You know what I had thought about Superman 1978 the first time I saw the movie? I was heart broken, that they took my all time favorite comic book character from 1940s, the first superhero of all time, who can leap over tall buildings and then suddenly in 1978, they made him fly like a goof in the air, that's wrong, they are messing with our favorite character. Its like taking a classic song and adding remixes and making it stylized to its time. Why is Clark Kent a reporter? He wasn't a reporter in my favorite original comics, he was just a strong man in blue suit, red undies and a red cape. Look at what they have done in 1978, they made him so slim unlike the George Reeves' version, he looked like a man with big muscles, that's how superman should be. Instead, these film makers have taken my beloved character, made him act like a goof in disguise. They even
made him turn back time by going around the earth, Superman never did that in the original, he was a classic.
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On the serious note, sorry to blow your bubble, but Superman in the 1978 version isn't the be all and end all version. Its a comic book character created almost 40 years before the movie was made. There were radio shows, tv shows(with numerous actors having played the characters), comic books. So Superman 1978, is only one of the versions of it. Technically speaking, Superman in the 1978 version is not supposed to fly, he wasn't supposed to have a disguise just because he can bang Lois, he never gives up his powers just to get married giving up his responsibilities over the humans.
The sad thing you narrow minded people(no offence, but I had to say this after reading your classic song remixed example, don't report me
) will never realize, is that they're fiction, and comics in particular, which have to be kept updated with time. The characters that worked in 1940 will never work in 1980s, and the ones worked in the 80s will never work in 2000s, Superman Returns tried that, failed miserably, it had the warmth, the light heartedness of the original, and what has it got back from the audience? only backlash. Your example about the songs being remixed apply very well to Superman Returns. You don't mess with the classics, instead, you create something that pushes the
idea of the classics. Man of Steel takes nothing from Superman 1978, it only takes the character from all the comics, does the best it can to give us a Superman for 2013, just like Donner did in 1978. They are all interpretations, none of them are original, except for the original comics itself