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A "new" Superman film?
Found this curious half-hour film at Google video:
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It's intended as a spoof, I guess, and was made by a guy named Scott Smith; it's probably a student film. I couldn't find much information about it. It's supposed to be part of a 120 minute film.
It uses the John Williams music: it's a digital film, and OK looking for an amateur effort. The cast is too young for the roles, but they do an acceptable job. Superman in flight looks like a blurry insect, Lex Luthor has hair and is played like Snidely Whiplash in an old melodrama. The best thing is the tongue-in-cheek script -- funny moments include Clark getting antsy waiting for a men's room stall.
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It's intended as a spoof, I guess, and was made by a guy named Scott Smith; it's probably a student film. I couldn't find much information about it. It's supposed to be part of a 120 minute film.
It uses the John Williams music: it's a digital film, and OK looking for an amateur effort. The cast is too young for the roles, but they do an acceptable job. Superman in flight looks like a blurry insect, Lex Luthor has hair and is played like Snidely Whiplash in an old melodrama. The best thing is the tongue-in-cheek script -- funny moments include Clark getting antsy waiting for a men's room stall.
"The Hoff" as Superman?
To a certain breed of comic fan (i.e., those who take their funnybooks very light-heartedly), David Hasselhoff is synonymous with Nick Fury — regardless of Samuel L. Jackson’s mega-Marvel deal. However, in an exclusive sit-down with MTV News, “The ‘Hoff” revealed that he came very close to being the living embodiment of another, quite popular superhero.
“Believe it or not, I was up for Superman — the original Superman,” said Hasselhoff. “Christopher Reeve was on a soap at the time, and tall and skinny, and I was on a soap at the time and also tall and skinny, and I was up for Superman, too.”
Christopher Reeve got it, and it was one of the brilliant decisions that my staff and I made. They said, ‘You don’t want to be Superman because you’ll be Superman for the rest of your life!’” laughed Hasselhoff. “So that’s why those people are no longer with me.”
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Anybody else for giving "The Hoff's" old staff a medal?
“Believe it or not, I was up for Superman — the original Superman,” said Hasselhoff. “Christopher Reeve was on a soap at the time, and tall and skinny, and I was on a soap at the time and also tall and skinny, and I was up for Superman, too.”
Christopher Reeve got it, and it was one of the brilliant decisions that my staff and I made. They said, ‘You don’t want to be Superman because you’ll be Superman for the rest of your life!’” laughed Hasselhoff. “So that’s why those people are no longer with me.”
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Anybody else for giving "The Hoff's" old staff a medal?
Super Pup
Does anybody know anything about this never-aired 1958 show? See information in 1st reply.
First Superman cartoon
Here's Max Fleishcer's first Superman cartoon. I've got these cartoons on the brain because I went to KMart for supplies over the weekend and found a remastered DVD with all of them on one disc for five bucks! I had them all on the computer already -- but it's nice to have a version that travels. :-)
Superman's religious affiliation
Superman … was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster [often mis-spelled "Joe Schuster"], both of whom were Jewish. The character of Superman, however, has always been depicted as having been raised with a solidly Protestant upbringing by his adoptive Midwestern parents - Jonathan and Martha Kent. Of Clark's parents, Martha is the more devout churchgoer.
Clark Kent was raised as a Methodist. While growing up in Smallville, Kansas, Clark Kent attended Sunday church services at the local Methodist church with his mother, Martha Kent, every week until he was fourteen years old. These aspects of the character are not speculative, but are canonical - established by in-continuity published DC Comics. Action Comics #850 (August 2007), for example, identifies Methodism by name as the denomination that Clark Kent and his mother attended.
Jonathan also raised his adopted son with staunch Protestant values, but Jonathan has never been much of a churchgoer. Clark stopped attending church services when his super-hearing, X-ray vision and other super senses began developing. As Clark later told his wife, Lois Lane, he stopped attending services becaues he "knew too much about their lives -- their problems -- their lies... [he] was afraid" that he might lose his faith in people. So he decided to distance himself from such close-contact, frequent congregational worship and put his faith in "the best that humanity has to offer" (Action Comics #849, July 2007).
Superman's Moses-like origin and his Midwestern WASP-ish (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) persona are widely regarded as a symbol of Jewish assimilation. Children of immigrant Jews, Siegel and Shuster were not unlike many in their generation in their desire to fit in to the general goyim population. The creation of Superman and his alter ego Clark Kent was a manifestation of the desire by Siegel and Shuster to "pass" in mainstream population and also to assert control in a world that had often left them feeling powerless, such as when Siegel's father was murdered.
Superman is sometimes spoken of as being "Jewish." This may be an attempt to honor the fact that the writer and artist who created the character were Jewish. However, no textual support exists in any of the published comics, novels, films or TV series episodes to support the notion that the character of Superman is actually Jewish.
From www.adherents.com/lit/comics/Superman. htm
Real Kryptonite
This story is from April 2007, but it was new to me and I imagine it will be to you too:
A new mineral matching kryptonite's unique chemistry, as described in the film Superman Returns, has been identified by scientists at the Natural History Museum and Canada's National Research Council.
The large green crystals of kryptonite have a devasting affect on the superhero. However, unlike its famous counterpart, the new mineral is white, powdery and not radioactive. And, rather than coming from outer space, the real kryptonite was found in Serbia.
Geologists and mineralogists from mining group Rio Tinto discovered the unusual mineral. It didn't match anything known previously to science so they sort the help of mineral expert Dr Chris Stanley at the Natural History Museum.
'Towards the end of my research,' says Dr Stanley, 'I searched the web using the mineral's chemical formula, sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide , and was amazed to discover that same scientific name written on a case of rock containing kryptonite stolen by Lex Luther from a museum in the film Superman Returns'.
'The new mineral does not contain fluorine and is white rather than green, but in all other respects the chemistry matches that for the rock containing kryptonite. We will have to be careful with it - we wouldn't want to deprive Earth of its most famous superhero!'
The mineral could be used as a source of lithium , which has many uses including in batteries, or as a source of borate, which is used for cleaning, also known as borax.
To read the whole story,
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Superman Goes Bollywood
Another video from Youtube -- this one falls into the unintentionally hilarious category. An actor named Govinda plays Superman, dancing to a pop song in Hindi with a woman dressed in a Spiderman costume. They rescue a couple being menaced by a gang, then resume dancing while waving bye-bye. It's the most inane thing I've ever seen. (Maybe it makes sense on some level if you can understand the language, but I doubt it).
I apologize for how blurry it is. It was posted several times, and this was the one with the best quality.
Very strange... :-)
