Psychology of a Hero: Christopher Reeve's SUPERMAN

Lois: Who are you?

Superman: A friend.

Jono: This is Cinema Therapy.

Like, who I am, and my half of why the show exists

is directly linked back to this.

Because from the moment he arrives,

his entire mission and entire purpose is, What can I do to help?

Christopher: We're all family. And we all have value.

Jono: Our ability to be there for other people stems from the pain that we ourselves suffer.

Alan: How can I be the most inspiring version that I can be?

Christopher: Oh, everybody's looking for a hero.

Jono: What is heroic is, well, what can you do to protect

or to ease the burdens of somebody else?

How is it that I can't see those wires that he's on?

Jono: Hello, and welcome to Cinema Therapy.

I'm Jonathan Decker, a licensed therapist who loves movies. This is...

Alan: Clark Kent, mild mannered reporter.

Jono: Well, all right. Well, we'll go with that.

Today we're going to be talking about Chris Reeve's Superman, Psychology of a Hero.

Ground zero for both my love of film and my desire to help people in my life.

Like, this is...

Alan: This is it. This is two thirds of your personality.

Jono: In a perfect world, the other third would be Ted Lasso.

Be curious, not judgmental.

I like that.

Jono: We're gonna be doing a Psychology of a Hero, of who Superman truly is,

and why it matters to have role models of just what goodness is.

But let's just jump right in and then we'll take it from there.

Alan: Giddy up.

Mr. Kent: Yeah, I know you can do all these amazing things,

and sometimes you think that you will just go bust

unless you can tell people about it, huh?

Clark: Yeah. Mr. Kent: Yeah. That's right.

Clark: I mean, every time I get the football, I can make a touchdown. Mr. Kent: That's for sure.

Clark: Every time. Mr. Kent: Yeah.

Clark: I mean, is it showing off if somebody doing the things he's capable of doing?

Is bird showing off when it flies?

Mr. Kent: No, no. Now you listen to me.

When you first came to us, we thought that people would come and take you away.