Hollywood hates dissidents, and the film industry hates dissidents.
For an already mature market, the only option for outsiders to occupy a place is to become a screw, which seems to be the only way to satisfy the normal operation of this large-scale assembly line. As for the film director industry, one of such outsiders is the advertising director.
Except for David Fincher, who quickly transformed from a visual department to a crime master, whether it is the king of explosions selling copies, or the uncrowned king Zack Snyder in the field of comics, it is difficult to achieve a balance between word-of-mouth and box office . With its excellent blasting level, the popular copies sold in the field of action films and sci-fi films in the 1990s have always been "empty and mindless" in the eyes of traditional molecules. And after the long-term meal ticket of "Transformers", the gap between its market performance and the so-called word of mouth has also reached an unprecedented level.
However, if the reputation is not good, does it really mean that it is not good-looking? The market performance of the super-high box office of the "Transformers" series is probably a face-to-face slap in the face.
Even as successful as David Fincher, in the nearly 20 years between "The Seven Deadly Sins" and "Gone Girl", he has only been nominated for two Oscars. Then there is the classmate who sells copies, Zack Snyder.
It was only a year away from selling copies, but it wasn't until 2004 that he made his first feature film, Dawn of the Living Dead.
In contrast, in 2004, selling copies had completed the original accumulation of reputation and experience, and "Jedi Men", "Brave Island", "Peerless Catastrophe" and "Pearl Harbor" have been listed on the resume. , and they are all big stars and big productions, so unhappy; David Fincher, who is a few years older than the two, has already mastered the extremely calm and restrained camera language, and has basically completed the early works. Various attempts, starting from his next work "Zodiac", the cold and sharp style of painting has never changed.
But for Zack Snyder, it would never have occurred to him that this remake of the 1978 debut of zombie father George Romero would be part of a long, illustrious and controversial career. , a "highest rated" film.
However, "300" two years later broke the record of spring R-rated movies and marked the birth of a legend. But this legend is destined to be a niche, hardcore, diehard legend. For a long time, the controversy surrounding Zack Snyder's directing style is not only directed at him personally, but is essentially a fierce confrontation between popular culture and niche culture. In the eyes of popular culture, comics have no ideological attributes. The "excellent" comic movies that traditionalists admired, either represented by "X-Men" and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, flattered the public, stripped away their ideological nature, and went to the extreme of entertainment; Like the 89th version of "Batman" in "Superman", the characters are flat, the complex issues are simplified, only focus on a single event, and lack of systematic With a little comic style, the follow-up works have been completely reduced to crime thriller fanfiction, and the general public is naturally willing to accept it. However, its comic nature has long been thrown into the wastebasket.
And Zack Snyder, who has walked a new path by himself, has been repeatedly criticized for his lack of integrity just because he did not follow the rules: "300" is dazzling, "Watchmen" is boring, "Beautiful Girl" "Indulge in self, and "Owl Kingdom", which was the first attempt to popularize, was also criticized for overemphasizing technical details and lacking enough entertainment.
really?
Obviously, Warners and DC don't see it that way. Apparently, Frank Miller didn't see it that way, and apparently, the loyal supporters of the same niche culture as Zack Snyder didn't see it that way.
Hater's gonna hate. Always. Courage
's Man of Steel three years ago was a blockbuster.
It's a revolutionary film, and one that's long been thought of, but never actually materialized. And the source of all this is the creative style that Zack Snyder has insisted on 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 comic works under this category only take comics as a form of expression, and their depth of thought and breadth of thinking have obvious literary attributes, which are almost no different from literary works. Graphic Novel's target audience is adults, with more complex content and ambition than ordinary comic stories. Graphic Novel's representative works include Alan Moore's "V for Vendetta", "Watchmen", and Frank Miller's "300", "The Dark Knight Returns".
If you can try to find a common divisor, then the obvious common divisor is Zack Snyder.
Why do we love Zack Snyder?
Different from ordinary comic adaptation movies, Zack Snyder's movies are almost the original comics of live-action + CG. This is also often criticized, and even the director's role in it is very small. Is it really? "The Rise of an Empire of 300" and "Sin City 2" without Quentin are believed to be a strong enough answer.
The biggest difference between Zack Snyder's comic book movies and other adaptations is the level of respect for the original. In other film adaptations, the main creators' ideas are to create popular movies from the perspective of creating movies, and then find professionals who are familiar with comics to add comic elements to them.
And Zack Snyder's idea is to create niche movies from the perspective of creating comics. In his comic movies, the storyboards are comic storyboards, the slow motion is large divisions and close-ups, the oil painting texture is the capture and restoration of the ink on paper, and the surging soundtrack that is almost uninterrupted from beginning to end enhances the sense of the picture rather than The necessary means of substitution, the seemingly chaotic editing method is also a common method in Graphic Novel, and a large number of hidden content that is not listed is a typical method used to trigger readers to dig, think and discuss.
That is to say, in Zack Snyder, he just used the visual expression tool of film to create a Graphic Novel.
Therefore, the controversy has never been whether his style and level as a director passed the test, but a war between the audience and the critics about niche culture and popular culture. Are comics only for entertainment? Is manga really literature? How many literary attributes can there be? What kind of comic works can enter the hall of elegance? Or are comics works worthy of being in the hall of elegance? These debates have always been there, and now it's just a hysterical attack in a movie shell.
If the comic works must be changed to Marvel or Nolan in order to be appreciated and praised by the general public, then I would rather Zack Snyder's comic style never be recognized.
Zach Snyder is our uncrowned king, ALL HAIL THE KING.
People who watch movies hate thinking.
The "brain-burning" movies they like are just the kind of movies that make people dizzy and finally come together to make people realize it. The "thinking" process of this type of film is directed only at the film and the events in the film itself, and does not extend beyond the scope. "Thinking" or reminiscing about the content within sight, looking for clues or easter eggs, and finally turning it into a complete closed loop, this is an excellent "brain-burning" movie, a good movie.
They are used to seeing a conclusion in a movie, or, at least, a spinning top.
And the Zack Snyder movie is a different kind of movie.
The world of Zack Snyder's movies is truly a rich and complex world. However, his lens only selects representative and distinctive events and characters from this world to show the audience, and more content in this world is in the fog, with this unknown mystery Sense to entice the audience to take the initiative to explore. This technique has appeared from "Watchmen" and even "300", especially to the original "Beautiful Girl". "Beautiful Girl" was released in 2011, just a year after "Inception", but received much less attention. On the one hand, the reason is that Zack Snyder almost never uses big-name actors as the protagonists. Before the appearance of "Man of Steel", he used a casting strategy that was not well-known, but fit the role almost perfectly. However, after we compare "Beautiful Girl" and "Inception", it is obvious which one only stops at the display of technology and concepts, and which one really involves the thinking field of humanistic philosophy. . The feminist ideas contained in "Beautiful Girl", a lot of sexual innuendo, lobotomies, Plato's cave metaphor, are all material that can be discussed in this film.
Apart from the filthy driver sisters from the Matrix era, you can't find another contemporary filmmaker who can integrate business elements and philosophical ideas to such a degree.
Such people have a lot of courage. And supporting such people also requires a lot of courage.
We see that, after experiencing the limitations of "Owl Kingdom" and the rapid development of "Man of Steel", Zack Snyder is finally 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
asked: How many steps does it take to put a big whale in the refrigerator?
For Zack Snyder, it's really as simple as opening the refrigerator door, shoveling the whale in, and closing the refrigerator door.
What if you can't get in? Director's cut extended version.
It is also an extended version, and the gap between Zack Snyder and the Great Peter Jackson is very large. Of course, this gap is in the level of narrative and fluency, and there is no comparison between artistic styles.
In fact, Zack Snyder's films are not comparable to any other films. His films should be compared to the original comic book.
In "300", what we see is almost the moving live-action version of "300"; in "Watchmen", what we see is almost the moving live-action version of "Watchmen". In "Dawn of Justice", what you see is almost the live-action version of "The Dark Knight Returns" + "The Death of Superman": Batman's first appearance against human traffickers and the police is a scene, obviously the Batman in "The Dark Knight Returns" An abbreviated version of the first appearance of Superman; the entire battle between Batman and Superman is a re-enactment of the original version of "The Dark Knight Returns"; . As for the ubiquitous original painting shapes and plot neta, there are as many as stars.
What's more valuable is that Zack Snyder never uses these as gimmicks. The "Manchus" who sell dog meat with sheep's heads will definitely not appear in Zack Snyder's movies. So many philosophical words and noun quotes, it’s almost impossible to imagine how much energy is behind it: Lex Luthor, the curly-haired, is a War of Independence stalker, Lexington and Concord, a lamp from overland, two A lamp in red from the sea; Nietzsche's "God is dead" and superman theory in Nietzsche's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" are directly thrown to the audience to digest and understand.
And as a true precursor, no matter how you criticize Dawn of Justice's fragmented narrative, you must understand one thing: the film's influence will not be reflected until 15 years later. When creating "Dawn of Justice", Zack Snyder had already planned the entire Justice League movie universe in the next 10 years, and the two old and new soundtrack masters Hans Zimmer and Junkie XL also used this For the purpose of the soundtrack creation, the musical works appearing in this film will be reused in future films. Almost every line and every prop in "Dawn of Justice" exists for the follow-up movie: the second young battle suit of Batman Base, the Riddler mark of Gotham City, and the constantly mentioned Joker, all of them are big Ben's hands-on "Batman" trilogy preliminarily paved the way, and the queen's screenwriter Chris Trio has beaten the famous David Goyer, and will solidly guide the entire "Justice League" with Zack Snyder. "The future direction of "Wonder Woman's World War I, the first appearance of Aquaman with makeup refers to the personal movie; Flash's ability display and nightmare plot, the mother box in the birth of the steel frame refers to the history of "Justice League" against comics The greatest villain: Darkseid, the dark lord; while Lex Luthor, who is somewhat schizophrenic throughout the episode, vaguely reveals that he has been in contact with a higher villain (probably Darkseid), and compares himself Prometheus who stole fire from the sky to save mankind.
For the average audience, it's a rambling, tedious, and uninteresting superhero movie; for comic book fans like Zack Snyder, it's the ultimate feast.
Zach Snyder has thrown out his consistent anti-heroism in this film, and in the confrontation between man and god, he has pulled the superhero back to the level of ordinary people-Nate Shyamalan's classic work "Undead". Zed discusses this in more depth: What is a superhero? Are comics a true portrayal of our present moment? ——And what finally ended the battle of heroes was precisely a mother's love that was as simple as one word.
profound? Universal? It's just a different understanding. And that's just the tip of the iceberg in Dawn of Justice. In fact, Zack Snyder endowed the film with a lot of emotional connection and thought space, almost to the point of metaphysics and stream of consciousness, which also squeezed the space and flow of normal narrative.
If the story of this film is singled out, it is only a mid-level level of conspiracy and scheming of "bringing on my mother to make a hero". But it is Zack Snyder's image style and ideological level that break the dull shackles of conventional narratives, forcing the audience to leave their comfort zone and communicate on a conscious level.
To break the norm is to be alien. We have already seen the end.
But in any case, the performances of the leading actors in "Dawn of Justice" are impeccably close to perfection, which is inseparable from the abundant plot and settings. The identity entanglement of Superman is still heart-wrenching, and the interaction with Lewis is very sincere; due to the age positioning, Luthor's neuroticism (disease) is unprecedented, and at the end of the film, it is also revealed that the future evolves into the maturity we are familiar with The possibility of a bald head; and the alluring smile on Wonder Woman's face as she is knocked to the ground almost instantly enriches the image of the 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 adaptation movie.
Zack Snyder's positioning of Batman is the closest to the original of all the adaptations so far: strong to terrifying muscles, world-class gymnastics, these two points have already made the arrogance of the last decade dwarfed. . More importantly, Batman in this film conveys a sense of fear, both from his own experience and from criminals and terrorists. Only Tim Burton's version of Batman has noticed and rivaled the creation of an atmosphere of fear. And when he starts his hands, he shows no mercy, just like the true interpretation of "The Return of the Dark Knight".
As for Batman murder, have you seen the 89 version of "Batman"? Do you know the fate of almost all villains in the Marvel series?
People are so easily deceived by illusions. Yes, Dawn of Justice is ugly.
Yes, Dawn of Justice is good looking.
It depends on your location. If you're a comic book fan, you won't get bored with Superman's tireless dancing in the air, because it's pretty much an original copy of Alex Ross' immortal comic book Kingdom Come - in fact Zach ·Snyder's artistic aesthetic is almost the same as that of Alex Ross; but if you have no interest in the many hidden clues, if you have difficulty understanding the chaotic and broken plot, and have no will to think, "Dawn of Justice" is naturally Sucks.
That's so cruel.
Of course, so lucky.
Wait ten years, ten years later.
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