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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 9251322" data-attributes="member: 19857"><p>I'm not 100% sure it's his actual "worldview". From what I've read he actually sounds like a nice guy in real life and he doesn't seem that cynical about the world.</p><p></p><p>His films, on the other hand, present a deeply cynical worldview where violence is often the best and only solution to solving problems, might makes right, and nobody is truly good or heroic.</p><p></p><p>His films also present worlds where "cool" is more important than characterization. How does it look? What's the soundtrack? What would make this conflict "cool and edgy" rather than deeply thinking about characterization.</p><p></p><p>That these two things are happening together is not a coincidence. I recognize this model of storytelling - it's 1990s grimdark comics storytelling. Cool and edgy visuals and attitude take precedence over depth. Cynicism abounds because edgy storytelling choices lead to cynical worlds where nothing matters. It's not necessarily on purpose, it's just a side effect of kind of shallowly focusing on being grimdark and edgy and making things "look cool".</p><p></p><p>That's what I generally get out of Synder's work. I think he's not thinking too deeply about what he's doing beyond making cool things he likes. That's why his messages often feel so jumbled and, sometimes, even downright horrible - because he's not really trying to offer up a message beyond "hey this looks cool doesn't it?" (It's also why I find his Watchmen film so fascinating - somehow he managed to simultaneously produce a film that directly replicates the narrative and visuals of the book and yet also manages to not really have any of the themes of the book in it. It's an amazing piece of film in the sense that I can't think of any other example of someone making a faithful adaptation that somehow also manages to miss the entire point of a book).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jer, post: 9251322, member: 19857"] I'm not 100% sure it's his actual "worldview". From what I've read he actually sounds like a nice guy in real life and he doesn't seem that cynical about the world. His films, on the other hand, present a deeply cynical worldview where violence is often the best and only solution to solving problems, might makes right, and nobody is truly good or heroic. His films also present worlds where "cool" is more important than characterization. How does it look? What's the soundtrack? What would make this conflict "cool and edgy" rather than deeply thinking about characterization. That these two things are happening together is not a coincidence. I recognize this model of storytelling - it's 1990s grimdark comics storytelling. Cool and edgy visuals and attitude take precedence over depth. Cynicism abounds because edgy storytelling choices lead to cynical worlds where nothing matters. It's not necessarily on purpose, it's just a side effect of kind of shallowly focusing on being grimdark and edgy and making things "look cool". That's what I generally get out of Synder's work. I think he's not thinking too deeply about what he's doing beyond making cool things he likes. That's why his messages often feel so jumbled and, sometimes, even downright horrible - because he's not really trying to offer up a message beyond "hey this looks cool doesn't it?" (It's also why I find his Watchmen film so fascinating - somehow he managed to simultaneously produce a film that directly replicates the narrative and visuals of the book and yet also manages to not really have any of the themes of the book in it. It's an amazing piece of film in the sense that I can't think of any other example of someone making a faithful adaptation that somehow also manages to miss the entire point of a book). [/QUOTE]
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