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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jian" data-source="post: 9662330" data-attributes="member: 78087">He’s not just talking to his girlfriend in private. It looks like a practice interview, which is pretty sensible, especially with her. And yes, if you’re going to vent your feelings before a real interview, it’s a good setting to do it. I don’t fault Clark for having the feelings, but it’s an odd thing to show in the trailer, because it makes him seem less wise and mature than he probably should be.Portrayals of Superman are quite difficult in media, because what’s his internal world like, really? This is someone who has all the power and responsibility in the world, and yet somehow has to be everyone’s friend and everyone’s saviour. He has to restrain and control himself to an impossible degree - to actively make an effort to not break or hurt everything and everyone he touches - and yet seem open, kind, genuine, and friendly. He has to keep going, listening for every scream of terror and every rumble of the earth, saving lives and putting out fires at Mach 40 every moment he can bear it.  He can never rest, never be selfish, never use his unlimited power to make himself famous or rich or feared. It’s impossible, unimaginable, and inhuman. Given all that, it’s quite tempting to never portray his internal world at all, which is basically what the Reeve films mostly do. But one conclusion from the above is that if Superman is unfailingly benevolent, he must also have impossible levels of willpower. Social media and public approval are actually the least of his problems - he’s not a celebrity who relies on public engagement and media contracts to survive or do his job. He doesn’t have to read a word of X if he doesn’t want to. Nothing can stop him from saving people except himself (and kryptonite). He doesn’t do it for the love or worship: he’s not a god. He does it because it’s the right thing to do, and he’ll do it in secret if he has to. Caring about what other people think is a weakness writers give him because that’s what they would do in his place, but I don’t think it can ever be a fatal vulnerability or a core conflict.</blockquote>

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