![]() Some ‘friend’.” She walks over to a table, pours herself some wine, and slumps into the chair. She looks at her watch, which shows it’s a few minutes past eight, and she paces across her enormous garden terrace. Lois’ first line here is one of those additions. There are a number of additional lines in the filmed scene that weren’t in the original script, and all of them point in the same direction: making the scene more explicitly romantic. ![]() ![]() They did the extra filming because they weren’t sure that they’d gotten the tone right, the first time. They actually filmed this scene over the course of several months - some in October 1977, some in November, and a third shoot in January ’78. Now, this is a pivotal scene - not just for the movie, but for civilization in general - and Donner, Mankiewicz and the actors took it very seriously. I mean, is this an interview, or a date, or just a fly-by, or what? Is this dinner? What does “Hopefully – a friend” mean? How do you prepare for this event? ![]() Now, as a blockbuster action-adventure movie, Superman needs to create moments of tension and anxiety for the audience, and this, I believe, is the scariest thing in the movie: Lois knows that Superman is going to drop by her place at eight pm, and she has no idea what to wear. So here we are, at the start of the other important balcony scene in Western literature: Lois Lane’s date with a space ape. ![]() But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is Central Park West, and Juliet is the sun. ![]()
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