Even if you want to argue that would fool most of the general populace,
Well, for starters, most of the general populace doesn't necessarily know who Clark Kent is. Now, if we're going with Clark Kent being a TV newscaster instead of a reporter, then we'd see more of that, but either way, Superman and Clark are not getting equal press.
it doesn't work for people who actually know you.
It works much better for people who actually know you. How many people who know Clark Kent would think some quiet, kind of dorky guy who works at a newspaper office has the powers of a god and fights crime?
I have a huge amount of respect for Christopher Reeve's performance, but if you put a pair of glasses on any of the people that I work closely with I would still recognize them if I saw them on television giving a speech, regardless of whether or not they changed their clothes or were slumping.
Well, if I may draw your attention back to two points I made in my previous post:
1) No one has any reason to think the superpowered, flying alien that does things that make him very conspicuous has a secret identity. He doesn't wear a mask, walks around in the open, gives press interviews, and has chats with elected officials. He's not covert. What reason would people have to believe that he has a double life, let alone works a day job as a reporter?
2) Marilyn Monroe did it. You can't say it's impossible if it's already happened, and Monroe's is the harder case to believe.
I'll give you uncoordinated - obviously he isn't that at all - but my reading of the character is that deep down he really is a bit of a dork. He's pretending not to be a dork as Superman as much as he's pretending to be a huge dork as Clark Kent. Both identities are exaggerations of one part of his true self. You have to see both - or watch him around his close friends and intimates - to get the whole picture.
I don't disagree, and given that I would think that those families that he grew up with who know the real Clark Kent, would be as likely to recognize him in either of his two identities.
It works much better for people who actually know you. How many people who know Clark Kent would think some quiet, kind of dorky guy who works at a newspaper office has the powers of a god and fights crime?
Well, if I may draw your attention back to two points I made in my previous post:
1) No one has any reason to think the superpowered, flying alien that does things that make him very conspicuous has a secret identity. He doesn't wear a mask, walks around in the open, gives press interviews, and has chats with elected officials. He's not covert. What reason would people have to believe that he has a double life, let alone works a day job as a reporter?
2) Marilyn Monroe did it. You can't say it's impossible if it's already happened, and Monroe's is the harder case to believe.
I don't disagree, and given that I would think that those families that he grew up with who know the real Clark Kent, would be as likely to recognize him in either of his two identities.