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Superman:
The Movie (1978) (aka Superman)
In Richard Donner's comic-book superhero classic:
- the innovative 3-D-like effects
in its film title sequence - the first film with a computer-generated
title sequence; as the title sequence began,
it zoomed and animated the words: "ALEXANDER SALKIND PRESENTS" and
then continued with further zooms on the letters of the starring
performers; the graphics also zoomed inward to present the famed
S insignia for Superman
- the image of the "Man of Steel"
comic book Superman hero / alias bespectacled Clark Kent (Christopher
Reeve) with red cape and tights soaring over Metropolis
- Superman's rescue of Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) as
she fell from a helicopter and their conversation (Superman (politely): "Easy,
miss. I've got you" Lois Lane (screaming):
"You've got me? But who's got you?")
- their flight over the city with Lois in a blue chiffon
evening gown to find out how fast he could fly while she recited
the poem Can You Read My Mind
- the scene of Superman's flying chase next to an Army
missile
- his saving resolution of various catastrophes when
a Navy missile struck the San Andreas fault
- Superman flew over one of the massive earthquake's
fault lines that had swallowed Lois Lane's car, and realized she
was dead from suffocation under the ground; after pulling the car
out of its burial location, he held Lois in his arms, kissed her,
and then laid her on the ground; and gave an anguished primal scream
howl-reaction to her death
- the scene of his angry flight into the air to attempt
to change the past with light-speed circumnavigation of the globe
- to reverse time in order to bring Lois back to life
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Circumnavigating of the Globe to Reverse Time and
Bring Back Lois
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"Alfred Salkind Presents"
Opening Title Credits
"You've got me? But who's got you?"
Primal Scream after Lois Lane's Death
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