However the visitors of our site include both screenwriters and filmmakers, producers, directors, studios who are looking for screenwriters. It’s easy to blame a director for everything that goes wrong in a movie, but directors sometimes get put between a rock and a hard place with no good solutions. Till date most of my blog posts have been aimed at screenplay writers only. I’m simply trying to get moviegoers - including myself - to think about films more deeply and look at them from a larger perspective. I originally intended be a lot more general with what I was going to write about, but I found myself focusing on Batman v Superman which seemed to be the perfect example of what I was trying to get at. My aim isn’t to come to a definite conclusion with this piece.
But that doesn’t change the fact that he could have potentially told a good Batman and Superman story had he been given the chance.
He was responsible because he failed to elevate the story he was trying to tell. So having said all that, was Zack Snyder solely responsible for BvS? Maybe, but not for the reasons that many level against him. During production, the director guides the actors and oversees all departments, ensuring that everyone is working toward the same goal. This lack of understanding shows just how flawed the writer’s thought process was when it came to Batman v Superman. In BvS, there was hardly any character interaction between Batman and Superman before they were coming to blows.
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This depth of understanding led to hilarious and intense arguments that made the movie above all else memorable. The Avengers succeeded not because of its budget or scale, it worked because Joss Whedon - the writer and director - understood the characters and their associated motivations. Oddly, the best parts of combined superhero movies are almost never the action sequences, it’s the character interactions. Had they produced a better script, it would have given Snyder a better story to springboard off of.įrom the writer’s side, there needed to be clashes of ideology between the characters, not muscle. Was Snyder responsible for the flaws in the screenplay? Absolutely not, and the writers, David Goyer and Chris Terrio, need to take responsibility for that. As I mentioned earlier, even if BvS had acquired a different director, what difference would it have truly made?
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