Superman
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Transcript of Superman
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SupermanThe American cultural icon
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• Invention The first Superman character
created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster was not a hero, but rather a bald telepathic villain named "The Superman", bent on dominating the entire world. It appeared in the short story "The Reign of the Super-Man" from Science Fiction #3. The story did not sell, forcing the two to reposition their character on the right side of the law.
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Later, Siegel came upon the more familiar version of the character. Then they began a six-year quest to find a publisher. Titling it The Superman, Siegel and Shuster offered it to Consolidated Book Publishing . Although they received an encouraging letter, Consolidated never again published comic books. Finally, in 1938, the editor Vin Sullivan of the National Allied Publications (the primary precursor of DC Comics ) chose it as the cover feature for National's Action Comics #1 and published their works.
Sources: History of Superman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Siegel
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• The original story
The original story of Superman relates that he was born Kal-El on the planet Krypton, before being rocketed to Earth as an infant by his scientist father Jor-El, moments before Krypton's destruction. Discovered and adopted by a Kansas farmer and his wife, the child is raised as Clark Kent and imbued with a strong moral compass. Very early he started to display superhuman abilities, which upon reaching maturity he resolved to use for the benefit of humanity. Superman lives among humans as a "mild-mannered reporter" for the Metropolis newspaper Daily Planet (Daily Star in the earliest stories). There he works alongside reporter Lois Lane, with whom he is romantically linked.
Sources : Superman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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• The writer & artist• Jerry Siegel Joe Shuster ‧ (1914~1996) (1914~1992)
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• Actor Kirk Alyn George Reeves Christopher Reeve
Gerard Christopher Dean Cain Tom Welling Brandon Routh
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•Superpower• Superhuman strength : more powerful than a locomotive • Speed : faster than a speeding bullet • Invulnerability • Stamina &Durability• Senses• Intelligence• Regeneration• Longevity• super-hearing • super breath : which enables him to blow out air at freezing
temperatures, as well as exert the propulsive force of high-speed winds.
• vision powers : x-ray, heat-emitting, telescopic, infra-red, and microscopic vision
• flight
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• Characters
• Superman/Clark Kent (Brandon Routh )
Sources : Superman Homepage - News
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• Lois Lane -- superman’s love ‧Lex Luthor -- superman’s enemy
(Kate Bosworth ) (Kevin Spacey)
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• Richard White (Love interest for Lois Lane) (James Marsden )
• Jimmy Olsen (Sam Huntington )
is a young photojournalist
working for the Daily Planet.
He is close friends with Lois Lane,
Superman and Perry White.
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• Martha Kent (Eva Marie Saint ) – superman’s adoptive mother
‧Stanford (Kal Penn) -one of Lex Luthor's
henchmen
• young Clark Kent (Stephen Bender )
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• Ben Hubbard (James Karen ) - is a neighboring farmer of the Kents'
‧Kitty Koslowski -- a henchwoman working for Luthor
(Parker Posey )
‧Perry White - Clark Kent's boss at the Daily Planet
(Frank Langella )
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Superman Returns!
●YouTube - Superman returns part 4
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★ Vocabulary
• Villain : the main bad character in a film, play, or story.
• Invulnerability : that is invulnerable cannot be harmed or damaged .
• Stamina : physical or mental strength that lets you continue doing something for a long time without getting tired
• Longevity : the amount of time that someone or something lives.
• Telescopic : making distant things look bigger, like a telescope does