The team behind “Superman” is responding to the backlash after director James Gunn said the DC tentpole is the story of “an immigrant that came from other places.”
When asked about the reaction to his comments, James Gunn explained that the movie is for “everyone” and that he doesn’t have “anything to say to anybody” spreading negativity around “Superman.”
“I’m not here to judge people,” he told Variety at Monday night’s “Superman” premiere at Hollywood’s TCL Chinese Theatre. “I think this is a movie about kindness and I think that’s something everyone can relate to.”
From a 1949 book cover distributed to schools by DC.
MAGA is basically opposed to truth, justice, and the American way, aren’t they?
America has two souls battling and it always has. It’s Paine and Franklin vs the southern founders. It’s Jefferson vs himself. One soul says we’re a nation built on the idea that all people are created equal, with fundamental rights, and that government should be more controlled than the citizens. The other soul looks at a nation founded by genocide and slavery, with early settlers being the puritans after they lost power in the UK and think that’s what they think America should be.
Each side considers the other un-American because we want different Americas
I love this. Thanks for sharing it.
I wanted to print a copy, and I went looking for the highest-res copy I could find. I couldn’t access the larger image in the dc.com article you linked, but in case anyone else is interested, I found two at 2750 x 3778:
- This copy has a visible crease from scanned original
- And this copy has the crease shooped out
I mean he was literally created by Jews during the time of Hitler as an inversion of the Nazi ideal of a “super man” who would go around beating up Nazis. His origin story is basically just space Moses, and his Kryptonian name “Kal-El” is formatted like the name of an angel, containing the name “El” meaning “God” (compare MichaEL, GabriEL etc.) Superman has been anti-fascist and pro-minority since his inception.
Nobody cares about objective reality anymore. Once we started letting people live in their own worlds of “feel facts” without consequence, lest someone throw stones at our own escapism cognitive biases, we ceded control of the world to the loudest and most hateful people.
There is no convincing people of anything anymore because they can just close their ears and go somewhere more comfortable. If they face no repercussions and can not only get praise for being hateful but even raise money and become celebrities, what do we really think is going to result from explaining things anymore?
But if we force schools to change their curriculum to align with MY version of reality, that makes it true! Right?
Or it’s just a really really long con for a ton of content creators to make content about “the shocking truth they won’t teach you in school!!!”. Because I guess that’s the only way to get idiots to actually understand something is by packaging it in some hidden conspiracy wrapper.
The next layer of destruction of our species’ potential was when we monetized attention spans.
Conservatives unable to grasp basic plot points of a story thats been around nearly 100 years. Color me unsurprised.
they don’t get Jesus message, even though they say Jesus is the most important thing in their lives.
“When did Star Wars become woke?!”
How could someone take umbrage there? Like… read his origin story. He was born on Krypton. He got dropped on Earth. He was adopted by folks in Kansas. If I told people I found a child who drifted across the Rio Grande and adopted him as my own, we’d all agree he was probably from Mexico and not a native born citizen. But apparently him drifting in from SPACE changes the narrative?
Hmm, an endangered child’s parents send him in a craft to be found and adopted by others, assuring his safety. You’d think that would resonate with MAGA Evangelicals, who should recognize the story of Moses.
Bold of you to think they read any part of the bible except the ones they can twist for the sake of hatred.
The story of Moses is of God’s Chosen People being insulated from bad events while the Pagans are made to suffer.
The moral of Exodus (and Kings and Judges) is that if you’re following God’s Will, nothing bad will ever happen to you.
But he’s a white space alien
* coughskincolorcough *
I want to go back about 20 years and find every idealist moron online who tried to debate with me that we can’t keep calling people racist and that oppression is a deeper issue than superficial appearances and I want to smack them clean into 2025 so they can see what they permitted.
“We don’t go to the movie theater to be lectured to and to have somebody throw their ideology onto us.” Jesse Watters added
People like him is why AI slop movies are going to be successful. They just want to watch pretty pictures and see the American flag waving at the end, not be intellectually challenged and entertained.
Dude is from another planet but magat get upset he is called an immigrant.
Well, Superman is an illegal immigrant. I don’t think they have a US consulate in Kypton.
I don’t think they have much on Krypton anymore.
Does that make him a refugee?
Only if he actually applies for refugee status.
Yesz a refugee application is a legal path to entry. Just coming and ignoring border co trolls makes him an illegal alien.
Too soon…smh
The state of Krypton! Yeah, say you’re in Sacramento, just get on the 5 real quick… escape velocity quick. Look at the big dipper on your starboard facing shield and keep it on your reticle for 35 parsecs. Then it’s just past the big 2354Kolonila poster planet. You won’t miss it, it a really flat planet. Ask for Yorel, tell him you’re friends with Kal. But you’ll need one of several time machine types because krypton is gone these days.
All these things haven’t suddenly become woke, YOU JUST BECAME A RACIST BIGOTED XENOPHOBIC ASSHOLE!!! AKA MAGA.
They really do live in their own little bubble huh? Like dude is a literal alien, and they think he is a home grown hero.
zack Snyder has made people forget that superman is supposed to be likeable and do good things for the sake of it
If Gunn has balls he’ll do the Injustice plotline at some point.
How dare we suggest that Superman doesn’t reflect the full Aryan image? Sorry, I misspelled MAGA
If he was Aryan he’d have the common decency of having blond hair like a real Übermensch. The dark hair makes him look like someone from the middle east!
Thank goodness for the real nationalist icon
Captain AmericaThe Punisher.
DCU heads in their best J. Jonah Jameson voice:
FIND ME A SINGLE TWEET THAT MAKES A CONTROVERSY OF THIS MOVIE!! WE NEED FREE PUBLICITY DAMMIT!!! IT WORKED FOR DISNEY, IT WILL WORK FOR US!! GET ME
THOSE PICTURESTHAT TWEET!!!But he’s white! How can he be an immigrant!
Shame they did stick with a white actor. Imagine the chuds losing their minds over a Superman played by Pedro Pascal or Michael B. Jordan.
They were hoping to see a movie about the Ubermensch, not this woke comic book fake news!
Nah jk they don’t read.
They don’t want Superman; they want Homelander.
But they love zoolander.
…But why male models?
Some guys really like guys. Most guys I know love to listen to guys sing! These guys even try to dance like the guys dance! Its pretty acceptable these days. I like both the guys and the gals.
But why male models?
It could be Supergirl! How come there’s no superwoman?
Or do you mean how come Superman is not played by a black trans woman who is also half Chinese, Native American Navajo, Peruvian and Australian who also really likes anime and is deeply convinced to be Japanese or have Pacific Islander descendency? Oh I bet there’s only three of them and they’re all very busy women. One of them is also lesbian and a polyglot.
Know the difference:
Hand model
Not hand model
or at least Snyderman.
same thing
I have more than a few things to say to the face of those people.
