Whilst at the Fortress of Solitude Kitty comments to Lex:-
'You act like you've been here before'.
I think this is a great line because, as we all know Lex HAS INDEED been there before..in Superman 2! This is a great hark back to the earlier films, it's a feel good moment for the fans. We all know what event took place there. I love this line.
My favourite line comes from this exchange:
SUPERMAN: What do you hear?
LOIS: Nothing.
SUPERMAN: I hear everything. You wrote that the world doesn't need a saviour, but every day I hear people crying for one.
This simple, three-line exchange juxtaposes Superman's experience with Lois'. It demonstrates how Lois is having a romantic, peaceful moment, but there can be no peace for Superman with his super-hearing. His sense of justice, his compassion and empathy, his heroism is always in demand and every minute he takes for himself is one he is not responding to a cry or a howl of pain and sorrow. This gives us the internal tragedy of Superman. To me, the fact that he copes with this and still provides the world the hopeful image of his smiling, spitcurled face shows us the Atlas-like efforts he puts forth. This, to me, is the essence of Superman. It has all his compassion and care, all his heroism, and all his conflict. This has more hope and heroism than all the "dark" takes on the character AND more angst than Nolan and Snyder tried to pound into Man of Steel.
And it did all of that in three lines.
Frankly, flawed as this film is, it doesn't get enough credit for what it got right. What it got right, it got really, really, really right.
WROOOOOONG!!
shareI loved Kitty for the "It's freakin' Gone with the Wind" comment. So well delivered...
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