“You’re making your god irrelevant if he can’t be in that situation.”
Batman beats up a lot of bad guys, but he doesn’t kill.
“Batman can’t kill is canon.
“You’re protecting your god in a weird way, right?
You’re making your god irrelevant if he can’t be in that situation,” he said.
“He has to now deal with that.
If he does do that what does that mean?
What does it tell you?
Does he stand up to it?
Can he survive that?
As your god, can Batman survive that?”
In a scene, a mutant has kidnapped a child and tells Batman he plans to kill the child.
Not everyone is convinced that Batman followed through, and the comic strip isintentionally ambiguous about what happens.
“That’s where Miller takes Batman and tears him in half.
And you’ve got to now come out the other side of that.
Batman is still the hero.
He still does the right thing.
He maintains his code.
He doesn’t change.
But our perception of him changes,” Snyder said.
“It’s been my experience that the characters have not let us down,” he said.
“These myths have not let us down.”
“That’s a lifestyle choice for a lot of people.
It’s not a movie,” he said.
“If I made a romantic comedy, you’d be like, ‘OK, that was fun.’
I love that [fans] feel this passionately.
In no way would I criticize that, because I live the same life.
For me, it’s morning, noon, and night.
For those guys, it’s not just a movie.
So you have to, on some level, you have to acknowledge that this is their religion.
And they feel strongly about it.
The truth is–it’s my religion, too.”
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