These are matters of undeniable fact!
Superman (1978)
JOR-EL
A screenplay character in Superman (1978).
- lines
- 39
- words
- 1,039
- scenes
- 8
- dialogue
- 14%
- avg words / line
- 27
- shortest / longest
- 1 / 182
Sample dialogue
My son, you do not remember me. I am Jor-El. I am... your father. By now you will have reached your eighteenth year of time as it is measured on earth. By that same reckoning I will have been dead for many thousands of your years. The knowledge that I have of, matters physical and historic I have given to you fully on your voyage to your new home. These are important matters, to be sure, but still matters of mere fact. There are questions to be asked and it is time for you to do so. Here in this Fortress of Solitude we shall try to find the answers together. How does a good man live? What is virtue? When does a man's obligation to those around him exceed his obligation to himself? These are not simple questions - even on Krypton there is no precise science which provides us with the answers. I can only tell you what I myself believe. To this end, I have tried to anticipate your questions, and in the order of their importance to you.
scene 89 — INT. FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE - DAYFast. Virtually invulnerable...
scene 17 — INT. JOR-EL'S LABORATORY - NIGHTI have never been otherwise. The madness is yours!
scene 15 — INT. COUNCIL - DAYHow good it felt!
scene 181A — INT. FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE - DAYYou will travel far, my little Kal-El. But I will never leave you. Even in the face of my death the richness of my life shall be yours. All that I have learned, everything I feel, all of this and more I have bequeathed to you my son. You shall carry me inside you all your days. You will make my strength your own, see my life through your eyes, as your life will be seen through mine. The son becomes the father the father becomes the son. This is all that I can send with you, Kal-El. And not near so rich a gift as that your mother sends along. Her... love.
scene 20 — INT. JOR-EL'S LABORATORY - NIGHT
Bookends
our destruction could have been avoided but for the vanity of some who considered us indestructible. Were it not for vanity... why... at this very moment... I could embrace you in my arms