising himself with a pair of glasses.

People can have theories and explanations for both, but ultimately, in real life it would never happen that way.

But we don't care. Because it's not real life. It's Superman.

And Superman disguises himself with a pair of glasses and a meek submissive everyman personality.

Well (and this has been said before)… I think audiences are willing to accept the more fantastical aspects of the genre. A radioactive spider bite allows you stick to walls? Sure. Why not? We accept this as a “conceit” or convention because it exists so far beyond the norms of common experience. But we do have experience of the mundane. So if someone in the story uses a car or a cell phone, we expect those things to work in the familiar way. If the cell phone does something bizarrely novel, we don’t forgive this because the hero happens to have fantastical powers. The genre conventions don’t provide a get-out-of-jail-free card for bad/sloppy writing or other implausibilities.

For general audiences, it’s not Supes' flying or heat vision that’s the “problem,” it’s the everyday details - like a pair of glasses as a convincing disguise.

 

[Project862006]

^its been working for 70+ years so why complain now

 

[Dr.]

^its been working for 70+ years so why complain now

But has it actually “been working”? Part of the discussion here has been about Supes being current, “relevant,” accessible, modern, etc. In the old days, we’d just “wink and smile” at the glasses disguise. We knew they weren’t plausible - but we’d pretend to ourselves that they were. (It’s a bit like those old marionette shows. Everyone could see the strings; but the audience was expected to ignore them. ) But times have changed. Audiences are more critical and demanding about certain details pertaining to “realism.” The “glasses disguise” has endured for 70+years (often as a quaintly humorous affectation). But that’s not proof that they’ve “worked” for all that time

I have no wisdom about solutions to the “problem.” Most of the fixes I’ve heard strike me as even worse than glasses - so I’m inclined to stick with tradition. I just think that equating the glasses with (say) Supes’ fantastical ability to fly is missing a crucial distinction in terms of how audiences approach the “suspension of disbelief.”

 

[Boosted]

I'm tellin ya guys, hologram face made by glasses is the keeeey

 

[El Payaso]

I'm tellin ya guys, hologram face made by glasses is the keeeey

Only if we had two actors, one for Clark, one for Supes.