Zach Schneider: the most underrated director

Abbie 2022-03-21 09:01:13

Zach Schneider is probably the most underrated and polarized commercial film director in the United States. His aesthetic concepts, narrative style, and lens language (including the iconic slow motion) are often loved by people who love them and hate them. Detested.
He is often accused of "confusing logic and weak plot", but this is completely an illusion, okay! The worst thing about Zach is that he often involuntarily pursues compulsion and can't honestly make a commercial film that is easy to understand and love to see. People who play art are so self-willed. Why do you think Inception “Oh, I can’t read it after reading it again”, but it must pretend that “I have seen through Nolan’s intentions”, and Schneider, who has forced a higher rank, all of you said, “I just watched.” do not know"?
Saying that you don’t understand is not due to the lack of director ability, it is more likely that you don’t want to understand at all. Film critics all have a problem. They dare not talk about the audience (that is, himself) at all, but blame the director for any problems. If not, they can also blame the editor or the screenwriter.
I don't know why DC fans or pseudo-DC fans are eager to shout "This is a fan-oriented movie". Please! When you asked Zach Schneider from the top of Warner, no one dared to tell you, "We spent $200 million to show it to fans." Passers-by had no problem understanding, and my teenage junior high school students didn't say that they couldn't understand, and there was no need for prerequisite plot reserves. The first person who said "fans turn to movies" has a terrible heart. You are too late to grab the audience. How can you have such a weird idea of ​​pushing the audience out?
If you look at the plot, Justice Dawn does not need to explain at all, does not need a summary of the situation, and does not need to be read more than twice, you should be able to understand it. It means that the people who don't understand are either following the trend or don't want to understand it at all. It is not that Zach can't make a film that runs to the end, but he is over-filed and doesn't want to shoot anymore.
Zach has a superb level of burying details in the plot, even worse in Dawn of Justice. Of course, this is not very good. Those who don't read the comics can't understand these details, but not understanding it will not affect the understanding of the plot. I think the details (manga bridge, Lex’s various book bags) are for fans.
Is the problem of messy editing compared with the so-called "one shot to the end"? Originally it is a different way of mirroring, why is someone who is obviously a layman, and knows a few movie terms and feels that he can talk nonsense? From the death of Wayne and his wife, to Clark and Louis having sex in the bathroom, two male protagonists, the beginning of the two paragraphs, the plot advances quickly and smoothly, and the characters are placed in front of the scene in a simple and straightforward manner, and the contradictions gradually intensify. The editor and the director cannot be blamed for lack of understanding. If you have time to improve yourself, be more sincere, and less routine, the world will be better.

I like the cool play and beat, and I like the compact plot better.

Louis: Probably many people have forgotten that Louis is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. From MOS to BVS, the plot did not specifically explain Louis' intelligence and courage, but was basically a profile description-when she got Pulitzer, she didn't have Superman, a dead boyfriend. She went to Canada, where the alien spacecraft was discovered, and the military blocked it, so she went to a judge to lift the ban; she also went to dangerous Africa to interview terrorists-the terrorist leader said, "I don't know it is a woman (come to interview)", Louis replied "I am not a woman, I am a reporter." Her personality can be seen; this is exactly the positive image of a modern woman: strong, determined, not hindered by her gender, not afraid of hardships, and going straight to the goal. Isn't this the most popular female image right now? I really don't understand why so many people call her a vase. Zach Schneider's ability to shape female characters is very powerful.
Many people said that Louis had died and he had to go to Africa to interview some terrorists. Haha, is it wrong for a professional woman to pursue her career goals? Even if this plan was induced, not by Louis's own wishes, but by Lex, how could she be blamed? As for the Superman hero saving the United States, it may have been reminded that Louis is in trouble, otherwise there is no way to explain how he just arrived. It can only be said that Lex worked step by step, calculated carefully, one after another, everyone was in his own position and was taken advantage of.
Lex: Jesse is wronged! Jesse was wronged! Who said Jesse imitated Heath Ledger? Can't he be infinitely elevated just because Heath has passed away? How many people have seriously watched Heath’s Joker and Jesse’s Lex? People say it is cool, and I don’t need my own brain at all. I heard someone say, "Yeah, Jesse imitating Heath is not very clumsy," so I was busy copying this sentence everywhere. There is nothing okay! Jesse is a talented actor himself, he himself will not, and Zach Schneider will never let him imitate others. You can't think that Jesse can only act in this type just because Jesse is good at acting neurotic. Lex is definitely very different from Mark Zuckerberg. Mr. Lai is highly IQ, anti-social, and ruthless. You will know when he sends the beautiful assistant to death on Capitol Hill. Lex is the most complicated character. On the one hand, he helped the masses in the metropolis and took the lead in rebuilding the city after the aliens were demolished. On the other hand, he looked down on most people and thought they were too stupid, only Batman and Superman. This kind of non-human is his opponent. He is deliberately planning to let the aliens and high-tech rich men fight to the death and reap the profits on their own, so he can do anything for this.
Bruce: Someone actually said that the master's IQ is not online! shocked! Bruce has been a Gotham righteous policeman for more than ten or twenty years. He used high technology to behave (not). He was a bit stupid and was killed early! Don’t blame the friendly army for being too stupid, just blame the enemy for being too cunning. Only a talented villain can highlight the protagonist's martial arts--compared to a certain villain who can stay out of the situation for revenge, but desperately wants to die with Gotham, Lex doesn't know where he is better. And Bruce realized that this was Lex's conspiracy until he was about to kill Superman, not because he was too stupid, but Lex was too smart. In the abrupt Super Bat battle (yes, I am very dissatisfied with this one! It was too short!), Superman said "Save Martha", which made Bruce wake up to his extreme behavior: Superman is not an enemy, so is he "Human" (human), there are flesh and blood to be beaten will hurt the person who has a mother. Rather than saying "we all have a mother (called Martha)", it is better to say that Bruce has seen the human side of Superman. Bruce is a mature and wise middle-aged man, not a reckless young man who is easy to get on his head. The reason why Superman is considered to be the enemy of mankind before is more of the mentality that "other people have different hearts." Xia, he said at the banquet, "Finally invited you-Bruce Wayne-to the Metropolis", which is a hint), and the deep-rooted fear of the unknown and extraordinary power that exists in the human heart-an uncontrollable super Mankind should be controlled, and the law (congressional hearing) will use violence if it fails.
Clark: From the ignorant youth of the body of steel to the aspiring youth of the dawn of justice, Superman is growing up. Clark's Superman career only began when General Zod came to the earth. Zach used a very large length (one-half of the film) to tell about the young Clark of a small town before he became Superman. After his adoptive father died in a tornado, Clark began a painful self-exile: he had superpowers, but he could not be used to save his father; his father's death had a huge impact on him. He didn't know where to go and doubted his existence. The trip to the Krypton spacecraft is also a necessary way for him to find self-affirmation. Here, he saw Louis for the first time, his lover—how many people remember that Louise came out for the first time and got off the helicopter, that Clark was the one who carried her down.
In Dawn of Justice, Zach used a few succinct fragments to tell what great things Clark did when he became Superman and how many lives he saved. On the Day of the Dead, people worshiped him as a god, but he refused; he was also reluctant to face the crowd and congressmen who accused him, just like his father was worried, (like a god) with super powers People will be jealous of mortals. Zach brought the reality of society into a comic movie, telling how mortals fear the unknown power and how ridiculous and terrifying the collective unconscious is. Once "people" gather into groups, intelligence generally declines.

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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice quotes

  • General Amajagh: Men with power obey neither policy nor principle, Miss Lane. No one is different; no one is neutral.

  • Clark Kent: [Bruce Wayne arrives at Lex's party] Who's that?

    Party Photographer: You must be new to "Let Them Eat Cake" beat. That is Bruce Wayne.