During an interview with The Australian, a broadcast newspaper of the nation, MAN OF STEEL actor Russell Crowe made remarks about the level of destruction in the film. Suprisingly, Crowe believes that it's no more than the level you would see in animated films - which are targeted towards a younger demographic - and went on to express how his children had completely fallen in love with the film when the interviewer challenged him further,“even the cartoons like The Incredibles and stuff like that–they have their level of potency. My two–I think it’s because of that idealistic streak that’s in the movie–my two are not scared by this film”, was his response.
MAN OF STEEL was also the first film, if he decided to do, his children would be able to watch as Crowe's previous work was not appropriate. “I have a six-year-old and a nine-year-old and they’ve never, ever been able to go to a movie that I’m in. This one doesn’t have any decapitations a la Gladiator; it doesn’t have heroin usage like in American Gangster; it doesn’t have prostitution scenes like in Les Mis. This is an idealistic movie and there’s no swearing in Superman,” said the actor.
After acknowledging the destruction, Russell Crowe then went on to explain why he hasn't been involved with other superhero movies before. He noted that for the last fifteen years, he has been offered and subsequently denied a number of superhero offers because “it’s just not my thing. If I was to read a comic when I was a kid, I would read the Archies or Sad Sack.” He added, though, that “the business of movies has moved in such a way that these are the tentpole movies of any given year,” and in order to keep making those smaller films, which the general audience has seen him in over the years, he has to “find a balance.”
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