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Superman II

The Richard Donner version


Scene 392 - 393, "Lois and Kal-El"



392 INT. FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE - NIGHT

CAMERA CLOSE ON WALL PROJECTION: a colored, suggestive relief map of the Planet Krypton - not brilliantly distinctive, but rather something which gives impressions of the planet's different areas.

SUPERMAN'S VOICE
And there... past the Desert of Rozz, that's the capitol city, KANDOR, where I was born...


393 WIDER ANGLE

SUPERMAN and LOIS recline against the side of a comfortable upper nook of the Fortress, his arm encircling her. A short distance away: the empty soufflé dish, two plates and glasses, and the empty bottle of wine. They lie back, watch the projections on an opposite wall. The suggested images of JOR-EL and LARA appear through the map in pulsating strengths, first growing stronger, then disappearing again as LOIS watches, fascinated.

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SUPERMAN
That's my father, Jor-El... and my mother, my... real mother. Her name was Lara... and that's me... as a baby...

The images fade away. SUPERMAN smiles a bit self- consciously, never having revealed any of this to anyone before.

LOIS
It's amazing. I never really thought of you as having a family like... everyone else. I mean you just sort of... were, you know? Like a fact. A fact without a mother, or a father...

SUPERMAN draws LOIS closer, looks at her seriously.

SUPERMAN
There were so many times I wanted to tell you. Sitting next to you as Clark, smiling shyly, listening to you talk about Superman, and how much you... loved him...

He stops, embarrassed, realizing how much he's inadvertently eavesdropped on her during his life as CLARK. LOIS smiles nicely.

LOIS
That's all right. I suppose it is a little late in the game for me to play hard to get.

SUPERMAN looks deeply into her eyes.

SUPERMAN
It's all real now, Lois - I'm real - and I love you.

SUPERMAN kisses her passionately, lowers to the floor, half on top of her. She looks up at him dreamily.

LOIS
Mmm. If you only knew what that felt like...

SUPERMAN
The kiss?...

LOIS
Not... exactly...

LOIS smiles, pulls him all the way on top of her. CAMERA SLOWLY PANS UP, AWAY from them, to the jagged white crystalline ceiling of the Fortress, DISSOLVES THROUGH different sections of the structure as the unbelievably satisfied VOICE of LOIS echoes softly through them.

LOIS
... Superman... Superman... oh, Super ... man...


Sources:
1 - original source unknown; image courtesy of Superman CINEMA..


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