{"id":21953,"date":"2020-04-15T10:25:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T17:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=21953"},"modified":"2020-04-18T09:39:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T16:39:00","slug":"michael-shannon-weighs-in-on-man-of-steel-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=21953","title":{"rendered":"Michael Shannon weighs in on &#8220;Man of Steel&#8221; ending"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michael Shannon hasn&#8217;t exactly addressed this topic at break neck speed considering it is almost 7 years since the movie released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"530\" src=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/https___blogs-images.forbes.com_markhughes_files_2016_03_Man-Of-Steel-103-1200x663-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/https___blogs-images.forbes.com_markhughes_files_2016_03_Man-Of-Steel-103-1200x663-1.png 960w, https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/https___blogs-images.forbes.com_markhughes_files_2016_03_Man-Of-Steel-103-1200x663-1-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/https___blogs-images.forbes.com_markhughes_files_2016_03_Man-Of-Steel-103-1200x663-1-768x424.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michael Shannon, who portrayed General Zod in <em>Man of Steel<\/em> has given his two-cents on the extremely divisive subject of Superman snapping Zod&#8217;s neck at the climax of Zack Snyder&#8217;s controversial superhero origin story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mere mention Zod&#8217;s neck breaking is contentious on the internet, that the moment the words are written, a huge argument erupts the world over about who is right and who is wrong. Well, now we have Michael Shannon&#8217;s viewpoint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no denying his thoughts about the decision to kill Zod, given the ultimatum that Zod gives Superman. After all, Superman chose humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shannon explained to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinemablend.com\/news\/2494253\/what-michael-shannon-really-thinks-about-man-of-steels-controversial-ending\">Cinemablend<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>No, I didn&#8217;t think there was any other way to end, it, really. I mean, Zod says it&#8217;s either me or you. I&#8217;m not gonna let you survive. I will kill you, unless you kill me. And that seemed sufficiently Greek to me, you know?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"516\" src=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Man-of-Steel-Michael-Shannon-as-General-Zod-1024x516.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Man-of-Steel-Michael-Shannon-as-General-Zod-1024x516.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Man-of-Steel-Michael-Shannon-as-General-Zod-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Man-of-Steel-Michael-Shannon-as-General-Zod-768x387.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Man-of-Steel-Michael-Shannon-as-General-Zod.jpg 1065w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Snyder has a penchant for alluding to Greek mythology when painting his heroes and villains, going beyond <em>Man of Steel<\/em>, and into his earlier movies, such as <em>Watchmen<\/em> and <em>300<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His grandiose stories tell truths about humanity in more than just an obvious way, his use of metaphysical allusion to humanity&#8217;s faults generally require more than just a passing glance at his work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/comicbook.com\/dc\/2020\/04\/10\/man-of-steel-controversial-ending-michael-shannon-weighs-in\/\">comicbook.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nMichael Shannon hasn&#8217;t exactly addressed this topic at break neck speed considering it is almost 7 years since the movie released.\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=21953\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Michael Shannon weighs in on &#8220;Man of Steel&#8221; ending&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":21954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[813,6,9],"tags":[2274,2273,445,668,1158,1281],"class_list":["post-21953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-film-tv","category-movies","tag-2274","tag-general-zod","tag-man-of-steel","tag-superman","tag-watchmen","tag-zack-snyder","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Michael Shannon weighs in on &quot;Man of Steel&quot; ending - The Cultured Nerd<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=21953\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Michael Shannon weighs in on &quot;Man of Steel&quot; ending - The Cultured Nerd\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Michael Shannon hasn&#039;t exactly addressed this topic at break neck speed considering it is almost 7 years since the movie released. 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