For director Zach Schneider and Warner and DC, who stand firmly behind them, the good thing is that the movie has already been released. No matter what the box office is, it is already in the past tense; and the bad thing is that, This movie is like throwing into a pool of a boulder in a lake that is about to die. What kind of impact this pool can have on the water, and how much impact it will have, I am afraid that it will take 5 or even 10 years. The real conclusion.
This is the original sin of "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice", and it is also a height that Marvel and other comics can never reach.
Aliens
Hollywood hates aliens, and the film industry hates aliens.
For an already mature market, the only option for foreigners who want to occupy a place is to become a screw. It seems that the only way to satisfy the normal operation of this large-scale assembly line. As for film directors, one of such outsiders is advertising directors.
Except for David Fincher, who quickly transformed from a visual system to a crime film master, whether it is the king of explosions selling copies, or the uncrowned king of comics, Zach Schneider, it is difficult to achieve a balance between word of mouth and box office. . With an excellent blasting level, the popular selling copies in the field of action movies and science fiction films in the 1990s have always been "empty brainless schools" in the eyes of traditional elements. And after the long-term meal ticket of "Transformers", the gap between its market performance and the so-called word-of-mouth has reached an unprecedented level.
However, if the reputation is not good, does it really mean that it is not good? The market performance of the "Transformers" series at the super high box office is probably just a slap in the face.
Even as successful as David Fincher, in the nearly 20 years from "The Seven Deadly Sins" to "The Lost Lover", he has only won two Oscar nominations.
Then there was the classmate who sold copies, Zach Schneider.
It was only one year away from selling copies, but it was not until 2004 that he made his first feature film "Dawn of the Living Dead".
In contrast, in 2004, selling copies has completed the original accumulation of fame and experience, "Jedi Men", "Courage to Death Island", "Peerless Tribulation" and "Pearl Harbor" have been listed on the resume. , And all the productions are big stars, so unhappy; David Fincher, who is a few years older than the two, has adjusted his extremely calm and restrained lens language to perfection, and has basically completed the early works. After various attempts, starting from his next work "The Zodiac", the cold and sharp style of painting has never changed.
But for Zach Schneider, he would never have imagined that this remake of George Romero's debut work, the father of zombies in 1978, turned out to be part of his long, glorious and controversial career. , The "highest rated" movie.
However, two years later, "300" broke the spring R-rated movie record in one fell swoop and marked the birth of a legend. But this legend is destined to be a niche, hardcore, and diehard legend. For a long time, the controversy surrounding Zach Schneider's directorial style has not only been directed at him personally, but is essentially a fierce confrontation between popular culture and niche culture. In the eyes of popular culture, comics do not possess ideological attributes. The "excellent" comics and movies admired by traditional elements are either represented by "X-Men" and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, flattering the public, removing the ideological essence, and going to the extreme of entertainment; or with the 78 version Like the 89th version of "Superman" and "Batman", the characters are flattened and complex issues are simplified, focusing on a single event and lacking systemicity; or it is simply the most respected new millennium "Dark Knight", except for the first episode. Some of the comic style, the follow-up works have been completely reduced to crime thrillers, and the general public is naturally willing to accept it. However, the nature of the comics has long been thrown into the wastebasket.
And Zach Schneider, who has taken a new path on his own, has been criticized repeatedly because of his unruly behavior: "300" shows off his skills, "The Watcher" is boring, "Beautiful Girl Secret Service" "Indulge in self, and "Owl Kingdom", which was the first attempt for the masses, was criticized for too much emphasis on technical details, and lack of sufficient entertainment.
is it really like this?
Obviously, Warner and DC don't think so. Obviously, Frank Miller doesn't think so. Obviously, the loyal supporters of the niche culture exactly like Zach Schneider don't think so.
Hater's gonna hate. Always.
Courage
's "Man of Steel" three years ago was a blockbuster.
This is a revolutionary film, and it is also a film that has long been thought of, but no one has really realized it. And the source of all this is the creative style that Zach Schneider persisted to this day.
Among the comic works, there is a very special category called Graphic Novel-there are many Chinese translations, picture books, graphic novels, but I think the most accurate one is visual literature. That's right, the comics under this category only take comics as a form of expression, and their depth and breadth of thinking have obvious literary attributes, and they are almost the same as literary works. Graphic Novel's target audience is adults, with more complex content and more ambitious than ordinary comic stories. Graphic Novel’s representative works include Alan Moore’s "V for Vendetta" and "Watchmen", as well as Frank Miller’s "300" and "The Dark Knight Returns."
If you can work hard to find a common divisor, then this obvious common divisor is Zach Schneider.
Why do we like Zach Schneider?
Unlike ordinary comic-based movies, Zach Schneider’s movies are almost real-life+CG original comics. This is often criticized by people, even saying that the director's role in it is minimal. Is it really? "The Rise of the 300 Empire" and "Sin City 2" without Quentin are believed to be strong enough answers.
The biggest difference between Zach Schneider's comic film and other adaptations is the degree of respect for the original. In other film adaptations, the main creators’ idea is to create popular films from the perspective of film creation, and then look for professionals who are familiar with comics to add comic elements to them. What's more, they are just borrowing words from him.
The idea of Zach Schneider is to create niche movies from the perspective of comics. In his comic films, the storyboard is a comic storyboard, the slow motion is a big frame and a close-up, and the texture of oil painting is the capture and restoration of the feeling of paper and ink. The necessary means of substitution, the seemingly chaotic editing method is also a common method in Graphic Novel, and a large number of hidden contents that are not displayed are the typical methods used to stimulate readers to dig, think, and discuss.
In other words, Zach Schneider just used the visual expression tool of movie to create a Graphic Novel.
Therefore, what has caused controversy has never been whether his style and level as a director passed, but a war between the audience and the critics about niche culture and popular culture.
Do comics only have entertainment attributes? Is comics literature after all? How many literary attributes can there be? What kind of manga works can make it to Daya Hall? Or are the comics worthy of being on the Taiga Hall? These controversies have always existed, but nowadays, it is just put on the shell of the movie, and hysteria has occurred again.
If the comics must be changed to Marvel or Nolan in order to be appreciated and praised by the general public, then I would rather Zach Schneider’s comic style never be recognized.
Zach Schneider is our uncrowned king, ALL HAIL THE KING.
People watching movies hate thinking.
The "brain-burning" movies they like are just the kind of movies that make people come to the conclusion after they stun people. The "thinking" process of this type of film is only aimed at the film and the events in the film itself, rather than extending beyond the scope. "Thinking" or aftertaste of the content that can be seen, looking for clues or easter eggs, can finally turn into a complete closed loop. This is an excellent "brain-burning" movie, a good movie.
They are used to seeing conclusions in movies, or at least seeing a spinning top.
And Zach Schneider's movie is another kind of movie.
The movie world of Zach Schneider is really an extremely rich and complex world. However, his lens only selects representative and distinctive events and characters from this world to show the audience, and more of the content of this world is in the mist, with this unknown mystery Feeling to entice the audience to take the initiative to explore. This technique began to appear from "Watchmen" and even "300", especially to the original "Pretty Girls Squad". "Pretty Girls", which was released in 2011, was only one year later than "Inception", but it received much less attention. On the one hand, the reason is that Zach Schneider almost never uses big-name actors as the protagonists. Before the appearance of "Man of Steel", he adopted a casting strategy that is not well-known but is nearly perfect with the role. However, after comparing "Pretty Girl Squad" and "Inception", it is already obvious which one only stops at the display of technology and concepts, and which one really involves the field of humanistic philosophy. . The feminist ideas contained in "Pretty Girls", a large number of sexual cues, lobectomy, and Plato's metaphor of the cave are all material that can be discussed in this movie.
Except for the dirty driver sisters of the era of The Matrix, you cannot find another one among contemporary filmmakers who can integrate commercial elements and philosophical ideas to such an extent.
Such people have a lot of courage. And to support such a person also requires a lot of courage.
We saw that after experiencing the limitations of "Owl Kingdom" and the rapid advancement of "Man of Steel", Zach Schneider finally played in "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" in DC and Warner's With full support, he vented heartily.
This time, who can stop him, and who is willing to stop him?
A big whale
asks: How many steps does it take to put a big whale in the refrigerator?
For Zach Schneider, it really is as simple as opening the refrigerator door, stuffing the whale in, and closing the refrigerator door.
What should I do if I can’t plug it in? The extended version of the director's cut.
The same is the extended version, there is a big gap between Zach Schneider and Peter Jackson. Of course, this gap is in narrative level and fluency, and there is no comparability between artistic styles.
In fact, Zach Schneider’s movies are not comparable to other movies. His film should be compared with the original comic book.
In "300", what we saw was almost the moving live-action version of "300"; in "Watchmen", what we saw was almost the moving live-action version of "Watchmen". In "Dawn of Justice", what I saw was almost the live-action version of "The Dark Knight Returns" + "The Death of Superman": Batman's first appearance against human traffickers and police officers is obviously the bat in "The Dark Knight Returns" The abbreviated version of Man’s first appearance; the entire battle between Batman and Superman is a reissue of the original version of "The Dark Knight Returns"; Superman fights the Day of Doom to exhaustion, which is a reinterpretation of "The Death of Superman" . As for the ubiquitous original paintings and plot neta, there are as many stars as possible.
What's more valuable is that Zach Schneider never uses these as gimmicks. The "Man of Manchu" who sells dog meat and sells dog meat will definitely not appear in Zach Schneider's movies. With a large number of philosophical words and noun references, it is almost impossible to imagine how much energy is behind it: the curly Lex Luthor opened his mouth and closed his mouth and was a stalk of the War of Independence, Lexington and Concord, a lamp from the land, two The Red Army with a lamp coming from the sea; Nietzsche’s “God is Dead” and Superman theory in “So Zarathustra” were straightforwardly thrown to the audience to digest and comprehend.
As a true leading work, no matter how fragmented the narrative of "Dawn of Justice" is accused, one must understand: the influence of this film will not be manifested until 15 years later. When creating "Dawn of Justice", Zach Schneider had already planned the entire Justice League movie world in the next 10 years, and the two new and old soundtrack masters Hans Zimmer and Junkie XL also used this For the purpose of creating a soundtrack, the musical works appearing in this film will be reused in future films. Every line and every prop of "Dawn of Justice" almost exists for the follow-up movie: the battle suit of the second young man in Batman's base, the riddler mark in Gotham City, and the clown that keeps mentioning are all big This is the early stage of the "Batman" trilogy, and the queen screenwriter Chris Trio has already lost the reputation of David Goyer and will guide the entire "Justice League" with Zach Schneider. "The future direction of "; Wonder Woman’s painful memories of World War I, and Aquaman’s first appearance with makeup directly point to a personal movie; The Flash’s ability display and nightmare plot, the mother box in the steel bone birth video points directly to the "Justice League" against the history of comics The greatest villain: Darkseid; and Lex Luther, who has some schizophrenia throughout the episode, vaguely reveals between the lines that he has had contact with a higher-level villain (most likely Darkseid), and compares himself Prometheus who stole the skyfire to save mankind.
For ordinary audiences, this is a messy, long and boring superhero movie; for comic fans like Zach Schneider, it is an ultimate feast.
In this film, Zach Schneider has thrown out a consistent anti-heroism. In the confrontation between man and god, the superhero has been brought back to the level of ordinary people-the classic work "Immortality" by Nate Shamaran Jie has a more in-depth discussion on this point: What is a superhero? Are comics a true portrayal of us now? ——And it was a maternal love that was as simple as a single word that ended the battle of heroes.
profound? Universal? It's all about understanding the difference.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg in "Dawn of Justice." In fact, Zach Schneider gave the film plenty of emotional connections and space for thought, almost to the level of metaphysics and stream of consciousness, which also squeezed the space and process of normal narration.
If the story of the film is taken out alone, it is only a medium-level conspiracy and trickery of "crying my mother to make a hero". But it is Zach Schneider's visual style and thought level that break the dull shackles of conventional narratives, forcing the audience to leave their comfort zone and communicate on a conscious level.
Breaking convention is dissident. We have already seen the end.
But in any case, the performances of the leading actors of "Dawn of Justice" are impeccably nearly perfect, which is inseparable from the abundant plot and setting. The entanglement of Superman's identity is still heartbreaking, and the interaction with Louis is very sincere; due to age positioning, Luthor's neuroticism (illness) is unprecedented, and at the end of the film it also reveals the maturity that we are familiar with in the future. The possibility of a bald head; and the charming smile on Wonder Woman's face when she was beaten to the ground almost immediately enriched the image of this Amazonian warrior in more than one movie.
This is the difference in strength. This one alone is equivalent to three times the effect of an ordinary comic-based movie.
Zach Schneider’s positioning of Batman is the closest to the original of all the current adaptations: strong to horrible muscles and world-class physical skills. These two points have dwarfed the dazzling display of the last decade. . And more importantly, the Batman in this film truly conveys a sense of fear, not only the fear of his own experience, but also the fear of criminals and terrorists. Only Tim Burton’s version of Batman noticed the creation of this atmosphere of fear, and can match it. And the unrelenting appearance of the hands is a true interpretation of "The Dark Knight Returns".
As for Batman's killing, have you seen the 89th version of "Batman"? Do you know the fate of almost all villains in Marvel?
People are so easily deceived by illusions.
Yes, "Dawn of Justice" is ugly.
Yes, "Dawn of Justice" is great.
It depends on your location. If you are a fan of comics, you won’t be bored with Superman’s tireless air dancing, because this is almost the original copy of Alex Rose’s immortal comic book "Heaven Is Coming"-in fact Zach ·Schneider’s artistic aesthetic is almost the same as that of Alex Rose; but if you are not interested in the many hidden clues, are difficult to understand the chaotic and broken plot, and do not have the will to think, "Dawn of Justice" is naturally Sucks.
This is so cruel.
Of course, it is so lucky.
Wait ten years later, ten years later.
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