Clark Kent becomes Superman | Superman (1978) 

IC BM my Dad took me to see this in its opening day in England in 1978 when I was 6 as well.

Awesome, The good old days :)

Meu pai me levou no cinema no Brasil quando eu tinha 6 anos também. Esta cena me emociona até hoje, até porque NINGUÉM voava naquela época. Foi um choque!

I to am 44 years of age and lost my father to Parkinson's 4 years ago........we always watched Superman together, I can totally relate.......

mee too

*Donner told us the Devil is on Earth with the film The Omen*

>much worse so is your family not that great?

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Much power to you and your family, hope you’re doing alright ❤

The man is truly a genius and a national treasure

John Williams is most known for his Star Wars music, but it's his Superman suite that is his masterpiece.

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Same. People cheared and applauded.

Me also I saw it at the Chicago theater

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I guess we all don't just miss the movies of those days, we miss the audiences, too.

I was 10 also. Still one of my favorites. Best movies are from the 70’s & 80’s. Even the remakes don’t even come close.

armen 05/12/66 yep.

armen 05/12/66 RIP Superman, you'll always be Christopher Reeve 👌

Same

Absolutely! Accept no substitutes!

May God Bless him

Fun fact, Christopher Reeve was standing still and it was all special effects, he couldn't decide where he went, it was utterly out of his hands.

@@christopherdean1326 oh dear, it sounds like you need to watch the making of Superman. The director literally says the same thing that I did.

@@christopherdean1326 Not for some shots like this--they had him suspended in the air on wires.

​@@stephenmiller2337I was under the impression they were just going to turn him, as they do with the wires, but he also banked his body so it looked more natural and aerodynamic.

@@rogerschneider5971 at 9:23 in this clip, you'll see how Richard Donner describes it. Christopher Reeve was a hang glider, and knew how to control his body while being suspended, and knew how to move on those wires as well. They truly cast the right actor for that role. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5jmuhcosiis.htmlsi=sxX_XtjpXsw9mTHJ

Im 45 and yes the theme and when superman banks gives me gioosebumps.

Le vrai super man c'est lui.amen

I was 8 watching this in the cinema - it went mad....MAD!!

I learned that the film crew were ecstatic that it came out that way!

Christopher Reeve was a qualified Glider pilot; he knew how to 'bank' left and right in the air in a machine...so he simply adapted it to his flight scenes. That's how he always made it look so natural. The man could literally fly without engines!!!

Maaaan. Comments like these give me goosebumps, makes my heart pump and eyes swell. I know its corny, but as I got older, I appreciate more of our generational movies and lifestyles we ejoyed and sometimes took for granite. 🖤🙏

Him and Chadwick ... they truly personified there characters .... Rest in Heaven to to the GOAT 🐐 portrayals in the MCU and DCU

Sam rami Spider-Man is up there too. Never realized it now but the first 3 rami Spider-Man films have SO MUCH in common to the first 3 Superman films.

Henry is the better superman and Christopher is the better Clark. That much is clear

@@dh6228 your in the minority ... Extreme minority .... DC didn’t change there Superman design in the comics to look like Henry Cavill , they did in the 80’s for Reeve ... u gotta be born in 90 something and younger to say a bullshit statement like that

In reality Brando is talking to Jeff East, the actor playing young Kal El / Clark Kent. However, the producers decided to dub East's parts with Christopher Reeve's voice

EXACTLY. We SOOOO took it for granite. Smh.

And Mario Puzo didn't write the shooting script, Tom Mankiewicz did.

Just like Russel Crow talking to Henry Cavill with Hans Zimmer's score directed by Zack Snyder with Story written by Christopher Nolan and Goyer.

@@109acepilot that's right, almost none of Puzo's work was used in the final film, save for the general outline

True and Jeff East was born to play the young Clark Kent.🙂

Alden R. Davis That’s from the trailer.

I love that specific trailer.

@Dan Rosalind Messianic theme for sure. Notice how El is the family name. Hebrew for God and angel and mighty.

@fooloof What if they actually DID cast Nicholas Cage as Jor-El in MAN OF STEEL? Might've been worth the price of a ticket.

fooloof In that case you will want to avoid Fast Times at Ridgemont High. He is credited in that movie as Nicolas Coppola.

Bf

If you dont stop your gonna make me a 6'5" 245 lb man cry😢

Well, if CGI is not as good as this, then 1978 was NOT "technology's inferior time," huh?

​@ Man Of Steel had great potential, but they ruined it with excessive CGI porn and too much exposition. Yes, it started quite good, but the story and the characterization were lost in the second half of the movie for the sake of action. Wouldn't be surprised if it was studio decision. Gotta have that CGI explosions for the kids. Movies in the past were filmed more subtle and sophisticated, they didn't spoon fed and handhold the audience. That's why they had bigger impact. Less is more. I still prefer Brando's Jor-El. And how on Earth did you forget John Williams's score? And for the love of anything that is sane, stop using the nostalgia argument. If I hear it one more time, I'm gonna punch someone in the face. Nostalgia is remembering good thing from the past. If they weren't good, we wouldn't have nostalgia for them, would we? There's nothing blinding about nostalgia, we weren't morons a couple of decades ago that we don't remember what we saw, heard or played. If Hollywood started to make good and original movies, we wouldn't be living in the past.

@@MatthewOne1 he got rekted!

To rule them all...muahahaha

sounds like he's talking about Christ dying on the Cross! I have sent them "you, my ONLY SON".

@@GisherJohn24 I used to think that Superman's whole story is related to Jesus's. Especially in Superman returns when he sacrificed himself for the sake of the world, died, then was raised again and flied up to heaven. Yeah, maybe.

@@GisherJohn24 Yes, the religious allusion is obviously very intentional

@@GisherJohn24 Not only Christ, but in every worldwide religion there is a story of a son/prophet/re-incarnation/messenger of god sent to earth to be humanity's saviour. I've always believed the Superman story as being our modern day interpretation of this very story, with Jor-El being our modern day interpretation of 'God' given that he is: omnipotent (due to his Kryptonian physiology), omniscient (being the brightest scientist on Krypton, with an understanding of science that is several 100,000 years ahead of us) and omnipresent (he sent his consciousness/AI with his son on his journey to earth). I think Dick Donner, Mario Puzo and Marlon Brando totally understood the religious allegory of the story.

EXACTLY. More now than EVER my friend. I feel like we took it for granite. Smh. And I'm sorry about your Dad bud.🖤🙏

This does remind me of talking to my dad, the calmness in his voice

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The only one Superman Christopher Reeve Is the original too

Best movie? Christopher Reeve is by far the best Superman and this a one of the best comic movies but best ever would be the Dark Knight or Spiderman 2 w/ Tobey McGuire

Verdade

My top 5 are Superman,

I certainly agree Clark Kent hides his secret identity well on this version of Superman

I am adopted. In a way I relate

"A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families."

@@sethisawesome Psalms 68:5-6a, NIV

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That's how superman works superman wouldn't work dark and gritty

The way Superman's father says "They can be a great people, they wish to be..." followed by the suggestion that Superman is there to help them become great makes him out to be like a Biblical prophet. There is a lot of hope and wonder in that suggestion.

There IS The Way, and His name is Jesus Christ 😇

@@snbforever You're an imbecile. I think I'd rather go with Zeus.

@@CaptainCanuck63 We will see very soon who the imbecile is😇

I agree, that part kicked ass, and I too was 7, I'm 46 now. Too me, there will never be a better Superman than Chris Reeves.

Bigshow771, I was the same age and felt the same way you did when I saw that scene. I think from that point I started dreaming I could fly.

I agree, Flashy5150. He set the bar before and after his era. Though I think they should've stopped at Superman III.

I'm quite a bit younger than you, so when I was 7 THE Superman was Tom Welling, and I solidly believe Welling had the best Clark Kent, even if only because he had a hundred times what all the other guys got in terms of screentime and time to develop as a character.

The takeoff flight toward the camera was Bad ass!!!

The director's cut and the TV cut are even longer; 150 minutes and 3 hours respectively. Not that it's a problem, I love all versions of this film.

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Mate.... I'm not a parent but this scene still gets me going.

@@adamw2911 1000% my man. Unconditional love knows no bounds of space and time! 🙏

3:00 they really are talking about some crystals

Bond. James bond. Reeves. Keanu Reeves. 👊

Paul Kryder Exactly. People mess it up because of George Reeves.

I wasn't even a fetus. I was a crystal -👽🧞‍♀️

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I wonder why he never knew anything about the green lantern corps?

I believe I saw a man on wires. Don't you?

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😤

Yup, that arc was all Chris.

exactly this is what makes the reeves films great they were real

I think it was hang gliding experience too.

Actually when he turns somewhat they considered the shot ruined because a shadow crosses his face, making viewers unable to see it.

the same for me!

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Artisan1979 me too

Artisan1979 same here!!!

More than that, there are important parts cut out of Jor-el's speech which were included in the Director's Cut: "Here in this...this Fortress of Solitude, we shall try to find the answers together. How does a good man live? What is Virtue? When does a Man's obligation to those around him exceed his obligations to himself? These are not simple questions. Even on Krypton, there is no precise science which provides us with the answers..." Jor-El also teaches Kal-El about the dangers of vanity in "doing good". SUperman's education in this span really is an indepth philosophical journey which he struggles with when he decides to turn back time to save Lois. The new-age movies simply do not compare.

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I find it very heartwarming myself

Bill Boguniecki R.I.P Marlon Brando as well

and Susannah York...Glen Ford.

RIP to all no longer with us

I am almost crying now

Henry Cavil does make a good Superman, he's just been let down by the current writing and productions.

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It makes me think of the lion king

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