Zack Snyder
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Podcast Appearances
And he happens to come across this guy who also is flying a biplane who happens to be like a messiah, who happens to be like this super spiritually advanced dude who's on the run from... He doesn't want to be the messiah.
He's like... It's called Illusions, The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah.
And it's about the two of them spending a summer together, just the one guy teaching him about like...
It's a shit job being the Messiah.
Because you know what happens to the Messiahs in the end.
He goes, do you always have to die a violent death?
And he goes, yeah, I don't think always.
He goes, yeah, you know what?
It's cool for like... He goes, what about just a quiet little ascension, you know, just on the side?
And he's like, yeah, I don't think the universe will let that happen.
So it's a cool... So it's this really cool...
Again, it's like this sort of, it's again like a spiritual deconstructivist, like Messiah story.
And I just like, I've always, it was like this book when I was growing up, I just, in a lot of ways, it's religious philosophy is similar to Christian science.
So I superimposed my religious beliefs onto this book, and I felt like it kind of spoke to my doubts and my questions about my religious upbringing and what I thought for real.
So my brother passed away when I was 13.
He got in a car accident, and he was this incredibly spiritual dude.