This reminded me of a joke I had with a friend about Superman going 'Praise Rao' whenever someone compared him to Jesus.
But the JOKER of all characters?
My AO3I'm guessing the Joker using that imagery is supposed to be deliberately ironic. Because, he's the Joker. He's pretty much the exact opposite of what a Christ-figure is supposed to be. I can see him dressing up to highlight the absurdity of religion and self-sacrifice. Maybe. Kind of...
I mean, it's not like the actor playing him has evoked cult imagery before or something right? Right?
I can't really fault Snyder for the "Superman as Jesus" symbolism, since that's been used since at least Superman: The Movie. Of course, as avert as that film was at points with Jor-El's speeches, it wasn't as blatant as to literally refer to him as a god several throughout the story.
It's rather ironic Superman became a Christ-figure when the character was created by two Jewish-immigrants. His origin really has more shades of Moses to him than Jesus.
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I could grant that. While yeah, the films need to stop with the Messianic archetypes and deification already and remember that Superman is an actual person with an actual "human" (so to speak) character, he was not the first person nor even the first filmmaker to fall into that archetype for the character and he probably won't be the last.
Though, that said, Snyder's take on Superman always felt like a response specifically to those older movies rather than an adaptation of the character as a whole, which imo is still part of the problem his films have had.
You know what is surprising? That there were people who still believed in it.
I knew from day one it wasn't happening since Ryan hated the experience of Green Lantern. He's made the movie his go-to punching bag ever since it came out. Heck, he even teamed up with Taika Waititi to disavow the movie when they were promoting Free Guy.
Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Feb 23rd 2021 at 9:14:30 AM
The man literally put a gag in the Deadpool 2 credits of Deadpool killing Ryan Reynolds to prevent Green Lantern from happening.
If that doesn’t clarify his feelings on the matter, nothing will
PSN ID: FateSeraph | Switch friendcode: SW-0145-8835-0610 Congratulations! She/TheyFor the record, it isn't just that green lantern was a mediocre and underwhelming movie. Apparently reynolds was cast behind the director's back by the studio, when said director wanted someone completely different and didn't particularly want to work with someone else. This led to a very tense and unpleasant work environment, of which the only positive for reynolds was meeting his wife.
Also, apparently Green Lantern was heavily butchered in post-production
, with Martin Campell having pretty much no say in the final edit of the movie:
#ReleaseTheCampellCut?

SERIOUSLY?!
I mean...I know Snyder LOVES his Christ Imagery but the JOKER?! Even this epicly lapsed Roman Catholic is wonder how the frick this got past the editors.