![]() ![]() I genuinely don’t know if this “reality” will be present or not. I haven’t seen Man of Steel, haven’t read the script, and I’ve assiduously avoided spoilers. Superman is precisely what we should be teaching our children. ![]() STORY: ‘Man of Steel’ Debuts Epic New Trailer (Video) We did, but it wasn’t the wire-work alone. When Superman: The Movie was released, Richard Donner promised us we’d believe a man could fly. Emotional honesty transcends reality it’s what allows disbelief to be suspended, and yet what makes a story stay true. Words like “realism” and “dark” and “gritty” get bandied about Hollywood as if the only merit a story can have is in its verisimilitude, but that’s a lie. There’s a reason little boys and girls still take a red blanket or towel and tuck it into the back of their shirt, thrust their arms into the air, and raise their chins to the heavens as they leap off the sofa into imagination and adventure. There’s a reason you find that ‘S’ everywhere, from Indiana to Islamabad. Now he’s coming around again, another origin-story retelling of a character who is arguably the single greatest icon of 20th century fiction, presented once more for the 21st. The last time we saw Superman on the big screen, he was an absent-father who got prison-yard shanked with a Kryptonite shiv. ![]() PHOTOS: 10 Top Summer Superheroes Movies Of All Time: Battle of Box Office Brawn ![]()
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