lostlokichaos:lucianalight:This is another one of beautiful shots of Thor 1 that conveys a genius sy
lostlokichaos:lucianalight:This is another one of beautiful shots of Thor 1 that conveys a genius symbolism. Here’s Odin who pitted his children against each other for the throne and his unfair treatment of them set the brothers apart. And he is standing on a broken bridge. The bridge that was broken as the result of the brother’s conflict over the throne, over gaining Odin’s approval, over being worthy. The broken bridge of the brother’s relationship. The conflict that he fueled drove his children, literally and also figuratively on the verge of falling down into an abyss. The brothers are holding to the Gungnir, the symbol of the throne. Their hands are close to each other but the Gungnir, the throne has kept them apart. A symbol of how the throne and their rivalry for it, came between them and set them apart. And Odin, the real reason for the destruction of his family, is standing safely on the broken bridge, and he he is holding Thor, his favorite son, by the ankle, while Loki is the farthest to him in this chain. A symbol of how his lies and his treatment of Loki, drove away Loki more than Thor and how in the end, they pushed Loki away, just like Odin’s “No, Loki”. And as Odin had favored Thor and alienated Loki in all the years, here he held on to Thor and pushed Loki away and left him to fall in the abyss.Branagh is a Shakespearean director. Shakespeare is layered with symbolism, allusions, double-triple-more meanings… we are still studying those plays centuries later after all! Kenneth’s work draws on so much more than cgi flash and glitter; he puts his knowledge of how to convey so much (with words, with setting, with body language, with what is not made explicit) to use and he applies it brilliantly in the cinematic medium. -- source link
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