iamanartichoke:

philosopherking1887:

iamanartichoke:

sabbykatt3:

i-need-a-hero-i-need-a-loki:

Russo brothers with Loki in infinity war:

Shame and opprobrium where it’s due: the people who wrote the screenplay for Infinity War are Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. I blame them more than the Russo brothers for the bullshit that was IW … though of course the Russos executed Markus & McFeely’s shitty vision in predictably shitty fashion.

^^ Fair, idk why, but I always tend to assume that the screenplay is like a guideline and the directors are the ones who ultimately carry it out – but, I really have no idea how movie-making works. I think I’ll just make “Russos+M&M” my kind of blanket blame name for IW, haha.  

I think it depends a lot on the specific case… but I think in the normal case, the screenplay dictates the course of fictional events. Thor: Ragnarok is a highly unusual case because so much of it ended up being improvised. People who have read the novelization have pointed to significant differences in storyline as well as dialogue, which did not exist between the novel and movie versions of the previous two Thor movies. Most significantly, the electrocution/ultimatum scene was not in the novel; Loki arrives in Asgard with Thor & co. rather than coming later. So I think we can conclude that the “shooting script” that’s available online, which is just sort of a transcript of the movie, is not Eric Pearson’s screenplay, which is why I leave him out of my beefs about Ragnarok. I get the impression that the process with Infinity War was a lot more conventional, so the screenwriters deserve at least as much blame as the directors for the issues with plot and characterization.