Superman

Below is an essay I had to write for a college Film Genre Class:

In 1978, when Christopher Reeves flew on to the silver screen as the Last Son of Krypton, the superhero film genre was born. The film Superman: The Movie would go on to establish the narrative structure that is still used in the superhero films made today. Budgeted in 1977 at $55 million, it would set many precedents for the popcorn blockbuster, “not the least of which was the idea of hiring big stars in action genres that previously were made under mostly B-picture budgets” (McAllister, 110).

The first and most important thing...

Mr. Mxyzptlk, Susie Tompkins, and Bizarro have to be in the seterusnya Superman. anda can introduce Lex Luthor here being a philanthropist and being at fundraisers where Perry White is who loves him because they fund him, all the while he's building a military base at Metropolis Airport and bribing members of the military to work for him, that way in the seterusnya one, he can start sending all those missiles and warheads at Superman. What anda do here as Superman's just arriving in Metropolis is explain why Metropolis? He was flying along the eastern seaboard, saw a commotion around New Yorkish, and then...