OK,我承認我是超人迷。
小時候有幻想過自己是把內褲穿在外面的超人,幻想自己能夠拯救地球。
OK,你們可以笑。你們絕對有這樣的權力。

從 Christopher Reeve的第3代超人,后來的Superboy, Lois and Clark : The Adventure of Superman, Smallville, 到後來的The Return of Superman,我幾乎都沒有錯過,偶爾都會上網找以往的一些影片來回味。
Clark Kent - age 9: The world's too big, Mom.
Martha Kent: Then make it small. Focus on my voice. Pretend it's an island out in the ocean. Can you see it?
Clark Kent - age 9: I see it...

這是我蠻喜歡的一段對白。這短對白看似讓人簡單直接了斷,但是我們可否去思考這對話裡頭的所謂"深度"意義呢?



(Trailer裡頭的歌曲, Elegy 更讓我听上癮。其實每當不開心的時候,可以戴上耳機聽聽這音樂,感覺上可以calm down自己;當然有些人聽了可能覺得更犯。我是屬於前者)
雖然對上一部超失望。
這第2的trailer一出來就深深地吸引了我。該怎麼說呢?這預告片有點Christopher Nolan & Batman的感覺,像是要帶出超人比較黑暗地一面。後來知道 Christopher Nolan 是 Superman : Man of Steel 的producer ,這加深了我對這一次的超人回歸地期待。

這個trailler 讓我腦海裡一直浮現這麼一句對白"My son was in the bus, he saw what Clark did"
然後,我真的走進GSC Pavilion找答案。

14th June 2013, 3.30pm, MOS 2D

我不算是Marvel或DC 的漫畫迷。但如果你問我Marvel vs DC,我覺得我會比較傾向DC的漫畫人物,因為Marvel 英雄人物感覺上是很兒戲打敗壞人故事就沒了,反而DC的英雄人物故事內容會比較有深度,也值得我們去深思。縱使這一部MOS沒有TDK來得那么有深度。
(只是亞洲人都比較膚淺,看電影就是要"努力打敗壞人",如果該英雄人物找個很帥的來演就好了,或者是把該英雄人物弄得有幽默感一點。)
結果。
我終於看到了一部沒有"拿出氪石,超人就變弱"的畫面。Zod跟超人打起來還蠻真的像超級賽亞人在互毆。打鬥畫面沒有讓我失望,只是感覺上畫面"走"得太快了,甚至有人說有點不邏輯,但也難怪,這是超人的真正實力。整部電影認真,嚴肅以及盡量真實化。這是首部超人電影把Krypton的故事講解的最透徹,也是首部電影描述了超人從幼,少到成年的心路歷程。

電影的開始交代Kripton星球面臨滅亡,超人親生父母如何把他送往地球。而最讓我驚喜的是超人的成長過程,導演選擇了有flashback的方式來描述(我想,如果 Christopher Nolan真的有參與製作,我相信這點子應該是屬於Christopher Nolan的)。


其實這電影最令我感動的情節不是超人与Zod之間的毆鬥,或是与Lois Lane的對手戲(要知道,這電影并沒有一貫的愛情戲碼),而是超人于其養夫之間的細膩感情戲。(Spiderman与其uncle的感情戲簡直是輸了!)超人養夫希望超人能像其他小孩一樣的生活,而又不會影響人類規則。這也算是保護孩子的一個方法,所以超人養夫希望超人不要他使用超能力,但超人本性善良,卻因為為了救人而曝露身份,也被身邊的朋友"欺負",要他使出超能力。

Jonathan Kent: You have to keep this side of yourself a secret.
Clark Kent at 13: What was I supposed to do? Let them die?
[brief pause]
Jonathan Kent: Maybe...

龍捲風那一部份很感動,超人養夫為了保護兒子,不要超人去救他而喪失性命了。還有一段是超人養母与超人在超人養父墳墓前對話時播出的flashback雖然是輕描淡寫:(超人養母告訴超人,超人養父是有看到超人如何拯救地球人,這畫面是超人小時候披著披風,雙手插腰的那一個畫面),但可以看得出導演和製作人的細膩。我只能說 Kevin Costner 的精湛演技是在太贊了,有Christopher Nolan 參與的超人實在太棒了。

Jonathan Kent: You just have to decide what kind of man you want to grow up to be, Clark. Whoever that man is, he's going to change the world.

Jonathan Kent: People are afraid of what they don't understand.

Jonathan Kent: You're not just anyone. One day, you're going to have to make a choice. You have to decide what kind of man you want to grow up to be. Whoever that man is, good character or bad, it's going to change the world.

Jonathan Kent: You're the answer, son. You're the answer to "are we alone in the universe".
Clark Kent at 13: Can't I just... keep pretending I'm your son?
Jonathan Kent: You ARE my son. And I have to believe that you were sent here for a reason. And even if it takes the rest of your life, you owe it to yourself to find out what that reason is.
當然這電影也留下了一個疑點。這電影究竟是在為續集或是為了Justice League鋪路呢? 電影畫面出現了Wayne Enterprise 和LexCorp這兩家公司,前者是Batman所擁有的,而後者是超人敵人Lex Luthor所擁有的。
但無論是JL或是MOS2,我都超期待的。而我給予這電影的評價是,如果TDK是 10/10,MOS就大概有8/10。

Lois Lane: You let them handcuff you?
Superman: Wouldn't be much of surrender if i resisted.
Lois Lane: What this "S" stand for?
Superman: It's not an "S",on my world it means "Hope".
Lois Lane: Well,here it's an "S".How about... Sup...

說真的不懂是不是年紀大了,對於超人打壞蛋的戲份那鼓熱血好像沒那么濃了,反而對親情那部份喜歡不已。
另外不得不說的是Hans Zimmer 的配樂實在太棒了。