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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9723265" data-attributes="member: 18">I mean there's a stark difference between "power corrupts", which is a truth of human nature (the degree to and way in which it corrupts varies based on the system, checks and balances, and individual), and "most/all humans are basically evil monsters unless they choose not to be" (which is striking because it shows the person who believes it lacks empathy and a good theory-of-mind for others, or has some mental issues causing them to think empathy is unique to them).Ironically I don't think Snyder believes either, really. I think he's just a really, really shallow thinker with a strong sense of style. God's perfect film-making himbo. That he's reportedly incredibly nice and doesn't tolerate stars who behave like wankers on his sets absolutely lines up with "god's perfect himbo". I've seen a few interviews and he always came across as sort of human labrador, which again lines up imho.Like, 300 is a horrific movie if you examine it at all, it's basically an extremist white supremacist alt-right piece far beyond even what the comic book was like, like Identity Evropa couldn't direct something this extreme because they'd have felt they were "going too far" or being "too on the nose" or w/e. Anyone with dark skin is evil. Anyone who is not a perfect physical specimen of humanity is evil - a direct line is drawn between ugliness or deformity or even difference and evil. Only evil people engage in homosexual behaviour (particularly demented in this context, given what we know about the Spartans and Greek warrior-culture in general) or have appearances that aren't totally gender-normative. Only evil people have piercings or similar. The Spartans are altruistic warriors for justice and freedom for all, not the most unequal and brutally oppressive slave-state the world would see for thousands of years (basically until the US South and Haiti - even Rome didn't approach Sparta), nor fundamentally selfish and imperialistic (as they demonstrably were IRL), their imperial ambitions solely limited by the fact that they were trying to contain an insane slave-state which regularly rebelled. This is near-pitch-perfect actual Nazi-style fascist stuff, if you actually look at it.Do I think Snyder believes in any of that? Do I think he even processed it? Hell no. I think that flew clean over his head at some speed, and that he was copying the comic and sort of exaggerating certain elements! Just himbo'ing it.</blockquote>

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