"But the catharsis of being able to finish [Justice League], and do it my way, was amazing. I can’t walk down the street without having people come up to me and say, “Thank god for that movie.” And it’s awesome."
Insightful interview with Zack Snyder. Worth a read.
https://t.co/ffUFFZfqLu
Zack Snyder: "My current rules on AI are that I’m very adamant that the shots are made by a person — the framing, the composition. I don’t want AI making shots."
"And I’m very adamant that the people are people — real humans — in the shot. The film I just made is the furthest thing from AI. There’s dirt in the film. The problem is, when you’re into the VFX pipelines now, who knows what’s happening back there. In the creation of images, there’s going to be a lot of crossover in the VFX world between CGI and AI. That line is getting blurrier and blurrier. If we were shooting this [points to table], having AI take that plant out? Pretty fucking easy. Anybody can do it. If you and I are still you and I in the shot, did that happen in the backrooms of some visual effects company that I don’t know about? Possibly. But don’t change the people. That’s the line, for me — the people have to be real."
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Zack Snyder: "It’s more clickable to say, 'I hate Zack Snyder! He’s a fascist!' than it is to say, 'I saw the movie and it was cool.' Nobody gives a f*ck about that. And obviously, I’m not a fascist."
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Zack Snyder confronts the instant backlash to his new movie "The Last Photograph," including accusations of misogyny and excessive violence towards women:
"The amount of energy and the amount of vitriol I find really incredible. 'I want to kill Zack Snyder.' 'Zack Snyder is a fascist.' 'Zack Snyder is a homophobe'... [The movie] is 'homoerotic' and 'transphobic' and 'fascist' and all these things... I mean, I don’t know. First of all, I would argue that the violence toward women and men is equal and that nobody is spared — men, women, children, everybody. The justice that’s doled out in the movie is in the same way that a hurricane doles out justice. To try and superimpose morality over it and want the violence to mean something — the meaning is that violence doesn’t work and doesn’t get anything done.
We’re all human. I guess in my feed, and this is just what my algorithm shows me, it’s a conversation. Even though I think it started out, 'Zack Snyder sucks!' 'F*ck him!' 'You fascist!' What happens now is, 'You guys are fucking crazy. This is just a movie. Calm down.'"
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Zack Snyder on the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger: "Maybe I’m an optimist and I’m an idiot."
"Look, I don’t 100% have an opinion. I haven’t talked to Larry [Ellison] and don’t know what the Ellisons want to do, really. I would love to have a conversation with them. I know they value the brand and Warner Bros. is one of the great cinematic brands of all time. To have a movie with a Warner Bros. shield on the front of it means something. And most of my movies have that logo on it. So, it’s hard for me to say. I can’t sit here and say, 'I’m mad because they’re going to f*ck it up!” Maybe I’m an optimist or maybe I’m a naïve idiot, but the reality is I think they love movies, and I would hope that people that love movies understand the value of Warner Bros. And they own another studio with an amazing moniker: Paramount."
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One thing I’ve noticed at festivals, and especially with #TheLastPhotograph, is that a lot of "critics" seem less interested in actually watching and enjoying movies than they are in being seen watching them.
I was at the premiere and saw people on their phones, scrolling Instagram and Twitter, texting etc for a good portion of the movie. Then the movie ends and within a minute some of them have a full page review posted. A review that would take most people at least 10 minutes to even type.
At a certain point you have to wonder how much of it is actually about watching and engaging with cinema and how much is about being able to say “I saw this before you did” or “I spoke to this director” or “I was at this premiere.” The festival becomes as much of a social status and low level posturing thing as it is about movies.
And I think that has created a weird culture where certain critics seem to think they should be the ones dictating what movies get made, what kind of movies are acceptable and what direction cinema should go in.
You see it constantly in reviews. They’ll talk about the director, the writers, the producers, the actors, the studio, the cinematography, the editing etc. They’ll actually engage with the people involved in making the movie.
But when it comes to Zack Snyder, it very often just becomes “Zack Snyder is a fascist,” “Zack Snyder is a misogynist,” “Zack Snyder is a homophobe” and increasingly just outright personal hatred toward the man.
Snyder literally just talked about people telling him they want to kill him. He talked about people calling him a fascist and a homophobe and even people saying these things about a movie they haven’t actually seen.
That isn’t normal criticism anymore. You can hate The Last Photograph. You can think the violence is excessive. You can think the movie is misogynistic or transphobic or whatever. Make the argument. That’s what criticism is for.
But when you’re wishing death on a filmmaker, attacking his family and deciding a movie is terrible before you’ve even watched it, it’s hard to pretend this is just normal film criticism.
And something else I find really strange is how Deborah Snyder is basically ignored in all of this.
She is his producing partner. She has produced his movies for years and is obviously involved in the filmmaking process and the decisions surrounding these movies.
Yet somehow when people accuse Zack of making misogynistic or homophobic movies, Deborah is never treated as though she has any agency in the process.
If Zack is personally responsible for every supposed moral failing in these movies, then what exactly do you think Deborah is doing as the producer?
It’s funny how people suddenly stop treating a woman like an autonomous adult when acknowledging her agency would complicate the narrative they’ve built around Zack Snyder.
You don’t have to like the guy. You don’t have to like his movies. You can think his entire approach to filmmaking is terrible.
But there’s a pretty big difference between criticizing a movie and becoming obsessed with hating the person who made it.
At some point, when you’re attacking someone personally, dragging his deceased daughter into it and wishing him dead over a fucking movie, maybe the problem isn’t Zack Snyder. Maybe it’s the "critic" culture that has formed around hating him.
They’ll accuse Snyder fans of being delusional, of making his movies their entire personality and of being incapable of handling criticism, while completely ignoring the irony that they’ve done the exact same thing in reverse. At some point, if you’re still talking about Zack Snyder years later, obsessively posting about everything he & his fans do and making hating the guy part of your identity, you’re just as invested in him as the fans you’re mocking.
Talking about something you’re passionate about for years is completely normal. Talking about something you supposedly fucking hate for years is a different story.
@Variety Zack Snyder also mentioned that someone within Warner Bros. told him he was right regarding his vision for the DC Universe
"We were fighting you, and in the end you were right."
People told me I only like Zack Snyder movies.
So I made a post to prove them wrong.
Wish they would #RestoreTheSnyderVerse so I can add some more movies to the list
Zack Snyder hila FINÍSIMO con el 106. 👀
Nos da la pista el remastered en 2013. En 2013 se estrenó Man of Steel, y en dicha peli apareció el número 106.
Una empresa lleva 106 días sin accidentes, hasta que Superman lo hace caer a 0.
Se viene!!!!!
MUY emocionado 🔥