"Superman" by Jameseims Gun (2025) was a giant swing of a movie. It made the daring choice to jump right in the action of this New DC universeThe introduction of a Superman who has been fighting bad guys for years in a world that is already taking place with superpower heroes and villains. But for the director/writer Jameseims Gun, the most ambitious part of the film was nothing with the world building; It was the early conversation between Lois Lane (Rachel Brosnahan) and Clark Kent (David Corenvet), where they talk about their relationship and engage in an interview/debate about Superman's ethics.

Gun was worried about how long the film took place without proper action, because superhero films are usually not this conversation. As Gun explained in a recent interview to the happy sad confused podcast on Oshosh Horowitz"The greatest risk I took was putting a 12-minute chat scene in a superhero movie. There is just no doubt."

The fact that the sequence was 12 minutes is surprising to hear because it definitely didn't feel that long. Well, it's because Gun is not just talking about the scene of the interview, but everything in Lois's apartment before and after him. The 12-minute scene has multiple shifts in the tone and tension, to the point that it does not feel like a big scene, but a collection of smaller ones. Gun explained how he accurately edited the sequence to avoid potential fatigue of the audience.

"It was endless, infinitely cut," he said. "I mean, just constantly changing it until we finish the intersection."

While regular viewers of other genres often do not care if the characters speak 12 minutes, a fast -paced superhero movie, it's certainly a risk. The reason why Gun went for it anyway is that he thought the scene did such a good job by illuminating them that Clark and Lois were like characters.

"When I wrote the scene and I see the scene alone, I go," I see both of their views. I see Lois view. I see his point of view. She talks about the truth and he talks about life. Right ". And the important values and their key important values in their lives," Gun explained. And although the characters would never return explicitly to this early debate they had, the rest of their scenes together are still implicitly continued. By the end of the film, the ideological bay between them decreased, at least enough for them to feel confident in jumping to the next stage of their relationship.

What is perhaps the most impressive about this sequence is that it shows that Gun understands what the audience actually brings. For example, there is no equivalent sequence in "Man of Steel", but that film pulls much more for me. With "steel man", my attention during the long fighting sequence of the third act The building after the building was broken with zero feeling of weight. Many superhero films feel the need to throw foolish action in front of the audience to keep them invested, although the action itself can be easily bored.

Gun not only believed his viewers were mature enough to cope with the extended sequence of dialogue, but also understood that the audience's investment in characters that makes action sequences in the first place. Not only that, but he understands that a well -written battle with words can be more tense and interesting to viewers than fists. That is something that Tarantino's fans know for centuries.