Saturday, March 5, 2016

An excerpt from the Superman movie: Man of Steel

Superman speaking to his father: "Is it true what Zod said about the Codex?" [General Zod is one of Superman's prominent enemies. The Codex is a Kryptonian element that decodes the genetic makeup of the artificially incubated babies on the Krypton]

Jor-el speaking to Superman: "We wanted you to learn what it meant to be human first so that one day, when the time was right, you could be the bridge between two peoples." [Jor-El is Superman's biological Kryptonian father, a leading scientist on Krypton before its destruction. He foresaw the planet's fate but was unable to convince his colleagues in time to save the inhabitants]

[Then both Jor-el and Superman look out the window and see Lois, who is being taken hostage by an enemy]

Jor-el speaking to Superman: "You can save her Kal; You can save all of them." [Superman's real name is Kal-El, son of Jor-El. The suffix El, of course, means “of God” in Hebrew, with Kal-El defined by some as “Voice of God.” Before Krypton's doom, Kal-El's parents put him in a Moses-like basket, sending him down the Nile of intergalactic space until he landed safely on Earth]

An officer reporting to Colonel Hardy: "Jor-el took the Codex; the DNA of a billion people, then he bonded it within his son's individual cells. All of Krypton's heirs, living hidden in one refugee's body." 

Colonel Hardy replying to the officer: "Does Kal-el need to be alive for us to extract the Codex from his cells?" 

The officer answers: "No". Then Colonel Hardy commands, "Release the world engine."

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