I was at first disappointed by this Loki, then happier once I realised how much of a shell game was being played. I spot at least six separate plots by him.
Please, expound!
there's also a (rare!) facet of Kind Loki. He brings the world and people that his brother loves up to a position where it will be able to defend itself against any comers, including himself.
Yes. I like that. He was trapped by his own invention, but we know how to catch fish now.
Banner was also my second favourite and great-surprise character; I haven't seen the other Hulks.
I haven't seen Ang Lee's Hulk (2003); I saw The Incredible Hulk (2008) in theaters and enjoyed it, although my notes from the time indicate that I thought it could have been a much better film than it ended up being. It doesn't start off like a superhero movie at all. It starts off as a character study of an expatriate American with a classic film noir past, murky and full of loose ends. Edward Norton is a character actor, not a traditional leading man, so he makes a nicely unlikely alter ego for something as huge and dynamic as the Hulk—slightly built, mouse-haired, with the kind of face that can be anything from slantly magnetic to forgettable depending on expression and angle, and he focuses inward. He lives in the brightly colored chaos of a Brazilian favela, works days as a kind of odd-job handyman in a soda factory, spends his nights feverishly e-mailing with a researcher he's never met in the States; his apartment is a scrapyard of homebuilt electronics and biochemical DIY, glass slides and rainforest weeds, a satellite dish wedged in the windowsill. He flirts shyly with a coworker, has trouble backing down from a fight with her jealous wannabe boyfriend. He is teaching himself Brazilian Portuguese with a secondhand dictionary and a three-channel TV. A little counter in the corner of the screen records "days without incident: 158." We know what he's running from, because we have seen it in soundless, incomplete flashes like a recurring bad dream—a wrecked laboratory, a bleeding woman sprawled in the ruins: the first time the Hulk hurt somebody Banner loved—but the details are almost unimportant. He has something locked up inside him that he's not dealing with, only trying to avoid. Anyone who has ever seen a movie with a retired gunslinger or a criminal gone straight knows that never works for long.
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Please, expound!
there's also a (rare!) facet of Kind Loki. He brings the world and people that his brother loves up to a position where it will be able to defend itself against any comers, including himself.
Yes. I like that. He was trapped by his own invention, but we know how to catch fish now.
Banner was also my second favourite and great-surprise character; I haven't seen the other Hulks.
I haven't seen Ang Lee's Hulk (2003); I saw The Incredible Hulk (2008) in theaters and enjoyed it, although my notes from the time indicate that I thought it could have been a much better film than it ended up being. It doesn't start off like a superhero movie at all. It starts off as a character study of an expatriate American with a classic film noir past, murky and full of loose ends. Edward Norton is a character actor, not a traditional leading man, so he makes a nicely unlikely alter ego for something as huge and dynamic as the Hulk—slightly built, mouse-haired, with the kind of face that can be anything from slantly magnetic to forgettable depending on expression and angle, and he focuses inward. He lives in the brightly colored chaos of a Brazilian favela, works days as a kind of odd-job handyman in a soda factory, spends his nights feverishly e-mailing with a researcher he's never met in the States; his apartment is a scrapyard of homebuilt electronics and biochemical DIY, glass slides and rainforest weeds, a satellite dish wedged in the windowsill. He flirts shyly with a coworker, has trouble backing down from a fight with her jealous wannabe boyfriend. He is teaching himself Brazilian Portuguese with a secondhand dictionary and a three-channel TV. A little counter in the corner of the screen records "days without incident: 158." We know what he's running from, because we have seen it in soundless, incomplete flashes like a recurring bad dream—a wrecked laboratory, a bleeding woman sprawled in the ruins: the first time the Hulk hurt somebody Banner loved—but the details are almost unimportant. He has something locked up inside him that he's not dealing with, only trying to avoid. Anyone who has ever seen a movie with a retired gunslinger or a criminal gone straight knows that never works for long.
[Die in a green fire, LJ-comments limit.]