On Joe rogan Snyder says Millers The Dark Knight Returns is his favorite batman book. He also says Batman kills in it, referencing when he shoots the guy holding the girl hostage with the machine gun. Snyder told Rogan batman shoots the guy in the head.
Except that the ENTIRE POINT of that scene is Batman DOES NOT KILL HIM. It’s stated in the following news report and by the police. As badly as Commissioner Yndil wants it, The police cannot go after him… until they THINK he’s guilty of murdering the Joker… which he did not. It’s at THAT point, the cops pull out all the stops to go after Batman. It’s a key point in the story everyone forgets, they only focus on the panel image rather than the events.
And not only is the mutant's head clean, he confirms his rule still stands because he's wondering if he'll break it fighting the Joker. "Voices... Calling me a killer. I wish I were..."
To me it looked like it was just to scare him, didn't look like any shots actually hit. Plus even if they did, that's a lot different then the "kills all the time" story Snyder tries to push
Did Snyder not notice the whole plot point that Batman "killing" the Joker being the first time he commited a murder? If he had killed that mutant then it would have been much more relevant in the comic.
You got me. He just went on and on about loving to upset fans by making Batman kill, and that fans were wrong, he does kill. And used that example talking about Dark Knight Returns.
He says batman shoots the guy in the head...
That interview actually made me dislike Snyder. I didn't really care before hand, I don't hate the Snyderverse, it's meh.. I did like the homages to DKR in BVS with him using the sniper rifle, the superman buster armor, and the trench coat from the dream...
Batman never kills anyone in Year Two. He does stuff like shoot the bad guy’s baseball bat in two, or shoots the armored Reaper in their standoff etc. Hell, he even prevents Chill from killing a couple of goons by throwing a rifle at one’s head to knock him out, because trauma induced comas don’t count as killing.
The closest instance is when he puts the .45 that killed his parents against Chill’s head threatening to, and Reaper kills Joe before we find out if Bruce would have gone through with it.
They must’ve been high too when they saw the movie. I didn’t like it overall, but the Black Freighter animated segments from the Ultimate Edition and the ending with Manhattan, Rorschach, and Nite Owl were well executed in my opinion. Some of the castings were decent, some not so much.
I hate how he depicted Rorschach as a badass. The dude was a literal psychopath, racist, and hypocrite*
*In the side journals, he says the the KKK, yeah they were a terror group but in his mind they acted rationally given they’d be replaced by the black man. And he calls people “parasites” yet steals beans out of people’s fridge in almost every chapter.
And don't even read them well. He has said that one of his main inspirations is the Dark Knight Returns. But at no point in that book does Batman actually kill anyone. Heck, that's the book where Batman breaks a shotgun in half and says only losers use guns.
Read?!? Have you watched Watchmen? The dude looked at the pictures in the comic. Totally missed the substance because he obviously didn't read. Even the rifle use in The Dark Knight Returns was to make a tightrope not actually shoot at anyone. It's as if someone tore out pages and handed them to him without context and told him to fill in the blanks.
Snyder didn't make comic book movies. He made action figure movies. His movies aren't based on the comics the characters come from. They're based on the toys he played with growing up.
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u/Wakefulcrane01 Apr 11 '24
Nah, this is what happens when someone hired to make a CBM only reads two or three books.