The Brilliance of Zack Snyder’s DC Universe
His superhero films, full of complex characters, deep symbolism, and faithfulness to the comics, are unlike anything ever seen before — and possibly ever again
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30 min readMay 11, 2018
I. The Beginning
II. Birth of a Universe
III. A Super Vision
IV. The Reactions — and the Reaction to those Reactions
V. Justice Denied
VI. References, Allusions, Symbolism & Iconography
VII. A Heroic Cast
VII. The Future
“You and we know that it is generally just the best and most valuable things that do not find their echo immediately.”
— Kurt Woolf in a letter to Franz Kafka
I. The Beginning
We are living in the age of the comic book film.
The highest-grossing film franchise of all time is the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Since its inception in…