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My friends, I am not given
the wild and suppordered statement, and I

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tell you that we must evacuate this
planet immediately. Jorrel, be reasonable.

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Once there was a civilization much like
ours, but with a greater intelligence,

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greater powers, and a greater capacity
for good. In one tragic moment,

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that world was destroyed, but there
was one survivor. Oh, let me

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don't get up. Because of the
wisdom and compassion of Joel. Because he

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knew the human race had the capacity
for goodness, he set us his only

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son. His name is Khalil.
He will call himself Clark Kent, but

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the world will know him as Superman. This year Superman the Gift of flight.

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Superheroes have been a popular culture phenomenon
since the early thirties, from radio

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shows, weekly serials at local movie
houses to today, whereupon release the latest

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film from the Marvel Cinematic Universe dominates
the box office. Comic books have translated

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from page to celluloid very well,
but there was a time when this was

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not the case. That was until
the original Superhero made his big screen debut,

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and it showed that comic book films
can be blockbusters. It also made

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us believe a man could Fly,
directed by Richard Donner and released in nineteen

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seventy eight. Superman the movie stars
Christopher Reeve in his career defining role as

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Clark Kent slash Superman, who,
shortly after arriving in Metropolis, is set

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to battle the villainous Lex Luthor,
screen legend Gene Hackman, who is set

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to cause nuclear armageddon for financial gain. Rounding out the ensemble cast is the

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lay Margot Kidder, who plays,
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ned Beatty, and a powerful cameo
by screen icon Marlon Brando who plays

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Superman's father, jorl What is a
great superhero movie without a love interest and

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a villain? This film delivers both, and our next two clips are examples

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of this. First, shortly after
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the streets of Metropolis. The role
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shouldn't be timid, is and Lois, who should be timid, stands up

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to the criminal and ends up chasing
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scene where we encounter Lex Luthor.
What is great about Lex Luthor in this

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film and Hackman's performance is. He
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into this role. He is loud, boisterous, ego, maniacal, callous,

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and even has bumbling sidekicks. Not
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elphins Man. Hey, come in, come on, come on, come

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on getting here, hurry up,
come on, Clark, I think we

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better get out of here. I
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Come on, come on, get
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coming, come on, we're coming. Come on, yeah, yeah,

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don't point out to me, sir. Somebody sorry, okay, okay,

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okay, hold just a minute,
vistor, just a minute now. I

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realized, of course that times are
tough for some of these days. But

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this isn't the answer. You can't
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you know, somebody, You're right, I'm gonna turn over newly. I'm

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good for you, sir, that's
the spirit. See, he doesn't really

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want to hurt anybody. Huh.
Right after I rip up this lady's birds,

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of course, Now come on,
lady, hand it over. I

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don't know, let's just think maybe
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Clark? Are you all right,
Clark, what happened? I guess it

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must have fainted finding he was fainting? Sorry? Wow? Well really,

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lois supposing that man has shot you? And is it worth risking your life

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over ten dollars two credit cards?
I hary brushing a lipstick? How do

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you know that? What you just
described the exact contents of my first hm

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um wild guess doct sing and now
introducing lax Luther sick. Thank you're really

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sick? Sickness test marker sick.
When I'm here days of mexicaning the Crime

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of the century? No, no, no, no, step away from

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that place. How do you choose
to congratulate the greatest criminal mind of our

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time? Huh you tell me that
I'm brilliant? Oh no, no,

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no, that would be too obvious. I grant you charismatic, fiendishly gifted,

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try twisted, get away, get
away, get away. Tell me

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something, right? Why does so
many people have to die for the crime

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of the century? Why you ask? Why why does the phone always ring

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when you're in the bathtub? Why
it's the most brilliantly diabolical leader of our

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time surrounding himself a total incomes.
I'm back mister luthor. Yes, I

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was just talking about you. You're
followed again. It's one of those cat

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like reeflix, missus ludor, missus
ludor. I'm sorry, Oh, this

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is that the newspaper I ask you
to give me. Yeah, why am

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I not reading it? Because I
hadn't given it to you yet? Right

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last, it's official. Thanks to
the generous help of the United States government,

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we are about to be involved in
the greatest real estate swindle of all

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time. Let's what is this obsession
with real estate all the time? Land?

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Landland, mister Desparker. When I
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said to me get out before that. He said, some stocks may rise

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and fall, utilities and transportation systems
may collapse. People are no damn good,

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but they will always need land,
and they'll pay through the nose to

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get it. Where this film excels
is it brightens the Superman comics to life

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in a way the Batman film from
nineteen sixty eight did, but it does

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not do it in the over the
top campy way that the Adam West led

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film did. It has a quote
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that we expect out of the Man
of Steel. Our next clip is an

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example of this. We will hear
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and much like the early comics,
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from the dumbfounded police at what they
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M m m either nothing wrong with
the elevator gone down? Nah, officer

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good evening, officer mooney. Well, they say confession is good for the

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soul. I'd listen to this man. Take them away, move your ass,

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come on, come on, okay, let's go, let's go.

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Creever holds you, hold your cards, bad vibrations, it's dodging. You

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don't believe me. I swear flying
with a big red caper and frank red

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roots as well. Quick as the
week he was gone flop whoop from the

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hearing Canney didn't like some thick floopers. Mike al Fig flopper with braway boots

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say him wanted to take the night
O son. At the beginning of this

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review, I alluded to Marlon Brando
and his performance. Although his appearance is

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short, it would be near criminal
to not include him. His performance as

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Jorrell, even the short time he
is on screen is simply mesmerizing. Our

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final two clips are examples of this. First, we hear Jorrell tell his

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son goodbye and send him hurling through
space towards Earth as the doomed planet Crypton

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is destroyed. Then he speaks to
his son on his eighteenth birthday, after

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Clark uncovers the heralded Fortress of Solitude
and sets Ark on the path that will

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become his life's mission. You will
travel far, my little glove, but

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we will never leave you, even
in the face of our death. The

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richness of our lives, it will
be yours. All that I have,

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all that I've learned, everything I
feel, All this and more I bequeath

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you, my son. You will
carry me inside you all the days of

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your life. You will make my
strength your own. See my life with

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your eyes, as your life will
be seen through mine. The son comes

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to father and father a son,
This is all I all I can send

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you. Hello, and now the
Fortress of Solitude. My son, you

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do not remember me. I am
Joel, I'm your father. By now

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you will have reached our eighteenth year
as it is measured on Earth. By

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that reckoning, I would have been
dead for many thousands of your years.

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The knowledge that I have matters physical
and history, I have given you fully

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on your voyage your new home.
These are important matters, to be sure,

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but still matters of mere fact.
There are questions to be asked,

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and it is time for you to
do so. Here in us, misfortress

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of solitude, we shall try to
find the answers. Together. So,

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my son, speak O, my
myr name is Calel. You are the

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only survivor of the planet Cryptom.
Even though you've been raised as a human

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being, you are not one of
them. You have great powers, only

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some of which you have as yet
discover. Come with me now, my

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son, as we break through the
bottles of your earth, the confinement traveling

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through time and space in the sixth
mon of your powers will far exceed those

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of modern It is forbidden for you
to interfere with human history. Rather,

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let your leadership stir others too.
In this next year, we shall examine

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the human heart. It is more
fragile than rome. Year has been passed

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through the flaming turmoil, which is
the edge of your own galaxy, will

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enter the realm of the red Crypton's
Sun, source of your strength and nourishment,

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and cause of our eventual distinction the
planet crypton my sun your heart as

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it was. This year, we
shall examine the various concepts of immortality and

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their basis and actual fact. The
total accumulation of all knowledge spanning the twenty

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eight known galaxies. Such is embedded
in the crystals which I have sent along

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with you. Study them well,
my son, we have reasoned out the

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logical judgments. By the time we
return to the confines of your galaxy,

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twelve of your years will have passed. For this reason, among others,

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I have chosen birth for you.
It is now time for you to rejoin

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your new world and to serve as
collective emisity, live as on a color,

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to discover where your strength and your
power and leader always hold in your

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heart of pride of your special heritage. They can be a great people color

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they wish to be. They only
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For this reason, about all their
capacity for good, I have sent the

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mute. This film laid the blueprint
for comic book films as we know them.

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Start with a powerful origin story,
have a compelling villain at intense and

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explosive action with the possible love story. It seems simple enough, However,

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until this film, superheroes were mainly
relegated to the small screen. This film

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showed that superhero movies could not just
make money, but make it by the

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boatloads. It grows three hundred point
five million dollars worldwide, spawned three sequels,

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and without a doubt, laid the
groundwork for television series that followed,

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such as Smallville in Lewis and Clark
The New Adventures of Superman. Even the

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performances in this film are seen in
the modern day characters of Clark, Kent,

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Lois Lane in Lex Luthor. It
caused a renewed interest in the comic

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books, and to this day remains
one of the truest and greatest comic book

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adaptations to hit the big screen.
It is a visual tree for anyone to

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see me. I hope you joined
me. Next week, when in honor

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of Memorial Day, we will look
at the heart wrenching Steven Spielberg film Saving

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Private Rhyme for WMNH and Matt Connerton
Unleashed. This has been a classic film

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review with Eric Pilcher