Zack Snyder tells fans to ‘wake the f**k up’ and accept that his Batman kills people
'You’re living in a f**king dream world,' he told his critics, while at Q&A session for a Watchmen screening
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Your support makes all the difference.Batman v Superman director Zack Snyder has responded to the backlash over his decision to show Batman killing people.
At a Q&A session that, according to Heroic Hollywood, took place during a charity event screening of his 2009 film Watchmen, the director discussed the influence the film has had on his career.
“Someone says to me: [Ben Affleck’s] Batman killed a guy. I’m like, ‘F**k, really? Wake the f**k up,” he said.
In reference to Watchmen, he said: “Once you’ve lost your virginity to this f**king movie and then you come and say to me something about like ‘my superhero wouldn’t do that.’ I’m like ‘Are you serious?’ I’m like down the f**king road on that.”
“It’s a cool point of view to be like ‘My heroes are still innocent. My heroes didn’t f**king lie to America. My heroes didn’t embezzle money from their corporations. My heroes didn’t commit any atrocities.’ That’s cool. But you’re living in a f**king dream world.”
The director has, in the past, cited Frank Miller’s classic The Dark Knight Returns comic as both a source of inspiration and justification for Batman’s deadly actions, although it’s questionable whether the character actually kills anyone in Miller’s miniseries.
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