Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris, the spiky-haired whelps who wrote Superman Returns, explain why the Man of Steel is now about "Truth, justice and... all that stuff":
"We were always hesitant to include the term 'American way' because the meaning of that today is somewhat uncertain," Ohio native Dougherty explains. "The ideal hasn't changed. I think when people say 'American way,' they're actually talking about what the 'American way' meant back in the '40s and '50s, which was something more noble and idealistic."
Right. America was so much better back then. We were so much closer to what we wanted to be. With the segregated drinking fountains and the Red Scare. Come on, who can think about Charles Starkweather or Emmett Till or payola or the quiz show scandals or polio or Korea without a glow of fond nostalgia?
I guess this is what happens when movies are written by dudes who think history is just a channel they never watch.
Posted by Jim Treacher at June 30, 2006 04:21 PM