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Perhaps a hamster
Jun 15, 2010


Julius CSAR posted:

Being a huge fan of Italian renaissance painters really helps your love Zack Snyder

Being a fan of cinema as a visual storytelling medium in general, even.

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Perhaps a hamster
Jun 15, 2010


How bloody is the owl film? It's the only Snyder I haven't seen and would like to watch, but all the owls look so adorable it's gonna break my heart if half of them end up getting slaughtered lol.

Perhaps a hamster
Jun 15, 2010


bushisms.txt posted:

It's not bloody, but it's still very on point if that makes sense. Snyder said he never approached it as a kids film, but it's still very much "my first Snyder film" as it explicitly lays out his feelings on heroes through the eyes of owlets. It's also a beautiful film, so please watch it.

Thanks, will make time for it then.

Perhaps a hamster
Jun 15, 2010


Yeah, I always read it as Joss trying to prove he can out-Snyder Snyder without understanding why Snyder's montages work and failing so completely that through sheer serendipity the scene ends up working on a self-owning meta level instead.

"Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost"

Perhaps a hamster
Jun 15, 2010


Save the Cat was required reading and treated like an actual Bible by both students and lecturers on my filmmaking course and even being an actual idiot with no idea about filmmaking back then it didn't really sit right with me, but man, trying to convince anyone that having an inciting incident occur at precisely minute 17 (or whichever interval of time it would fall under for longer films) is not a unifying rule of well-paced storytelling or that worthwhile films that do not fall under Snyder's* formula exist used to be shut down hard.

What an absolute waste of time and money.

*Blake Snyder obvs, but I'd love to see Zack Snyder write a filmmaking book.

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