Well, in theory, I'm interested in answers without the context, but the specific context is Thor. Now, the characters in the movie aren't Norse gods. One is Asian, like in the comic, and one is black, unlike the comic. But they aren't gods. They're aliens. White supremacists seem okay with that part. Idris Elba, on the other hand! Dirty! Wrong!
So, how was your summer? Mine was fun. Saw some fish. Went mad with hunger. Hallucinated a whole bunch.
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§ ita § - Dec 21, 2010 11:18:19 am PST #12535 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
DavidS - Dec 21, 2010 11:19:13 am PST #12536 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Idris Elba, on the other hand! Dirty! Wrong!
He may be dirty (one hopes), but never wrong.
Jars - Dec 21, 2010 11:26:15 am PST #12537 of 30000
Maybe aliens are better than pagans? It is hard to predict what bigots will have problems with.
§ ita § - Dec 21, 2010 11:34:06 am PST #12538 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They're not bigots. They're patriots. Space alien-worshipping patriots.
le nubian - Dec 21, 2010 12:47:49 pm PST #12539 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
This is like bigotry week (although truth be told, the bigots seemed to have lost their ever-loving mind when Obama was elected) in the US. First, Haley Barbour now this mess.
But...I did not know the "gods" were aliens in Thor. Really? WTF have I been?
§ ita § - Dec 21, 2010 12:55:43 pm PST #12540 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They mention it's science in the trailer.
DavidS - Dec 21, 2010 1:09:36 pm PST #12541 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
DavidS - Dec 21, 2010 1:34:30 pm PST #12542 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Pure cinematic charisma: Romy Schneider's screen tests for Clouzot's unfinished L'Enfer.
I don't know another actress that has quite Romy's mix of beauty, warmth, wickedness, sensuality and play. But I'd like to see Cate Blanchett try.
I know I've mentioned it before, but Romy's on my short list of great under-appreciated beauties of the sixties along with Capucine and Charlotte Rampling. (All three of them having more than a whiff of decadence, I'd say.)
Typo Boy - Dec 21, 2010 1:37:38 pm PST #12543 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
So Thor and Odin and Baldur and Loki and the Giants are all aliens? Is this from an iteration of the comics, or original to the movie?
§ ita § - Dec 21, 2010 1:38:44 pm PST #12544 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Is this from an iteration of the comics, or original to the movie?
Apparently they did it in the comics too. Where they also had an Asian Asgard, but nobody's whining about that too loudly.