Donner's Superman 2

Superman II
The Richard Donner version

Scene 377 - 388, "Blooming romance"

377 INT. FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE - NIGHT

CAMERA CLOSE on LOIS' hands as she cracks an egg, and expertly starts mixing ingredients into a soufflé pan, other cooking utensils, spread out near her, ostensibly in her own kitchen.

LOIS' VOICE
... we'll need another couple of eggs ... oh, and while you're out, maybe you can pick up a nice bottle of wine...

378 WIDER ANGLE

CAMERA LOOKS PAST LOIS: we realize we are in the Fortress which stretches out behind her. The makeshift kitchen has been arranged on a high rear level. SUPERMAN stands next to her watching, approaches from behind, caresses her neck softly. She reacts, turns slowly. He looks down at her with a disarming, almost shy smile.

SUPERMAN
And what else is missing?

LOIS looks up at him, her eyes filled with love.

LOIS
For the very first time in my life - nothing at all.

SUPERMAN leans in as LOIS trembles involuntarily: they kiss for the very first time - a kiss so good that half the world would settle for just one like that in their whole lives. They finally break, their mouths still only inches apart.

LOIS
(whisper)
Where did you learn to do that...?

SUPERMAN
Here... just now...

They kiss passionately as we QUICK CUT TO:

379 EXT. SKY - NIGHT

SUPERMAN cartwheels and loops in the sky like a lovestruck teenager after his first date. He zooms up and down, back and forth with a silly grin on his face, suddenly speeds off towards the East - the time change gradually turning night into day.

380 EXT. STREET - PISA - ITALY - DAY

CAMERA CLOSE on a souvenir stand in Pisa: the shelves hold rows and rows of cheap plastic souvenir Leaning Towers of Pisa, all leaning identically; above are rows of picture postcards with the same identical view. An ITALIAN SHOPKEEPER admires his stock as he gets ready for the day's tourists. CAMERA WIDENS: in the distant B.G. is the real Leaning Tower of Pisa, tilted at the same familiar angle as all the plastic replicas. The SHOPKEEPER hums happily as CAMERA PANS UP to an approaching blue dot in the sky.

381 EXT. SKY ABOVE PISA - DAY

SUPERMAN flies blithely, lovestruck, through the sky, a bottle of wine in one hand, a bouquet of beautiful flowers in the other. He looks down, sees the Leaning Tower, playfully swoops to make a low pass at it like a buzzing fighter plane.

382 EXT. TOWER OF PISA - DAY

A blue flash circles the Tower twice with tremendous speed and pulls up into the sky again.

383 INSERT SHOT - BASE OF TOWER

A huge cracked cornerstone at the higher base of the Tower suddenly crumbles from the impact of SUPERMAN'S incredible speed.

384 ANGLE ON TOWER - SUPERMAN'S POV

The Leaning Tower rights itself into an erect position.

385 EXT. PISA SOUVENIR STAND - DAY

The SHOPKEEPER dusts his shelves, hums to himself. He turns automatically to look at the source of his success - his jaw drops. The Leaning Tower isn't leaning anymore; it's just another Tower. The SHOPKEEPER clutches his heart melodramatically.

SHOPKEEPER
Mamma mia!

The SHOPKEEPER looks at the Tower, then back at his wares, then back at the Tower - screams after SUPERMAN as the blue dot disappears in the sky.

SHOPKEEPER
Super-Cretino! Stronzo!...

Hysterical, he makes an obscene gesture, turns, begins smashing his wares off the shelf.

386 INT. FORTRESS - NIGHT

EXTREME CLOSEUP of SUPERMAN and LOIS, their faces filling the screen, looking softly at each other.

SUPERMAN
(whisper)
Ready?...

LOIS
(shyly)
Now listen to me, darling. I realize you've never done this before and I must have done it hundreds of times, so just relax and do exactly what I tell you - all right?

SUPERMAN
I'm nervous...

LOIS
I understand. Okay. Easy now. Go...

CAMERA WIDENS, PANS: The soufflé pan sits a short distance away. SUPERMAN turns on his X-Ray Vision:

387 INSERT SHOT - SOUFFLÉ PAN

The soufflé slowly begins to rise under the heat of SUPERMAN'S vision.

LOIS
Slowly now... not too hot...

The light dims imperceptibly - the soufflé rises perfectly, higher and higher.

LOIS
Stop! Never overcook a soufflé...

388 ANGLE ON THEM

LOIS crosses, examines it, turns, grins, amazed.

LOIS
Perfect!

SUPERMAN
It's easy when you know the chef.

LOIS
(kisses him quickly)
Oh, yeah? Wait till we get into roasts and poultry.

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