4. Cecil B DeMille's Superman
Sorcha EdwardGiven the overt parallels between Moses and the Last Son of Krypton - brought to the story by Jewish creators Siegel and Shuster - then it would be fitting that the creative team behind the most famous cultural depiction (outside The Old Testament) of Moses's story: The Ten Commandments would also be responsible for bringing Kal-El's tale to the big screen. Cecil B. DeMille would bring a sweeping epic quality to Superman wrought large in Cinemascope, drawing upon the art-deco beauty of the Fleischer cartoons and the glorious matte backgrounds of his biblical masterpieces. Only Charlton Heston could portray DeMille's Superman, with a flighty Vivian Leigh as Lois Lane, and in perhaps the greatest missed character casting opportunity of all: Yul Brynner as a dark and intense Lex Luthor. Impossibly detailed mattes would serve as Kryptons doomed landscapes. This Superman would move mountains with the ease of Moses parting the Red Sea, creating the perfect Technicolor backdrop for Charlton Hestons lantern-jawed all-American Superman to face off against Yul Brynner's megalomaniacal Luthor.
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