@sexualthorientation, you wanna take this one, since it seems to be in reply to your post? I haven’t been paying that much attention to the promo work Tom has or hasn’t been doing in the past few weeks because, you know, dissertation.
hey there! sorry for the late response – i was away from a computer for four days, and i hate the mobile app for answering asks (among other things), so i wanted to wait until i was at an actual ‘puter again
to answer your question though, it doesn’t feel like chris and tom are as close as they once were. tom looked eager to jump back into that close, synergistic relationship they had during thor 1, avengers and dark world (i mean who could forget that time tom sang dankeschön to chris?).
but during ragnarok filming, there was a noticeable absence of that affection from chris, who seemed to have been kind of standoffish a lot of the time, with the exception of when they did ragnarok interviews together (which were too few, imo)
when they were filming ragnarok tom was kind of touchy-feely:
and you got a very real sense that he wanted to follow chris around like a lovesick puppy:
In some ways, but not as much as I feared. Actually, what I was really afraid of was that they would turn Thor into Kevin from Ghostbusters, or he would be the version of Thor we saw in the “Thor: Civil War” video. I was incredibly relieved to see that the stupid line in one of the trailers about Thor having more brains because he has more muscles did not make it into the movie.
The filmmakers were clearly aware of the possibility that Thor would come off as anachronistic and/or Tony Stark-like; Taika Waititi even said in an interview that Thor’s change in diction and demeanor could be explained by his having spent more time on Earth hanging out with Tony Stark and learning about sarcasm. There was room for some movement in that direction, but I think they went too far with it. Thor has shown a sense of humor in earlier movies, most notably in the scene in TDW where he and Loki commandeer the Dark Elf ship with a lot of brotherly bickering, but also in Age of Ultron. There’s a post that I’ve seen going around occasionally with all the instances of Thor “trolling” people in AOU; I think the “I am Thor son of Odin, and as long as I have life in my breast I am… running out of things to say” bit is the most memorable. But it was always kind of an understated humor.
I’ve seen some people saying that they see some of the character change as a reversion to the brash, cocky warrior-prince of the first Thor movie, but with more cunning and caution and a better sense of proportion. I guess I can see that, and I can sort of see how that might have happened as he gained some distance from the traumatic events that turned him into the grave, almost world-weary figure he presented in TDW and AOU… but again, I think they went too far in that direction. I’m trying to stay mostly positive about the movie, because for the most part I did like it, and it was not nearly as much of a travesty of the characters as I was afraid it might be. But yeah, I’ll admit to finding the abrupt character transformation somewhat jarring.
Because I’m a total dork, the things about this that stood out to me most were:
When Chris and Tom demonstrated one of the major differences between their dialects. Chris said “Good answer” with a short ‘a’ in “answer,” then Tom said it with a long ‘ah’ sound in “answer.” (This is because most of the immigration from southeast England to Australia happened before the dance subset joined the bath set with the lengthened and backed /a:/ phoneme.)
A lot of the kids were using plural “yous,” as in “Thank yous,” “See yous later.” When a language loses a singular/plural second person contrast, people come up with various ways to reinvent it…
I dunno, I think if you’re too top-heavy to lean back in a chair you should probably stop it with the weight-lifting… but then, I’m not really into muscly guys.
Loki is the Philosopher King 