Ness
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Post by Ness on Aug 22, 2018 4:53:49 GMT -6
I watched 100000 marvel movies of which only like 4 were any really good (above 'fine') to watch Inifnity War. Also Thanos was interesting. If Killmonger was portrayed with that level of uhhh... I guess humanity? Him being half-right would have been far more powerful. But I really did wish they framed Thanos with a little bit more insanity. Not in the muahahahaha way, but in the way that you saw just how twisted his world view is. I felt there was a sense of "he might be right" underlining his whole motivational premise and that was a setback. Cos it was dumb. His whole thing is wrong. He reminds me of extremists who cover their crap with truisms (in this case, resources are finite, people are doomed to die etc.) and that makes him scary; but wrong af non the less.
Its extra spooky, cos that's legit how some people have interpreted it :< Like, even watching it I had to catch myself thinking, well he raises some valid poi- waaaaaaait a second. Big portions of the film are framed bizarrely toward his perspective, which makes for an interesting movie, but damn if it isn't strange to go from entirely throwaway villains, only to have a movie (Killmonger aside I guess? I haven't watched Black Panther) where the film by its construction seems to be half rooting for the guy. I don't think it actually is. It just feels that way with the intense focus they give the guy. And I guess it just stands out all the more within the MCU, and maybe that some folk just aren't used to that portrayal for an antagonist or something, and that leads to an easy agreement? Whatever the cause, some people are weird X) I think its been pretty clear they've had no idea what to do with it for yeeeeears now and just managed to get something that stuck as IW went into production. Like
If you're familiar with comic Thanos, his initial appearance in that Avengers post credits was an obvious allusion to a completely different backstory. Alien leader dude says to fight the humans 'is to court death' and Thanos grins like a big purple idiot, cos that's what comic Thanos' motivation literally is, courting death, haha funny joke.
Of course film Thanos never got a boner for a bag of bones (and probably for the better?)
Further still you've got actual retcons, like Gamora's profile in Guardians when she's arrested by the Nova Corp saying she's the last of her people, when Thanos in IW claims they're prospering because he killed half. So at one point he was just purple space despot crashing in on planets for... murder? I assume the point of that was he wiped them out and took her in. Not saying I don't like the change, its obviously way more compelling
But they definitely had no idea what to do with him for the longest time. And as such he's not done anything as a character up until IW when they must have finally clocked it. Just the odd 'Hello!' to remind us he exists and that he isn't always attached to a space chair. They could have seriously built him up better if they'd known it from the start. But I guess they didn't. And I'm just happy the final product was neat. |
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