Zack Snyder

other than that he's our hero.

Right.

And he's got to go through a crucible and he's got to learn.

You know, he's got to like, these are the like Joseph Campbell-ian parts of his journey.

So anyway, but that, and that's kind of what, it's cool because, you know, I've always been like the hugest fan of heavy metal.

I think it's like the fucking cool, it was the coolest thing.

Heavy metal was amazing.

It's like, it always like made me, it kind of broke me for comics a little bit because you know, it was always like super sexy and super violent.

And so you'd get a normal comic and be like, uh,

When are they going to start fucking?

Yeah, all that was on the ragged edge, and it was so underground and so cult and so weird.

That's what I loved about it, and that's what I wanted to do with the movie.

It's like, say, what does the cult, underground, raw sci-fi movie look like, you know?

So is it hard to do the PG-13 version?

It was very hard.

Was it conflicted?

What does it feel like?

It was super conflicted.

Although the only thing I will say is that I was liberated by the fact that I knew the R-rated version exists.

So there was... In the other versions of this work, in the other director's cuts, there was a version where that director's cut never was seen.