jeff east played teenage clark kent in superman the movie.
jeff east played teenage clark kent in superman the movie.
who played teenage clark kent in superman the movie?
jeff east
in 1978, the first of four superman films was made in which clark kent and superman were portrayed by christopher reeve (with teenage kent played by jeff east in the first film). this was followed nearly two decades later by a fifth film called "superman returns" with brandon routh giving a performance very similar to reeve's. in contrast to george reeves' intellectual clark kent, reeve's version is much more of an awkward fumbler and bungler, although reeve is also an especially athletic, dashing and debonair superman. clark kent's hair is always absolutely flat, while superman's hair has a slight wave and is parted on the opposite side as kent's. these films leave the impression that clark kent is really a "secret" identity that is used to enable superman to serve humanity better, rather than just a role to help him assimilate into the human community.
clark kent
bullet::::- clark kent is real, superman the mask: with john byrne's more assertive revamp of clark kent as well as superman's greater grounding in earth culture and humanity (as opposed to the everpresent kryptonian heritage of the pre-"crisis" version), superman is considered the "mask" and clark the person. this is made explicit by clark himself in "superman" (vol. 2) #53, when following his revelation to lois of his role as superman ("action comics" #662), he states: "i'm clark, the man you love. superman is the creation – you named me, lois." in pre-crisis continuity, kal-el was already a toddler before leaving krypton, and retained memories of that childhood that later resurfaced, while, in post-"crisis" continuity, he was sent to earth pre-natally in a "birthing matrix" (more recently retconned as an infant) and raised entirely by the kents. as a result of their rearing, kal-el grows up to think of himself as clark kent, completely unaware of his alien heritage until he was well into adulthood (the fact that the kents found him sometime just after the cold war meant that the kents assumed the rocket they found him in was from an earth-based space program — possibly that of communist russia — and that clark had superhuman abilities because he was either a metahuman or some kind of genetic experiment). although the morals instilled in him by the kents have motivated kal-el to use his abilities to help others, he developed the superman persona to protect his clark kent identity. in the "" episode "the late mr. kent", wherein clark kent is presumed dead, superman expresses frustration at the idea of not being clark and having to be someone else instead ("i "am" clark. i need to be clark. i'd go crazy if i had to be superman all the time!"). in a previous episode, the third part of the "last son of krypton" arc, jonathan "pa" kent assures his adoptive son that he will "always be clark kent" and that "superman just helps out every now and then." in the "tempus fugitive" episode of "lois & clark", clark attempts to persuade lois that superman does not define him: "superman is what i can do. clark is who i "am"."
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