Kenneth Branagh On Humor and Humility Among Gods In THOR

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Without trying to spoil anything.....

What I've sen so far seems spot on with the script I've read.

My own feeling is that the whole fish out of water element does have humor and it makes sense the over all feeling for Thor should be epic and it just does not seem that way.

Some of that got taken away when the shakespearian dialogue got cut. They also go out of their way with the asgardians as aliens concept. I hate the idea which is one thing, but it gets shoved down the audiences throat over and over. Like many other comicbook movies they try to over explain in to make it gell with the avengers. What's wrong with what happens when a a more realistic (?) hero like iron man meets a god???
That, to me, is interesting. Many of you want to dis any non marvel studios movie, but maybe spiderman and x-men seem to have more FUN with their films...We shall see

No the funniest part is when he gets tazerd. Still waiting for a full Captain America trailer. Anybody know when the full Cap trailer will premier?

@it'll be even more fun when Thor's first reaction to the Hulk would be "Troll!", then epic misunderstood battle between heroes ensues. Classic Marvel Super Hero Team Up Fight.

Reasonn - Did you not understand what intruder said, they're not portrayed as aliens, they are portrayed as Asgardians.

Jakeroo - "Where i come from they are one in the same"

That line has nothing to do with Marvel portraying them as aliens. He simply just said that the weapons they have would seem like magic to humans.

I mean really what is inferred here? Thor comes from
space right?

He is not from earth. So...... LOL

Let me say it a different way. No matter what the script calls them

Okay as a movie audience We get to see asguard and thats a good point, but there are several places in the script where they either deny magic, call it something else.

Call it clever, but I call it sucking the fun out of a comicbook movie. It isn't loyal to marvel cannon

jack shut up

Such a great trailer. Am very excited to see this one!

@MovieTheaterLad .... I can just picture a heartfelt moment with Captain American and Thor relating to each other in a scene or two, developing a strong bond of friendship out of it. That'd be kinda cool, imo.

I wouldn't mind reading the script that leaked sounds like a good win if anybody has it & doesn't mind taking a moment out there time to send to my email it would be greatly appreciated [email protected]

I think the removing of the "shakespearean" dialogue is not a big loss, mainly because when Thor comes to Earth, he ALREADY speaks WAY more differently than anyone I've ever met...

He may not "thee" and "thou", but I like his "how dare you's" and what not...now....

ANOTHER!!! ;)


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@Jakeroo

I agree. The "we're not speaking your language, you're speaking ours" stuff is over used slightly.
However, it doesn't waver my anticipation for the film.

And I also agree that the script was very good, rather than superb

It's a little known fact that this costume was going to be their first attempt at humor in the film, but someone decided against it.

@Jakeroo: Have you actually ever read any Thor comics?

They are portrayed as "aliens" in the truest sense there too - and have been since the beginning.

Here is the first line about Asgardians on Marvel's official wiki:

"The Asgardians are a extra-dimensional race of beings who were worshiped by the Norsemen as Gods."

Alien = extra-terrestrial = "outside, or originating outside, the limits of the earth."

Extra-dimensional beings are about as 'alien' as you can get. In the comics, even they don't know their true origins and only became "gods" a considerable time after their alleged emergence around 18,500 BCE:

"The cosmic entity the Unbeing, while impersonating the other cosmic entity Origin, claimed that Origin had directed the Asgardians to seek out Earth. Circa 10,000 BCE"

Branagh and Marvel clearly know their Asgard and Thor mythology (Marvel style) better than you.

It really pisses me off when I see this kind of ignorance. So just in case we're not clear - in the comics THOR IS AN ALIEN TOO.

In the MU a "god" is more of a job description than anything else, as the same thing applies to pretty much every other pantheistic being.

Another thing is that "magic" in the MU is just another form of energy, subject to its own 'laws', so an advanced race would apply the same principles to it as they would to any other 'science'. i.e. just another form of energy to be manipulated, following established rules and laws.

"Magic also appears to be like a form of energy, except that it can defy the laws of physics naturally. However, it does have rules of its own to follow, which vary with the method of invocation, usually in the form of spoken spells."

Hence "To us, they're one and the same"

Do your homework before wrongly calling Marvel out for not knowing their own creation.

http://marvel.wikia.com (use it)

skidz - I gotta' disagree, the funniest scene is in the diner:

‎"This drink - I like it! Another!"
"This is going on Facebook... 'SMILE'!"

I about peed myself when I saw that.

Jackeroo - I don't know WHAT you've been reading, but from what I've seen and read so far about this film, it's more faithful to its original cannon than any other CBM so far! The only thing that could be argued that hasn't been faithful (and we're talking 'old-school' here) is the exclusion of the Donald Blake persona/character, but I'm more than willing to let that slide if this film meets (or quite possibly exceeds) my expectations!

KeithM - It only makes sense that Branagh knows all when it comes to Thor-lore - not only did he do INSTESIVE research into the characters and their backstories, but a lot of the Marvel Universe as well! Branagh is THE MAN!!!!

I'm going out on a limb, but this is shaping up to be... THE GREATEST COMIC BOOK MOVIE EVER!!!!