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random happy-making thing
Sep. 20th, 2012 01:58 pmBack when I was obsessed with Superman: the Movie, I remember buying and reading David Michael Petrou's The Making of Superman: the Movie, which included this description of the filming: "After several days in the steambathlike depths of Grand Central, the unit moved back to 42nd Street for additional shooting outside the Daily Planet (nee' Daily News) building. An enormous crowd had gathered by early afternoon to watch stuntwoman Ellen Bry's spectacular jump- actually more of a bounce- from the awning over the Daily Planet entrance into a well-stocked fruit pushcart."
The wha...? There was no scene like that in the first movie (I and most of II were filmed by director Richard Donner during one long main shoot; after Donner was fired by the producers, Richard Lester reshot enough material for II to qualify to be credited as the director on that film), nor in II. I merely filed it away under the heading of "cinematic mysteries"... until a few weeks ago, when I finally caught up with Superman II: the Donner version (a re-edit supervised by Richard Donner, intended to use as much of his footage as possible), including this scene of Lois attempting to force Superman to reveal his identity.
Mystery solved!
The wha...? There was no scene like that in the first movie (I and most of II were filmed by director Richard Donner during one long main shoot; after Donner was fired by the producers, Richard Lester reshot enough material for II to qualify to be credited as the director on that film), nor in II. I merely filed it away under the heading of "cinematic mysteries"... until a few weeks ago, when I finally caught up with Superman II: the Donner version (a re-edit supervised by Richard Donner, intended to use as much of his footage as possible), including this scene of Lois attempting to force Superman to reveal his identity.
Mystery solved!
