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It was the year 2009 when veteran director Zack Snyder decided to test the waters of anti-superheroes with his iconic filmWatchmen.Starring Jackie Earle Harley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Neil Patrick Harris, and other iconic actors, the film was a controversial success.
People often say that the film was way ahead of its time and that is indeed true. The whole no-supes thing thatThe Boysmade mainstream was already written in a DC comic book years before. At least, that’s what Zack Snyder thinks about his movie.
Zack Snyder Knows WhyWatchmenHas A ‘Rabid’ Fanbase
BeforeThe Boysbrought out Homelander andDeadpoolmade breaking the 4th wall funny, there were Rorschach, The Comedian, and, Doctor Manhattan, who made the name of superheroes bad.
Acclaimed directorZack Snydersat on his director’s chair and made the movie famous (or infamous) upon its release. The film found average collection at the box office but was helmed by the people as one of the finest films by Snyder.
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Thus, the film gained a cult-classic status and the fans have defended the movie ever since. In an interview withEntertainment Weekly, Mr. Snyder talked about why he thinks the fanbase of the movie is so ‘rabid’.
Watchmen is like the music you feel is written just for you. ‘That’s my song, no one else gets that but me.’ That’s why the fan base is so rabid because they feel personal about it.
He further elaborated his point,
Watchmen comes at it in a different way, it almost superimposes its heroes on your world, which then changes how you view your world through its prism. That’s the genius of this book.
However, what seemed like a normal anti-hero movie turned out to be an in-depth dive into man’s connection with these idols that they revered like God, and Snyder was well aware of that fact.
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In fact, the director stated that the movie came as a personal challenge for the world since they had to let go of the idea that their heroes were in the end… humans with powers (or in some cases, aliens).
Zack Snyder Took The Film As A Challenge
As mentioned above,Watchmenwas released at a time when theworld was actually rooting for superheroes to fight evil and have a happy ending. Snyder had to change that perspective if he wanted to adaptWatchmeninto a movie, and that is what he did.
As the interview further continued, the notable director talked about how the film was quite a challenge for him since there were no anti-hero policies, or the world hadn’t seen the other POV that heroes can be in fact, not heroes.
The movie is a challenge — sort of like the book is a challenge — to your icons, your morality, how you perceive pop culture, how you perceive mythology, and for that matter, how you perceive God.
He further continued,
It was absolutely genius that Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons did all of that in the context of a superhero story. That was a revolution for a lot of people. You sit down to read something that’s ‘just a comic book,’ and then you’re, like, ‘Holy s—, my mind got blown!’
Although the film did not sit great with critics,Watchmenhas become a cult-classic movie of Snyder that fans often talk about to this day. The film generated a global revenue of $185 million (viaIMDB).
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Watchmenreceived a rating of 7.6/10 on IMDB and an average of 65% on Rotten Tomatoes.
With an iconic storyline and Snyder’s brilliance,Watchmenis available to stream on Max in the U.S.
Visarg Acharya
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
