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Just found the teaser trailer for the new Superman movie via a post on Digg. It looks very slick and solidly mythic in scale and imagery. Lots of high contrast close ups with extreme low angles and raking light. There no dialog, just a stirring horn fanfare and a booming god-like voice (which sounds to me like Anthony Hopkins). Here's where it gets super weird. This is what the voice says:

Even though you've been raised as a human being you are not one of them. They can be a great people Ka-El. They wish to be, they only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you, my only son.

Wha? In the Superman story I remember, Ka-El is sent away from a planet that's in the process of being destroyed and kind of randomly flung towards earth as a potentially hospitable new home, not sent down to Earth by his Father, the Redeemer, to cleanse the sins of mankind, to show them "the light" and "the way". Is this a new superman for the new Evangelist red state America? Superman as Jesus? Ick!

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