Posted on 06/28/2006 7:06:21 PM PDT by Sentis
Alot of people are harping on the Liberal undertones of the new Superman movie. I see something else. I see conservative values creeping into Hollywood.
This Lois is no slut. She has been getting knocked around for being an unwed mother but lets look at the facts of the story. In Superman 2 Lois and Clark get married and have sex while he is human. Lois' memory of those events are wiped clean and Superman leaves (Superman 3&4 never happened). Ok Lois ends up pregnant and the man that made her that way is gone. What does she do? Does she run out and get on welfare? No she finds a man and gets engaged Thats the right thing to do. When Superman comes back does she just throw away the fiancee that has raised her son and jump into Superman's arms like he wants her to do. No, she calls her fiancee a good man and for the sake of her son stays with a man she does not love as much as she loves superman. My GOD that is a conservative value. Everyone attacking this movie for Lois having a child out of wedlock are wrong.
Now Superman going off to Krypton for ficve years and leaving Lois. If you were the last person alive and you thought just maybe you could find more people would you go look. What happened in Superman 2 convinced Clark he could never be with Lois (although he has changed his mind since) so he goes and looks for others like him.
I could not tell if the filmmaker was making this a Christian Allegory or mocking Christian allegories. There is so much of the religious in this movie.
Superman tells Lois at one point. "You said the world doesn't need salvation but why do I hear the world calling out for a savior."
There is the scene about the Father being the Son and the Son being the Father.
The scene where Superman is stabbed in his side and his beating were straight out of the passion.
There is just scene after scene where Superman is shown as a Christ figure and it isn't a mistake these things are there intentionally. Despite the fact that this was made by serious leftists and religion haters I felt a very religious reaction to the movie. I think maybe the film maker tried to mock Christ and in doing so created a movie that really uplifts. Much like Lion the witch and the wardrobe is allegory the story seems so right.
All I know is that my husband was furious when he found out that in the beginning of this movie, when they were supposed to say FIGHTING FOR TRUTH, JUSTICE, AND THE AMERICAN WAY, the left out "THE AMERICAN WAY." He said he'll never go see this movie.
Sold - I will have to check it out now.
Well did you expect Perry White Editor of the Daily Planet (The New York times) to say American Way?
I'll have to side with your husband on that point. I'll probably see the movie, but that changed phrase is going to frost me!
People still "go" to movies? How quaint.
> when they were supposed to say FIGHTING FOR TRUTH, JUSTICE, AND THE AMERICAN WAY, the left out "THE AMERICAN WAY."
In other words, they restored the original version. "The American Way" was added in the '50's when Superman became an *extremely* bland white-bread superhero.
You said the world doesn't need salvation so why do I hear it calling out for a Savior.
I am going to make that my Tag. Most uplifting thing I have heard in a movie in years and much more important than Superman saying Truth justice and the American way.
Do you work for the movie company?
Whats with the viral advertising campaign?
I am promoting it because I am a fan of Superman and I see a message in the movie that is missed by the people who haven't seen it and don't know that even Hollywood has a hard time denigrating Superman.
She doesn't...and apparently, she's BORING.
Good. I prefer boring. Whatever happened to the imagination?
In this day and age you don't need a theater to know a story for a movie in the theater. There are more than enough spoiler sites around that will give you EXACTLY what is in the movie.
I am a fan of series and despise the PC movment of the "big blue". There was no reason to make lois lane a single mom. there was no reason to wimpify superman.
There is a reason, she had sex with Clark in the second movie (while she was married to him. There is a result of having unprotected sex ... that is a child. If she had aborted the child that would have been the liberal thing to do. She didn't do that she did the right thing. I think it makes the movie stronger and more conservative.
Great analysis!!
I do, for $2. Add another $3 for a big tub of buttered popcorn.
For a good movie, no 'home theater' can match the big screen.
Yep. I usually wait til the movie gets to the "Second-run" theater, where it costs just $2.50. Just like the regular movie theaters but much cheaper.
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