The film will premiere on Thursday 7th and carries stories from other studio productions in its luggage.
Fourth film of the god of Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor: Love and thunder hits theaters this Thursday, 7th. Because it’s the character’s fourth individual story and Marvel Studios’ 29th feature film, not counting the series, there’s a lot of baggage built up to get to this story. The productions of other years have given life to stories that end here. So, you know what to do before watching the new Marvel movie.
Thor in a new time
First, it is essential to have the film Thor: Ragnarokavailable on Disney +, fresh in the memory. After all, it was in this film that the director Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit) entered the game and left the dark side of the character aside to embrace playfulness, colorful tones and a light story, even if it doesn’t really leave the saga’s existential dramas aside.
With that, it’s important to understand how the director made this transition between the character’s two moods. But, mostly, here you can understand how actor Chris Hemsworth started doing what he does best: giving a more fun treatment to the thunder god. Anyone who doesn’t watch the film will get lost in this sudden change of tone.
Korg and Valkyrie
In addition to the question of tone, which changes Ragnarok, several essential characters are introduced into the journey of the thunder god. Tessa Thompson, known for her role in Credo: born to fight, enters history as Valkyrie, a character representing Norse warriors who go to great lengths to protect Odin and other gods. But here, she takes on a contemporary guise as a queer and more independent character.
Another essential character is Korg (Taika Waititi), a stone being who meets Thor behind the scenes of the thunder god’s fight against the Hulk in Ragnarok. In the previous film, he became a treasure for his good mood. Now, he is no longer just a sporadic fool and becomes essential: he is the one who tells the entire trajectory of Thor and has some of the best lines of the film, such as the constant errors with the name of the character of Natalie Portman.
Jane Foster
Speaking of Portman, it’s also important to know how your character, Jane Foster, it got this far. Romantic couple of the Norse god, she appeared in the first movie of the character, Thorin 2011. It still appears with some relevance in the sequence Thor: The Dark World, but then it disappeared. The actress was bothered by the way she was being treated only as the “damsel in distress” and she didn’t want to return to the Marvel universe.
Taika Waititi, however, made a new proposal to turn Jane into the The mighty Thor, female version of the god of thunder. It was a way not to throw away the character’s narrative arc, to make sense of his story in this new moment and, in any case, to please Natalie Portman with a role that is not just a romantic partner. If you have time, it might be a good option to watch the character’s initial two films to see Jane’s transformation.
Source: Terra
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