10 Unexpected Inspirations Behind Movie Scenes

8. A Taylor Swift Meme Inspired The Screaming Goats - Thor: Love & Thunder

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Love 'em or hate 'em, Thor: Love and Thunder's screaming magical goats Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder are one of the film's biggest and most memorable recurring jokes.

But Taika Waititi didn't come up with the gag entirely on his own - he got some help from his production team and a legendary viral remix of Taylor Swift's 2012 hit tune "I Knew You Were Trouble." Waititi said:

"They were never meant to be screaming. The goats were always going to be in there because they are in the comics, but we didn't know how they would sound. Then someone in post-production found this meme of a Taylor Swift song that has screaming goats in it. I didn't even know that existed. So I hear the screaming goats and I just felt it was awesome. A lot of people think it's me screaming. It's not."

So to clarify, the screaming gag wasn't in the film's script and Waititi simply added it during post-production as a whim. Does that somehow make it even worse?

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