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Date Posted: 04:05:50 04/07/03 Mon
Author: Silk
Subject: Re: Superman.

Have been reading and hearing a lot about how they've having trouble casting for the new Superman.

I'd think Tom Welling, who plays the young Clark Kent in Smallville, would be the ideal choice. Hell, I'd actually hire everybody who makes Smallville to make the new Superman movie.

I didn't know what to expect originally from Smallville, and despite the occasional tedium of the latest kryptonite-infected freak-of-the-week to play the villain, I find everything else about it the best representation of Superman.

The biggest trouble with Superman is finding a dilemma which will actually challenge him. Some shows - like Lois & Clark - coped simply by making Superman weak as piss. The movies with Christopher Reeve were so-so, despite Reeves very underrated performance as Clark and Superman.

Just on that, but that's an important distinction. It's two characters - and not the same guy in different clothes. Michael Keaton also achieved this duality with Batman; Val Kilmer and George Clooney did not, while George Reeves and Dean Cain didn't with their portrayals of Clark and Superman.

Anyway, back to Smallville, but it usually doesn't matter how tough the villain is as Clark just smashes them in no time flat, which is how strong Superman should be. Saying all that, I'd have been interested to see what the Powers-that-Be who make Smallville would've done with a full-fledged movie.

Lastly, did you know that in one of the old comics it's explained that Superman/Clark exudes a low-level form of mesmerism? Thus when he's Clark, people see him as Clark. When he's Superman, they see him as Superman. Thus that's why people can't reconcile the two as one and the same, (although Christopher Reeves portrayal of the two was majestic in representing opposing ends of the spectrum, the hero and the geek).

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