1. Kenneth Branagh Used Tilted Angles To Resemble Comic Book Panels
In order to make the first Thor movie look like the classic "Thor" comics, director Kenneth Branagh chose not to be slavish to the Jack Kirby designs he used to love so much as a child. The master illustrator's and other "Thor" artists' influence was incorporated in to the movie in a very different way, however. Branagh explains that "one unifying thing, which I had to do some persuading to get away with, was canted angles. I moved the camera a little lopsidedly, both up in Asgard and down here (on Earth), to evoke what I would call a comic book style, where the panels are coming at you, the characters are busting out." He also explained that such angles were particularly utilised when filming Thor's hammer, Mjolnir; "We were constantly raiding these 600 editions for various things, like ways to frame the hammer. It's Thor's iconic weapon, but it's hard to make a hammer really exciting. It's hard to make it heavy, hard to make it dynamic. So we literally pulled everything from the comics to see how they framed it. We used every cheat of scale, every perspective trick in the book. It had to be on an angle, we had to get it up foreground, we must use a wide-angle lens. You can't make it look normal, even though it screams, 'I'm a hammer!"' So next time you watch Thor, take a look at the angles in and from which it was filmed - you'll look at it very differently when you consciously know what the intention was. And there you have it; eleven little known facts about the Thor movies. Did you enjoy this list? Do you know of any other interesting or tasty titbits regarding either of the movies? Let us know in the comments box below. And please feel free to follow me on
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