let's talk a little bit about louis
investigating the mystery man that saved
her one of the important things when we
were conceiving the film itself was to
create a lowest that was intelligent a
go-getter a good reporter and I feel
like we created this sequence to help
you in a pretty short period of time
sort of see all those things and in
shooting the sequence we really had to
go to all these different locations and
create this investigation and leader of
course back to Smallville so this is the
scene with the giant tornado Kevin
Costner notices that there's a serious
storm brewing and these blowers are
going off to fans there's a jet engine
blowing us we're all in it together
we're all thrown into this moment of
absolute horror together screaming and
shrieking and then there's a cut and the
wind stops and everybody you know goes
and get their snack or you know my
daughter was visiting that day and I was
like hi honey
yesterday Oh we kind of went a little
bit crazy on that I had a friend who had
some jet engines I asked him if we could
turn men to wind machines so we had two
jet engines that we mounted on the back
of car towing trucks in the t-33s
which is old generation but they're safe
jet because all the intake is radial it
was fun it was a lot of the background
stuff that we got to do well in wait we
yeah we had cars too that would move and
go up and down at some point in the
tornados trajectory it's out there it
was tearing up the landscape tearing
through a barn that's the stuff we'll
have to do later and then in this
particular moment it starts picking up
cars off the freeway and throwing them
into the air and one X comes Sam right
down on Kevin saw one drop
what we're doing here is with Alan Hall
and his guys they're doing this car
smashing into Kevin's car giving that
serve live in camera okay we may have to
add the tornado in the background and
some other stuff basically meeting up
with this live-action effects moment
here we had a car until the flyswatter
car that could come slamming down in the
crashing into the hero car there was a
few physical things in there it was kind
of fun in this scene I can't imagine the
guilt that Martha must feel over what
winds up occurring and she could never
have fathomed which is in essence
Jonathan makes the ultimate sacrifice
for the dog but it's a life lesson about
priorities for Clark to not expose his
powers in front of everybody
just to save dad with Russell it was
quite interesting playing that with him
because obviously this is jor-el zai and
so there's an aspect of this missing
some things you can't quite put your
finger on there's something off and
that's the beauty of of what Russell's
performance was it's very much the
workings of jorelle's mind when
interacting with his son but at the same
time there's this funny distance which I
thought Russell played perfectly and
they're just wonderful connection and
sense of destiny and fate in the jor-el
character which Russell brings really
well and it was again very easy to feed
off that when in in those in those key
moments of understanding that
everything's gone - the one thing I have
is this jor-el AI who at one stage I
forget is at gen AI and it's not
actually my father in you know flesh and
blood and yet he still gives that sense
of powerful emotion Russell is that
wonderful we see the aftermath of the
incredible violence that struck our farm
from the alien invasion
and we see Martha scrambling around in
the debris and what does she locate and
go after the most precious thing that
anybody really seeks out is your
memories is your history is the proof of
your past it's evidence of your value
system and your emotional life it's your
identity in some ways your photo albums
I kind of miss the old days when they
were tangible in a book photo albums but
that's the way Martha rolls old school