"There's No Winning Anymore For Superman": Zack Snyder Talks 'Dawn Of Justice,' Plus New Photos And More

As we explained yesterday, Zack Snyder doesn't deal in nuance. His films make clear the forces of good and evil, the line between silence and loud explosions, and so perhaps it's not a surprise that the director's grasp of metaphor isn't the strongest. And in talking about the upcoming "Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice," he makes some clumsy analogies in explaining where Superman finds himself in the upcoming film. 

"He's starting to see that every action has a reaction," Snyder said (via THR). "Like, if you're just taking a cat out of a tree, you can't touch anything or the arborists will say, 'He damaged the tree branch when he got the cat down.' Or, 'The cat wasn't neutered, so now there's thousands of cats.' There's no winning anymore for Superman."

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What he's trying to say — given that, as far as we know, 'Dawn Of Justice' isn't a screed against arborists or veterinarians — is...