Posted on 07/05/2006 12:39:21 PM PDT by dangus
Well, technically he is an illegal alien.
Someone please tell me I'm wrong, and that it's just a set-up for some bold declaration at the end of the movie!
[Note: That was supposed to be in the main post.]
I'm sure it's because a large part of their audience is not American.
Refugee.
None of those opposed to the current immigration problem has any problem with accepting refugees.
But you *were* funny.
Somehow I don't think the new fence they're trying to get built is gonna help a whole lot.
I posted yesterday that modifying the language isn't new. The 1968 animated 'New Adventures of Superman,' for example, said 'truth, justice, & freedom.' That was almost 40 years ago.
I don't think this is a big deal.
I am as sure. But it still means that the creators are ashamed to be American.
Gosh knows that in 1968, Hollywood was a bastion of patriotism.
I could see an uproar if this happened in a Captain America movie, but Superman? Superman saves the world over and over, not just America.
Or it might just mean that they thought they'd make more money.
Of course, they could easily have released a US version and a foreign version.
Oh, come on. Perry White said that, not Superman. And, since Perry White is probably a commie pinko newspaper editor, like Sulzberger and Keller, he probably couldn't bring himself to say "Americal Way" unless it was in conjuction with "People for the..."
I'm just pointing out that the language used has never been fixed, and has seen changes from time to time.
It's just a movie.
"Well, technically he is an illegal alien."
Nope, in the current storyline in the comics his ship was an artificial womb and technically he was born in the USA when it landed and opened in front of the Kents.
As for the American Way stuff, the context is that Perry White is giving orders to different departments and among that he tells them to find out if he still stands for 'Truth, Justice, and all that stuff.' It doesn't come across as a deliberate evastion on Perry's part, but it is on the writers part.
As for the movie itself:
Since Superman is an illegal alien, he should return to his country or planet or origin and come back when he can enter legally.
>> RIP, Chris <<
More like "BURN IN HELL, Chris." Well, not quite. I can't wish that on anyone, but...
Victimhood does not make one a hero. Christopher Reeves was a truly perverted, venomous, Stalinist bigot who hated everything FR stands for, and who had not a shred of honesty. He was not the real Superman. He was a spectacularly untalented actor who was luckily given a role in a (great) movie which required only modelling talent. The Superman role he actually helped to create (Superman IV: the Quest for Peace) was a wretchedly awful, Phil-Donahue fantasy that the makers of the new Superman simply pretended never existed. (The new Superman is an alternate ending to the original Superman trilogy, also ignoring the also-terrible Superman III.)
Christopher Reeves was a vain, shallow man, whose attributes were only birth and looks. When deprived of his natural fortune by tragedy, he became exactly the sort of man who superheroes protected the world from, if only he had the genius to create superpowers for himself.
Oh, no! It's ever worse... he's an...
ANCHOR BABY!!!
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