An alternate look at Supes' Depowering

This blends the best of Donner and Lester, as Superman loses his powers for Lois. It feels more complete, and I hope you agree.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Superman
• II
• Depowering
• re-edit

[stargroove4]

Why didn't you add the scene where Kent fades in and Superman fades out whilst slumping over slowly, dying?

[onekingprods]

@stargroove4 Because in this edit, there is NO Superman. Just Kal-El in the white shirt. It wouldn't make sense, except symbolically, but visually, it wouldn't play. Make sense?

[dfjanus]

You did an excellent job with this edit...much better than many of the other attempts I have seen. I just wish that Michael Thau was as good an editor as you are, and maybe we'd have a better presentation of the Donner Cut...one free of so many bad decisions.

[onekingprods]

@dfjanus Hey, thanks for the nice comments, regarding this clip. I tried so hard to make SII look and feel as much like STM, as possible, and not feel like a "fan cut," but something you would've seen in theatres, and accepted as a worthy followup to STM. The new anamorphic 5.1 version of my edit is in progress. Be sure to let me know if you would like me to add your name to the list of folks who'll be receiving the finished dvd.

[peacepipe4]

@onekingprods I would join that dvd list, but HOW? Mail me!

[onekingprods]

@peacepipe4 Hey my friend.  I've added you to the list of folks that I will be contacting when the cut is complete. My resources are limited, so it will be done in 720p and dvd format. I don't have the resources for 1080, unfortunately. I will let you know when it's done. God bless.

[TheNewRiflemanBob]

In real life women generally like a man because of what he possesses weather that may be money or power. In the Superman films, Lois likes Superman because of his abilities primarily. If Clark had dated more women growing up like most guys do in real life, then he would have seen right thru Lois. Oh well. At least he did get his powers back later on. Despite being Superman, Clark is still a man nonetheless. And we all know how badly pussy can fuck with a man's head.

[Numinous20111]

This decision still seems incredibly rash. I would have expected Lois to shout out before the depowering and for Superman to have at least some doubts about whether Lois would really love a human Clark. I suppose it's all part of his learning curve. But did Lois ever show anything but affectionate friendship for Clark. There was never any reason for him to believe that Lois wasn't in love with only Superman. Just a weakness in an otherwise excellent film.

[sabishiihito]

I'm glad Clark in the comics didn't have to make a choice, he got to have his cake and eat it too. At least until they did this "New 52" nonsense...

[Perceptionista]

(Cont)Because it was important to evoke all the feelings involved.

I truly like (and was amazed) how you combined the dialogue between Clark and Jor-el and Clark and Lois giving complete character exposition of all of them and the full picture of the emotional conflict that Superman faced. And made it transition smoothly better than Thau did!

And of course great job reiterating that there was no necessity in showing a storyline that would transition to Singer's Superman Returns! :)

[Perceptionista]

Absolutely brilliant job! This was the cut that I (and proably many other fans) had in mind for this scene after seeing the RD one. It worked for so many reasons. But one important one was simply the fact that close up face shots of Lois were not even available in the RD cut. Had it not been for RD and Thau's attitude towards the Lester footage, it was only logical to show Lois' response to the situation between Clark and Jor-El.

[TheShockMaster]

@dfjanus

Bad decisions? In Michael Thau's cut? Like what?

[TheMasterNo6]

Lois is selfish. If she REALLY loved Kal-El, she'd have stopped him from doing such a thing-Supermans a gift to the world really...I somehow doubt she'd have stuck around had he remained human....its Superman she 'loved'....cow.

[peacepipe4]

@onekingprods That's great! I've got an older TV anyway, but big, so I'm sure it will work fine. If you have any leftover space on the DVD try and squeeze in The Ten Commandments of 1956 with Heston. WE WILL LEAVE NO EMPTY SPACES BEHIND!