Superman (1978 film) that of "The Creation of Adam". The Christian imagery in the Reeve films has provoked comment on the Jewish origins of Superman. Rabbi Simcha Weinstein's book "Up, Up and Oy Vey: How Jewish History, Culture and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero", says that Superman is both a pillar of society and one whose cape conceals a "nebbish", saying "He's a bumbling, nebbish Jewish stereotype. He's Woody Allen." Ironically, it is also in the Reeve films that Clark Kent's persona has the greatest resemblance to Woody Allen, though his conscious model was Cary Grant's character in "Bringing Up Baby". This
Christopher Reeve went to New Mexico to shoot "Speechless", co-starring Michael Keaton who, like Reeve, also portrayed a famous DC Comics superhero on film: Batman. Reeve then went to Point Reyes to shoot John Carpenter's film "Village of the Damned", a remake of a 1960 British movie of the same name. Both of these films with this title were based on the 1957 novel "The Midwich Cuckoos" by John Wyndham. Shortly before his accident, Reeve played a paralyzed police officer in the HBO movie "Above Suspicion". He did research at a rehabilitation hospital in Van Nuys and learned how to use a