5/7/2023 0 Comments Guns in kate netflix![]() ![]() Directors need to be controlled sometimes and if I was to say, ‘ah you wanna watch my director’s cut? It’s four and a half hours long!’ It’s not good, at four and a half hours. I watch director’s cuts of a lot of other directors. “I’ve been thinking about director’s cuts. ![]() I know everything that’s going on within the Thor universe, but I only just learned all the names of the Guardians of the Galaxy…” Did you know there’s already a petition asking Disney to #ReleaseTheWaititiCut? I don’t know what’s going on in the MCU, I just watch stuff that comes out and think ‘damn what’s this, this is cool?’ So if anyone asks me to explain everything that’s going on, I’m pretty lost. “I don’t even know that shit! So I wouldn’t be able to do that. It was scary stuff that Christian was coming up with for the character, and a lot of it was inspired by Aphex Twin.” Did you have to give him the Marvel 101? I wanted to have a mirrored version with Gorr when he feels like he’s about to win and that was gonna feel a bit more like the tempo of ‘Windowlicker’ and the ‘Come To Daddy’ music video where he’s got the big jaw. He had his solo dance scene which didn’t make it in the film and that was to ‘Waterloo’ by ABBA. “Oh yeah, I did a dance thing with Chris. CREDIT: Marvel Studios/Disney And what about this Aphex Twin video Christian Bale was using as inspiration for Gorr, the villain? He’d be like, ‘They’re a real tough Viking band called ABBA!’”Ĭhristian Bale as the snakelike Gorr the God Butcher. I thought it’d be funny if Thor’s favourite music was what he perceived to be a ‘Viking band’. “Yeah I got one in there, but I wanted more of an ABBA theme throughout. There was actually gonna be a lot of ABBA in the film as well…” You got one ABBA song in there, ‘Our Last Summer’… We were gonna have ‘This Woman’s Work’, which was gonna be great for Natalie Portman’s character. “Before Stranger Things! Yeah, there were a bunch of Kate Bush songs I wanted to have in there. ![]() “You mean how they ruined Kate Bush? I love that show, but as someone who feels a real ownership of Kate Bush music… I’m really annoyed! I’ve become one of those old arseholes who’s like: ‘These kids never listened to Kate Bush, they’ve heard one song on a TV show! They don’t know Kate Bush! I know Kate Bush!’” Christian Bale said you were supposed to have a Kate Bush dance scene in Love and Thunder? CREDIT: Marvel Studios / Disney Could Love and Thunder do for GNR what Stranger Things did for Kate Bush? Natalie Portman and Chris Hemsworth in ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’. Axl Rose was definitely someone I thought, ‘I’m gonna fuck this up, I’m not gonna talk to him.’” “It was put to me – and it was one of the moments in my life where I was like ‘I’m not gonna do that.’ I’ve met a lot of my heroes and then realised they weren’t my heroes. I don’t go on one of those porn sites, I go and watch Axl Rose in the ‘Paradise City’ music video!” Did you have to phone Axl Rose up and ask for permission? Still at 46, usually at about 3am when I’m in bed, I’ll watch GNR music videos. It was a real triumph, having one of my favourite bands from when I was a kid, the band that really informed the soundtrack to my life. “We actually wanted five but that might have been overkill. ![]() The whole thing was supposed to feel like a spray-painted fantasy scene on a panel van in Venice Beach.” How’d you manage to fit four Guns N’ Roses songs in? “Err yeah, I tried! I wanted it to feel equal parts Iron Maiden album artwork, mixed with movie posters like Conan and Beastmaster – and all the Frank Frazetta fantasy art from the ’70s and ’80s. Hey Taika, is Thor: Love and Thunder the most metal Marvel movie yet? We caught up with director Waititi to find out more (including how he managed to stuff so many massive metal tunes into a film about a man in lycra – must have been difficult…) Luckily, Thor’s joined on his adventure by Ragnarok alumni Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), Korg (Waititi himself) and ex-girlfriend Dr Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), so the situation shouldn’t be too tricky to sort out. A snakelike villain played by Christian Bale, Gorr the God Butcher, has managed to acquire the only weapon in the universe that can kill deities – and he’s pointing it squarely at this Scandi-superhero’s chest. This is bang-for-your-buck moviemaking – and it works wonderfully.īack for his first solo outing since 2017’s Ragnarok, Thor is in perhaps his biggest pickle yet. Everything about Thor: Love and Thunder is done to excess, from the opening fight scene in which Thor (Chris Hemsworth) takes down an army of steampunk owl-men to the many A-list cameos (our favourite being Russell Crowe’s gut-wobbling, uber-Greek Zeus). Gods! Guitar solos! Guns N’ Roses! Taika Waititi’s new comic book blockbuster is a throwback to the ’80s, when the hair was big – and the movies even bigger. ![]()
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