Cultural Allusions in Superman: The Movie (1978)

[thecolorsblend]

Andrew Wyeth, the famous 20th century regionalist painter, was a big influence on the Smallville sequences in STM. Donner and Mankeywhatsis didn't make a big deal out of that in interviews and other stuff. But every once in a while, one or the other would eventually mention Wyeth. How big of an influence was he really? Well, see for yourself.







Mind you, they also mentioned Norman Rockwell, but I have a harder time seeing that.

[The Laughing Fish]

Those paintings look pretty muted compared to the Smallville shots in S78. But I can see where Donner and Geoffrey Unsworth might've gotten the inspiration from when they constructed the sets and filmed some of the shots. That first painting of the girl looking at the two houses, Christina's World, reminds me a little bit of the Kent family home and farm and how they're spaced out between each other, and the third picture of the man standing at the center of the wheat fields reminds me of Clark saying goodbye to Martha.