Man Of Steel: First Look At Russell Crowe In His Jor El Costume

comicbookmovie.com ^ | Oct. 4, 2011

[Free ThinkerNY]

The actor was snapped taking a quick smoke break on the set of Zack Snyder's Superman reboot in his character's costume. This is our first glimpse of how he will look as Jor El.

[nfldgirl]

Oh Yes! Another great movie of his. Would liked to have seen a sequel to that one. I also liked him in the Robin Hood movie, although there was a lot of criticism of it. However, I found it very entertaining...thought that he and Kate Blanchett made a great team. I’ve always liked his acting. Hope he still has a few good ones left in him.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Certainly isn't the Marlon Brando Jor El!

[Opinionated Blowhard]

He looks just like Marlon Brando as Jor El. A formerly good looking, in shape actor who is starting to go to pot. Look for Russell in size 54 pants in the near future.

[Aria]

Testosterone poisoning.

[Borges]

Brando was horrible in that film.

[Paradox]

Gladiator is one of my favorite movies of all time. It really gets to me. So many good quotes in that movie, the music, the acting.. wow...

[Dr. Sivana]

Now, what is so awful about classic Silver Age Jor-El and Lara?!

If Superman spends his adult life flying around in colorful skin tight stuff with a big insignia, is it so hard to believe that his dad and other great Kryptonians would do likewise? (Oh, and bury Don Jor-El-leone Brando once and for all. Just because they overpaid for his services in 1977 or whenever, doesn't mean we should have to put up with his rendition forever!)

[beebuster2000]

jorel was the dad. monel was the fishing line.

[freejohn]

The ‘S’ and the shield wasn’t even invented until Mom Kent made the first costume out of Kal El’s baby blankets!

[reed13k]

Jor-el is the father of kal-el (superman/Clark Kent). Mon-el was a traveler from another planet (daxam) who had the same powers as supes he crashed on earth after exposure to lead (his weakness) poisoned him. To save him superboy placed him in the phantom zone where he stayed until one of the legion of superheroes in the future created a serum to cure him. That hero was Brainiac V, who was a descendent of a slave of one of supermans greatest villains- The computer minded Brainiac. Hope that helps ;-p

Oh there is also zor-el, Kara-el (supergirl), and ....

[beebuster2000]

lara was his mom on krypton.

diane lane is playing mrs. kent in the movie, supes earth mom

[Dr. Sivana]

Jor El was his Superman’s real pop, right? I get all that confused. There was Mon El and Kal El too, but I forget who was who and what was what.

Not allowing for post-silver age revisions, Kal-El is Clark Kent/Superman. I think Hawkman gets to call him by that name (it's a Thanagorian thing). Jor-El is the dad, Lara is his mom, and her maiden name also began with an "L." Supes always had this obssessive/compulsive thing with LL women (Lois Lane, Lana Lang, Lori LeMaris). Zor-El was Jor-El's brother in Argo City, which flew off in one chunk with Zor-El, his wife, and daughter Kara (Supergirl). Kryptonian religion does not allow first cousins to marry, making it considerably stiffer than say, the Old Testament, especially given the circumstances. Ten-million Kandorians who were abducted pre-explosion by Braniac and shrunk, are also around. Why Superman didn't look for a mate in Kandor is beyond me (they can expand and shrink a handful of people, just not the whole city.) Mon-El is a relative to Kal, but I forget the details. Krypto was put in an experimental rocket, that found its way to earth, along with all of those indestructible Kryptonite meteorites. There's more, much more, but that is what's off the top of my head.

[magritte]

Mon-el was from a different planet, but crashed on Krypton...Jor-el helped him out, then steered him toward Earth before the explosion. Mon-el caught the amnesia, and Supes treated him like a big bro, but eventually it was all figured out and Mon-el went back to his home planet.

Ah, I love the Supes of the 60’s...

[6SJ7]

As long as I live, I’ll never forget Russell Crowe as Maximus Decimus Meridius....aka Gladiator!

That was a great movie. I learned that interestingly enough, although the Maximus character was fictional, the other characters portrayed were historic, including the young Emperor Comodus. When I first saw the movie, I thought they were getting a bit too dramatic having the emperor fight in the colosseum, but apparently Comudus caught many times as a gladiator. He also cheated, as was shown in the movie, by either having his opponent pre-wounded, or providing the opponent with only a lead sword.

[Jack Hydrazine]

I haven’t sat down to watch that version with Brando since it aired on tv the first time. As a child I thought he was good. I’ll have to look up his scenes on GoogTube.

Why, in your opinion, was he horrible?

[greene66]

Ah, yeah. That starts ringing a lot of bells. Sometimes I could never get it all clear. I enjoyed the Superman line of comics, but never really got into all the minutea. As a kid in the 70s, I always preferred the Superman comics with the ‘older’ reprint stories to what was then-current.

But wait, if you are Dr. Sivana, you should be more versed in Captain Marvel lore, correct? Names like Black Adam and Freddy Freeman, right? Or, Mary Marvel’s girl friend with the freckles and pigtails? Things like that.

[Bratch]

[csvset]

His Uncle K-Tel was in merchandising.

[nfldgirl]

Some of my favorites:

"What we do in life, echoes in eternity.

"Three weeks from now, I will be harvesting my crops. Imagine where you will be, and it will be so. Hold the line! Stay with me! If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you're already dead!"

Marcus Aurelius: When was the last time you were home? Maximus: Two years, two hundred and sixty-four days and this morning.

"Blessed father, watch over my wife and son with a ready sword. Whisper to them that I live only to hold them again, for all else is dust and air."

"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius. Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."

"I knew a man who once said, 'Death smiles at us all. All that man can do is smile back.'"

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[rlmorel]

Yep. Agree 100%. He OWNED that part!