“One of the gayest films ever made”: Zack Snyder looks back on one of his greatest successes

Zack Snyder

While the second part of his saga Rebel moontitled Rebel Moon Part 2: The Slasher coming to Netflix on April 19thZack Snyder spent two hours on Joe Rogan’s podcast to take a look at his news and retrace the different moments of his career. The director, who has now definitively turned the page on his collaboration with DC studios, regularly divides the press and the public, with surprising visual proposalsand often script structures that leave no one indifferent. If he is not free from certain errors of taste, we cannot however take away from Zack Snyder his sincere passion for the projects he carries out and the profound understanding he manages to have of them.

“Whether you admit it or not, it’s there.”

Back to the movie 300, a cinematic success released in 2007 and with which he made a name for himself in Hollywood, Zack Snyder explained that he would like to make a series from this film and this universe, to develop its subjects. And above all everything homoeroticism From 300which it assumes and claims as a subject to be explored.

In some ways, “300” is one of the gayest films ever made. It’s incredibly about masculinity, it’s a film obsessed with that, you feel this strong masculine energy. (…) I think that’s what I discovered, when I researched and understood the reality of Spartan culture, and it seemed important to me. I wanted there to be this sexuality and energy in the film in the way these men interacted. Whether you admit it or not, it’s there. (…) Ultimately, it’s a strange and bizarre show, and it’s fun to create around it.

300 gained its great popularity especially among a male audience enraptured by the violent fights of the film, by the warrior mentality of the Spartans, by the sense of duty and sacrifice… without necessarily perceiving that these images of almost naked warriors, with muscular and shiny bodies , he also said something else. Although he explains that he only adapted the ideas and words of Frank Miller in his famous comic 300However, Zack Snyder presumes to make films”Strange“, Who “mixedA difference of which he is proud and which he hopes to be able to affirm again in a potential series 300...

Source: Cine Serie

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