I just got back from seeing Thor in 3D, and I have many thoughts. Only a few of them are fully-formed enough to share right now, but maybe I’ll be able to go into more depth later. In the meantime…
One, why did I think it would be awesome if there were more 3D movies? Headache, I has one (ouch!). Two, fun to watch, but that plot was a mess. Three, Sif.
I think this bit from the film sums my delight in Sif up pretty well:
Thor: Who was it that proved that a mere maiden could be one of the mightiest warriors of Asgard?
Sif: I did!
Thor: True, but I supported you, Sif.
The line is played for laughs, a silly bit in a short, mostly light-hearted sequence, but the humor is not at Sif’s expense. Jaimie Alexander’s delivery made it clear that Sif isn’t shy about taking credit. And Thor immediately acknowledges that it was her own work that made her reputation. It’s a tiny moment, and a small detail, but one that I really liked.
I also dug how she really was a mighty warrior, that though she had a shield she wasn’t relegated to defensive-only behavior (always a favorite for female fighters in movies), and that her armor looked about as functional as everyone else’s. I could have done without the heels on her boots, though.
What did you think?
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Sylvia Sybil,
the only people I saw complaining were white supremicist groups, some of whom have adopted, real or symbolically, the Norse pantheon as true ‘white’ gods. Hence their far stronger concern over a black god than an Asian god.
I must say that I have many pagan friends, one I know worships the Norse pantheon and for her watching the movie was the equivalent to a Christian watching Jesus Christ and the Superfriends! But her concerns were not about race, but religion.
drolefille(Quote) (Reply)
Sylvia Sybil,
Possibly because Hogun actually is Asian in the comics. They might rationalize it as “Well, this is based on the comics, so that explains that, but even comics-Heimdall is still white!”
Skemono(Quote) (Reply)
But that doesn’t make sense. Why would they think a Black god was more “impure” than an Asian god? They’re both not White. Unless White supremacists are more racist against Blacks than Asians?
Enh. Lazy excuse, as far as I’m concerned. The whole thing just smells of racism and stupidity.
Sylvia Sybil(Quote) (Reply)
I see that, but the way it played in my head was that it was the other characters subjecting Loki to that, not the writers subjecting the audience to it. I felt like Loki was saying “are you guys so blinded by the whole ‘big strong blond guy’ thing that you don’t even see what an arrogant lunkhead Thor is?” To me, what made Loki a bad guy wasn’t that he let the Jotuns into Asgard to try to steal the casket of winter at the start of the film, it was that he didn’t care that doing so got the Asgardian guardians (see what I did there?) of the casket and the Jotun thieves killed, just so he could tweak Thor’s nose. Thor was an arrogant lunkhead, but Loki was an arrogant narcissist. Thor could learn; Loki, not so much.
Keith(Quote) (Reply)
I would so watch that. But I’m an atheist, so they’re all kind of cartoon characters to me.
Now I’m wondering what the disciples powers and costumes would be…
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Keith,
Kinda reminds me of South Park’s Super Best Friends…y’know, before they ended up censoring Muhammad.
Casey(Quote) (Reply)
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