The Justice League movie was not ruined by Cavill's mustache

• by Matt Morrison
• – on [31 juillet 2018]
• in SR Originals

Justice League could have been a really great movie, despite its most infamous flaw – the CGI which has removed Henry Cavill's mustache. It is generally accepted at this stage that Justice League was a deeply flawed film, although the precise reasons for this are the result of numerous spatterings and attacks. In all this debate, conducted in countless Twitter threads and comment sections, one feature of the movie has surpassed all others to represent the ultimate symbol of all that is wrong with Superman's top lip.

There are many reasons for this. The first of them is that it was the first major mistake to become obvious, with Superman appearing in the very first scene of the film as he is interviewed by a group of children interviewing him. for their podcast. The incongruity of Superman's face in the opening set the tone for how the rest of the film would be so disjointed

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Writer / Director Joss Whedon , who oversaw the completion of Justice League after Zack Snyder moved away from the project, was supposed to oversee only the recap and it was asserted that the final film would otherwise be a film by Zack Snyder in all respects. Despite this, there was a distinct tonal difference – both in writing and in cinematography – between the scenes Snyder had shot and the reorganizations overseen by Whedon. Storyboards and images have emerged since then, suggesting that although Whedon had intended to complete Snyder's vision, Warner Bros was determined to tell a radically different story from what Snyder had planned.

The ultimate tragency of Justice League is that with a little more time and effort, it could have been a worthy movie. If Zack Snyder had been allowed to finish the film as he had planned or if Whedon had had enough time to design a film more in keeping with his own sensitivity as a director, the finished product would have been better. Even giving more time to graphic designers to work on the CGI would have greatly helped the film. Unfortunately, Warner Bros was determined to stick to their original release date and the film was suffering.

Why mustache was so bad

In this respect, the mustache removed by CGI from Henry Cavill can be considered symbolic of the problems with the Justice League goes back in general – a lot of unnecessary work for a result clearly precipitated. The reason why CGI was required to remove Cavill's mustache was due to the reorganization of Justice League which occurred at the same time as Cavill filmed Mission Impossible – Fallout . Cavill had developed a mustache for his role in this film and Paramount refused to let him shave or wear a fake mustache in their film. That led Warner Bros. to have to go through ridiculous steps to hide Cavill's mustache in order to get Justice League finished according to their schedule.

Ignoring Cavill's top lip, the same sense of precipitation can be seen as Cavill's performance as a Superman. Most of Cavill's scenes in Justice League's theatrical cut were filmed during the reorganizations and the difference between his performances in these scenes and the moments filmed by Snyder is like night and day. Cavill's performance in the reshoot scenes is getting bigger, almost to the point of over-acting, particularly compared to the more sober performance he's given when led by Snyder in Man of Steel . What was the original Zack Snyder 5 film DCEU plan

The changes to Superman are deeper than his lip

Problematic that the CGI had to hide Cavill's mustache was, it was a deep problem compared to the problems caused by Superman's writing in the reshoot scenes. Thanks to the movie's original trailers, we know something about Snyder's original plans for Superman's resurrection and the tone of the scenes involved. Perhaps the clearest example is the moment when the last trailer opened Justice League in which Lois Lane sees Clark Kent in the cornfields of his family's farm and tells him " Will take that as a yes ?" when he sees that she is wearing the engagement ring that he had given to Martha Kent to keep her safe

This scene is not found in the last theatrical cut of Justice League . There is a scene where Lois Lane and Clark Kent talk while standing in a cornfield, but its tone and reach are radically different from what we saw in the trailer. Instead, we see Cavill, his modified CGI lip firmly in focus (with the CGI corn in the background), as Lois Lane asks him what is death. Rather than giving a complex or philosophical answer about what he could see in The Great Beyond, Superman responds with one word – " Itchy ." It was a painfully whedonesque turmoil that clearly indicated how much Snyder's vision was altered by handling Whedon's remounts

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