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So they've re-made Superman.  I was watching the teaser trailer on Yahoo.   They've kept the original musical score, as well as Marlon Brando as Jor-el, using archive footage.  I'm glad...nobody else could voice Jor-el like him.    And the score....it IS Superman!!!!   I think it's one of the best musical scores of any movie, ever.   I think I get what they wanted to do with this movie...when you watch the original, as good as it is, you can't help but think, "If only it was made nowadays...."   Some parts are just so good, while others are kind of hokey in that they reflect the time that it was made.   So it seems that the goal with this movie was maybe, possibly, to keep everything that was really great about the original, what really worked, (Christopher Reeve's look, Marlon Brando as Jor-el, the score, etc.) and spruce up what came out a bit hokey.   

They have a Christopher Reeve lookalike named Brandon Routh playing Superman.  He looks so much like him it's scary:   http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0746125/   He's even 6'2"...Christopher Reeve was 6'4".  Close enough.     He was born and raised in Iowa too, so he really fits the part of the corn-bred Midwestern Clark Kent.     And Kevin Spacey as Lex Luther??  PERFECT!!!! 

All the superficial stuff aside, it's interesting the resurgence of Super Hero movies......3 Spiderman movies, the neverending Batman franchise, recently resurrected with Batman Begins, the X-Men franchise, and even that dippy one, Fantastic Four.   And now a remake of Superman.   Does this reflect the masses' desire for hope, for heroes, for something good to latch onto?  A subconscious desire to be rescued and lifted up from this reality??  In watching empowered super heroes saving the day, do we wish to emulate that for ourselves?   I wonder!  It's all very interesting.  (god, don't I sound like a college lecture with those questions??  Sorry!!!)

What's especially interesting about Superman is that he isn't human.  He's not one of us.  He's an alien, sent here to Earth to help humanity, to raise it up out of the muck and bring them up to the light.   I've just started reading a book called "The Convoluted Universe" which talks about, among MANY topics, alien intelligences coming here to seed people with knowledge, but finding that Mankind was too steeped in fear and primitive predjudices to understand or accept it.  I don't know if that's true or not, (hey, you've seen my "Gray are bunk!" thread!  )  but it is interesting that the concept of Superman is based on this very premise. 

“Even though you have been raised as a human being, you are not one of them.  They can be a great people Kal-el, they wish to be.  They only lack the light to show the way.  For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you.  My only son."

It makes my eyes water every time.   sniff!   Seriously, I know that probably sounds hokey, but damn!  It always gets me.   

Check out the trailer:

http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&c … mp;intl=us

"What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely."

- Christopher Reeve

Solar hero--what's that mean?

To me, he seems to represent a modern-day religious figure.
As the Daily Planet’s news chief said to staffers: “Whichever one of you talks to him will have the most important interview since God talked to Moses."

And, like Jesus, he seems to represent the kind of super powers that as Jesus himself said, are latent in humanity.

Hmm... never realized the metaphoric nature of most of these above mentioned films- namely the similarities with Superman and the Bible- chalk that one up to intentional ignorance on my part.......

I must moan a bit- all the discussion of "loops" & such lately- IMO applies to popculture.

The word is regurgitation.

I've been saying this or half my life- what happened to originality?

I know, I know..... it's still there ifya look real hard...whatever.

I am dumbfounded at how he majority still eat this crap up!

"hey'd ya see the latest Batman installment?"

ummmmmmm hehe ....nah.

Seems scriptwriters are all about the binge and purge, creatively speaking,
and I find it nauseating.

I won't even get into that regarding music- waaaaaaaaay worse as far as lack of originality.

And they always say, "we are only catering to the viewer's tastes."
Sounds like a bit of an excuse to me.

It's one whose life story symbolically represents the movements of the sun through the zodiac.   Here's some Google links for more on the subject.

At the very least Superman seems like a type of Christ-like figure ... the only begotten son, here to bring light to our human world of darkness ... it's a familiar motif.   

No, good catch.

Actually, I'm thinking more like reptilian.  I haven't seen the movie, but in the book, Voldemort is described as having snake-like features and slit eyes when he was resurrected.   The Potter series is littered with reptilian imagery and references:   Harry’s ability to speak Parseltongue, or, "Snake speak" ; Draco (the Dragon) Malfoy; The Slyther (slither) ins;  The Basilisk serpent creature in book 2; the resurrected Voldemort with his reptilian / snake face and eyes;  the character of Sirius Black anagramming to *Basilisk* Cur, with the star system Sirius supposedly being the origins of ancient reptilian Gods; and Harry's mother "Lily"  Potter, with the name Lily being the designator of reptilian genes.   About the name Lily, David Icke says, "In ancient Sumer the reptilian bloodline, as passed on through the female, was symbolized as a lily and the main reptilian gene carriers were given names like Lilith, Lili, Lilutu and Lillette."

It's ALL about the reptilian imagery in the Potter books!

(on a sidenote, I still think Sirius Black anagramming to Basilisk Cur is the most clever thing I've come across in the books yet.   I can't get over it.   The character of Sirius is an Animagus who shapeshifts into a black dog.   His name anagrams to Basilisk Cur.....Basilisk tying into the Basilisk serpent creature in book 2, and Cur being a slang term for.....dog.   The name itself, Sirius, concerns the star Sirius, where the Dogon tribe of Africa say their reptilian and amphibian gods came from eons ago, and of course, his other name Black, which matches his dog color.

It's just about the most clever thing I've ever seen, honestly.

A somewhat belated birthday present for you Lyra!

www.thethoughts.co.uk/stuff/Planet_Krypton.mp3

Sirius A is Isis, whereas Sirius B is Osiris.  A is visible, while B is not visible (to the naked eye).  That is why Osiris is called a "black god", the declaration of the "Dark Rite", and why the character is named Sirius Black, and, of course, why he's a werewolf.  My belief is that the Sirius stars have something to do with an outward manifestation of our own situation, intimately linked in some manner, be it mental, physical, emotional, spiritual, or all together.