The English artist and writer William Blake depicts
#MAN OF STEEL SYMBOLISM MOVIE#
He (always an he) appears in the Matrix movie as the Architect The Hebrew Saturn god El and his biblical Elohim are the Gnostic LordĪrchon/Demiurge and Archons under another name. ‘Come let us create a man according to the image of God and according to our Known in the Gnostic texts as the ‘Lord Archon’ and they quote him as saying : Our ‘physical’ or material reality as we perceive it. Gnostic texts the Archons serve the ‘Demiurge’ who is a fake ‘god’ that created The Genesis chamber and the embryonic pods in the Matrix movies (same symbolism) and speaks of 'machines' that create life forms to suit the' machine mind'. It’s not just in the movies you know? I’ll come back to this is Significant in terms of the symbolism and science relating to Earth's atmosphere and how it is ‘beingĬhanged’ today.
The gas KryptonĬomes form the Greek word ‘Kryptos’ meaning ‘the hidden one’ and I am sure this is That speaks of an El -ite’s desire to take over planet Earth (humanity). Here we have theĬonnections to the obsession in our world with genetic purity, trans-humanism Harvest humans as an energy source and how humanity is kept in illusion – the Matrix. The script for a future Earth? Similar themes can be found in the Matrix movie where machines
Person's place in life is to be (leader, scientist, general, etc). Through genetic engineering with a planetary 'Codex' that imprints just what a Violation of the basic laws of the planet, where babies are to be bred She and her husband have birthed their son naturally, in ‘We also drew on Gilgamesh and Beowulf…’ Goyer added.Film starts on the Planet Krypton, where Laraīirth to a son. ‘That was the original idea, but then we were like: “that’s crazy! It’ll burn up, it doesn’t make any sense”.’ ‘in a wicker spaceship! Snyder interjected. ‘But also the legend of Moses, clearly the whole way his parents give him up and send him…’ ‘We didn’t come up with these allusions of Superman being Christ-like, that’s something that’s been embedded in the character from the beginning, he said. Review: Man of Steel doesn’t waste time on doomy naval-gazingĪnd according to screenwriter David Goyer, it’s not just Jesus Christ Superman. I think it’s drawing on all mythology: comic book, religion, ancient, philosophical.’
But by no means is it for one idea to cancel out the other, or for it to be mutually exclusive to one single idea. ‘For me personally, I think that the mythological part of the story – and there’s other parallels as well – but if you see this Christ-like story within it, it is really to act as a metaphor to see that Superman is struggling in a way that there might be another layer to it that you can draw from other experiences. What is personal to you or to someone who sees a Christ story or someone who doesn’t, it might affect the way they see the movie in a different way, or it may make the events in the film more personal, or make the mythological points of the film more intense. ‘When you talk about mythology, you want to make a point about the importance of a character, or the relevance of a moment, to be able to draw from peoples’ collective experiences. MORE: David Goyer: We are in a darker place in the world, it was the right time to reintroduce Superman It’s one of those things mythologically you take for granted, a little bit. ‘And in a weird way, probably was talked about more when Superman was created than it is now.
‘I think the relationship between Jesus and Superman is not a thing we invented in this film, it is a thing that has been talked about since the creation of Superman,’ he said, speaking to us from Warner Bros studios in LA. That’s right… Ed Sheeran is Superman! (Picture: AFP/Getty)Īccording to director Zack Snyder, this isn’t the first time the above comparison has been made.