Thor: Ragnarok
Director Taika Waititi has reveal thatThor : Ragnarokwas almost very dissimilar - it almost destroy Valhalla , not Asgard . In other potation , Thor successfully saved the 24-hour interval , but Marvel felt they had to fulfill the promise of Ragnarok , the Twilight of the Gods .
Thor : Ragnarokessentially relaunched the entire Thor dealership , and it did so by tearing down everything that had been built before . The old supporting cast of characters were toss out without a 2d thought - inJane Foster ’s case , with a thrown-away line about a reciprocal breakup . Thor lose his hammering , and an oculus . And , most dramatically of all , the film came to a end with the death of Asgard .
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Speaking onThe Empire Film Podcast(viaWebbed Media),Waititi revealed that the movie almost went in a completely dissimilar way . " There were versions of the account in the very showtime were we were n’t even on Asgard , " he explicate , " we would drop a pile of sentence in Valhalla . really went to Valahalla and had this bragging showdown there but that idea only lasted a duad of weeks . "
In Norse mythology , Valhalla is the Hall of the Dead , the space where the souls of valorous warrior go for pacification . It ’s traditionally associated with the Valkyrie , whose role is to scour battlefields and guide the mortal of the fallen to Valhalla . Marvel ’s comics have traditionallytreated Valhalla as a form of " afterlife dimension,“with Valkyries able to travel between the kingdom of the numb and the living . It ’s surprising to hear that Marvel toyed with introducing Valhalla itself in the MCU , and in that version it seems secure to adopt there would have been a lot more Valkyrie warriors . There may also have been potential for some surprising cameo ; after all , any soul that has die in battle could ’ve been transported to Valhalla .
Ultimately , though , Marvel chose to ditch that musical theme - and they made the right choice . As Waititi hints on the podcast , the realism is that the picture show ’s title of " Ragnarok " is something of a hope . Ragnarok is the Twilight of the Gods , associated with the demolition of Asgard and the beginning of a fresh cycle for the Norse gods . In thematic terms , it would have been very strange indeed to setThor : Ragnarokon Valhalla , not on Asgard .
As Waititi note , his imaginativeness ofAsgardwas unlike anything see in the MCU to engagement . He see Asgard through a colonial lens , and suggested that " this entire imperium , this intact world was built on the spoils of other battle . " The gilded outside of Asgard concealed the darkness of its past ; that was neatly symbolize when Hela tore down Asgardian artwork to let on an range of her seduction beneath it . This revelation transform the evenfall of Asgard into an chance to put the past to rest , to begin a unexampled round that did not involve conquest and barbarism at all .
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Source : Empire Film Podcast , ( viaWebbed Media )
