Zack Snyder - Silent genius

Zack Snyder is one of the most famous but also the most notorious directors in recent years for his contributions to the development of the DC cinema pillar. He truly deserves more than what he endured from giving his all to his work. The following article are the comments and evaluation of WebTech360 about this talented director.

Zack Snyder - The genius director of adaptations

Zack Snyder (full name Zachary Edward "Zack" Snyder) was born on March 1, 1966 in Green Bay, Wisconsin - USA. His mother was an artist and a teacher at the Daycroft School - the school Zack later attended. His father is a Recruitment Officer and his sister is a Christian researcher. Zack Snyder began filmmaking and painting since high school and then attended College of Design Art in California.

Snyder's first film was horror film Dawn of the Dead (2004) based on the 1978 work of the same name and was rated well with a score of 76/100 on the Rotten Tomatoes site. Following that success, in 2006 he released the super product 300 adapted from the series of the same name by famous comic book writer Frank Miller. Although only scored 60/100 points, but this work is a miraculous success in revenue with a total revenue of 450 million US dollars over 65 million dollars spent.

Scenes from movie 300 by Zack Snyder

Since then, he has been Warner Bros. (WB) believes in assigning the responsibility of developing DC Comic films. He is the director of Watchmen (2009) and the father of the DC cinema universe with controversial works such as Man of Steel (2013) , Batman V Superman (2016), Wonder Woman (2017) and Justice League (2017). Due to his excellence in adapting high-quality cinematic works in a unique, vivid style, Zack Snyder is considered the master of the film industry and one of the major icons of DC Comic comic world. Not only that, Zack is also very successful as a screenwriter and his natural storytelling style, Zack has significantly contributed to the success of Wonder Woman (2017) .

Zack Snyder's iPhone full-length short film - Snow Steam Iron (2017)

Zack Snyder - Silent hero

The unique characteristics of the films choreographed by Zack Snyder are the realistic, energetic action and the majestic, artistic scenes with sophisticated Slo-motion technique as well as philosophies. profound in the dialogue and images of the film. The "Epic" from Zack's scenes is clearly shown in historical films like 300, superhero movies like Watchmen or even Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010). . Therefore, his style is very consistent with the unique characteristics of the DC superhero comic line.

Scenes from Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)

For DC's superhero pillar, WB and fans expect him to be the foundation for the DCEU's development with the world's most famous superhero movie Superman (2013).. The film fully captures the emotions of a young boy when he realizes the oddity and different powers that he possesses as well as the psychological tension between choosing between reviving his birth roots or helping. the land where we grew up from destruction. The film offers a very human, contemplative and contradictory Superman, unlike the versions of Superman we've seen with optimism, playfulness, and hope. Therefore, Superman of Zack Snyder caused a lot of controversy and critics only rated the film 55/100 points. However, this is a big symbol of the world, so despite being criticized, the film is still a great box office success with a revenue of up to 668 million USD.

Zack Snyder and Herry Cavill in Man of Steel (2013)

WB realized that Zack Snyder could still bring money for him, so he continued to assign him the DCEU sequel - Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) . When it hit theaters, this film was criticized for being too dark, the script was confusing and the scene was urgently changing. The film only received an extremely low score of 27 out of 100 and several boycotts demanding Zack Snyder out of the DCEU were launched. But people do not know that, the film of Zack Snyder made 150 minutes, but because of the revenue and profit that WB has cut down to 120 minutes to increase the number of screenings in the day. Zack Snyder remained silent on his criticisms and it was not until he was allowed to publish his full version that Batman V Superman (2016)is a quality film, full of metaphorical philosophy with sophisticated plots and beautiful images as taken from the pages of the story itself. Zack Snyder's movies are so beautiful that every scene in the movie you take and cut out will be a great shot. Zack Snyder's vision and characteristics are fully portrayed in the film about the confrontation between two superheroes of the era. WebTech360 has seen this movie 11 times but still wants to watch it again to enjoy such an outcast work of art. Batman V Superman also brought box office miracles with a total box office sales and $ 873 million.

Zack Snyder and Batman

In response to the public's reaction, WB gave Zack Snyder the last chance at the DCEU with the movie Justice League (2017).- DC world class A superheroes gather. Once again, Zack is devoted to this movie because he is also a big fan of the above superheroes. Those lucky enough to have a chance to see a preview of Zack's movie have exclaimed the greatness of Justice League and are looking forward to seeing the superheroes work together. But the World Bank did not feel that, they realized that the movie was too dark and the length was too long to affect the box office, so they fired Zack Snyder and hired Joss Whedon (Avengers director-Marvel) to return a number of scenes to add humor to the movie and cut it from 3 hours to 100 minutes. Zack quietly passed away, but on his personal page still regularly posts artistic photos of the superheroes he has built, It shows that he really wants to send viewers a full quality work, but so helplessly makes his efforts pour into the sea. When released, the film was badly criticized from critics for being too similar to the Marvel movies, the loose storyline and extremely bad villain with a score of 41/100. The film received a big failure with a revenue of only 658 million USD (WB's expectation is over 1 billion USD), the lowest of the DCEU films. Many fans made a call for WB to release the movie Snyder's cut with more than 180,000 supporters, but the reality now that DC and WB have lost their silent hero Zack Snyder. The film received a major failure with a revenue of only 658 million USD (WB's expectation is over 1 billion USD), the lowest of the DCEU films. Many fans made a call to World Bank to release the movie Snyder's cut with more than 180,000 supporters, but the reality now that DC and WB have lost their silent hero Zack Snyder. The film received a big failure with a revenue of only 658 million USD (WB's expectation is over 1 billion USD), the lowest of the DCEU films. Many fans made a call to World Bank to release the movie Snyder's cut with more than 180,000 supporters, but the reality now that DC and WB have lost their silent hero Zack Snyder.

Zack Snyder and Justice League

Zack Snyder - more than a man.

Zack and Ms. Deborah Snyder are both husband and wife and colleagues in their shared passion. She has accompanied Zack from film 300 to the present works. Previously, Zack Snyder had a wife named Denise Weiber (a film producer), but the two divorced shortly thereafter. In 2002, Zack was hired by Deborah to direct a project on his own and the two started dating and got married. Zack Snyder loves his wife very much and on the last valentine's day he posted on the social network Vero congratulation to his wife.

Zack Snyder and Wife

Although the two have not had a child since their marriage until now, their family has 8 children, of which the first two children (Olivia and Eli) are the children of their previous wife, and 2 children are adopted from China (Willow and Autumn), two children from the never-married love affair between him and Kirsten Elin (advertising producer) and two children adopted by the two when attributed to Man of Steel (2013). He, his wife and the children in the family always love each other as they like to separate life in Hollywood to gather together. However, tragedy struck his family in March 2017 while in post-production for Justice League. His daughter - Autumn Snyder committed suicide at the age of 20. Suppressing this pain, he and his wife are still determined to finish the unfinished Justice League work and still have to smile when introducing the Wonder movie. Woman. However, after showing the preview to the World Bank, he was fired, but he did not publish this reason and told the press that he left the Justice League project because of the death of his son and that he wanted to take the time. This time to be with family. His move was to help his brainchild Justice League avoid negative comments due to director confusion. That act is truly sublime and more than a human.

Zack Snyder is loved by many friends and colleagues in Hollywood. Wonder Woman - Gal Gadot, Superman - Herry Cavill, Aquaman - Jason Momoa, Cyborg - Ray Fisher and The Flash - Ezra Miller all have to admit that thanks to Zack their lives have changed, moments from little-known actors suddenly became Hollywood's A-star. During interviews, they always compliment Zack's diligence and vision, and even wear the I love Zack Snyder shirt when promoting Justice League. In addition, the filmmakers, director and his students all respect Zack despite the fact that the Internet and WB turn their backs on him.

In short , Zack Snyder is a man who deserves more than what he has been going through because of his contributions to the world cinema in general and the DC cinema universe in particular. He is truly a silent hero, working with all his enthusiasm and talent even though the world turns his back on him. He is indeed the 7th superhero of the League of Justice and hopes that he will also produce many quality products in accordance with his style and vision.