Henry Cavel stood under the BvS billboard in time square in a superman shirt and no one recognized him.
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Well, it's also Manhattan where the only time that you make eye contact with someone is to silently negotiate where opposing foot traffic is going.
And, knowing it's New York, if I noticed him, I would have probably seen him and thought, "this guy looks like Henry Cavill and is trying to make a few bucks in Times Square with tourists" Which is kind of a thing in Times Square.
Holy shit that is a amazing stunt. 10/10 decision by Henry Caville. What an absolute lad
But I'm betting Henry's girlfriend (if he has one) would have recognized him. Even if he wore glasses.
I would have.
My biggest gripe with the Clark Kent disguise is that I think it's truly impossible for someone who's confident and strong to pretend they aren't. They're in the wrong head space for making all of those signals.
Edit: that was supposed to be a gif saying "acting".....
If Lois puts on sunglasses and looks into a mirror will she recognize herself?
"holy shit I'm superman"
All of the "clark kent" level disguises are completly immersion breaking.
Instead "ooo she doesn't know he's the awkward newspaper guy she's in love with" its "my god woman, are you blind? All he did was take off his glasses and put on tights yet you can't regonize the man"
She just has undiagnosed face blindness. So she just goes off of people's behaviors, and since Clark has never turned into superman in front of her she doesn't realize it's the same person.
Go watch the Christopher Reeve Superman movies. He makes it completely believable that the disguise works.
My wife points this out every time. His whole demeanor and posture changes when he puts on the glasses.
The hair changes with the costume, too. Neatly combed to one side as Clark, swept to the other with the iconic spit curl as Supes.
She sees what she wants to see...
Lois Lane has known about Superman's identity for a few decades at this point, IIRC
I hate it when memes don't strictly adhere to modern comic book canon.
Me too thanks
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They made a joke about that in the Scooby Doo and Krypto Too movie. When Velma takes off her glasses neither Lois or Jimmy recognized her. It was corny and tongue-in-cheek, I loved it.
We talking regular everyday glasses, or Groucho Marx type glasses, with the bulging eyes on springs?
Because that makes a big difference.
Clark Kent actually does a lot to hide the fact that he's superman.
He changes his posture to make himself look shorter, the glasses he wears are very thick and they distort the image of his eyes quite a bit.
He also wears multiple layers of clothing to hide his physique and if anyone ever finds out how ripped he is and they start investigating him, he has a set of weights in his apartment and upon looking into his past, "oh, he grew up on a farm!"
This is why I loved the Christopher Reeve characterization... His Clark acted differently, walked into doors, bumbled, stuttered, somehow seemed smaller and less characterful. Every time someone says, "oh stick some glasses on and he'll be unrecognisable" I think of those parts, and... Yeah, just about possible.
This scene for me (you can skip to 1:20 or so) showed that it's at least feasible, but it definitely takes a lot more than glasses, which is where many of the non Christopher Reeve's portrayals fall flat. They always play Superman in both roles but it's just Superman with glasses.
Christopher Reeve on the other hand showed that Clark Kent is the perfect disguise when portrayed correctly and it's at least understandable that especially the people that know Clark would never suspect for a second that he's Superman because they've never seen anything but a quiet, weak and easily frightened man who is nothing like Superman at all! Superman is also way taller!
Watching him stand up straight and put some confidence on his face, voice and transform into Superman over the course of 10ish seconds was one thing, but watching him deflate back into Kent in under 2 seconds was another altogether! That shift was jarring for me and showed just how good the disguise was and how good of an actor Reeve was.