BY: Jack Ciolli and Dominic Ciolli
Jack:
0:04 –
Krypton’s destruction may be due to war, not natural disaster
0:20 –
“How?” Kind of awesome, but I have to
say that I could do without tons of time spent on Krypton or the idea of them
sending him to Earth intentionally and stuff.
I always prefer the idea that Superman was sent off Krypton just so that
he could have a chance at life, and then being raised by the Kents is what
prompts him to develop the moral compass that drives his heroic actions
0:22 –
The ship has the S shield on it. That’s
pretty awesome.
0:34 –
Jor-El’s speech here makes it sound like they sent him with the intention of
becoming the hero figure he becomes. I
don’t really like that, but it’s a very minor complaint.
0:45 –
Little Clark wearing a cape and doing the Superman pose is great. Makes me smile every time.
0:50 – The
woman’s delivery is very strange. Is she
upset that Clark saved her son?
1:02 –
“You’re the answer to ‘are we alone in the universe?’” Kinda the douchiest way to inform your son
that he’s an alien…
1:06 – That
is a pretty great moment. Makes me more
confident in their portrayal of Pa Kent.
The “maybe” from the first trailer was bad, but this has renewed my
faith.
1:25 – I
love this. Lois having an interest in
Superman before he even comes out as Superman is really cool, to me. And the idea of adult Clark just sort of
wandering the world helping and saving people.
That’s just awesome
1:29 –
“For some, he was a guardian angel.”
That and this shot of him holding up the oil rig or whatever it is he’s
doing, is just too much awesome. I love
it.
1:35 –
The doors opening to reveal his silhouette is pretty sweet.
1:37 –
Jor El’s speech. Yes, it’s the thing I
don’t like, which is his origin being by design, that they selected Earth, and
that they wanted him to be who he becomes.
I prefer that coming from the Kents, but this speech is so damn
incredible that it really doesn’t matter to me at all.
2:00 –
It really starts before this, but right here the music picks up from the way it
was building and it’s just perfectly in tune with what was just being
said. It’s a really inspirational sound,
just fills me with energy
2:10 –
“You believe you’re son is safe?” Based
on the fact that Krypton seems to consume itself in war, it looks like Zod is
behind it and Jor-El has something to do with his prosecution, which is why he
seems to be intent on getting Clark.
2:15 –
Superman’s costume is very clearly the same as the clothes worn by Kryptonian
soldiers, so that’s a cool reason for it to be indestructible. That’s just a cool unity in design.
2:18 –
“My father believed…” That speech is
pretty great too.
2:21 – I
love this, where the planes are tearing up the street with bullets and he does
a cool superspeed thing away. That’s
neat.
2:28 –
This shot is so damn cool
2:35 –
“What’s the S stand for?” Love this
interaction. I know some people don’t
like the idea that the S is a Kryptonian symbol, because that seems like a
hokey idea. But it’s also kind of
against Superman’s character to call himself that on his own. What makes sense is for him to wear a symbol
that means hope in some form, and then for Lois to name him Superman, which he
just accepts and goes along with.
2:48 –
This sequence, where he’s sort of battering around someone, Zod or some lackey,
this is cool. This is why I’m happy
Snyder is directing this thing. They
clearly have the hope factor as a big deal, but now we’re also gonna get the
first Superman movie where he’s actually badass and awesome. So for those more shallow movie-goers among
us, Superman can become cool again.
Dominic:
00:23 Jor-El:
“He’ll be a god to them”
Captures
Superman in six words. He could be a god
to us, he is so powerful that he could bend us to his will, rule over us with
an iron (steel?) fist. But he doesn’t. He uses his god-like abilities to save
people. And Jor-El knows that he is going to do this. Clark is a hero and
he was always going to be.
1:05-1:09 Pa Kent: “You’re the answer to, ‘are we
alone in the universe?’ Clark: “Can’t I
just go back to pretending I’m your son?”
Pa Kent: “You are my son”
Clark is
different, there is no way around that.
But he does not want to be, he wants to be just like us. He does not see himself as different, he sees
himself as one of us.
1:15-1:30 Exploits
of Clark before Superman
As Jack
described it, he appears to be doing “random acts of superheroness,” but it’s
really more than that. Clark didn’t go
off looking for chances to be a hero, he traveled to find himself, find out who
he really is. And what did he find? People who needed help, people in trouble,
people who needed to be saved. That’s
when he discovered who he is: he is the
person who can save those people. He is
the one who can protect those who need protecting.
1:37-1:20 Jor-El:
“You will give the people of Earth an ideal to strive towards. They will race behind you, they will stumble,
they will fall. But in time, they will
join you in the sun. In time, you help
them accomplish wonders.”
Once again,
Jor-El knows what Clark will do before he does it. Superman is of course a hero, but he is so
much more than that. He is a symbol of
hope (he even wears it on his chest, as the end of the trailer indicates). Superman inspires us to do the right thing
and to protect others. There is no way
that we can live up to this ideal, but we have to chase it all the same.
This
trailer paints a solid picture of what we’re going to get. A Krypton torn apart by war, Clark sent to
Earth, learning about his origins and using his abilities to help people, even
before ultimately becoming Superman and stepping out to put a face to his
actions. It clearly represents the
inspirational nature that’s at Superman’s core, all of which is basically
summed up by what Jor-El says. “You will
give the people of Earth an ideal to strive towards. They’ll race behind you. They will stumble, they will fall. And in time, they will join you in the
sun.” That pretty much says it all. And then the rest of the trailer sells us on two
more things people may have been concerned about. The action is going to be big, and it’s going
to be awesome. And Superman’s
interactions with Lois (at least from this one scene) look like they’ll be spot
on. Easily our most anticipated movie of
the year, far and away above anything else coming out.
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