Man of Steel opens this weekend, and it’s sure to reignite chitchat about what kind of director Zack Snyder is. The good kind? Or the less-good kind? The kind that can make a comic-book movie, or the kind that can’t? Amid these discussions, it might be helpful to refer to “Zach Snyder’s 10 Golden Rules of Moviemaking,” from MovieMaker magazine, a list originally compiled in 2009, known to Snyderites as the pre–Sucker Punch era. Anyway:
1. There are No Rules.
2. The Will to Suffer.
3. Your Point of View.
4. Storyboard.
5. Movies are Pictures.
6. Respect.
7. Throw things.
8. I Still Shoot Film.
9. Passion.
10. Shoot Every Shot
Use these wisely, fellow filmmakers.