This was like watching a quarter take a long time to swirl around and finally sink in the gravity well. I had to quadruple check that Superman: The Movie hadn’t been used in this game already or that someone had guessed it and I had incorrectly told them it wasn’t Superman: The Movie. Even though it was.
The clues:
The Daily Planet editor in chief Perry White tells star reporter Lois Lane, regarding her hot new copy, that there’s only one “p” in “rapist”.
Back in Smallville, Ma(rtha) Kent wakes up early to set the board for the most important meal of the day, breakfast. Breakfast, for farmhands or kindly widows. And she never forgets a box of General Mills’ all-American cereal, Cheerios.
It’s like Norman Rockwell and Andrew Wyeth got drunk, hooked up, and sold out.
The Phantom Zone’s groundbreaking LP “Let Us Out” featuring hits like “Kneel Before Zod (Because There’s No Room)”
Gordon is right, this is about Luthor’s wig. Lex Luthor was famously bald in the Superman comics. In one version of the story, Clark Kent was responsible for the lab accident that resulted in Lex’s cueball. But even though the producers of the movie were able to land Great Actor Gene Hackman, Hackman would not wear a bald cap or shave his head. He was vain about his luxuriant locks!
“Gene, please, the role calls for a bald man.”
“You got Gene Hackman, didn’t you? You could have got fucking Yul Brynner but then you wouldn’t have a fucking movie. Or you could pay me four fucking million dollars like you’re paying fucking Marlon Brando. And he has only twenty pages of dialogue. And he’s reading his lines off cue cards. Cue cards!”
And so they cut a deal. Lex would wear a wig through most of the movie, which happened to resemble Gene Hackman’s real hair, and everyone was happy.
- New York City, obviously, though with an unconvincing alter ego
Oh, sure, it’s Metropolis, that just happens to look EXACTLY like Manhattan, right down to the Statue of Liberty just offshore and the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Metropolis had those too!
Bumbling stooge Ned Beatty rushes to enrobe his boss, who will be emerging from the pool, but he does it too soon.
- A back alley encounter that doesn’t go as expected
The mugger didn’t get Lois Lane’s purse, Lois didn’t expect to see Clark get shot at, and Clark didn’t expect to have to catch a bullet.
I suppose you’re up, @dtolman!
