Henry Cavill’s Superman era was supreme in its entirety. Zack Snyder’s DC Extended Universe Intro, which boasts an incredible launch, began with Steel man, a film that still resonates in the world of CBM franchise enthusiasts as one of the greatest cinematic masterpieces ever made. However, the amount of sweat and hard work that went into making it a success is paramount and Henry Cavill can attest to that.
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Henry Cavill Recounts His Experience as Snyder’s Superman
Zack Snyder is a genius and a visionary and the one hurdle almost every great mind can’t get past is compromise. In the director’s case, the compromise would affect his creative license and artistic vision. Steel man was an analysis of the depths of Superman’s psyche and his journey to becoming a god and a savior of a boy scout who tried to remain obedient to the last wish of his earthly father. The first film thus defined for the actor and the director a road map of all that Superman is supposed to encapsulate.
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For Henry Cavill, the SnyderVerse Superman was one who would challenge his tragically repressed life and learn from his experiences to become a more mature and wiser version of Superman than was originally shown.
“The beautiful part is that even though he’s held himself back and lived this life of loneliness, essentially he’s still ready to step out of the shadows and be the hero, despite the fact that it will have a negative impact. about his life. And that’s, I think, the aspect of this symbol of hope, he represents all that is good in humanity, despite the fact that humanity may not be good for him .
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Henry Cavill’s dissatisfaction with his Superman arc
The problem for Henry Cavill is that the deconstruction of the Superman he envisioned and the hero Snyder tried to portray clash at a major moment – the latter of which went too fast with the story. According to Cavill, there were a lot of things he was “eager to expand” in his character development arc before embarking on the path to “bad Superman” and his eventual submission under Darkseid’s Anti0Life Equation.
“[Man of Steel] was set up so wonderfully, to begin this journey, because he had his first outing against the last surviving member of his species, and had to kill him. And that will say a lot about who he will become. The terrible destruction of Metropolis where he fights someone who has the same powers as him, but is actually trained, and he barely manages to get out of the [fight] living. So what lessons has he learned?
He’s definitely not going to kill anymore, and he’s definitely going to make sure population centers are completely taken out of the equation, because now he’s been through it, now he’s thinking about it. And so we get those steps towards building that – that amazing, wise-cracking version of Superman, rather than the still-wet-behind-the-ears kind.
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However, as we know, the events of Steel man leads directly to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2015), and the in-between moment of character development that the actor wanted to explore was missing. Cavill’s displeasure stems from the SnyderVerse timeline and it becomes one of the main reasons he was so interested in working on it. man of steel 2.
Source: GQ
