Thor and His Mighty Hammer
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 5:03PM I once lived in Tønsberg Norway so imagine my shock at seeing it name-checked on screen for the first time in my life. According to Thor the movie that's where Odin (Anthony Hopkins in the role usually played by Liam Neeson or, well, Anthony Hopkins) and the Gods of Asgards battled the Frost Giants way back in... I've forgotten the date but it's ages and ages ago. That's the ancient war that prefaces the entire epic hooey of Marvel's new superhero flick THOR. Who knew? I saw no traces of this epic magical battle in Tønsberg soil but I am neither a geologist nor a wormhole chasing astrophysicist like Natalie Portman so maybe I didn't know where to look?
My Thor review for Towleroad.
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Reader Comments (4)
To comment on something on Towleroad, Kate Kane Batwoman would be interesting...but that requires an awfully coordinated film engine, due to the links with Batman. One film I'd love to see: Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, the self contained tale of Asexual spree killer Johnny C. The irony is, the best "name" director for the job, Cronenberg, may not understand the character (he says "Sex and violence go together like bacon and eggs"). The windfall of viewing "sex and violence go together" in the context of this character would either be 1. He's repressed and killing to replace sex (refuted in source itself: Main character says he'd tear off his genitals to accomplish a goal (Nny views self castration as a means to the end of becoming a machine, Jackie Earle Haley in Little Children views it as a punishment to turn himself into a good person.) Does the former view sound like the mental process of a sexually inclined person?) 2. Cronenberg would bend the character into his own themes, said bending possibly involving an orientation shift. (Imagine what people would think if a famous gay literary character was turned straight today. Yeah.) I would love to see what would happen if indiewood started saying "we're going to hunt for asexual directors." They won't all be great, but there could be a unique voice to find, to be sifted out by the court of culture, drifting from Sundance to the pop-culture, eventually.
Volvagia -- if you use paragraph breaks it's way easier to read.!
Sorry. I read Ulysses recently. It infects the mind. In summation: Kate Kane Batwoman: Complicated, would need tons of over sight. JTHM: Good idea, but we'd need to set the director in place before it happened.
What were you doing living in Norway??