Do we still need Superman?

In the 2006 non -subscriber movie Superman returnsLouis Lin, a Superman journalist’s girlfriend, finally won the camel in which she was submerged. Its topic? Why does the world not need Superman.

Next week, Superman will return to cinemas: James Gon (from Galaxy guards Fame) on the director’s chair, David Cornsuin will play the role of the crepeonian. Just as in Superman returnsWhen Brandon Ruth champion faced a different and hostile world after spent five years of land, Corinth Superman Hands in unfamiliar lands.

It has arrived at a time when the films based on comic books, which were for two decades, were no longer a guaranteed blow, at the box office. Under the co -chair of DC Studios, this is Warner Bruce’s attempt to simulate Disney by creating an intertwined world of successful super films. (The first, which started with Zack Snyder’s 2013 man of steelThere was no monetary praise or fixed commercial success.)

But this is the time fraught with superman for other reasons as well. Louis Lin was wrong in 2006 – and now a mistake. The world badly needs a savior – the problem is that it is unlikely to come from a person describing “truth, justice and American method.” The pictorial stories have recovered this old slogan, and its replacement with “truth, justice and a better tomorrow” in 2021. But Superman’s association with America is happier and more brighter, not just a speech: the character: the character Needs America’s successful story to work.

There has always been a tension between sunny superman optimism, all American values ​​and vast powers. Marvel’s Captain America embodies similar values, but when it comes to it, it is really good to hit things. It can be at odds with the authorities, and it works greatly, because it does not have the power to reshape the world.

In the movie Richard Donner 1978 SupermanWhich stands alone with the directed Donner supplement as the only Superman movie that achieves commercial success, monetary praise and long -term fame, Margot Keder’s Lois Lane, upon hearing that Superman stands on “the truth, justice and the American method”, which “will end up fighting every elected official in this country.” The problem is that Superman Be able to – If you choose.

For this reason, contemporary stories narrators often seemed more comfortable to explore Dystopian on Superman. The Monhanstean Observer Doctor (which was announced with the Pithy line: “God is present, and he is an American”) changes the course of the Cold War and American History through the existing. Boys‘Homelander is a type of Superman that makes it its great strength and a terrifying selfish opponent. (These topics were explored less successful in the horror movie 2019 Bright BernHe mainly asks “What if Damian from Omen Was Superman? “))

Superman returns and man of steel Both of them, in various ways, struggled to excite the joy that makes Superman a sign. in returnDaily Planet, Perry White, asks whether Superman still believes in “truth, justice, all these things” – may reflect, Hollywood’s relationship with uncomfortable with American patriotism at the end of George W. Bush’s second presidency.

in man of steelWhite (which he played this time by Lawrence Fisborn) tells Amy Adams Louis Lane that people will not accept and live alongside Superman. man of steel In particular, it seemed to suspect that the Superman movie in the traditional sense could succeed: that the only way to have a superman on the big screen in the twenty -first century is to make its world dark and dangerous like the movie in Christopher Nolan. the Dark Knight Batman trilogy.

More than any other super hero, Superman needs to be in a turbulent world due to problems unlike us. It does not seem to be by chance that the TV program in the nineties Louis and ClaredWhere the couple moves to the post -Cold War world, better than gloomy and brave Superman and Lewis (2021-24), where they bear a scene of discontent after industry and family conflict. Superman “Earth” calls uncomfortable questions like “Why on Earth does not do anything about South Sudan?”

Will Gin Superman a job? The trailers are full of primary colors and optimism, and that a Superman dog, which is a hero dog with great powers on its own, indicates that the director understands that Superman In essence, it must be confirmed to life.

But part of the film conspiracy includes Superman to interfere in global affairs, may mean that the film is cursed with the same excessive seriousness that has made other modern versions.

More than any other super hero, Superman needs a brighter and less fraught world. Nobody looks at the world in 2025 will conclude that we do not need our real Superman – the question is whether this blatant absence makes it easier or more difficult, until one cinematic rises, both decisively and commercially.

“Superman” was released in the United Kingdom and the United States on July 11

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