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Director: Richard Donner
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From Time Out Film Guide
Given the publicity hoop-la, it is easy to overlook how effectively Richard Donner visualised this revamping of the Depression-born defender of the weak and righter of wrongs. Without really plumping for any particular interpretation of the myth (or any one visual style for that matter), Donner and his screenwriters Mario Puzo, Robert Benton and David Newman (plus Leslie Newman) flip through various genre possibilities, and allow that we might see Superman as either a Big Joke or the Son of God. By keeping the spectacular possibilities open, through the opening scenes of the destruction of Krypton, and the subsequent growth to manhood of the planet's only son on the plains of the Midwest, the film allows naiveté and knowingness to coexist. Only when it goes all out for cold Batmanesque villainy in the second half does it narrow its focus and lose its way.Author: MA
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- Neil said...
- Posted on Apr 08 2009 16:08 I agree we need to know what the people of Krypton are really like.........MAKE IT HAPPEN PEOPLE.
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- prkprkprk said...
- Posted on May 17 2008 14:08 BEST SUPERHERO MOVIE OF THE 70'S! YOU MUST BUY THIS FILM NOW!!!
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- Robert said...
- Posted on Dec 30 2007 17:33 any of the Directors of Superman ever thoght about making a film about Kryton what the planet was like before it was destroyed,who where these people from Kryton, where they warriors,or where ruthless people and confined to just one planet or the conqured many Planets, where they limited to certain powers etc.the lifestyles of the people from Kryton.where the wars ,what kind of technolgy the people had,was it a green planet before the ice caps,we fans of superman really need to see the other side Kryton before superman was sent to earth his father kal.and who was kal farther.it should be a triolgy like the star wars .the peolple i beieve would love this.if any of you guys know the producers pass it on they might like it.
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Cast & crew
Director: Richard Donner
Producer: Pierre Spengler
Cast: Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando, Valerie Perrine, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, Glenn Ford, Phyllis Thaxter, Trevor Howard, Susannah York, Jeff East, Harry Andrews, Maria Schell, Terence Stamp, Larry Hagman full cast
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Duration: 143 mins
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