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Skywalker, you done good. You done good my good sir. That Forbes piece is exactly what I, and many others who loved the film, saw. Only I can't articulate it as well as the writer did.
What I loved about snyders films and his story of superman is that it took a risk. Somehow people continue to cling onto the old ways and only see superman as this flawless character. Yes, most of the time he is "flawless"...but he had to get there from some point in his life. He didn't just go to the fortress of solitude, talk to a hologram of his birth father and then boom, time skip and he's superman, like in the donner version. He had to learn how to be. But we never truly saw that process. in snyders version, he chose to tell the process...the time skip if you will, in his way. He wanted to add another layer to superman...a character where writers struggled for so many years to tell a good story and become relevant again because many found him to be a boring character. So Snyder made a wrinkle in the fabric and people still can't let go of the past.
The world in snyders universe is a reflection of our own. It's dark, cynical, and scary. To put a superman in it and have him react to it is, IMO, an enjoyable experience. And that's what makes his superman relevant and important in today's world. If he's able to overcome the atrocities we're capable of and eventually have hope for a world like ours, he becomes an inspiration for us as a species. To hate the movie because of "editing" says more about that viewer than it does the movie.
It's all there in the film...if some didn't get it, it's not because it's misunderstood, It's because they weren't paying attention.
Best article about the movie. If it could mic drop, it sure as **** did.
What I loved about snyders films and his story of superman is that it took a risk. Somehow people continue to cling onto the old ways and only see superman as this flawless character. Yes, most of the time he is "flawless"...but he had to get there from some point in his life. He didn't just go to the fortress of solitude, talk to a hologram of his birth father and then boom, time skip and he's superman, like in the donner version. He had to learn how to be. But we never truly saw that process. in snyders version, he chose to tell the process...the time skip if you will, in his way. He wanted to add another layer to superman...a character where writers struggled for so many years to tell a good story and become relevant again because many found him to be a boring character. So Snyder made a wrinkle in the fabric and people still can't let go of the past.
The world in snyders universe is a reflection of our own. It's dark, cynical, and scary. To put a superman in it and have him react to it is, IMO, an enjoyable experience. And that's what makes his superman relevant and important in today's world. If he's able to overcome the atrocities we're capable of and eventually have hope for a world like ours, he becomes an inspiration for us as a species. To hate the movie because of "editing" says more about that viewer than it does the movie.
It's all there in the film...if some didn't get it, it's not because it's misunderstood, It's because they weren't paying attention.
Best article about the movie. If it could mic drop, it sure as **** did.