Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead and Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole suggest he's at his best working with others.
The Big Picture The works of Zack Snyder are an immediately distinctive bunch of movies. They tend to feature lots of slow-motion, muted color palettes, and visions of classic genre stories that simultaneously pursue an “edgy” sensibility with a reverence for the classical ideas of Joseph Campbell. You can always tell a Zack Snyder film from a mile away…well, almost always.
Zack Snyder Does a Lot on His Modern Films…A Lot 300 was the second movie ever directed by Zack Snyder, but it established his tendency to exert a lot of authorial control over his works. After all, Dawn of the Dead was a feature written by then-go-to journeyman screenwriter James Gunn, not something that popped from Snyder's head.
Plus, a little bit of Snyder goes a long way. In Dawn of the Dead, the filmmaker occasionally makes use of the slow-motion technique that he’d begin to revel in starting with 300. In Dead, such sparse flourishes feel like interesting, isolated ways to shake up the visual defaults of the entire movie. By the time we get to Sucker Punch and a pot of boiling potatoes is falling in slo-mo, this visual trait just feels like a parody of itself.
'Legend of the Guardians' Is Some of Zack Snyder's Best Work Zack Snyder loves to have control over his films, a quality reflected by recent comments from Ben Affleck on how Snyder offers actors very direct on-set mandates for how a character should or shouldn't behave.
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