Which Superman Do You Want to See?

Which Superman Do You Want to See? Jun 25, 2017 22:35:03 GMT

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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2017 22:35:03 GMT

Jun 25, 2017 22:27:34 GMT dknaveed23 said:

Jun 25, 2017 21:37:27 GMT @weirdraptor said:

They have most certainly NOT deconstructed Superman. Deconstructing something is taking the normal tropes usually played out in a story and giving them real life(-ish) consequences. Making him gloomy and uncaring towards the people he's supposed to be protecting is not deconstructing him. Its butchering him.

Mate, I'd hardly call him "uncaring" and "gloomy". Sure he's not as jolly as other renditions but does he have good reason to be all optimistic? Nope. The world, which he feels he needs to protect, is incredibly divisive over his existence, they either want him out of the planet completely or they totally revere him, also the government wants to control him, I sure wouldn't be overly chuffed with that. Why should he take so much shit and pretend like it means nothing? He is human after all, both emotionally and psychologically. I wouldn't call an individual who saves the fucking planet and sacrifices himself for mankind "uncaring", it's quite the opposite.

Funnily enough, you perfectly defined character deconstruction yet can't seem to see how it fits quite nicely with the DCEU Superman. To each their own, I guess.

Making him unpopular with the public and government is not deconstructing Superman. In order to deconstruct a character, you HAVE to deconstruct something about the character, themselves. Having the public and government go full "normal people vs. X-Men" on him is the easiest damn thing thing any filmmaker can pull off, and frankly, it's annoying at the best of times. If they really wanted to get clever, they'd have picked something about Superman's usual M.O. to shred. Such as his "no kill" policy. Welp, can't deconstruct that since he kills in the DCEU all the damn time. Using Zod as the means to show that Superman's No Kill rule can't work all the time would have been ideal, but they hosed that down their legs before they even had the chance. They need Doctor Who writers on this. They knew how to deconstruct their weird alien man protagonist.