Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok (Rerun)

Good One

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Comedy, Comedy Interviews

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🗓️ 14 October 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Back in Season 2, Jesse got to speak with actor, writer, and director Taika Waititi about his remarkably comedic take on the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor: Ragnarok. The interview touches on Taika's New Zealand style of comedy, and how he approached changing a historically serious protagonist like Thor into the goofy, muscly, laugh-inducing character that he is in Ragnarok. Jesse and Taika talk pre and post production, as well as what role improvisation takes on set. Also included: eggs. Follow Taika on Twitter and see Jojo Rabbit while it's still in theaters. This episode originally aired on November 5th, 2017. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast. Hi and welcome to Good One a podcast about jokes. I'm your host Jesse David Fox.
0:20.3	Not unlike his New Zealand comedy friends the Play The Concord,
0:23.8	Tecco Aet T comes off as gentle and a bit goofy.
0:27.2	He wears colorful outfits and funny faces and photo shoots.
0:30.7	But underneath is an artist who knows exactly what he wants out of his work and
0:34.4	won't settle for anything less.
0:36.4	In 2017, the result was Thor Ragnarok, one of the loosest movies in recent history.
0:41.6	Not just in terms of comic book movies, it is truly one of the
0:44.8	looser movies, period. It is a remarkably loose movie. It is riffy and cheeky and
0:50.8	giggly. Thor a demi-god breaks.
0:54.0	He laughs on screen in a zillion dollar movie.
0:57.4	It's wild this movie exists, but that's Tyka for you.
1:01.6	He took a behemoth of a franchise and as we discussed in the
1:04.3	interview figure out how to make it into a silly meditation on sensitivity and
1:07.6	male relationships just as he explored in other movies like Hunt for the
1:11.1	Wilder people and Boy. And it went on to make 850 million dollars.
1:15.6	What did he do with that clout? He made a movie about a lonely German boy whose
1:19.8	imaginary friend was Hitler and then Tyka played Hitler.
1:23.8	And this movie, which I just described, Jojo Rabbit, which comes out in select theaters this week,
1:28.3	has a ward bus.
1:29.8	Seriously, he's going to be nominated for Oscars for playing Hitler.
1:34.0	The same guy that did Thor.
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