More DCEU ramblings.
Now Zack Snyder’s vision of DC as seen in his first two movies is not very good. However I wanted to discuss something I always see brought up when I read discussion about these films. A common complaint I see is that Zack Snyder isn’t really faithful to the comics, that his interpretations of the characters don’t really resemble the source material. Except that they are; just not on a very good era of DC Comics.
Man of Steel was released in 2013, and two years before that the New 52 was released. The Superman in the New 52 wore a darker suit without trunks, and was more brooding and more disconnected from humanity… pretty much what the Snyder Superman was. Both Snyder and New 52’s Superman were more destructive and violent than ever; and even that could be a reference to how Superman was in the Golden Age. The photograph Zack Snyder shared of Wonder Woman holding decapitated heads in a war probably hinted that his concept for the character would be very in line with how the New 52 portrayed her; as a ruthless and cynical mean spirited killer. Batman was portrayed as an detestable unlikable cynical arse who wouldn’t kill the Joker for some reason LONG before the New 52, dating up to the work of controversial writer Frank Miller.
In short, Zack Snyder doesn’t understand DC because DC themselves forgot how their characters were supposed to act (Wonder Woman and Batman being the worst examples).