
That influence also explains why Snyder portrays Batman as so willing to kill. I sort of wanted to homage the comic book in this movie as much as possible was to say thank you to Frank for sort of giving me back Batman in a way that I could understand as modern … Even though we don’t follow that story, necessarily, the imagery that I chose to try to emulate in the movie was a way of me saying ‘thank you Frank’ for making my aesthetic.” It sort of inspired me to reconnect with Batman the character and comic book in general. It challenged … my fundamental notions about Batman.

The filmmaker has spoken about that influence a number of times, including just a few weeks ago, noting, “When I read that comic book series, you know, in ‘86 I was floored by it because I felt like it promised me something.
