Episode 134: Thor: Ragnarok
Beyond the Screenplay
Michael Tucker
4.7 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
The BTS team discusses Thor: Ragnarok's place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, how its themes explore colonialism and family dynamics, and Taika Waititi's use of comedy and improvisation.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay, the podcast for each week we do a conversational |
| 0:11.2 | deep dive analysis into a film. Today we are talking about Thor Ragnarok, the 2017 film |
| 0:18.0 | directed by Taika Waititi, written by Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle, and Christopher L. |
| 0:23.5 | Yost. I'm joined by the Beyond the Screenplay team, Trisha Arand. |
| 0:27.6 | Hello, everyone. Brian Bittner. Hey, ma'am. |
| 0:31.3 | And Alex Cuyettos. Hi. |
| 0:34.4 | Okay, so before we dive into this movie, I want to announce what our next episode is so everyone can prepare. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm really excited because I've forgotten. |
| 0:43.8 | And then I was going through the list and I was like, hey, what's next? |
| 0:45.8 | Oh, Get Out is next. |
| 0:47.4 | One of the best movies ever. |
| 0:48.6 | So, yeah, Get Out will be our next episode. |
| 0:51.6 | Revisit it, visit it if you have not yet. |
| 0:55.9 | And patrons head over to the Patreon. There will be a link in these show notes. Head over where you can, yeah, drop ideas. |
| 1:04.3 | Yeah, what you want us to talk about, concepts, things to pay attention to themes, all that, all that good stuff. |
| 1:15.7 | We got a lot of cool feedback from patrons for this episode about things that they want us to talk about with Thor Ragnarok, |
| 1:22.4 | JMW music wants us to talk about like improv, our thoughts on how improv plays into scripts. |
| 1:28.9 | Seth Brock, change in the tone with Thor, is this too silly? Is it inconsistent? Is it good? |
| 1:34.2 | Megan Chang, theme of colonialism and rewriting uglier parts of history. Among many other, |
| 1:40.0 | yeah, suggestions are things that I think will be fun to pull from and frame this conversation. |
| 1:47.4 | And I'm glad I got to shout out GMW music because they are one of the people in the live chat right now because we are recording this episode live. |
| 1:58.9 | Live over the internet. |
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