Tag: Zack Snyder

I’ve been thinking of getting a Twitter account.

For the sole purpose of telling Mr. Zack Snyder that his DC films, especially “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” (2016), still make me cry. That he’s a visionary of a storyteller. That his films are beautiful on the inside and out. That as a fellow fan of DC comics, I truly felt my superheroes come to life, and not in the “Oh, look, a superhero! Cool!” kind of way, but more of a “What if I’m not 100% okay with having this superhero around my family?” kind of way. That I want to thank him for taking such a bold risk, for the amount of thought he puts into every shot and hope that it’ll ignite a flame in whomever’s watching. That he belongs to a rare breed of director. And that I hope he and his family are healing.

That’s it. That’s all I’d want the Twitter account for. Tweet him, then delete the account. That’s. It.

hcourageous:

hcourageous:

Dear Zack Snyder,

last year I was suicidal. it was one of the worst and most terrifying times of my life, and it’s something i’ve struggled to get help with, but when i was at my worst i held on to the fact that Batman v Superman was coming out on my birthday, a movie i spent three years waiting for and was anticipating so much, god help me i was going to live to see it.

and when i did i cried because it changed me. it moved me. it was worth so much to me and i needed it and it’s message of hope so badly.

you’ve always been such an inspiration to me, you and Deborah, your films and your heart.

my heart is so broken for you, i have you and your family in my thoughts and prayers, and take all the time you need in the world to heal. you deserve so much. please know how much your love and dedication to the universe that has been my safe haven means to me and to many other fan.

we love you and support you and we’re standing with you.

thank you for everything.

I’m reblogging this because I need to give some further thoughts in light of Justice League.

In 2015 I pursued my dream, moved across the country for it, and landed flat on my face. I left in disgrace, moving to live with my sister for a bit, and experience a kind of isolated,lonely hell I can’t properly describe. I was alone, suicidal, and broken. I literally had nothing left. Everything I put my faith and heart into was gone, and I didn’t know if I could take anything else. But you know what?

Batman V Superman was coming out, on the weekend of my birthday, and that felt… like a sign almost. Something I was so excited for, because I loved my DC heroes, I loved Zack Snyder(my main and massive inspiration for wanting to be a filmmaker), and I’d defended it and waited too damn long to not see it. So every night I cried myself to sleep, and every day it got too easy to see myself just… wrapping my car around a pole, I thought about my birthday. About Batman V Superman, about seeing it with my friends and having something to hold on to.

And then March came around, I moved back to Washington, and got to see the first early showing of Batman V Superman.

That movie means more to me then any movie I’ve ever seen. It reminded me why I want to be a filmmaker, it made me realize I can’t, I can’t give up on my dream to be a director. It gave me hope. It showed me my heroes who I’ve loved my whole life going through what I had gone through. Lost all hope. Isolated. Alone. Stuck in grief. And then?

It showed me sacrifice.

It showed me redemption.

It reminded me that men are still good.

That the world is worth saving.

Zack gave me that.

Zack Snyder reminded me the hope is hard, it’s not smiling when your sad. It’s not platitudes, or jokes, or bright colors. It’s grimy, it’s straining muscles, its pitch black with one small ray of light on the horizon, it’s the first, aching breath after almost drowning, it’s storm clouds in the distance after a drought. Hope isn’t an easy answer. It’s a difficult choice.

I’m alive right now. And I want to live. And that’s largely because of the message of BvS and Zack Snyder.

My heart goes out to you and what you’ve been through, too, OP. Thank you for sharing this.

I have never been able to understand the complaint that a story is ‘depressing’ because of its subject matter. What depresses me are stories that don’t seem to know these things go on, or hide them in resolute chipperness; ‘witty stories,’ in which every problem is the occasion for a joke; ‘upbeat’ stories that flog you with transcendence. Please. We’re grown ups now.

Tobias Wolff (via macrolit)

It’s been a while since I’ve read a quote so representative of what I feel, and this one hits the spot quite nicely.

On another note, “Man of Steel” (2013), and “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” (2016), and thank you Mr. Zack Snyder, cast and crew.

lk-last-knight:

Save Martha ‘Batman v Superman’ Featurette [+Subtitles]

If more people saw this video, the whole trend around “Martha’s”  name  being made fun of, would be ALL squashed. 

All i wanted for this movie, was to make sense. The theatrical release was an incomplete project for me, and thanks to finding out the context of the film itself, and the Director’s Cut. Finally, this film makes total sense.

 

#BatmanvSuperman Proud to say, you turned a hater into a fan. 👍

I just watched this the other day, and it just reiterated what I already knew and believed (and written about here) about the film. If it makes people understand the whole concept of “Martha” in the film better, even in hindsight, then… awesome. Because, like Martha Kent said, “People hate what they don’t understand”.

I mean, his choices for the cast alone… Come on. As a DC fan and a pretty avid reader of the comics (old and new), I’m loving Mr. Snyder’s (and company’s) vision for the Extended Universe so far. It’s not for everyone (alas, such is this thing called “art”), but I trust it. And, apparently, so does the cast.

danman007:

In an interview, Snyder described Batman’s hatred for Superman as
“finding reinforcement of those feelings in the media.” So Snyder
employed a supporting cast of political pundits who expand Batman v
Superman into a kind of meta-media commentary: Anderson Cooper, Charlie
Rose, and Nancy Grace are among those crossing the line from TV news to
Hollywood fantasy. They frequently, brazenly blur the distinction
between fact and fiction, objectivity and venality, mendacity and truth.
This has been going on at least since the 1990s, and it still is a
problem for both journalism and Hollywood (Nancy Grace, Lawrence
O’Donnell, and Dr. Drew Pinsky popped up last week in Midnight Special).
Soledad O’Brien and Neil deGrasse Tyson also appear in Batman v
Superman, along with Andrew Sullivan, seen shouting, “Every act is a
political act!” That may be so (Snyder’s a sly dog), but pundits who
don’t stick to their day-jobs lose credibility.

Excerpt from Armond White’s critique of Batman v Superman

Source: danman007