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Originally Posted by evilbeefchan
I keep replaying in my mind that super bowl commercial where he's finally able to walk again.
I don't know why this is hitting harder than other celebrity deaths. I guess it's because he always looked so positive when interviewed, and never bitter about anything. I want my childhood back. =(
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I loved the movie when I was a kid. I drove my dad crazy because I wanted to see it so many times. He would always grumble about having to keep paying for me to see the same damn movie over and over again.
When I got older, I think I realized what it was that made the movie so intriguing to me. I used to watch the old Superman t.v. show on Saturday mornings. George Reeves was good in the role, but he played with with an air of aloofness. Christopher Reeve brought to the part a humanity that few could have brought. His portrayal of Clark Kent - a bumbling doofus uncomfortable in his own skin - gave hope to dorks everywhere that we had the man of steel inside of us, too. He didn't play it as a comic book story, he played it as a human story.
He didn't become famous because he played Superman; he became famous because he played it perfectly.