How many lines of dialogue Superman has in each movie

[Metallo]

What’s so brutal is not only do the newer films have him talk so little but his lines in Superman and the mole mole men almost rival his number of lines in MOS even though it’s only an hour long!

[crazy_asian_man]

That’s hilarious! 🙂

Odd that Supes 3 has the most lines given how it morphed into being a Richard Pryor vehicle.... (Or seems that way)

[Metallo]

I’ve thought about that and I think it makes sense for a number of reasons. STM is the longest Reeve movie but a teen Clark doesn’t show up into well into it so it’s less time for him to speak. Much of MOS is also flashbacks without Clark.

Superman IV is under 90 minutes so that’s far less screen time than he got in III but it’s also more speech heavy which means more lines compared to something like Superman II. Clark and Superman appear relatively early in Superman III (compared to STM) and it’s a good length film. Clark Kent gets more to do in III than usual so that’s more likes. Evil Superman gives a third side for Reeve to play so that’s even more likes. He has a whole sequence where he’s playing against himself. That dialogue would normally go to another character.

You’d think Pryor eating up so much screen time would take away from Reeve but apparently not. He didn’t get nearly as pushed to the side as Superman did in later films.