Tag: tom hiddleston

pennie-dreadful:

philosopherking1887:

sserpente:

lolawashere:

Loki, the God of Mischief – MCU 10th Anniversary Featurette.

Review Loki’s evil and heroic turns, from colluding with cosmic villains to teaming up with his brother Thor to save the universe.

Via Torrilla/weibo

The next… chapter? Did Tom just secretly confirm that Loki isn’t dead after all?!

I’m still skeptical. It could be a very short “chapter,” and the sense in which it “honors what has come before” might just be that Loki is a boring “good guy” now and recognizes that his only purpose in life is to sacrifice himself for Thor (again). And he does say “it will be surprising for the audience in terms of what they expect next” – which could be code for, “Surprise! He dies in the first 5 minutes, way more stupidly than you ever would have expected him to, and that’s it for your favorite character.”

Yeah I am extremely skeptical that this “you’ll be surprised” nonsense is anything but a red herring. I’m still not 100% certain we’ll even see Loki in A4; has anyone seen any other set pictures besides the one? Remember he was supposed to have a cameo in AoU and that ended up getting cut. I’m maintaining a zero faith policy tbh, all this theorizing is frankly giving Marvel too much credit. Maybe the new fan campaign to bring Loki back will work, maybe it won’t, but odds are even if it does they’ll just let writers/directors who don’t like him or understand him continue to butcher his character.

Oh yeah, fair point about the AoU scene. And I completely agree about the zero faith policy. Except for “Spider-Man” and “Black Panther,” all the MCU movies that have come out since 2016 have been huge disappointments. And I absolutely do not trust anyone there with Loki’s character.

sserpente:

lolawashere:

Loki, the God of Mischief – MCU 10th Anniversary Featurette.

Review Loki’s evil and heroic turns, from colluding with cosmic villains to teaming up with his brother Thor to save the universe.

Via Torrilla/weibo

The next… chapter? Did Tom just secretly confirm that Loki isn’t dead after all?!

I’m still skeptical. It could be a very short “chapter,” and the sense in which it “honors what has come before” might just be that Loki is a boring “good guy” now and recognizes that his only purpose in life is to sacrifice himself for Thor (again). And he does say “it will be surprising for the audience in terms of what they expect next” – which could be code for, “Surprise! He dies in the first 5 minutes, way more stupidly than you ever would have expected him to, and that’s it for your favorite character.”

thegestianpoet:

thegestianpoet:

the MCU is never gonna let an honest to god gay character played by a gay person into its lineup not in this decade at least but no matter how much I want to emphasize that this is the bottom line and headcanons are useless towards representation…i have to say. that somehow. tom heterosexual posh boy hiddleston managed to squeeze a deeply unreasonable amount of chaotic gay energy into the like 3 collective minutes he was onscreen in infinity war and i have to hand it to him for that one much as I’d like to do otherwise 

>when you know the studio has been trying to get rid of your weird character for like three movies now because he’s focus group poison so you incorporate a truly legendary combination of Theatrical Gay Head Movements into your final performance even though your wig is held together with superglue and wouldn’t flutter if you stepped in front of an industrial fan 

Josh Horowitz might have stood up for Tom but now Marvel is the size of Thanos wearing the infinity gauntlet. His “protest” won’t get further than his cubicle

I just meant that during the interview, when he did (reasonably) cast doubt on the notion that Idris Elba ages, he might also have said that if Tom Hiddleston ages, it is only the way a great wine does. Of course that would have had no effect on any decisions made at Marvel, but briefly shaming the Russos might have been nice.

foundlingmother:

*rolls eyes* I really, really don’t care what the Russos are saying. Most of Marvel can’t tell a good story to save their life and can’t identify what makes their characters interesting. I mean, these are the same people who shove Bucky into everything, yet never develop his character. These are the same people who think one of Cap’s best qualities is his unwillingness to consider he might be wrong. They are a bunch of idiotic white cisgender men pandering to idiotic white cisgender men. They can all suck my dick.

I’m going to ignore whatever ridiculous fucking end they force Thor to be content with, and ignore their depowering of Loki. They have nothing but contempt for the characters I love, and, in turn, I have nothing but contempt for the stories they create.

The only reason I care is that it tells me what to expect… and confirms me in my suspicions about their contempt for Loki, Hiddleston, and fans of both (the character and the actor).

Does this mean that people on this hellsite will stop fawning over the Russo brothers (and by extension Markus and McFeely)?

Tom Hiddleston said that he doesn’t want the role anymore

loptrlaufey:

Tom would not throw away the years of work he put in his character? With such a simple death …. the God of Mischief thrown away like that?……. ;_; 

I have never heard Tom say that… although after what Ragnarok did to his character and all the work he put into developing it, I wouldn’t be all that surprised. Tom’s good work in The Avengers was a major part of what got the MCU off the ground, but they’ve made clear recently how little value they place on the character and on Tom’s acting ability.

I’m starting to think that Loki (before TR) was a literary character who got misplaced in a popular action film franchise.

Why wasn’t toms name on infinity war poster?

the-haven-of-fiction:

I guess 10 minutes of screentime didn’t warrant it?

Sorry, I had to.

Uhm, I’m sure there is a technical reason for this, but I’ll go with:

-he isn’t an Avenger

-he isn’t the name of a franchise (like RDJ as Iron Man, Evans as Captain America, etc.)

-he isn’t a major part of the movie

-Marvel is full of dumbos who thought they had a second class character but hired a first class actor to play him and then didn’t properly explore said character when said actor gave the world an intriguing, complex, and fascinating portrayal that goes beyond anything else said dumbos have put on screen

Not sorry.

Kevin Feige said all this shit after Thor and The Avengers about how they were “putting their chips on Loki” because the movies wouldn’t work if Loki wasn’t a compelling villain… but his popularity took off beyond what they wanted him for. They intended him to be a function, not really a character. But when your Shakespearean director hires another Shakespearean actor, you’re going to get a character – and one who’s more interesting than the characters you’re trying to foreground. So they did their best in Ragnarok and IW to reduce him back to a function.

anicesentiment:

lokiloveforever:

thewinchesterlifestyle:

On top of all the bullshit reasons for what happened in the first ten minutes of IW the Russos are saying Tom is getting too old to play Loki?

Tom Hiddleston is getting TOO OLD to play Loki?

Thor

The Avengers

Thor: The Dark World

Thor: Ragnarok

Avengers: Infinity War

Avengers 4 (on set filming)

Yeah…there is a HUGE difference in his looks thanks to his age *rolls eyes* Fucking idiots. Killing off a beloved character and a huge fan favorite not only for stupid reasons that reduce his character to a mere shadow behind Thor but because Tom is getting “too old” is idiotic. I feel awful for Tom Hiddleston because that is insulting. On top of that they even mention how it upset Tom to find out what happened to Loki (a character he genuinely loves).

All of the actors are aging and their ages quite often don’t match up with their characters. I’m not saying that because I want those characters to get killed off but I’m pointing out the ridiculousness of that statement. Why not just admit you didn’t know what to do with the character in IW and decided to take an easy out by sacrificing him and then milking the fan’s love of the character/actor during promotions? Loki didn’t need to die and he certainly didn’t need to die like that. A story doesn’t come full circle only when the character has been brutally murdered and that character certainly shouldn’t be killed as some kind of twisted motivation for Thor. Death isn’t the only motivation. It’s a cheap, easy motivation and Loki’s character deserves more.

This better be a bunch of bullshit to throw everyone off of Avengers 4 and not the actual truth. Also, because I can, someone started a petition for Loki. Fans managed to bring him back in Thor: The Dark World…why not again?

T H I S

I am counting on those leaked pics from A4 as actually being in the film. And if they go back in time to the first Avengers to unwind what Thanos did then they can DAMN WELL unwind Loki’s ‘death’ as well. He’s a god, for fuck’s sake. 

Except they won’t undo Loki’s death because they want him to stay dead. They’ll taunt his fans with this little flashback, maybe allow us to hope they’ll actually give him a meaningful role in the next movie so that maybe we’ll buy movie tickets, and then yank it away again because we’re not the fans they’re looking for. If Thor wonders why they can’t turn time back far enough to save Loki, Heimdall, and half of Asgard, Doctor Strange or Hank Pym or Captain Marvel or someone will say something cryptic about how they can only defeat Thanos if those people stay dead, or how it would be disastrous to cause too much disruption to the fabric of spacetime, or some similar bullshit. But it’s just as likely that Thor won’t ask. They wanted to fridge Loki and Heimdall to give Thor the proper “motivation,” to have him appropriately desperate and desolate, but they probably won’t even think to have him try to save the people he lost.

The age thing was just a flimsy excuse. They were filming IW and A4 concurrently, so Hiddleston wouldn’t be any older if they left him alive in the latter. No one was saying that he had to keep appearing in MCU movies forever, but killing a character violently isn’t the only way to take them out of future films. They just don’t care about giving a plausible or satisfying end to his character arc.