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‘Superman’ Test Screenings Asked ‘Why the F— Is He Saving a Squirrel?’ and James Gunn Originally Cut It Out: ‘I Put the Squirrel Back Despite Protestations’

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Why the F— Is He Saving a Squirrel?’
Asked someone who clearly doesn't understand the character of Superman and how much he values life.
What do they think the big S on his chest stands for?
David F. Sandberg's YouTube video on test screenings (Invidious link)
When your audience asks such questions, it is time to get a different audience.
It doesn't matter whether the act aligns with the character of
<movie protagonist>
, I would have been annoyed if I learnt about such a scene that got edited out.
- Just because a test audience asks a question doesn't necessarily mean the scene is bad anyway.
  A director or writer may hear that an audience were left pondering a question and say "good. Let them think about it."
Good. It was a great scene and helps emphasize the kind of person Supes is.
- Yep. This is literally the only modern Superman movie that gets that. That's what he thinks his power is for, because it is.
Because he's willing to save the least of us, even test screeners. Although I imagine he wrecks a lot of bugs when flying.
- Dont look at Superman's teeth when he smiles while flying
- Dude can see atoms and travel faster than light, by a magnitude of millions. Unless he meant to then he didnt kill anything but bacteria. Also, how has kryptonian bacteria from his gut not taken over the world?
  
  I don't think they came with. You're not born with a gut biome, it has to be introduced. If they basically prevented this or the pod's life support system purged them all before he got to Earth to contaminate it with super bacteria, that would solve the problem. Feasible enough given the tech level of Krypton. Enough for my suspension of disbelief anyway. But it's comics, they hand wave that shit away constantly because "alien microbes exterminate earth within a year of ship landing" doesn't make for a good story in anything but the hardest of sci-fi. Even a lot of decent sci-fi writers do that, or else don't think about it.
I will swerve my car to avoid hitting a squirrel. Superman and I are basically the same person.
- I'll gladly slow down if one is crossing, but that double back shit they do is entirely on them.

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