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SUPERMAN . . Yes, Superman Returns, and How.
I caught the movie last wekend and loved it. Complete with action, plenty of odes to the Richard Donner 1978 original and with a leading man having an uncanny resemblance to Christopher Reeve. This certainly makes for a fantastic movie-watching experience.

Now, as is the case with all Huge movies - Gossip happens. For publicity, promotion, creating a buzz etc. Well, while browsing through Superman gossip, i came upon a segment -
"how is superman different from other super heroes ?" .

Here i would like to mention a quote from "Kill Bill" - one of my favourites and undoubtedly the movie having the best written dialogues. Tarantino - Im a FAN !
Anyways, in this particular sequence, Bill(David Carradine) is speaking to the Bride (Uma Thurman), when this quote is made :

"An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, there's the superhero, and there's the alter ego. Batman is actually Bruce Wayne, Spider-Man is actually Peter Parker. When he wakes up in the morning, he's Peter Parker. He has to put on a costume to become Spider-Man. And it is in that characteristic that Superman stands alone. Superman did not become Superman, Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he's Superman. His alter ego is Clark Kent. His outfit with the big red "S", that's the blanket he was wrapped in as a baby when the Kents found him. Those are his clothes. What Kent wears, the glasses, the business suit, that's the costume. That's the costume Superman wears to blend in with us. Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent? He's weak, he's unsure of himself... he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race."

This sums it up for me. It is beautiful & very very true.

Well, if this analogy is too deep for you, you can always read that article i read where the major distinction between superman & other super heroes was mentioned by the author as :

"Superman is a true superhero as he does not hide his face behind masks like other super heroes !"

Wow !
Now, why didn't Mr. Tarantino think of this ? ?