Superman

"In the decade of the 1930s, even the great city of Metropolis...

...was not spared the ravages of the worldwide depression.

In the times of fear and confusion, the job of informing the public...

...was the responsibility of the Daily Planet...

...a great metropolitan newspaper, whose reputation for clarity and truth...

...had become a symbol of hope for the city of Metropolis. "

This is no fantasy...

...no careless product of wild imagination.

No, my good friends....

These indictments I have brought you today...

...the specific charges listed herein against the individuals...

...their acts of treason, their ultimate aim of sedition...

...these are matters of undeniable fact.

I ask you now to pronounce judgment...

...on those accused.

On this....

This mindless aberration, whose only means of expression...

...are wanton violence and destruction.

On the woman, Ursa...

...whose perversions and unreasoning hatred of all mankind...

...have threatened even the children of the planet Krypton.

Finally, General Zod.

Once trusted by this council...

...charged with maintaining the defense of the planet Krypton itself.

Chief architect of this intended revolution...

...and author of this insidious plot to establish a new order amongst us...

...with himself as absolute ruler.

You have heard the evidence.

The decision of the council will now be heard.

Guilty.

Guilty.

Guilty.

The vote must be unanimous, Jor-El.

It has therefore now become your decision.

You alone will condemn us if you wish...

...and you alone will be held responsible by me.

Join us.

You have been known to disagree with the council before.

Yours could become an important voice in the new order...

...second only to my own.

I offer you a chance for greatness, Jor-El !

Take it! Join us!

You will bow down before me, Jor-El.

I swear it.

No matter that it takes an eternity, you will bow down before me!

Both you...

...and then one day...

...your heirs!

No!

-Let us out of here! -Help me!

-Forgive me! -I shall return !

Forgive me!

I shall return !

An unpleasant duty has been masterly performed, Jor-El.

They have received the fate they deserved.

Isolation in the Phantom Zone...

...an eternal living death.

A chance for life, nonetheless.

As opposed to us.

It's suicide. No, it's worse.

It's genocide.

Be warned, Jor-El.

The council has already evaluated this outlandish theory of yours.

My friends, you know me to be neither rash nor impulsive.

I am not given to wild, unsupported statements.

And I tell you that we must evacuate this planet immediately.

Jor-El, you are one of Krypton's greatest scientists.

Yes, but so is Vond-Ah.

It isn't that they question your data. The facts are undeniable.

It's your conclusions we find unsupportable.

This planet will explode within 30 days, if not sooner.

I tell you, Krypton is simply shifting its orbit.

Jor-El, be reasonable.

My friend...

...I have never been otherwise.

This madness is yours.

This discussion is terminated.

The decision of the council is final.

Any attempt by you to create a climate of fear and panic among the populace...

...must be deemed by us an act of insurrection.

You would accuse me of insurrection?

Has it now become a crime to cherish life?

You would be banished to endless imprisonment...

...in the Phantom Zone...

...the eternal void...

...which you yourself discovered.

Will you abide by the council's decision?

I will remain silent.

Neither l, nor my wife will leave Krypton.

Have you finished?

Nearly.

It's the only answer, Lara.

If he remains here with us he will die as surely as we will.

But why Earth, Jor-El?

They're primitives thousands of years behind us.

He will need that advantage to survive.

Their atmosphere will sustain him.

He will defy their gravity.

He will look like one of them.

He won't be one of them.

No.

His dense molecular structure will make him strong.

He'll be odd. Different.

He'll be fast. Virtually invulnerable.

lsolated, alone.

He will not be alone.

He will never be alone.

The energy input to Jor-El's quarters is now in excess.

Our data indicates the loss is due to a misuse of energy.

Investigate.

And if the investigation proves correct?

He knew the penalty he faced.

Even as a member of this council.

The law will be upheld.

You will travel far, my little Kal-El.

But we will never leave you...

...even in the face of our deaths.

The richness of our lives, it will be yours.

All that I have, all that I've learned, everything I feel...

...all this and more...

...I bequeath you, my son.

You will carry me inside you all the days of your life.

You will make my strength your own, see my life through your eyes...

...as your life will be seen through mine.

The son becomes the father, and the father the son.

This is all I....

All I can send you...

...Kal-El.

Stop. Stop, stop!

--which Einstein called his theory of relativity.

Embedded in the crystals before you is the total accumulation of all literature...

...and scientific fact from dozens of other worlds...

...spanning the 28 known galaxies.

Early Chinese writings point out the complex relationships....

By carrying this complex equation to its ultimate power, my son....

Chief among these powers will be your sight...

...your strength, your hearing...

...your ability to propel yourself at almost limitless speed.

The early history of our universe was a bloody mosaic of interplanetary war.

Each of the six galaxies which you will pass through...

...contain their own individual law, space and time.

It is forbidden for you to interfere with human history.

What was that?

Now, wouldn't that beat all get-out?

Will you-- You....

Pa....

Oh, my.

All these years, as happy as we've been...

...how I've prayed the good Lord...

...see fit to give us a child.

Honey, will you hand me that rag up there.

You take things easy, Jonathan.

Remember what Doc Frye said about that heart of yours.

Now the first thing we've got to do when we get home is find out...

...who that boy's proper family is.

He hasn't got any. Not around here, anyway.

Martha, are you thinking what I think you're thinking?

We could say he's the child of my cousin in North Dakota.

And just now orphaned.

-Oh, Martha. -Jonathan, he's only a baby.

Martha.... Now, you saw how we found him.

Martha Clark Kent, are you listening to what I'm saying?

Jonathan !

Come on, gang.

Come on.

-That was a great game, huh? -Yeah, but next week we're....

All right.

Come on, gang, hustle. Let's go.

Stack your helmets neatly.

Remember about those uniforms. Cleaned and washed by tomorrow...

...and looking like a football team.

Clark, have the clothes washed and ready...

-...for tomorrow's game. -Yes, sir.

Got to beat Mount Vernon High !

-Can you give me a lift? -Home early!

Lana? Don't bother with these, huh?

I'll take them in with the other equipment.

-Thank you, Clark. -Sure.

Listen, a whole bunch of us are going up to Mary Ellen's...

...play some records....

Would you like to come?

Sure. Sounds like it'd be a lot of fun.

Kent can't make it. Still got a lot of work to do.

What are you talking about? I just finished stacking all the--

All that?

Oh, Brad.

-Hey, come on, Lana. -Come on, Lana.

Come on, let's go.

-He's got to clean up. -Bye, Clark.

-Yeah. Bye, Lana. -Clean this up, Clark.

-Let's go. -Bye, Clark.

-We're off to Mary Ellen's. -See you, Clark.

All right.

-Bye, Clark. -Bye, Clark.

Bye, Clark. See you tomorrow. Bye-bye.

Golly, I saw a boy out there run as fast as the train !

Faster even !

Lois Lane, you have a writer's gift for invention.

-I'll say that for you. -But-- But--

Lois, please read your book.