When ‘Man of Steel’ (‘Man of Steel’, 2013) was released, the contact of zack snyder with detective comics it polarized fans and generated a large number of criticisms of various aspects of the film. One of the most criticized points was, in addition to the famous sequence in which Superman he is forced to execute Zod, the large number of innocent victims who lost their lives in the previous confrontation between the two Kryptonians.
In addition to giving cohesion to the plot of ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’ (‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’, 2016), which would use the massive death of civilians to make enemies of the man of steel and the dark knight , this controversial point in the script has served to interconnect at a deeper level the two films in which Henry Cavill has put himself in the shoes of Clark Kent. He has been his own Zack Snyder who has confirmed this fan theory that has been swarming the network of networks for a few months.
Snyder, Superman and death
Let’s begin by recapitulating the facts on which this theory is centered: During the first of the two films involved, General Zod showed Superman, in a dream sequence of an undeniable visual power, an immense pile of skulls that ended up swallowing the superhero. These skulls represented the deceased who could not be saved if Zod managed to dominate the Earth.
The brilliant picture would be reflected in the second film of the DC Cinematic Universein which the Marvel of Metropolis rescues a girl from being engulfed in flames in a burning factory, only to be later surrounded and idolized by a group of people dressed as skeletons during the Mexican holiday of the Day of the Dead (the image that heads this article).
The relationship between these scenes has emerged thanks to the user “The Kingslayer” of the social network VERO, where he wrote the following:
“I love this scene and the Hans Zimmer soundtrack. It sums up the real theme of BvS. Clark is just trying to do the right thing, but everyone refers to him as some kind of ‘higher being’. On Day of the Dead, the Participants lay their hands on him, practically as if he were a God they could finally meet.In addition there is the symbolism of Clark being dragged by the people who died during his fight with Zod, represented by the people disguised as skeletons, honoring the dead. (maybe I’m thinking too much.) Still, it’s a cool scene.”
The truth is that the explanation provided The Kingslayer to the meaning of the skeletons in both ‘Man of Steel’ and ‘Batman v Superman’ makes all the sense in the world. However, the very zack snyder (here his profile in Vero) manifested himself in the thread of the social network to agree with the user and confirm that his thought was something more than a fan theory with a brief: “no it’s not true”.
All this helps to show that you are superhero adaptations of Zack Snyder hide more care and brain than many of his detractors air, hiding behind the fact that the only thing that worries the filmmaker is his visual power. Although the first montage of ‘Justice League’ (2017) was a failure that ended its stage at DC, the epic Snyder’s cut that came later to HBO Max did maintain a line of union with the two previous films in the franchise. and, furthermore, he returned us to a Superman whose relationship with death was closer than ever.
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