SUPERMAN III MOVIE MINUTE #13 – Plastics
Fire and Water Network All-Stars Chris Franklin and Rob Kelly are back with SUPERMAN III MOVIE MINUTE, where they analyze, scrutinize, and you’ll-believe-a-man-can-fly-ize the Man of Steel’s third big screen adventure starring Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Annette O’Toole, and Robert Vaughn, five minutes at a time!
In minutes 1:00:00-1:05:00, Lana makes a request of Superman, and Gus does his Patton routine.
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I know Rob and Chris are struggling through the movie when the discussion turns to the green painted rocks Rob ordered through the mail! Hehehe
Regardless, you gentlemen are doing a fine job keeping me entertained while I work. Thank you.
The sandstone building you see in the backgrounds is the Museum of the Highwood, in High River, which now displays Christopher Reeves’ cape.
I find this movie hard to sit through for all the reasons covered here, but also for this: the marketing at the time emphasized Pryor enough that my sisters and their friends would never go to a “Comic book movie”, but would pay for a ticket to see “that new Richard Pryor movie with Superman in it”.
AAAARRGGHH! (My younger self)
I always interpreted the Richard Pryor “Patton scene” as him (and Lester) trolling “Americana”. Superman is sitting in the town circle of rural America. The whole county puts on a parade for him. It continues the Norman Rockwell theme from Superman I in Smallville. Then a funny black dude rolls up pretending to be a General Patton to hand Superman some Kryptonite. No one, not even Superman can interrupt his insane rambling coz who could disrespect the military?
That’s a legit comedic concept. I thought it worked. lol
Even if your plan is to allow your actor to improvise their way through a movie, it probably wouldn’t hurt to have well written scenes on which to fall back. If nothing else, it would give your actor a firm foundation from which to improvise. But, then again, I’m just an armchair movie maker.
Thanks for another excellent episode.
FYI we have one of those old painted Kryptonite rocks in our collection at the Browne Popular Culture Library at BGSU!