![]() Immediately likable, somebody relatable, someone normal. We’re pretty sure he isn’t even ticklish.Ĭhristopher Reeve found his way in via Daily Planet reporter Clark Kent: in Reeve’s deft hands, the humble, stuttering, bumbling side of Kal-El. To misquote Shakespeare: try to prick him, he will not bleed. He may look Homo sapiens, but he is not human. He is also, to all intents and purposes, a god. Yes, he is, like Wayne, an orphan, but one brought up by a loving couple in the heart of apple-pie country. It is far harder to get inside that invulnerable and morally burnished exterior. Bullets bounce off his boulder-like pectorals. ![]() Superman can literally jump over the moon. ![]() With Batman, as Christian Bale found and exploited so well, you can climb inside and get your hands dirty. ![]() The troubled childhood, the phobia, the anger, the guilt, the discipline. There’s an interior to explore there, a whole murky cavern. ![]() Batman’s someone to really get your teeth into. Thick-necked, square-jawed, serious and utterly benevolent, he hardly provides an actor (or even a writer) chewy material. Or at least, to make interesting on screen. Superman has never seemed the easiest character to realise. ![]()
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