A YouTube page with a simple goal -- pushing for the release of Zack Snyder's version of the 2017 movie Justice League -- has published a nearly six-minute self-proclaimed anthem for the cause.
Snyder is credited with directing Justice League, but due to a family emergency had to step down as director and was replaced for reshoots and edits by Joss Whedon. Since the movie's release, a group of fans has pushed to see the original, Whedon-less version of the film.
The page called ReleaseTheSnyderCut RTSC released the video on Oct. 19 and it currently sits at 33,433 views. The video is the latest in a movement that's had a Change.org petition with over 100,000 signatures and a series of prominent advertisements at Comic-Con International in San Diego and New York City Comic Con this year.
"Hollywood makes two kinds of movies," Snyder said in an interview at the start of the video, with the anthem juxtaposing his quote with somber footage from the movie. "They make movies by committee and filmmaker movies. I'm really not interested in movies by committee... they suck. The best movies, my favorite movies, you can feel the personality of the director and it's all about that."
The anthem is a love letter to Zack Snyder's DC movies, comparing them to the works of Renaissance artists like Michelangelo. "They don't know about how much passion goes into a monument of cinematic gold," the song said. "After going through all of this, once the public has asked to have the masses shown it, those bastards choose to act as though it don't exist."
The video also doesn't skimp on naming names, from posting the pictures of executives blamed for keeping the Snyder Cut in the vault to praising Jason Momoa specifically for supporting Snyder. The video also highlights comic creators like Rob Leifeld expressing their support for the movement.
Like Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, the artist behind the Snyder Cut Anthem takes a few swipes at Marvel Studios as well, calling it a "monster machine" and blaming it for the overabundance of humor in the final cut of Justice League.
"Zack has sacrificed enough so we're going to riot unless they release the Snyder cut," goes the main refrain of the song.
Fittingly for an anthem about releasing an alternative edit, there are remixed and instrumental versions of the Snyder Cut anthem available as well.