Zac Snyder packs a punch!

Zack Snyder discusses his new film ‘Suckerpunch’
Apart from the obvious Taj Mahal, what comes to your mind when you hear about India?
India is an amazing country which I yet have to explore! All I can say if you ask me to speak of India is, I guess, the apparent cricket craze!
Have you ever seen any Bollywood movie before?
I have seen a few and they are very entertaining and I love the musical touch they bring along with them.
A zombie film, comic book movies, an animated owl story and now this. So you are just schizophrenic, right?
Zack: Completely schizophrenic.The real answer is, “What’s not cool about all that stuff?” Nothing. I think we’ve been trying to make movies that, so far, are things that we’re interested in, that we think are cool. Though, I would say that zombie movies and comic book adaptations aren’t a crazy jump there. Animated owl film? Okay, I’ll give you that one. But it is animated, so there’s the whole maybe-relationship between them.
“300” was an all-male cast. Can you talk about working with a primarily female cast in this one?
Zack: Yeah, I vowed never to have just one gender in a movie and sort of hopscotch genders, if at all possible. No, I’m kidding. It really just worked out that this story happened to be about these girls. So it wasn’t anything where I was, “Oh, I’ve been around men too much. I’ve got to make a movie with only women.”
You’re known for striking effects and visuals. Can you talk about the production design of this film?
Zack: You know, we tried to just make good looking shots all the time. It’s not just in an action sequence. We really did just try to do it all the time. Because movies are visual. I think that influences the movie all the way across. In every aspect of the film, we did something that was striking. That’s kind of how I want the experience of watching the movie.
Why did you make the decision not to go 3D with this movie?
Zack: When we started talking about it, I had a certain idea of how I wanted to move the camera and I had a certain idea of how I wanted the film to feel. I am a fan of 3D. “Legends” is all 3D. It was conceived in 3D and, if anyone has seen it, I think the 3D is pretty friggin awesome, if I do say so myself. We did talk about it and, in the press, there was word that we were going to do the movie in 3D.
We really were considering it. But we had seen a bunch of the intial tests and the conversion didn’t sit well with me at all. Without being baked in, it just felt a little weird. But they also showed me a test of “300” that was pretty awesome. It didn’t feel right for this movie. It’s in eye-numbing 2D, which is also awesome.
What about the special physical training the girls underwent?
Zack: The idea for me was to give these guys a chance to live like a pro-athlete instead of an actor for a little bit. To feel like, in a sense, that there was no movie to make – that what they were doing was just every day going to train, go to the gym, shoot a gun, go to bed and wake up and do it all over again. That that’s a cool way to think about it and I hope that their experiences together in that setting then had an influence on the movie and, having to do those scenes, there was a weird leftover from the sweat and the gun shooting.