What kind of director is Zack Snyder?

First of all, what is a Snyder movie: Zack Snyder is an MTV director and is one of the new visual directors in recent years. He has countless fans with his distinctive visual style. The characteristics of his film’s lens style can be seen. The summary is:

1. The tones of green screen shooting have all been re-edited in the post-production period to make the comic style obvious

2. Action scenes that love to use slow motion generally rely on the combination of fast and slow motion to create a sense of impact and tension.

3. Use less dialogue and more lens language to narrate (this is the habit of MTV directors). According to the copy of Screening Room 10, it can be called "textbook-style film narrative", Zack Snyder 1966 Born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, into a Christian Science family. His mother is a painter and photography teacher. Encouraged by his mother, Schneider took up painting and began making films during his freshman year of high school. Later, he joined the Art Center College of Design in California and became classmates with "Transformers" director Michael Bay. Like "Selling Copies", Zack Snyder initially entered the industry as an advertising director and photographer, and directed the feature film "Dawn of the Dead" for the first time in 2004. This remake of the work of the same name by horror master George A. Romero has achieved good results both critically and at the box office. Since then, Snyder's name as a comic book fan has been closely linked with comic book adaptation movies. From the second feature film "300" to the recently released "Batman", 4 of the 7 films that Snyder has directed are comic book adaptations. However, these highly anticipated commercial masterpieces directed by Zack Snyder cannot convince the audience: some fans think "Watchmen" is too obscure, while comic fans shout "Man of Steel" The depiction of Superman is too dark and deviates from the original work... Just like the parody video above tells the story, Zack Snyder's movies are full of slow motion, dark tones, exaggerated violence, etc. It is precisely because of these unique aesthetics and insights that his works have received polarized evaluations. Unique dark visual style. Since "300", Zack Snyder has carried forward the dark visual style and made it his own signature. Except for his debut film "Dawn of the Dead" and the fantasy animation "Kingdom of Owls", the tones of director Zha's works are all heavy and dark, like deep oil paintings. Especially when applied to comic adaptations, they have brought A sense of seriousness. Zack Snyder's dark oil painting style has pros and cons for his work. Because the picture style is not bright and bright, and Zach's own narrative style is more serious, his works all show a sense of pathos and solemnity, which is very different from the relaxed and humorous style of other superhero movies, and it also loses a sense of humor. audience. But precisely because of the use of dark tones, it also gives superhero movies a completely different vitality: "Watchmen" shows superheroes' confusion about justice and exploration of human nature; "Man of Steel" brings Superman's battle The clothes are darkened and the underwear is no longer worn outside, making the rebooted version of Superman more combat-effective and complex, changing the blandness of "Superman Returns" directed by Bryan Singer in 2006 for the "X-Men" series.