Jor-El Resolves the Tension Between Superman's Kryptonian and Earthly HeritageĪn ongoing theme in the various incarnations of Superman is the tension that exists between his Kryptonian heritage and the people of Earth. Of course, she said pretty soon she was jealous of Michael Shannon's motion capture unitard because her costume was "tight, and heavy, and hot."ħ. Antje Traue, who plays Faora-Ul, says she was glad she got to wear a real Battlesuit instead of a CG one because it felt "empowering" as she approached tanks and helicopters to take Superman aboard Zod's ship. The Kryptonian Battlesuit Was EmpoweringĪmy Adams describes the Kryptonian battlesuits as "really foxy," and says she's "a little jealous" of the actresses who got to wear them. So the Superman suit is actually meant to be worn under the Kryptonian armor, which kind of makes it underwear.Ħ. While talking about the design for the suit, Zack Snyder compares it to the chainmail medieval warriors would wear under their armor.
Superman's tights have long been jokingly compared to underwear, but the commentary's explanation for his suit kind of, strangely, suggests that's what they are. The Superman Suit Is Kryptonian Underwear?
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While working out young Superman's X-Ray vision, the visual effects team repeatedly looked back to the classic John Carpenter movie They Live to get just the right kind of creepiness in the skulls he was seeing in his schoolmates.ĥ. The X-Ray Vision Is Sort of an Homage to They Live Still, he says the experience was "truly epic," and he impressed the boat's actual crew, as well as the film crew, with his seafaring abilities.Ĥ. About "two thirds" of the crew is said to have thrown up while enduring 20-foot swells on a trip from Seattle into crabbing territory, and even Cavill says he eventually had to "head to the back of the boat" to lie down. In a movie that relies heavily on CG effects, director Zack Snyder still managed to get his star out on an actual crab fishing boat. The motion capture wizards at WETA (the visual effects studio behind Gollum) was brought in to perform this feat, and while many effects in the movie are more impressive, this was one touch we didn't notice the first time watching the movie. When he and Russell Crowe fight on Krypton, both are wearing motion capture unitards and the battlesuits were added later. In a small wonder of visual effects, Zod's battlesuit looks 100 percent practical onscreen, but Michael Shannon was actually wearing a multi-colored unitard while filming his scenes with the suit. In an age when a Game of Thrones fan can actually learn to speak Dothraki, perhaps we shouldn't be suprised to learn a linguist was brought into flesh out the Kryptonian language, and if you know it, you can read it all over the planet. In Man of Steel, not only do we see the "S" glyph, but many more Kryptonian pieces of writing scrawled all over their columns, weapons, and even clothing. Ever since Richard Donner introduced the idea that the "S" was actually the Kryptonian glyph for hope, and the crest of the House of El (Superman's real name is Kal-El or Kal of the House of El), newer incarnations of the character have dived deeper into what it all means. Our doorway into Kryptonian culture has always been the big "S" on Superman's chest. The Kryptonian Language Was Painstakingly Fleshed Out Here are some of the coolest things we found out.ġ. With a three-hour split-screen version of the movie that goes beyond the traditional commentary track, Zack Snyder, Amy Adams, Henry Cavill, and loads more people who worked on the movie break down exactly how they pulled it all off. (From Warner Bros.) The Man of Steel Blu-ray is out, and if there's one good reason to run out and buy it, it's definitely the commentary.
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