Zack Snyder’s Justice League
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Yeah, that guy. Look at the wikias and everything, yeah he's definitely Zeus. Which makes sense, he had the power to rip apart the Motherboxes on his own, something that took Superman and Cyborg together to do later in the movie.
Zeus
"Long ago, when time was new and all of history was still a dream, the Gods ruled the Earth, Zeus king among them." ―Hippolyta[src] Zeus, also known as Jupiter by Romans, was the king of the Old Gods, worshipped by the Amazons, ancient Greeks and Roman civilizations. He is the father of numerous...
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Zeus was rather young.Yeah, that guy. Look at the wikias and everything, yeah he's definitely Zeus. Which makes sense, he had the power to rip apart the Motherboxes on his own, something that took Superman and Cyborg together to do later in the movie.
Zeus
"Long ago, when time was new and all of history was still a dream, the Gods ruled the Earth, Zeus king among them." ―Hippolyta[src] Zeus, also known as Jupiter by Romans, was the king of the Old Gods, worshipped by the Amazons, ancient Greeks and Roman civilizations. He is the father of numerous...
You think Zack isn't going to cast a powerful male archetype as a younger person? Rippling with muscles and oozing testosterone from every pour? Come on. Honestly when I looked at moment in the clip for reference I thought "Oh, it's Leonidas"
But yeah, greek looking dude with lightning powers in DC, running around an ancient battlefield without a shirt? Most likely Zeus.
I find it suspiciously amusing that he looks almost exactly like Leonidas from 300
Call back/Reference to his past movie?
I doubt it's at all an accident that Zack is referencing his previous works, especially when the general thematic tone is the same. Greek mythology/history. So yeah, the fact that, as I stated, IMMEDIATELY thought "oh it's Leonidas" when I saw that clip in question, is probably a good indicator that it was on purpose. Of ALL the directors to dress a greek hero like that? Pretty on the nose.I find it suspiciously amusing that he looks almost exactly like Leonidas from 300
Call back/Reference to his past movie?
At first I thought it might have been Hercules given this quote in 300:
"The Old Ones say that we Spartans are descendant from Hercules himself"
Well I guess its still partly right, Zeus > Hercules > Spartans.
Yeah, I mean sure, we might be wrong, that a guy tossing around what looks like an arc of electricity, and visually looks a LOT like another popular greek character from the same director, ISN'T Zeus, but I think it's a safe bet. Especially given how many elements of the story, and at least one main character, have ties to the Hellenic period, and that very pantheon of gods, that are apparently actually real, and not just stories. So, yeah, I'd bet good money, that whoever that dude is in that very short clip, is probably Zeus. It might just be a flashback, where they explain "long ago, the gods of old, defended humanity (though I'm sure Zack will use the word mankind), from outside forces, by whatever whatever Mother Boxes, whatever whatever Banished to the Void, whatever whatever set up the Amazons to safeguard, etc. All while they show that shirtless dude flexing and screaming, while he does his crossfit workout for justice and victory.
If the scene doesn't play out like that, I will be massively shocked.
Seems like Snyder League is shaping up to be the Revenge of The Sith of Snyder's trilogy in terms of reviews. Not exactly a critical darling, but considerably more popular than the two movies that preceded it.
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So does that mean she's basically dating a toddler, relative to her?
Actually, never mind. I don't even want to try to suss out the ethics of this.
I'd say no, as elves in Middle-Earth don't seem to get more mature with age, they hit adulthood and go into stasis and don't do much of anything until they go away.
But normally, yes, it'd be like a hundred year old vampire getting involved with a girl at high school.
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If there was a reason for the Snyder Cut to exist, it's most definitely to give Cyborg some justice (heh). I never liked the idea of him being part of the League. I mean seriously, we all know there was no other reason to do it other than DC noticing their Justice League was a lil too white. There were shit ton of other characters they could have gone with without robbing the Teen Titans of one of their best members.
But even I thought Whedon completely fucked him over in the theatrical release. It was pretty blatant too, that one scene where Cyborg says "Hey I'll just go get the MacGuffin" and does so off screen made me laugh out loud in the cinema.
So its nice to hear that he gets his time in the spotlight. I guess it's lucky he's mostly CGI, so having more scenes of him probably wasn't too hard.
As much as I’m not really big on seeing this crap, I do hope it succeeds for Zack because fuck knows he and his wife could do with a win. I mean it won’t give them what they ultimately want but if it helps them heal in some way, then that justifies its existence completely.
I mean, John Stewart was right there. Means you could have had a Green Lantern people actually recognise positively in diversified the cast without stealing from the Teen Titans.
To be fair, it's mostly the New 52's fault. Crazy how they decided to take the Justice League in the radical new direction of "lets have less women and people of color, but also remove two Black members and replace them with one lesser known Black character".
But this did remind me of Martian Manhunter, who is supposedly in this movie and whose human persona is Black. And this version of Aquaman is a PoC. Wonder Woman is also at the very least, not just an American lady. So in terms of diversity, Snyder's version isn't so bad.
I watch Atop the Fourth Wall a lot and Linkara jokes he can trace loads of shitty comics back to Countdown, and I’m starting to see that you can do the same with the New (Old?) 52.
But yes, the Cyborg thing is definitely the New 52’s fault and long may it rot. Just make Hal Jordon go away, the insufferable prick, and leave John in the JL.