Thor: Ragnarok (2017) - full transcript

(TAIKA WAITITI SCATTING)

Comic book

Flippity-flap-flap

(SINGING) Bits of script and

lots of characters from the movies

(SCATTING)

A human throwing my shield

Oh, Asgard and oh, a guy with goggles

Oh, and a British person

A man with an iron hand

Arvel... Ah, Marvel studs... Studios

Marvel Studios, ooh

Marvel Studios

Welcome to the director's commentary

with me, the director

of Thor. Ragnarok, Taika Waititi.

Oh, what is this mysterious world

we've entered into?

It's a smoky place. Maybe it's, uh,

someone's lungs who's been smoking.

Yes, the inside of the lungs

of the Marlboro Man

we've found ourselves.

Or it's a version of Innerspace

and there's a little person

stuck to one of the lung glands.

Good Lord, it's Joel Edgerton,

uh, in shackles.

This is the kind of mystery

that I wanted to

create with this film is that

as soon as you walk into this film

and as you find yourself in this world,

you don't know where you are

and we've got the hero

of the movie, of course, Thor,

telling us everything

that's happened to him.

Into this cage, where he

met you, skeleton man.

So... Uh...

How much longer do you think

we'll be here?

I often do these director's commentaries

and I find them really hard because

you end up just commenting on

what's on the screen.

And so you'll find

the worst director's commentaries

are like,"Oh, and then there's

a skeleton just fell down.

"And then Thor's dangling on a chain

"and he's turning around,

and then we introduce Surtur."

Fun fact, though. Fun fact.

The motion capture

for the character of Surtur,

that big demon,

was performed by

one of the greatest actors in the world,

not just New Zealand,

but the world, Taika Waititi.

Um...

Asgard up in flames, falling to ruins.

For all you people who love fun facts,

I've got lots of them.

That thing on his head

is an ancient boomerang.

We shot in Australia and we...

We were given

the boomerang as a gift and

we managed to work that and put that

as the crown for Surtur,

the fire giant.

All of that fire is real.

I was on fire as I was doing

the motion capture.

The voice, however... Um...

Give it a second.

Who can answer this before me,

nobody, it's Clancy Brown

from one of my favorite movies,

Highlander.

"There can be only one."

So...

We shot this movie almost

in its entirety in Australia,

on the Gold Coast.

And this environment is actually exactly

what it looks like down there.

It's very hot, very smoky...

- Okay, so where is it? This crown?

- This is my crown...

Lots of people made

of embers and charcoal.

Oh, that's a crown.

I thought it was a big eyebrow.

So, Chris Hemsworth, what can I

tell you about Chris?

I did all of the motion capture

for him in the movie as well.

So every time you see him walking around

and talking, that's also me.

I basically did all the characters

in the film.

Me, me, me, me, me. It's all about me.

All right, did you notice

the little demon guy

in the corner there?

If you didn't, press rewind and go back

to that high-angle shot.

There's a little guy who's waking up.

Wow, I'm really struck by

how good the CGI looks.

Really amazing how cool this character

looks in a close up. Not him.

Not this guy. The other guy.

They got big Surtur, the big guy.

You know who I'm talking about.

Watch this. Look at that.

Look at his teeth.

How would he possibly brush his teeth?

He'd go through so many toothbrushes,

wouldn't he?

How are you guys enjoying this

director's commentary, by the way?

On a scale of 1 to 1.1,

what would you give it?

Whoa! What? He's got a hammer?

I didn't know that.

I did know that. That's one

of the things about directing films.

You gotta know some stuff

about your characters.

(GASPS) Oh, look at that dragon.

(IMMIGRANT SONG

BY LED ZEPPELIN PLAYING)

"Hammer of the Gods."

The most perfect song, isn't it?

Perfect song. I remember growing up

with this song. Who would've thought

as a young Taika growing up

in New Zealand in the '80s,

if you were to say to me,

"One day you're gonna use one

of the greatest songs ever,

"in the history of everness,

"in a movie about Thor,

the God of Thunder,

"that you'll be directing."

I would've said, "My friend,

"I know, because I can see the future."

As a young boy, I could see the future.

I've lost that power.

I've since lost that power.

But I have the reverse power,

and I can see the past.

I'll be honest,

and I don't mean to take away

from this movie and how great it is

or from myself as a director, but

I'm not sure if I'll watch

this movie again

after this director's commentary.

I've seen it quite a few times and

I just know everything that happens. Oh!

I hope you concentrated on that.

All that fire that went into that skull.

So all the power of Surtur

is now in that skull.

Boy, I hope you guys have seen this film

before watching this commentary,

'cause I'm about to spoil everything.

Heimdall?

Oh... It's not Heimdall.

Where's Heimdall? I don't know,

but look, there's Keith Urban,

famous country singer.

The Bifrost gives me access

to everything...

That's Karl Urban. Karl Urban,

not Urban. Urban.

He is a friend of mine from New Zealand.

He's a great New Zealand actor.

You would've seen him in other films

that I'm not going to name check.

All of these props...

I hate guns, but look at that.

He's got these two guns that are

straight out of the comic book.

That character, Skurge, if you'd like

to know, is very famous in the comics.

And those two props that he's got there,

they feature heavily in his storyline

in the comics.

Oh, and this dragon,

I've never met before.

The first time I ever worked

with that dragon was on the set.

But we're still good friends

to this day.

I'm hoping to use her in another film

that I'm going to make soon,

Manchester by the Sea: Part Two.

Okay, here she comes.

And ka-boom!

Stay!

Heimdall? I'm running short on options.

- Heimdall?

- (RATTLING)

Um... Skurge?

WAITITI: Things are about to get crazy.

Hey, fun fact number 78,

that Shake Weight is my Shake Weight.

When I was doing Green Lantern

with Ryan Reynolds in New Orleans

at about midnight in my hotel room,

I was watching infomercials

and I bought that Shake Weight whilst

doing that movie.

Cool DC-Marvel crossover

for you right there.

And now that thing is in the movie.

Oh, look. Go, Thor, go!

That dragon's gonna get you!

Guess what, the movie's called Thor.

He's not gonna be eaten by that dragon,

I can tell that right now.

But, what? Look at that cool transition.

(READING)

The motion picture.

Oh, no, look at this. Oh, no, too close!

Oh! We're inside the logo.

And...

This is one of my favorite moments

of the opening.

He slimed me.

That dragon...

We went through about eight dragons

before we got it right.

People will often say,

"No animals were harmed."

No Earth animals were harmed

making this movie,

but, yeah, we did kill a lot of dragons.

Look out there,

your little sneak peak of Asgard

which we're about to see.

We're about to go into Asgard itself.

Right. Where is Heimdall?

This is probably a great time

to tell you that

I've pretty much blocked out

all of my memories

of shooting this film.

So, if you're expecting to get

any incredible information out of me,

like anecdotes or filmmaking tips,

you have come to the wrong place.

No, I don't think so. I think you'll

discover some good stuff in this.

So,

we were working

with a great team.

You know, this is the third Thor film.

And when I came into this experience,

you know,

I had watched a lot of the Marvel films

and was a big fan of them

and it's essentially the same team as

from the very first Iron Man,

you know, still making these films.

All the EPs, Kevin Feige,

Lou D'Esposito, Victoria Alonso,

and we had

a fantastic executive producer,

Brad Winderbaum, working with me.

I'm a trickster.

So mischievous.

Sorry about that time

I turned you into a frog.

It was a wonderful joke.

'Twas indeed hilarious.

(CHUCKLES)

WAITITI: Anthony Hopkins in this scene,

I told him,

"You are going to be playing

Tom Hiddleston...

We will build a big statue for you.

"...playing you." And he said,

"Okay, good."

And he turned up in blue eyeliner.

Matt Damon.

I don't know if you guys recognize him

from We Bought a Zoo. That's him.

It's a little crossover, a little

Marvel-We Bought a Zoo crossover

thing going on.

And that actor there doing his

very best impersonation of Chris

is Chris's brother, Luke Hemsworth.

So there's a little

Westworld-Thor crossover as well.

There's Sam Neill, one of my players

from Hunt for the Wilderpeople.

So there's a little

Wilderpeople-Taika Universe,

Marvel Universe crossover.

And that little blue kid was just

a local little blue kid that we found.

Hard to find a blue kid

in Australia, that's for sure.

Well, there's a play.

A play within a film.

Bravo! Bravo! Well done. Bravo.

A lot of the sets that you'll see

in this film were designed

by our great production designers,

Dan Hennah and Ra Vincent.

Ra has worked with me on

What We Do in the Shadows,

my vampire film.

A brilliant designer. And Dan,

and both of those guys were

working with Peter Jackson throughout

all of the Rings trilogies as well.

So they've got a great history

of design and really know their stuff.

Later on in the film,

once we get to Sakaar,

you'll see where they

came into their own

with the design and construction

of these incredible sets.

A big shout out to them.

And actually in Sakaar is also where

you'll see some of these

amazing costumes by

Mayes Rubeo,

who is a fantastic designer.

That hammer.

That hammer that he's tossing around

like that weighs five million tons.

That is how strong Chris is.

I mean, even though you can't

see his arms in this frame,

you can feel them. You can still feel...

Good God, look at them!

Disgusting.

Yes, besides I've been

rather busy myself.

Watching theater.

Board meetings,

and security council meetings...

- You're really gonna make me do it?

- Do what?

(WAITITI CHUCKLES)

WAITITI: This part here, I don't know

who came up with this idea.

I've heard a lot of people

take credit for this.

And,

although it was not my idea,

I'm gonna take credit for it, too.

All right, I yield.

This is something that I've been

talking about for years

trying to do this moment

where Thor's holding Loki

and the hammer's zooming

back towards them

and he forces him to change

back into himself.

Hey! Classic. Here comes Skurge.

He's run all of that way,

down that bridge.

He should've taken that Vespa

that we showed in that shot earlier.

That's what I would've done.

Just having a sip of coffee.

Now, things really start

heating up in Thor. Ragnarok.

You watch this. What's gonna happen?

I know.

The brothers are gonna have to

team up and head to,

you guessed it,

(VOCALIZING)

Earth.

New York. Great place.

I've been there many times.

That,

I'm sorry to break the illusion,

is not New York.

We shot that in Brisbane.

In Brisbane, Australia.

Can't see into the future.

I'm not a witch.

Which is the closest you'll get

to New York in Australia,

both geographically

and also with how it looks.

Ask him.

Hi, would you mind taking

a picture with us?

WAITITI: And these two girls were,

- they were a couple of street kids.

- Sorry to hear that Jane dumped you.

She didn't dump me, you know.

I dumped her. It was a mutual dumping.

What's this? What are you doing?

This isn't me.

(YELPS)

THOR: (WHISPERS) Loki.

(HORN HONKS)

WAITITI: 177A Bleecker Street.

Well, if you're a fan of Doctor Strange,

which I am not,

you'll know that is

Doctor Strange's address

and now we're in Doctor Strange's house,

the Sanctonium Santrarium

or whatever it's called.

No, I know what it's called.

Sanctum Sanctorum.

And I'm lying. Doctor Strange is one

of my favorite characters because

Benedict Cumbatch-ch-ch,

Benedict Cumbatcha,

Kombucha, Kombucha-batch,

a Batch o' Kombucha,

is one of the greatest actors

to have ever lived

in Atlanta.

He is one of my favorites. I love him.

And this was the first thing

we shot actually.

We shot this eight or nine months

before we started

principal photography on Thor.

We knew we wanted this scene and

Benedict was shooting Doctor Strange

in London, so we went across there

with Chris and we shot this scene

and it was my first time working

with either of these guys

and especially with Chris,

and it was at that moment

working with Chris, I knew I'm doomed.

Take a seat.

WAITITI: All of these little tricks are

all in-camera, you know.

So, it's not all about big,

crazy special effects with CGI

and computer generated things.

It's, no...

Sometimes you can just do all of your...

Someone was just lying down

on the floor there with that beer.

Just switched it over for him

and just out of shot.

And you'll notice every time

he transports

to different parts of the room

it's just, we just did that in-camera,

meaning, you know, there's no...

Well, that's a special effect

there obviously.

'Cause beer doesn't do

that traditionally.

Unless I want it to.

So watch this. Here we go. Oh, no, wait.

Oh, wait. Wait. Here we go.

I'm wasting time here because this is

just conversation, I mean.

I got no more facts about, I mean...

Benedict.

What can I tell you about him?

He's got a strange symmetrical face,

doesn't he?

Very symmetrical.

I 'd like to do an experiment

and just flop the shot just to see.

But it does look exactly the same.

Gladly. He's in Norway.

And of course, behind him...

There are all these Easter eggs

throughout the film.

And Easter eggs, I've learned,

are not actually Easter eggs.

They're, um...

Look at that! All in-camera.

See?

Sometimes you don't need

a very huge budget to make a movie.

Unless you're making this movie.

The, um...

The Easter eggs, I found out,

are little things from comics

and from other films and stuff that are,

you know, for the fans

and people who know this universe.

They'll see them and they'll say,

"Oh, what, yeah,

"did you see that they had

the Drinks Tray of Knowledge

"from this other, you know, comic run?"

Or, like, "Did you see they had

the Mirror of Disappointment

"from Doctor Strange, Episode 16?"

Episode? Issue.

So, I'll be honest.

If there are any Easter eggs

in this movie, I would not really know

what they are.

There are a couple here and there,

you know.

There's, wait a minute,

once we get to Sakaar,

but, um...

They're for you.

I don't know anything about

any Easter eggs in this scene.

Tom did that stunt all by himself.

Not.

- Thank you very much for your help.

- Good luck.

Now things are about

to get really intense.

You think you're some kind of sorcerer?

I don't wanna ruin it for you,

but look at that. Whoa!

Now they're in a field in Norway.

Now,

I don't know how much I'm allowed

to say, but I'll tell you this.

That is not Anthony Hopkins

urinating off a cliff.

He's just standing there, even though I

know it looks a little bit like it.

Not fun fact, this was not shot

in Norway. This was shot in Atlanta

where they do not have cliffs

like that, overlooking the ocean.

But, you know, hey,

if I hadn't said that, would you know?

Would you have known?

Maybe.

This was a scene that we actually

kind of ended up reshooting

or shooting a different way.

I don't like saying reshooting, but this

was part of the additional photography

and originally we had Odin

living in New York

and the boys went and found him

in New York, but

just for one reason or another,

that didn't work out

for the story we were telling

and we ended up redoing a lot

of the scene here.

And part of the reason we redid this was

you know, we needed

some expositional stuff.

We needed a few different lines

of dialogue to explain

certain things, but mainly to explain

Hela and who she is.

Cate's character, who's

about to come. Spoiler!

Cate Blanchett's in the movie.

No, I've stopped Ragnarok.

I put an end to Surtur.

No.

It has already begun. She's coming.

WAITITI: So, this is usually

the point where

I run out of things to say

in directors' commentaries, but, no,

Thor: Ragnarok is too special.

This is the point where I

ramp things up,

where things just get crazy

and I start telling you stuff

that I've never told anyone.

Not about the movie, about myself.

I have dreams and nightmares,

and sometimes I wake up in the middle

of the night in cold sweats

just not knowing what

I'm doing with my life.

Ugh! This is not really the time

or place to tell you guys this stuff,

so maybe I'll stick to the movie, but

I just want you to know

that even heroes like me...

Legends, absolute legends,

like me, you know,

that we are also

tormented souls, you know,

and a lot of this creativity, I think,

comes from my torment

and those nightmares

and those cold sweats.

Not that this is a great example

of where we used a lot of concept art

and visual development, but

a big shout out has to go to Andy Park

and his team at Marvel for a lot of the,

a lot of the drawings and conceptual art

that we took as great inspiration for

costume design and for set design

and things like that.

And you're about to see

the villain of the film turning up and

the costume and the look for her

that was... A huge part of that

has to go to Andy Park

and also Ryan Meinerding.

They are two great painters,

two great artists

who work at Marvel and have worked

there for a long time.

We also had, and this scene

in particular, is one

that was storyboarded really well.

A lot of the scenes, and definitely

the action sequences in the film

were storyboarded by

Todd Harris and Michael Jackson.

Now,

I know it sounds crazy,

but it's true.

You look in the credits at the end

of the movie, you'll see the names.

Todd Harris and, yes, Michael Jackson.

He was an incredible artist and,

turns out, still is.

So, this here is the introduction

of one of my favorite people,

not only as an actor,

but also as a villain.

Cate Winslet, I mean, Blanchett.

So, she...

She was one of the first people

to sign on to this film.

Yeah, I tricked her into doing it.

But such are my powers of convincibility

that she just took one look at me

and said, "I'm in. I'll do it.

"You're my hero."

Perhaps we can come to an arrangement.

This, all the suit

and everything, is loosely

inspired by the comic, the suit that

Hela wore in the comics.

The weapons that she uses,

for those Thor fans out there,

I am confirming right now, yes, they are

based on Gorr's weapons

from the God of Thunder run.

Gorr being the...

The dark, the God killer

villain in that run.

And this here is a very sad moment

for people who like tools.

I bet there are a lot of builders

out there, a lot of carpenters. Yeah.

Hearts just broke right then.

So, a perfectly good hammer

being crushed by Cate Blanchett.

And now we see her transforming

into more of the classic Hela look.

That's her headpiece there.

They're antlers.

Which,

let's be honest,

would make it very hard to go

through conventional doorways.

Loki!

But, luckily for Hela,

she avoids doorways.

Luckily in Asgard,

doorways are very wide.

So, what's great

about this film, I think

is just seeing Thor getting

his ass kicked all the time.

He's a very strong character, but we

wanted to put him through his paces.

We wanted to strip him down

and, you know, just really, like,

take him back to being powerless

and having to go up against

someone more formidable

and dangerous than he's ever met.

Now we see Hela absorbing

her power from Asgard.

She gets her power from Asgard

and now she's in her green suit.

And this is the classic Hela look

from the comics.

The Goddess of Death is back in Asgard.

I'm Hela.

So, those people that she just killed,

two of the Warriors Three,

Fandral and Volstagg,

played by Zachary Levi

and Ray Stevenson.

Now we see the teaming up of the villain

and her right-hand man.

So, Hela and Skurge.

And Hela is now in Asgard.

Well, stone me crows, mate.

What is gonna happen next?

I'll tell you what's gonna happen next.

We're gonna throw focus to the sword,

then we're gonna boom up and crane in,

past the sword, and into outer space,

and zoom-zam-zing, off we go

through the cosmos.

And this is really where

all the design stuff

starts really taking off

with this new world that

we find ourselves on.

Sakaar.

Now, Sakaar is

a sort of collection point,

a meeting point for

a myriad of wormholes and

it's like a dumping ground

for the universe

where you find all the lost things,

all the things that disappear

in outer space.

Well, they end up in wormholes

somewhere along the line

and a lot of it ends up here in Sakaar.

So it's like a place where...

It's like a giant junk planet

and life is cheap and people

scavenge for whatever falls

from the sky.

These gifts from God.

And one of these gifts

to the people of Sakaar is Thor.

So,

Thor's now found himself here

and all of this world, we took

a huge amount of inspiration from

Jack Kirby, the great artist,

the king of comic art.

So, this design here, that ship,

is a Kirby spaceship.

You know, we made it that it breaks up

into these different shapes.

There are other things.

Other little, you know, I guess,

Kirby Easter eggs throughout the film

where you'll see certain designs

or certain shapes and things like...

For instance, later on, someone has

a gun, a laser rifle, which is actually

a space station that

Kirby drew many years ago.

And we took that design

and turned it into a weapon.

So, you find throughout

this entire world

there's all this Kirby art everywhere.

And it made me really happy

to be bringing his,

yeah, his spirit

and his designs into the film

because I've been a huge fan of his

ever since I was a kid.

And it's really, not only the shapes,

but also the colors as well.

These vibrant colors and these mixes of

you know, just cool, amazing,

strong lines and bold colors.

Now we have the introduction of

the most wonderful character, Valkyrie,

played by Tessa Thompson.

And usually in these movies...

He's mine.

These characters come in

and they just kick everyone's ass

and they look really cool, and we wanted

to do something different

where the introduction

of this character was...

Wait!

...really unpredictable

and we showed that she was...

And also with this movie,

that it wasn't gonna be the same as,

as every other movie, you know.

She falls off that gang plank.

She's a drinker. She's...

She is more of a kind of renegade,

just like, you know...

She's found herself living

on Sakaar somehow.

And one thing you'll find

when we arrive in Sakaar,

the music changed quite a lot.

And we introduced a lot more

of these synthesizers and

you know, it's more

of that electronic feel

to the soundtrack

and to the compositions.

And

that is...

All of that was made by

Mark Mothersbaugh, who's

a great musician and composer who...

When I first talked to him

about doing this job,

he said, "I want these

"old synthesizers and this,

kind of, really different feel,

"but I also wanna keep it

"not too modern. I want it

to feel like this kind of old,

"sort of, this Jean-Michel Jarre

kind of soundscapes

"and when we get to Sakaar."

So he went and pulled out

all these old Moogs and stuff,

one synth that Robert Moog

had actually given to him

many, many years ago.

And also all these

different synthesizers

and all this cool electronic sound.

It's all done

on these old analog synths.

It's one of my favorite things

of the movie.

One of my favorite elements of the movie

is this music.

Then we started weaving it together

between the Sakaarian soundscape

and the Asgardian music,

which is more traditionally a score.

We started interweaving them

throughout the film.

The Asgardian music might start sounding

like it's got a few more synths

in it as well.

And we start blending

the two worlds together.

(SIGHS) Okay. Now,

this scene here

is Hela doing a long speech

and then, really showing

her powers and just

why, I guess, they call her

the Goddess of Death.

This was something,

when we were writing this.

We were talking to Eric Pearson,

the writer,

and this was something also that

Craig Kyle and Chris Yost

and Stephanie Folsom...

Everyone agreed. And everyone

right from the very beginning,

wanted to make her

the most formidable villain

that we've ever seen

and most definitely

that Thor's ever encountered.

This was the scene here really

where we wanted to show that.

Yeah, I think we've done that job.

We've pulled that off.

What she, what the character does

in the scene,

I really loved seeing Cate do that,

seeing a female villain do this,

but also

something right from the beginning

when I was talking to Cate

about doing this role,

she had said, "I would just love to do

"some cool action, some fun things,

like I wanna punch a few people."

Yeah, I think we've kind of

gone further than that, but...

This whole scene, all these

amazing stunts and all this action

was all choreographed by Ben Cooke,

who's our stunt coordinator

and also our second unit director.

So, now you'll see

where he's really come in

and put his mark on this whole sequence.

Of course, we mustn't ever forget,

a lot of this great stunt work

that we see Hela doing

is also performed by the great Zoe Bell

who is a New Zealand stunt woman.

She's done a lot of work

on Tarantino films.

She's one of the best in the biz.

She came in and doubled Cate

for a lot of the film.

So, yeah, some of these amazing moves

that you see are performed by her.

She's a great friend

and a great performer

and a really great actor, too.

Now here, we're about to see the demise

of the third of the Warriors Three.

Is he though?

Is he one of the Warriors Three?

He is one of the Warriors Three.

So, this is...

This is Hogun,

played by Tadanobu Asano.

I've loved this guy

for many years from afar.

He's never known.

I just never felt brave enough

to tell him.

From New Zealand.

Again, this is what Ragnarok is.

It's the destruction of everything

you've known and come to love.

We got rid of the Warriors Three

within the first half an hour

of the film.

Oh, this mysterious figure!

What's he doing?

He's stolen the Bifrost sword!

Now we find ourselves

in outer space, and this was

an audience favorite

and a studio favorite.

This little sequence,

this little ride,

his introduction to Sakaar.

We were very fortunate enough

to get this iconic piece of music.

I can't remember what it's called,

that's how iconic it is.

But it's from

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

(SWEEPING MUSIC PLAYING)

Surrounded by cosmic gateways...

If you know that movie,

then you'll know this bit of music.

Gene Wilder. Love Gene Wilder.

I take Chris...

Chris Hemsworth is the Gene Wilder

of Byron Bay in Australia.

- FEMALE ANNOUNCER: You are loved.

- What the hell?

And no one loves you more

than the Grandmaster.

He is the original.

The first lost and the first found.

The creator of Sakaar

and father of the Contest of Champions.

Where once you were nothing,

now you are something.

You are the property of the Grandmaster.

Congratulations.

You will meet the Grandmaster

in five seconds.

Prepare yourself.

Prepare yourself.

You are now meeting the Grandmaster.

(SCREAMING)

WAITITI: Oh, look. Him.

Jeff Goldblum.

So, Jeff Goldblum

is playing the Grandmaster.

Jeff has become

a very dear friend to me.

But not as dear

as that person on the left there.

Rachel House, who has been

in most of my movies.

She was in Eagle vs Shark.

She's in Boy,

playing the fantastic Aunty Gracey,

and in Hunt for the Wilderpeople.

She plays Paula,

the social welfare worker

who's on the hunt for Ricky Baker.

I love Rachel, I think she's just

one of the most versatile actors.

She plays the grandmother in Moana.

She's really... She's just so...

She's so good and consistent and funny,

and I'll keep trying to put her

in all my movies.

Pay this lady.

Just wait a damn minute!

WAITITI: I don't know if you noticed

that thing that is on Thor's neck.

That tiny little coin-shaped thing,

that thing there.

It's called an obedience disk

and that comes from

the comics, from the Planet Hulk comics.

Essentially, what that does is,

it's like when Thor

loses his hammer on Earth,

it takes away all his power

and puts him on more of

an even playing field

with everyone else on Sakaar.

So, not only does he not have

his hammer but he's also

been rendered powerless

by this obedience disk.

The Grandmaster is able to control him.

He can barely harness any lightning.

Just a few sparkles.

So the whole point of this was really

just to put him on the back foot

and, because he's a god,

he's the God of Thunder,

it's very hard to believe

that he can be beaten in a fight.

So, it's more fun when you see

a character like that

stripped down and he's become

more like everyone else.

This guy here, Steven,

who plays the cousin,

he is a really great comic actor

from Australia.

I discovered him on a TV show

called Black Comedy,

which is an aboriginal sketch

comedy show.

He was part of some of

my favorite sketches that I'd seen

and just invited him up to come

and do this small part.

If you look at the extras on the DVD,

there's an extended version of the scene

which was so hilarious,

but for time, you just can't put

everything you love into a movie.

And of course, it's Jeff Goldblum.

We're gonna have to get him

to play music.

He was playing an actual keyboard

throughout the scene.

Then we changed the instrumentation

and stuff.

But this whole time that he was talking,

there's a keyboard there

that he would be tinkering around on

during the scene.

Then, oh, him.

Brother Loki.

Loki! Loki!

A lot of these characters you'll see

in the background there

are taken directly from Kirby's designs.

There were some characters that were

just pulled straight out of the comics

and we've sort of done

our own things, too, but

all of those kind of designs, those

crazy Aztec-style helmets and stuff,

all of that is all influenced by him.

This whole world, Sakaar, yeah,

this was our chance

to really pay homage to Kirby.

And just really go there

with all of these looks.

Traditionally, the Grandmaster is blue,

but one of the fears were,

by making Jeff Goldblum blue,

would be that

people might think he was resurrecting

his character from

Earth Girls are Easy.

Hey, Sparkles, here's the deal.

You wanna get back to Ass-place,

Assberg...

Asgard!

Any contender who defeats...

WAITITI: So we gave him a little strip,

a little blue strip,

which just hints at it.

Sometimes, all you need is a hint.

Am I right?

That's what I call, contender.

Now, we're about to meet

probably the most popular character

to ever grace the screens

of a Marvel film.

By grace, I do mean grace.

So this other character here,

this rock guy,

his name is Korg,

and he's played by Taika Waititi,

who is one of the great, great

New Zealand actors.

Miek, over there, he was performed

by one of our stuntmen,

who was an expert in Wushu

and all of these amazing,

acrobatic fighting styles.

So there were just two of us there

who were wearing these MoCap suits,

those fractal suits,

which look really ridiculous.

Every time I was directing

in one of those suits

I felt more and more ridiculous.

But I'm really happy now,

seeing the final product.

Because if it was just me in there

in those pajamas,

it wouldn't be quite as impressive

as how Korg is in the film.

What we wanted from Korg,

and Korg, incidentally, and Miek,

they both come from

the Planet Hulk run as well.

What we wanted from Korg

was just someone who could

look intense and strong and formidable

and like he might fight Thor,

but to be just a real sweetheart.

We wanted him to...

I based him a little bit on

the bouncers in Auckland,

at nightclubs in New Zealand.

Polynesian bouncers who are

like huge, huge dudes

but they're the nicest people.

They got this really kind of

beautiful, light nature to them

because they don't wanna hurt anyone,

even though they could break your neck

with one hand.

I really like the concept behind this,

what you're about to see,

where we're showing that

what we think about Asgard

and what we think

of the history of Asgard.

Look at these lies.

It's all a charade. Cha-raid? Charade?

Oh, look, there's Odin and Thor

partying with some girls.

And Odin and Laufey,

the Frost Giant, was it?

I think that's Loki's dad.

I wanted to show that all societies

and all worlds,

they all have histories.

Asgard's no exception. They used to...

Odin and Hela used to be

the great conquerors of the cosmos

and they would go around

and they would just conquer

and take over these worlds.

They would take, a lot of the resources

that they would take,

came back to Asgard.

That's how they built the palace

and that's where all the gold came from.

Through one reason or another,

Odin changed his ways.

And realized that peace

was a way better thing to strive for.

But Hela, who was brought up

on the battlefield

and was a conqueror,

and was basically raised as a conqueror,

couldn't let that go

and wanted to keep spreading

their empire

and keep conquering

and keep taking worlds.

What I love about this...

There!

There's a little Easter egg for you.

That gauntlet, that bejeweled gauntlet,

which appeared in Thor 1 and

had a lot of the fans speculating

as to why was that gauntlet there.

We thought it was necessary

to explain to everyone

that it was a fake.

I like to think that

Odin had that fake gauntlet

in his weapons vault,

so that people of the universe

would think

that it was safe and that he had it.

Whereas, as we now know

from the other Avengers films

and from everything that we know

about Thanos,

that the true gauntlet

is still out there

and the true Infinity gems

are still out there

waiting to be collected.

So, one of the criticisms

that Hela has about Odin is that

of his secrets

and the shame that he felt

over her and all the conquering

that they used to do.

One of his things is he would just

keep covering things up,

like that big mural, he'd cover it up

with a sort of saccharine

painting, with parties,

and tea parties and garden parties,

and peace treaties.

Whereas the real Asgard,

as Hela would put it, lies beneath

and so beneath the floor

of the weapons vault.

This is where he stored Hela's old army

who she now brings back to life

with the Eternal Flame.

And one of the great,

one of the great allies to Hela

is the wolf, Fenris,

who, of course, comes from the comics.

This is a nice scene.

One of the, um...

One of the things we focused on

a lot in this film

was really developing that arc

between Thor and Loki.

We really wanted to make sure that

what they'd been through

throughout the other films,

that it would really pay off.

They've had such a complex relationship

over those films

that we wanted to develop it further

and by the end of the film,

make that a really satisfying thing

to have gone along on that journey

over so long.

I think that's one of the big parts

of this film

is really the story of Loki and Thor

and them reaching some understanding

and them reaching

some sort of resolution.

She's stronger than you.

You don't stand a chance.

Do you understand what I'm saying here?

(SCOFFS)

WAITITI: I like to think that

those little bits of graffiti back there

are like normal messages

that you'd see in toilets on Earth.

Things like "Barry sucks,"

and, "For a good time, call 02166332."

You faked your own death...

you stole the throne,

stripped Odin of his power...

I think the art department

did a great job there

of making all those symbols and stuff.

Because it does,

it absolutely says to me

those are alien writings.

Look at that,

it's like little crop circles there.

Maybe that's what crop circles are.

They're just aliens that have come

to Earth and just tagged fields.

They're saying like,

"We came here.

"It was just a boring wheat field,

"so we went back into outer space."

He's freaking gone.

WAITITI: "Steven and Zorg were here."

"2017."

KORG: Oh, yuck!

There's still someone's hair and blood

all over this!

Guys, can you clean up the weapons?

WAITITI: Chris and I had a good time

improvising a lot, ad-libbing.

This scene here, we do a lot of stuff

with this scene.

We went through

all these different weapons.

We had a lot of fun doing that.

I think that's what gives this film

a certain flavor.

A lot of the time,

we would just allow ourselves

and allow the other actors

to ad-lib a line,

to come up with ideas on the spot

and just to be a bit more playful.

This whole scene here developed over

a couple of weeks before we shot it.

Chris and Eric got together

and wrote this stuff

about pulling this hammer up

and all this kind of ridiculous stuff

which I never thought

would even be in the movie.

(CHUCKLING) But, it's in the movie!

But that's what

I think makes the film great.

It can go from irreverence like that,

and then into something serious,

like him trying to get home,

back to Asgard

and learning about Valkyrie.

This sort of swings

between humor and drama all the time.

Hey.

That little move she does with

that beer bottle is a little homage to

Once Were Warriors,

this great New Zealand film,

where Beth Heke opens

all the beer bottles with a fish slice.

My God, you're a Valkyrie.

I designed that tattoo.

There's nothing wrong with women,

of course. I love women.

WAITITI: I'm gonna get it on my face

after this commentary.

It's more of a respectful appreciation.

I think it's great.

WAITITI: That little robot

there is called Beer Bot 2000?

Beer Bot 5000.

Beer Bot 5000.

And believe it or not,

that is played by someone

in a MoCap suit.

His name was Hamish.

And he was in Hunt for the Wilderpeople.

He's a very funny guy, he's a comedian

from back home, from New Zealand.

And we turned him into a robot.

And no one escapes this place.

WAITITI: Here comes one of

my favorite shots of the movie.

It is this one!

Oh, cameo alert!

Now don't you move! My hands

aren't as steady as they used to be.

WAITITI: Stan Lee.

I think it's one of the funniest

of all the Stan Lee cameos.

...the wrath of the mighty Thor!

WAITITI: So good,

and he was such a trouper.

He came in

and he's a natural.

The guy's just so good.

He was just so funny.

He has a sort of real presence.

And I was really awestruck

when I met him.

It was one of my big

celebrity star-struck moments.

Meeting Stan Lee.

Please, I'm your host.

Big round of applause for all of our...

WAITITI: So now we have Valkyrie turning

up in her spaceship, the War Song.

What a show! What a night!

Which is a name taken from a poem

about the Valkyrie.

Usually, in the comics, she would have

a flying horse called Aragorn.

Fun fact 2,721.

The big mural in the back of this

is an actual piece

of Jack Kirby art.

GRANDMASTER: I'll say no more,

see what you think.

WAITITI: Fun fact 3,022.

(AUDIENCE BOOING AND SHOUTING)

Chris has had a haircut.

I thought it was a great idea

to give Chris a haircut.

I think part of it for him was

he was sick of wearing

a wig all the time.

But I actually think...

Again, this whole idea

of reinventing everything,

it's really great for the character.

He looks way better, I think.

And if you look at the sides

of his head,

one side, there's an "N,"

the other side is like a "Zed,"

or a"Z."

And what does that spell? NZ.

Or NZed, New Zealand.

It's like Chris did

a little homage to me.

It's like he was just

tipping his cap to me.

That's how much he loves me.

GRANDMASTER:

He's the reigning.

WAITITI: Uh, yeah,

Thor's wearing his helmet.

There you go, fans.

You've been asking for years.

You got it.

I gave it to you.

Oh, did you see that guy?

There's a three-headed guy

in that prison cell there.

You only get a few glimpses of him

now and then.

But whenever you see him,

there's three heads looking at you.

Yeah, not this guy.

But those three heads,

the one on the far right,

that's my face.

Spoiler alert,

the Incredible Hulk is in this movie.

Don't know if you guys were aware

of that, but there he is.

And the Incredible Hulk, obviously,

is played by?

Bruce Banner. Correct.

Who's an amazing actor.

And yes, we all know, it's Mark Ruffalo.

Now, Mark did all this MoCap himself.

So this is, yeah,

this is mainly Mark here

just doing all of his expressions

and everything

and all the action stuff,

all that movement stuff.

He does all those little nuances,

all those little kind of

character things.

All get picked up

when you do motion capture.

So, essentially,

you are seeing the actor

except that he's now nine

or ten feet tall and green.

Banner! Hey, Banner!

No Banner. Only Hulk.

Oh. Fun fact 634,022.

"He's a friend from work"

was actually not a line

that either of us came up with

or anyone on the film.

It was actually a line from a kid

who came to visit set.

I guess it was

like the Win-A-Wish foundation

where they give set visits

to kids and stuff.

So the line, "He's a friend from work"

was actually given to us

by a kid who was visiting set.

He was hanging outwith Chris all day

and we were about to go

and do another take.

And then he whispers to Chris, he goes,

"Hey, you know what you should say

when you see the Incredible Hulk?"

"You should say,

'He's a friend from work!"

He did, and it became this huge thing

and now it's on t-shirts and everything,

on posters and it's in the trailer.

- So full credit to that kid.

- (BABY COOING)

Talking about kids, this is my kid.

Yeah, if you hear a little voice

throughout some of this.

This is Matua, my daughter,

who's just come to help me out

for a little bit.

How you doing? Good?

What is that?

- (MATUA BABBLING)

- (WAITITI LAUGHS)

Yeah. Do you know who that is?

That's the Incredible Hulk.

There's Uncle Chris, there's Uncle Hulk.

He does Hulk Smash.

Oh, there you go, the ragdoll moment,

which is another fan favorite.

Of course, it happened to Loki

in Avengers 1.

Then we got to do it to Thor.

- (MATUA BABBLING)

- Yeah, exactly.

(CONTINUES BABBLING)

Yeah, Hulk smash, Hulk smash.

All right. Screw it.

MATUA: Uh-oh.

WAITITI: Yeah.

- MATUA: Be gentle.

- Be gentle.

MATUA: This why?

I know you're in there, Banner.

I'll get you out!

WAITITI: Yeah.

He's angry.

(ROARS)

MATUA: Uh-oh.

Somebody's angry.

WAITITI: Yeah, really angry.

Because what we tried to do in this...

- MATUA: Yes.

- Yeah.

- (MATUA BABBLING)

- WAITITI: Mmm-hmm.

We wanted to show...

This idea of Hulk and Thor fighting

has been a big point of debate

for many years...

MATUA: Yes.

WAITITI: ...for all the fans.

So it's always online,

and on the blogs and stuff,

they're always like, "Oh, who would win

in a fight between Hulk and Thor?"

Yeah, we put them together

and we made them have this big fight.

And I wanted to show that Thor...

Because everyone was like, "Hulk's

the strongest thing in the universe."

But Thor's a god.

They're both, I think,

equally as strong as each other.

And plus, Thor's got'

- lightning.

- MATUA: (GASPS) Uh-oh.

- Wow.

- MATUA: Uh-oh.

WAITITI: Yeah. Uh-oh.

Uh-oh. Hulk's in trouble.

Oh, here we go. Electric Man.

Captain Electric.

What do you think

is gonna happen here, bubba?

And here's a big punch.

MATUA: Oh, my gosh!

(WAITITI LAUGHS)

The Hulk Smash very angry.

WAITITI: Yeah, Hulk Smash very angry.

Thunder! Thunder! Thunder!

MATUA: He's fall down.

WAITITI: Yeah. Ooh!

- Yeah.

- MATUA: Uh-oh.

WAITITI: There's a lot of uh-oh moments

in this film.

- MATUA: Oh, my gosh!

- Yeah.

Look, you just missed me.

Missed my little face there.

(MATUA BABBLING)

MATUA: (GASPS) Uh-oh.

Oh, my gosh!

WAITITI: It's amazing?

- MATUA: (WHIMPERS) No.

- (WAITITI LAUGHS)

- Scary.

- WAITITI: Scary?

- MATUA: Uh-oh. Here comes another one.

- Mmm-hmm.

Another one.

Tell me about yourself, Skurge.

Did I tell you, Matua,

that the design here, that's all like

Ra Vincent and Dan Hennah?

MATUA: On, my gosh!

WAITITI: Oh, my gosh!

MATUA: I wanna look at this one.

WAITITI: What one?

MATUA: My grown-up one.

- You're gonna see the grown-up one?

- MATUA: Yeah.

WAITITI: You wanna go

and see something else?

MATUA: Yeah, something else.

(WAITITI LAUGHS)

I was Odin's executioner.

(MATUA SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)

WAITITI: Okay, so I'm back now.

Matua's gone now,

she went to see something else.

She wasn't really interested

in this film.

Let's begin our conquest.

I was gonna comment just then on

Gungnir. Did you guys see Gungnir,

which is Odin's spear,

just behind Hela on that seat?

Skurge, where's the sword?

I think Gungnir's gonna make

a reappearance later on in the movie.

HELA: That sword is the key

to opening the Bifrost.

WAITITI: That sword is the key

to opening the Bifrost

and we're about to find out

who actually has it.

Who are those thieves?

It's not them,

they don't have the sword.

Look at this beautiful forest.

This is all Australia.

We achieved so many of these

different looks in Australia

and, I must say

working at that studio there...

Well, ho-ho-ho!

Who's this?

Bob Marley.

Excuse me.

WAITITI: So Idris calls me up

and he goes,

"Hello, mate, yeah,

I think I've got a, uh..."

"What do you think we

should do with the hair in this one?"

I was, like, "I don't know,

what do you think?"

"What about dreadlocks?"

Come on.

I like to think that Heimdall's been

living in the forest after being,

after being banished by...

Well, not banished. After being arrested

by Odin in Thor 2

and he somehow, he escaped

and didn't turn up for his trial

and he's been living up here

in the forest this entire time.

And he's been waiting

for it all to go down

because I think he could tell...

I like to think he could tell that Hela

was on her way back.

And so he went up there and he opened up

the old stronghold from the old days

where he would look after

all the Asgardians who were on the run.

And here they all are living up here

in this giant...

What do you call this? Stronghold?

A stronghold.

Oh, look.

Look at these nurses.

All these women

nursing Thor back to health.

Would you like to hear fun fact

8,024 million and 82?

Two of those nurses

played by mine and Chris's wives.

Elsa and Chelsa.

Obligatory

torso and arm shot there.

I will have you know that Chris

wasn't planning on doing

any topless scenes in this film.

And I, as a representative

of the audience,

I said to him, "You have to."

"What is the point

of doing all that work

"and training so hard

if you're not gonna show that off?"

I said, "Chris, you get out there,

dude, and you show it off."

And I would like to acknowledge myself

and Chris' body

for those extra ticket sales

that have occurred

because of those shots.

Winning.

You mean cheating, huh?

Were they wearing one of these

when you won?

How'd you arrive here?

WAITITI: Look how good Hulk looks.

He looks like General Kurtz

in Apocalypse Now.

Doesn't he?

Does he? You're not answering.

Okay, well, this here was not my idea.

Hey, you're back!

Quinjet.

Yes!

I'm getting us out of here.

This is a terrible, awful place.

You're gonna love Asgard.

It's big. It's golden. Shiny.

Hulk stay.

No, no, no. My people need me

to get back to Asgard.

We must prevent Ragnarok.

Ragnarok?

The prophesied death of my home world.

The end of days, it's the end of...

(YAWNING)

If you help me get back to Asgard,

I can help you get back to Earth. Huh?

- Earth hate Hulk.

- What have you been doing today?

They love you.

You're one of the Avengers.

One of the team, one of our friends.

WAITITI: Anything?

You know, to anything.

What do two-year-olds get up to in LA?

Banner's friend.

I don't even like Banner.

"I'm into numbers and science

and stuff."

WAITITI: What do two-year-old's

get up to?

Do you have fun?

Do you ever do fun things?

That is Thor and Hulk.

When you were last here,

they were having a big fight.

Now they're talking it out.

MATUA: I wanna go see Mommy.

WAITITI: Yeah, okay, fine.

You didn't smash anything.

I won that fight.

WAITITI: You wanna go see

the grown-ups? Well, that's insulting.

- What?

- Baby.

WAITITI: Bye!

Thor go!

- I am going.

- (ALARM BEEPS)

WAITITI: Okay, well, she's gone. Again.

God, they're fickle, aren't they?

Where was I? Well, I was trying

to explain to my daughter that

we'd seen Hulk and Thor

having a big argument, a big fight,

then they were trying to talk it out,

trying to talk through

their differences.

Of course it ends in another argument.

But talking is way better than fighting,

and I think that's one

of the big messages of Thor.

And one of the messages I'm trying

to instill into my two-year-old.

You know, it's, like, sure we can try

and sort it out with our fists,

but why don't we try

and sort it outwith our voices

and our ideas, and our understanding,

first and foremost.

And if that doesn't work,

then with our fists.

Help me see.

WAITITI: So, now...

Have you worked out what's going on?

Thor is using Heimdall's eyes

and Heimdall's magic

to transport back to Asgard,

not physically, but in a sort of a,

let's see, in a sort of an illusion.

Sort of like his spirit

has kind of gone back there.

So he can see what's going on

and see the effects

of Hela's occupation of Asgard.

But he's not actually there

so he's still trapped in Sakaar.

Come on.

This is when we find out

that they've gotta get...

They've gotta get rid of Hela

or they've gotta get everyone off Asgard

because she will grow

more and more powerful

the longer she's on Asgard

and she'll eventually

start taking over other worlds

and no one in the cosmos will be safe.

(GASPING)

Wow, I didn't realize that shot

was the color of the American flag.

(GROANS)

(GRUNTS)

Also the French flag.

Also the British flag.

And the New Zealand flag

and the Australian flag.

A lot of flags use red, white, and blue.

Okay, you guys? So when people

are talking about red, white, and blue

it's not just the American flag.

- I'm pissed off!

- Oh.

WAITITI: Now, this costume there,

this wardrobe that Hulk is wearing,

is a sort of...

It's kind of a... What do you call this?

A sort of Tibetan influence?

That is also from a comic.

Taken from some comic art.

And we just like the idea

of him just having clothes.

You know, different things,

we're, like...

He's a hero here on Sakaar

and people have designed stuff for him.

And, you know, this bed, this giant bed,

which Ra Vincent designed.

You know, all of the stuff,

you know, is all for him.

And he's made quite the life

here on Sakaar.

And you can understand I think

why he doesn't wanna go home.

You know, he's a hero here.

He's a champion

and the crowd celebrate him.

And on Earth, people run from him.

No. Mmm-mmm.

Literally, that two-year old

that was in here before,

or my five-year-old who's at school,

I've had this conversation with them.

It's okay.

WAITITI: Me being Thor,

and them being the Hulk.

I know. I'm sorry.

I just get so angry all the time.

WAITITI: "Sorry, Dad, I just get

so angry all the time."

We're the same, you and I.

We're just a couple of hot-headed fools.

Yeah, same.

Hulk like fire, Thor like water.

We're kind of both like fire.

But Hulk like real fire.

Hulk like raging fire.

Thor like smoldering fire.

(CHUCKLES)

Hulk, I need you to do something for me.

WAITITI: This here, another great

wide shot of the Hulk's suite.

This beautiful Kirby design.

All these lines and these patterns.

You're so thick-headed

that you can't tell

when someone's hiding all the way across

the universe and wants to be left alone.

- We need to talk.

- No, you wanna talk to me.

I need her to stay.

Stay?

WAITITI: This was one of

the first scenes we shot.

This was actually

Tessa's first day on the film.

All right.

She's American. I'm not sure

if you guys know that. She's American.

She did a really great job

with her accent and just coming in.

We'd been shooting for a couple of weeks

but this was her first scene.

It was a really big scene

and it was an emotional scene

and had a lot of dialogue.

But she just walked in,

put her stamp on everything and just...

She said, "Here I am,"

and blew everyone away.

She was such a good actor

and she completely owned that character.

And she owns the scene.

One thing we really

wanted to have fun with

was this idea of...

We kind of wanted to make fun

of all these movies

where people are talking about

getting a team together.

It's, "We're getting the team together!

We're gonna, oh yeah!"

Thor, having been with the Avengers,

is obsessed with this idea of

inspiring people

by getting the team together

and he's always trying to make the team.

Later on, when we see

the Revengers thing,

I think that pays off so well.

There's so many little things

there throughout the film,

especially for Chris

and he's so good at what he does

and he's so good at

making fun of himself...

Don't get familiar.

...that all those little jokes and stuff

that we've spread throughout the scene,

they're all very irreverant and

often try and subvert this idea

of what we've become used to

in these superhero movies.

- Good. Great.

- Great.

But Chris is a legitimately funny actor.

All those things that we've come

to expect from these kind of heroes,

he managed to play

the opposite in this film.

And a classic example of that

is right here obviously.

I choose to run toward my problems

and not away from them.

Because that's what...

WAITITI: And again, there you have it,

just with the way he jumps up

and straight back into it.

There's that kind of bravado

that you come to love from heroes.

When I first came in to do this film,

I'd been talking to Marvel

and we all agreed that...

Friend, stay!

...Thor needed

a little bit of an overhaul

and he needed to be

that kind of fun hero

that we wanted to follow on the journey.

I don't think you can do that when

your hero is super earnest and serious.

Chris really managed

to completely change Thor in a way

where he retained some of that

old, obviously, that Asgardian presence,

but the character has been on Earth

for a couple of years.

He's hung out with Tony Stark.

He knows sarcasm. He knows irony.

It's a lot of...

I think we've done a really good job

of making him,

making Thor

the best character in the film.

- (BEEPS)

- COMPUTER: Access denied.

(IN DEEP VOICE) Strongest Avenger.

- (BEEPS)

- Access denied.

(SIGHS) Damn you, Stark.

Point Break.

- Welcome, Point Break.

- (CHUCKLES)

WAITITI: Point Break obviously.

A reference to Avengers.

- Stay!

- No, no, no!

Stop!

- Stay!

- (QUINJET POWERS DOWN)

Stop! Stop breaking everything!

Don't go!

WAITITI: What happens here, this is

actually one of the moments in the film

that I love the most

and that I'm the most proud of.

And that's this transformation.

The fact that he's...

He is in conflict with Banner

and Banner's in conflict with Bruce

and they're both fighting

over this body.

This is a kind of

almost like Altered States.

Almost like that moment when

William Hurt is changing.

So this is a really

emotional moment here though.

You see the two of them battling it out.

I know there's a little bit more of

that conflict and that duality

that's gonna evolve between

Banner and the Hulk in upcoming movies.

That's it, breathe.

(EXHALES) I won't hurt you.

WAITITI: Of course,

there's Mark Ruffalo.

Some creepy old man cut it off.

- It looks good.

- Oh, thanks.

Where are we? Oh, how's Nat?

- Uh, Nat is good, I'm sure.

- Is she okay?

- And what about Sokovia?

- Sokovia?

The city, Sokovia. Did we save it?

WAITITI: These two work

so great together.

- What are you saying?

- Well...

What?

I've been Hulk for two...

WAITITI: They're really, one of my...

One of the things I was looking at

when I first came on was

sort of to use as a bit of inspiration

was Withnail and I.

It's a great British film...

Banner.

...with Richard E. Grant.

Just with the idea, when Marvel

first said, "It's like a kind of...

"It might be a little bit

like a road trip, a buddy flick,

"I wanna get these characters together."

Look at that cool shot.

Thor, where are we?

That was something I had in my mind

was one of the great British comedies

about these two actors who were out

in the country on a holiday.

He kind of runs the place.

What I really wanted from Chris and Mark

was just to have these two guys

and they're not at all

like those personalities from that film.

- Doesn't sound right.

- Well, it's true.

I feel like this film just shifts into

a whole new gear

when Mark comes into it.

Because he's so fun

and he's so great to watch.

And with him and Chris coupled together,

I feel like the whole film just,

the energy picks up and it just turns

into this whole other thing.

And just the way that they

would ad-lib together

and the way that they

would do these scenes.

We've got very, very long takes

that never made it into the film

where they would just riff off

each other and just go for it.

This one was seven or eight-minute takes

where they were just talking and talking

and some of that stuff

is some of the greatest comedy

and greatest acting

I've seen in a long time.

GRANDMASTER: I'm upset!

WAITITI: And that shot there.

Obviously the greatest shot

in the history of cinema,

designed by Todd Harris,

our storyboard artist.

Even then when he came in with that shot

of Valkyrie and Loki entering

and the camera sweeps

over the top of them

and then we look

into the reflection of the floor

and see the Grandmaster coming down.

Even when he presented

that shot to us, he said,

"I think this is the greatest shot

in the history of cinema."

And so now that's what...

That's how we know...

That's what we've come

to affectionately call that crazy shot.

This here is another moment

when Jeff managed to ad-lib

for a good four or five minutes

on a few different things

and just for pacing reasons,

we couldn't put it in the final movie,

but it will be an extra scene.

But he's just, when he's on fire

and he's just going for it,

it's quite amazing.

It's quite amazing to see this guy.

What have you done?

I don't answer to you, lackey.

It's Loki.

And you will answer to the Grandmaster.

- (GRUNTS)

- Hmm.

Why would you help my brother escape

with that green fool?

I don't help anyone.

WAITITI: These guys duking it out.

Valkyrie and Loki.

The thing that's about to come up though

is something so amazing.

And it's never been done in film before.

And this flashback.

What I'm talking about

is this flashback.

I'm not talking about flashbacks.

I know flashbacks

have been done on film before.

But, the style of lighting in this.

This lighting effect

in this little flashback here

was designed and invented by

two friends of mine

I went to school with.

Carlo Van de Roer and Stu Rutherford.

And Stu Rutherford actually,

fun fact five million,

Stu Rutherford plays Stu

in What We Do in the Shadows.

They've both been

childhood friends of mine.

They invented this almost

bullet-time lighting

where you set up an array of lights

over a hundred lights.

They're all strobes.

They're all gonna flash once or twice.

They all set off.

They all go off one after each other

in quick succession

and the whole thing happens

in less than a second.

And then you film those

little bits of footage

with a very high speed camera.

So instead of the camera

wrapping around like in The Matrix,

it's the lights that

are wrapping around,

so it casts these huge shadows

everywhere, across the walls.

And it's an effect

that can only be achieved

by setting up the lights that way.

Now you've been on two.

That's a good thing.

Yeah, I'm really proud of those guys

and I'm really stoked

that I managed to get that in the film.

...my brain can handle the information.

The whole thing is totally different...

WAITITI: We have a classic Nagel,

Naa-gull, Nay-gull illustration

on Banner's T-shirt

which actually happens to be

Tony Stark's T-shirt.

So Banner's now wearing

Tony Stark's clothes.

I love that image of this guy

in a Duran Duran T-shirt

on an alien planet

and an '80s suit jacket.

And Thor and a space Viking.

I mean, how much more fun

can a movie get?

Okay, that is so wrong on so many...

WAITITI: Answer?

About 84% more fun.

Because it just keeps going.

I'm sick of it.

- What?

- I just told you.

If I turn into the Hulk,

I am never gonna come back again.

And you don't care.

No, no. I'm putting together the team.

The Hulk is the fire.

Wait, you're just using me

to get to the Hulk.

- What? No!

- It's gross.

You don't care about me.

You're not my friend.

No! I don't even like the Hulk.

He's all like,

"Smash, smash, smash."

I prefer you.

Thanks.

But if I'm being honest, when it comes

to fighting evil beings,

he is very powerful...

WAITITI: I'm currently

looking through the window

of this recording booth at my daughter

who is playing "Who's trying to steal

a phone" from the technician.

Someone needs to supervise their child.

Maybe the technician

can just supervise her.

- I'll be Tony Stark.

- What?

Yeah. Tony and the gypsy.

WAITITI: And now the look is complete.

Bruce Banner as Tony Stark.

Tony Stark and a gypsy.

What are you doing? Stop doing that!

Tony wears his pants super tight.

- Stop it!

- I'm sorry.

- Why are you being so weird?

- I don't know.

WAITITI: I really wanted to make fun

of Tony Stark's clothes

because I think in some of those movies,

they seem very funny to me.

Some of the funny T-shirt designs

and his funky trendy clothes

that he always wears.

Uh-oh. Trying to keep your mind off

the Incredible Hulk.

Bad move, we just walked

into a Hulk festival.

Banned!

Banned!

WAITITI: We had a lot of interns working

on the film in the art department

making all of these Hulk masks

and Hulk banners and everything.

A lot of them were

from the local Aboriginal community

who came in and we wanted to give them

a chance to come and work on a film

and to see what it's like on film sets.

Because when I was growing up

in New Zealand

I had never been on a film set before.

I think having any of those experiences

when you're young can really inspire you

and it can change your life.

They did really well and some of them

continued to work

for the art department.

They managed to get jobs

out of this experience.

Your hair looks nice.

I like what you did with it.

Change it? Washed it maybe?

WAITITI: These two

made this up on the day.

All this flirtatious stuff

was just made up on the spot.

Who is this guy?

WAITITI: And I like to think it makes it

just that little bit more genuine.

Here's one of the great moments

in cinema right here.

This shot and this shot.

As a filmmaker, I don't mind telling you

that something this simple

is sometimes all you need.

You don't need fancy camera moves.

Just lock it off and have them stare

as close to the barrel as possible

and say their damn lines.

Revengers line, that was something

that came up on the day.

I think Chris said it was his idea.

I don't know, I feel like

I had a big part of that.

I'm sure other people have said

the Revengers instead of Avengers.

So let's just all take credit for it.

I've got a peace offering.

WAITITI: I definitely invented vertical

sliding doors though,

I'll tell you that.

Classic.

Just had to be sure.

WAITITI: And behind Banner there

is an alien trash can.

So, last time I saw you,

you were trying to kill everybody.

Where are you at these days?

It varies from moment to moment.

THOR: Is that a Dragonfang?

It is.

My God.

WAITITI: Dragonfang is

the famed sword of the Valkyrie,

and it is famed,

and it is from the comics

and is her famous magical sword.

...18 months.

Nope. We are going through...

WAITITI: You'll see later on in the film

it'll be used in the Devil's Anus.

And here's a note...

Who would've thought we'd make a movie

with the Devil's Anus in it?

MATUA: I want a coffee.

- WAITITI: You want a coffee?

- Yeah.

WAITITI: Okay, this is...

WOMAN: Would you like a coffee?

WAITITI: Come on. Oh, I'd love coffee.

WOMAN: Yeah, what can we get you?

MATUA: Nice coffee.

WAITITI: You don't drink coffee.

I need to tell everyone here

that you don't drink coffee.

Do you drink coffee?

- MATUA: Yeah.

- No, you don't.

WAITITI: Stay there. She doesn't.

She doesn't, you guys.

She doesn't drink coffee.

What do you want?

MATUA: I wanna drink coffee.

WAITITI: No, you don't. Have some water.

MATUA: No.

WAITITI: You don't drink coffee.

Now everyone thinks you drink coffee.

They think it's a normal thing

and now that I'm just...

MATUA: You want coffee?

WAITITI: I want coffee. Yeah.

Heavens, no.

I've run out of favor with...

WAITITI: Jeez, Valkyrie lives

like a slob, doesn't she, guys?

I'm asking for safe passage

through the Anus.

You're telling us that you can get us

access into the garage

without setting off any alarms?

Yes, brother. I can.

WAITITI: We tried to fill up this film

with lots of these little stories

that Chris is about to tell.

Just little anecdotes about him and Loki

and times that Loki's tried to kill him.

And so throughout the film we actually

got a lot of these little things,

which I personally love.

Also for their relationship,

I think it's really funny

that ever since they were seven

they've been trying to kill each other.

You guys have a beast?

But because they're gods obviously...

THOR: We're going to start a revolution.

- Revolution?

- I'll explain later.

- Who's this guy again?

- I'll explain later.

Is that some sort of protoplasm,

all the stuff...

WAITITI: These little eggs beneath Miek.

I like to think that one day

they all grow into other Mieks.

- Oh!

- (CLATTERING)

I'm looking for Korg.

Who's asking?

I know you're asking.

Is anyone else asking,

or is it just you?

The Lord of Thunder sends his best.

WAITITI: We shot another

revolution scene after this

where Korg is trying

to organize his revolutionaries

and they're all in the weapons vault

choosing weapons.

And it's just going awfully

and it becomes really apparent that Korg

has no idea how to run a revolution.

He's actually not a natural born leader.

Unlike me.

I think I'm a great leader.

I've got a lot of leadership quality.

Lot of qualities

that you'd want in a leader.

Like... I'm fun,

I like long walks on the beach.

Um... And, um...

Open communication

was never our family's forte.

You have no idea.

And I like to sleep all the time.

Hello.

Hi.

WAITITI: Fans love this moment.

The brothers together again

fighting side by side.

It was actually a very satisfying

part of the story,

seeing these two brothers

finally working together.

We might as well be strangers now.

Two sons of the crown, set adrift.

- Oh.

- (SPEAKING ALIEN LANGUAGE)

Thought you didn't wanna talk about it.

Here's the thing.

I'm probably better off staying here

on Sakaar.

That's exactly what I was thinking.

Did you just agree with me?

Come on, this place is perfect for you.

It's savage, chaotic, lawless...

Brother, you're gonna do great here.

WAITITI: Spoiler: This was not shot

in an elevator

on another planet.

Loki, I thought the world of you.

I thought we were gonna fight

side by side forever.

But at the end of the day,

you're you and I'm me.

I don't know,

maybe there's still good in you.

WAITITI: Fun fact number seven.

Chris and Tom are not actual brothers.

Yeah.

They're actually from

different countries in fact.

Although you'd never know because

they look exactly the same, don't they?

They look like twins.

Hey, let's do "Get Help."

- What?

- "Get Help."

No.

- Come on, you love it.

- I hate it.

It's great. It works every time.

WAITITI: How're you guys enjoying

this director's commentary so far?

We're not doing "Get Help."

- (ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)

- Get help! Please!

WAITITI: I looked through the window

and one person gave me a thumbs-up.

Another one has too.

Two people so far

enjoying it.

Now, which one's the ship

she told us to get?

The Commodore.

WAITITI: Okay, the Commodore.

Look at that cool ship.

So the coloring of that ship,

I'll tell you right now,

is inspired by the Aboriginal flag.

So, it's red, yellow and black.

Being in Australia, I was really struck

by the culture there.

And I brought a lot of those things,

and I thought,

"You know what? Let's make

the hero's spaceship in this movie

"the color of the original people

from Australia,

"the color of their flag."

So when you see this thing

flying through, it's like this...

It's like they're escaping

from Sakaar in the Aboriginal flag.

It made me very proud

to have those colors there.

Not many people know

that the coloring of Valkyrie's ship,

they are the colors of the Maori flag,

the native peoples of New Zealand.

Nothing political, just cool.

So good luck, I guess.

All right, you can figure this out.

WAITITI: All of these spaceships

in this film

are all named.

This is called the Commodore.

There's another great big spaceship

that features later on,

that's called the Statesman.

All these other spaceships that join

in this big Sakaarian chase...

There's a Torana,

there's an Escort,

there's a Kingswood.

These are all names of

Holdens, Holden cars,

which are Australia, New Zealand cars.

Yeah, they're all named after

the great Australian

and New Zealand vehicles

of the '70s, '80s, '90s and 2000s.

I hope that you're

tougher than you look.

Why?

(SCREAMING)

- (GROANING)

- (LAUGHS)

WAITITI: I'm particularly proud of

the interior of the Commodore

with all the orange,

all the bold colors and lines.

Where are the guns on this ship?

WAITITI: That just says

'70s lounge suite

in the form of a spaceship, to me.

Did she just say the Grandmaster

uses it for orgies?

Yeah.

WAITITI: There's actually

a deleted scene.

In the back there,

you see this orange and white door.

Beyond that is a sort of dining room set

with a big round table

and there's drinks cabinets

and stuff, and again,

it looks like a '70s lounge room.

'70s dining room.

Just for length,

we got rid of that scene.

But in the deleted scenes,

we'll probably include that scene

and you'll see just how great

the rest of that set is.

I also love the idea of them escaping

from this planet

in a luxury vehicle, in a vehicle

designed really just for parties

and drinking

and orgies.

I should probably go and help her.

Here, take the wheel.

No. I don't know how to fly

one of these.

Yeah, you're a scientist.

Use one of your PhDs.

None of them are for flying

alien spaceships!

WAITITI: Now we see Thor and Valkyrie

dancing around these spaceships,

blowing them up.

If you will,

it's sort of like a mating dance

of these two characters.

A sort of courtship,

a bit like two animals

impressing each other

with their skills

and with their peacocking.

This is cool, like two gods

who are jumping around

destroying spaceships.

I think that's pretty awesome.

Come on! There's gotta be a gun

on this thing.

That looks like a gun.

GRANDMASTER: (SINGING) It's my birthday

It's my birthday

It's my birthday

WAITITI: I would like to release

the It's My Birthday song

as its own special

hit.

A special individual song.

Instead of Happy Birthday, people could

sing It's My Birthday instead.

Easier.

Because for Happy Birthday, you need

other people to sing that for you.

With It's My Birthday, you can just

do it by yourself, for yourself.

Now, we're about to take you

into the Devil's Anus.

Oh, look, there you go. There! Look!

Hajo, that guy over there

with the three heads.

See the guy on the right? The head

on the right? That's my face.

A lot of these guys,

or a lot of these gladiators

are named after friends of mine.

That guy there, the three-headed guy

is called Hajo.

He's named after my friend Stellan Hajo.

Another character in there,

the one with the sort of pancake face

called Tasba,

he's named after my friend Tasba.

She does not have a pancake face.

There's another one called

Ejashi, which is named

after my friend Bird.

There, and there was more.

There's more, I'm not gonna

keep naming them all

because we're in a Wormhole

and we're going into Asgard!

SKURGE: Asgardians!

Some misguided soul

has stolen the Bifrost sword.

Tell us where it is...

WAITITI: Sometimes when I think

about this film

and all the things that are in it,

I feel like if you were to tell people

about this, they wouldn't believe

that this is actually a movie.

"Yeah, no, it's got this

woman with antlers in it,

"and a giant wolf,

"and this big angry green guy,

"a space Viking,

"this guy with these weird triangles

on his head,

"zombie army,

"magical swords."

You name it, we put it in the movie.

"Don't do it, Skurge!"

That's what I'd be yelling out,

if I was in the crowd.

"Come on, Skurge! Don't do it!"

Well...

Executioner?

- (ALL GASP)

- MAN: Wait!

WAITITI: Oh, thank goodness

someone stopped him.

I know where the sword is.

WAITITI: Now,

we leave Sakaar behind

and we have found ourselves

back with our heroes

in Asgard.

There it is in all its glory.

I never thought I'd be back here.

BANNER: I thought it'd be a lot nicer.

I mean, not that it's not nice.

It's just, it's on fire.

WAITITI: That pipe organ house

is very tall, isn't it?

I hope they have elevators in there.

Maybe not, maybe that's why

Asgardians thighs and calves

are so muscular and strong.

They have to walk everywhere.

I have a man on the ground.

(LOW INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

Asgard.

WAITITI: These two girls

from the beginning.

Do you remember them,

everyone, do you remember?

They were in the Observatory

with Skurge.

Now the ship has a gun.

I'll take it from here.

I found this in the armory.

Good luck.

WAITITI: I like how considerate Thor is.

I'm eating a carrot right now

as I talk to you.

...don't die.

I like the fact that Thor...

You know what I mean.

WAITITI: He was thinking about Valkyrie,

he was just like,

"I'll go off and not only get a weapon.

"I'll go get some clothes for her

as well to inspire her.

"Give her a sense of place.

“Help her get her identity back.

"She's been running from the truth

and running from her past."

He's just given her an opportunity

to embrace it,

to acknowledge who she is.

She's a Valkyrie,

an elite warrior of Asgard.

Holy cow!

Hela is so powerful.

She just tore that mountain apart

and made a bridge

out of these two doors.

But slightly too late.

They went out the back door down there.

Do you see that?

Just in the nick of time.

HEIMDALL: We must keep moving!

WAITITI: Keep going, Asgardians!

Keep going!

You can tell they're exhausted,

those poor Asgardians.

They've been through hell.

Their entire world is under siege.

Uh-oh.

That's right. Valkyrie.

In full form!

See those little griffin things

on the side there?

They remind me of those things

in Ghostbusters.

This shot here.

All of this.

Look how great this set looks!

Those two things remind me of...

I like to call them giraffe wolves.

Those things and those other tall,

sort of skinny-necked things

on the sides,

see around that big circle.

A lot of the set extension and stuff...

A lot of the reason so much of,

so many of these shots

and so many of these worlds look so good

is just the integration

of these human elements.

These things that we shot

in Australia mixed with

the really tireless hard work

of Jake Morrison

and the VFX department that he ran.

And then, one day...

Him and Cyndi Ochs.

It was really such a huge job,

there are so many VFX shots

in this film.

Ran into the thousands.

It really blew me away,

just how much work goes into

all of these shots

and the integration,

the texturing, the lighting.

So much lighting happens in post

by these VFX artists.

All of Hela's antlers, all that head.

What you see on Hela, the head thing,

this is all CG. It's all added later on.

Just absolutely amazing. Look at this.

All of the stuff here

were it not for the work of Jake

and his team,

all of this would still be blue screen.

I would've been fired months ago.

(GROWLING)

Damn it!

(SIGHS) Well...

Heimdall

didn't anticipate seeing

that giant wolf there, did you?

But, giant wolf,

you didn't anticipate Valkyrie

in a '70s leisure vessel

and with a giant laser gun.

Ah. Other Asgardians, you didn't

anticipate Skurge and a zombie army

stopping you

from getting back to the city.

A lot of people didn't anticipate stuff.

(BOTH GRUNTING)

To be honest, I expected more.

WAITITI: Thor didn't anticipate

being spun

500 times in the air like that

and hitting the ground.

The sword!

Here's the difference between us.

- I'm Odin's firstborn...

- WAITITI: The moment coming up.

Which is quite gruesome.

I want you to prepare yourselves for it.

Thor's gonna become

just like his father.

So simple,

even a blind man could see it.

But maybe that's exactly

what needs to happen.

Maybe that's what needed

to happen for him

to become the king he needs to become.

(ROARING)

The stupid dog won't die!

(ALL SCREAMING)

WAITITI: "The stupid dog won't die!"

I think I wanna get that on a T-shirt.

Everything's gonna be all right now.

I got this.

You wanted to know who I am?

What the hell are you talking about?

You'll see!

(FENRIS SNIFFING)

WAITITI: I love that moment.

Really, at this point in the film,

things just start getting...

You think this film is pretty crazy

up till now,

(ROARS)

but now, it just gets even more mental.

"What's in your movie?"

"Incredible Hulk fighting a giant wolf."

"Zombies jumping on a spaceship."

"Whole bunch of people

trying to escape from this planet."

"Antler lady ripping out

the hero's eye."

I'll get that sword, even if I have to

kill every single one of them to do it.

- (SWORDS CLASHING)

- (CLAMORING)

WAITITI: This whole sequence,

this whole part of the film,

I would say took over a month to shoot.

There were a lot of extras on set

all the time

and in Australia, in the Gold Coast,

it can get very hot.

It was very...

Most days, we were working

in this intense heat.

Hey, man.

We shot for a long time

and it was a huge effort,

logistically and especially,

for the stunt department.

They really had to go for it.

We got a lot of amazing fight footage.

This was the first time that I'd ever

done something on this kind of scale.

I gotta admit...

- Did you miss me?

- Everyone, on that ship now.

Gotta admit

I would not have been able

to do this alone.

- (SWORDS CLASHING)

- (SCREAMING)

Oh, no! No!

Taika gone.

It's a valiant effort,

but you never stood a chance.

You see...

I'm not a queen or a monster.

WAITITI: You know what?

Say Thor's the God of Thunder.

But, technically,

thunder isn't really lightning, is it?

Thunder's the sound of lightning.

So,

either Thor should change his name

to God of Lightning,

or should we change it

so that he just has the power of

some really loud rumbling?

He can just make his not-cool noises.

I think I'm gonna write to Stan Lee

and ask him what he thinks.

It was never your source of strength.

It's too late.

She's already taken Asgard.

Asgard is not a place. Never was.

WAITITI: Look at the two guys

with one eye each.

Asgard is where our people stand.

Even now,

right now,

those people need your help.

WAITITI: I love this moment.

This is the moment you want

in a movie like this.

The moment where it all,

the big realization happens.

He gets his power back.

Finally, we see Thor

as we've always wanted to see him.

As the God of Thunder

harnessing the lightning and using it

and being incredible.

Actually being the hero

that we've been waiting

to see for years now.

To top it off, we bring back

the greatest song

in the history of the world.

This here, it could not get

any more Thor

than right now.

(IMMIGRANT SONG BY LED ZEPPELIN PLAYING)

(FIREWORKS BURSTING)

(ROARS)

WAITITI: Again, look at this stuff.

This is all VFX.

That Hulk shot with Hulk and that dog

and all that water and everything,

it's amazing.

It is amazing what they can do.

I do give them full credit.

That is the Statesman I was

talking about before, that giant ship

named after one of the Holdens.

That is the Statesman.

Skurge has turned

and is swapping sides.

He's gonna save his own skin

and get out of there.

One of the things with Hulk

is he's such a strong character,

it's how you get rid of him

so that it makes it harder

for the heroes to win their battle.

We had to...

The best thing about having Fenris there

was that it keeps him occupied,

gives him something to do

and gets him out of the picture

while Thor and Valkyrie can fight Hela.

I think we should disband the Revengers.

Hit her with a lightning blast.

I just hit her

with the biggest lightning blast

in the history of lightning.

It did nothing.

We just need to hold her off

until everyone's on board.

It won't end there.

The longer Hela's on Asgard,

the more powerful she grows.

She'll hunt us down.

We need to stop her here and now.

So what do we do?

I'm not doing "Get Help."

WAITITI: Now...

One thing we really wrestled with

was figuring out

if we're gonna make this Ragnarok,

it has to be

the destruction of Asgard.

We knew that that's something

we were gonna run at

and we were gonna try and get there.

But really, the hard part is

trying to justify blowing up a planet

to beat the bad guy.

How we really got to that point

was showing that

even with all the power

that Thor has just harnessed,

even that wasn't enough to beat Hela.

And that she does get

more and more powerful

and she's just gonna keep going

and she will never stop.

And she will find a way off Asgard

and spread her evil

and conquer more worlds.

So they couldn't escape

and just leave her there.

They actually have to deal with her.

And if she takes her power from Asgard,

then to defeat her,

you have to destroy her power source,

which is Asgard.

It's extreme

but, I mean, look at this character.

She's unstoppable.

(GRUNTS)

WAITITI: As we learnt earlier

in the movie,

the Eternal Flame

brings things back to life.

As we learnt before,

that even Surtur's soul and his spirit

entered into that skull

in the very first sequence of the film.

So those little eggs that were laid

so early on in the film are now,

have been incubating

and are now about to hatch.

This here, this moment here

is from the comic books.

Skurge's last stand

where he saves all the Asgardians.

It's a very iconic moment in the books

where he fights off the zombie army

with these Earth weapons.

It was nice, because for a bad guy,

to see this bad guy

sacrifice himself

for the greater good and for the people.

I think it's like

a real fan favorite moment.

Just good to see him redeem himself

in some way.

(SCREAMING)

In particular, this moment here

where he uses that as a baseball bat,

uses that gun

in that position...

That's directly from a comic book frame.

Now we're about to meet

the big man again.

Hela, enough!

You want Asgard,

it's yours.

Whatever game you're playing,

it won't work.

You can't defeat me.

No, I know.

But he can.

WAITITI: What the heck?

No!

(HELA GRUNTS)

(RUMBLING)

Tremble before me, Asgard!

WAITITI: Surtur in his full might.

Now this is actually from

the original

idea of Ragnarok, the tale of Ragnarok

from Norse mythology

that Surtur is here

with the destruction of Asgard.

He's a big part of that.

Incredible Hulk is no part of that.

But we need to let him

finish the job, otherwise...

Oh, do I hear someone coming back?

Hello!

MATUA: Come look at the fire!

WAITITI: Look, the fire.

Come here, look!

(SURTUR YELLING)

Big fire.

Do you see?

MATUA: Oh, no!

WAITITI: Wow, look.

MATUA: Oh, no!

WAITITI: Oh, no?

MATUA: Oh, no!

I wanna look at the life now.

I wanna come and look at the life now.

I wanna come and look at the life.

WAITITI: You want to come

and look at the life?

MATUA: Yeah.

WAITITI: What does that mean?

"Look at the life?"

MATUA: I wanna turn it off now.

WAITITI: You want to turn

this movie off?

MATUA: Yeah.

(SURTUR SCREAMING)

- (SURTUR LAUGHING)

- (GRUNTS)

WAITITI: You wanna cover your eyes?

MATUA: I'm sad to look at the eye.

WAITITI: Why?

Because of the big fire monster?

MATUA: Yeah.

WAITITI: Hey, guess what.

Guess what. Look at this guy.

See this guy made of rocks? Hold on.

This guy here.

That's me. That's your dad.

Your dad's made of rocks, on the inside.

MATUA: Wow.

WAITITI: Yeah.

Now those foundations are gone. Sorry.

Who do you love most

out of all these people?

MATUA: You.

WAITITI: Yeah!

MATUA: You!

(WAITITI CHUCKLES)

What have I done?

MATUA: Come and look at the life now!

WAITITI: I don't know

what that means.

MATUA: Come and look at it! Scary movie!

WAITITI: Oh, scary movie?

Do you think this is scary?

MATUA: Yes, scary life.

WAITITI: Scary life? Life is scary.

Look, all that scariness is gone now.

Now, it's just Chris Hemsworth.

The movie's nearly over.

And so is this amazing

director's commentary.

Did you enjoy learning about this film?

MATUA: He's coming! Look at the life!

WAITITI: Mm-hmm.

Have you learnt a lot about the film

by listening to this?

MATUA: Come and look at the life!

Come and look at the scary light!

WAITITI: The light!

Come and look at the light?

The scary light.

MATUA: What?

WAITITI: The scary light.

MATUA: No.

I don't want to...

I don't want to give it life.

I want the scary life one.

Not the movie guana.

Not a movie guana.

WAITITI: Not a movie guana?

Iguana?

MATUA: I wanna watch Moana.

WAITITI: Oh, you wanna watch Moana?

MATUA: Yeah.

WAITITI: Yeah.

- You know I was the writer on that?

- MATUA: I wanna turn it off.

WAITITI: You wanna turn this off

and watch Moana instead.

Is that what you'd like?

- Shall I do a commentary for Moana?

- MATUA: Yeah.

I want to... Like grown-up.

WAITITI: Grown-ups?

MATUA: Yeah.

WAITITI: Is this for grown-ups?

I accidentally stomped on him

on the bridge.

I just felt so guilty,

I've been carrying him around all day.

WAITITI: What?

MATUA: Look at it. Daddy.

- What? What?

- WAITITI: What?

MATUA: What?

WAITITI: What?

MATUA: Look.

WAITITI: The end!

Directed by your dad.

Produced by a G, an OG, and that guy.

MATUA: The end.

WAITITI: The end.

MATUA: Bye, guys.

WAITITI: Executive Producer

Victoria Alonso!

Love her!

Brad Winderbaum. My best buddy.

Look at all these cool pictures.

- MATUA: No.

- (WAITITI LAUGHS)

It's pretty scary.

WAITITI: It's not scary.

MATUA: Yes.

WAITITI: Nice spaceships.

Now, you are two.

I do forget that, don't I?

MATUA: Look at that kitty-cat.

WAITITI: Kitty-cat?

MATUA: Yeah.

WAITITI: (LAUGHS) What?

Do you think

you'll buy the DVD for this?

Will you buy this

with all the special features?

MATUA: Yeah.

WAITITI: Yeah.

Do you think everyone else should?

MATUA: Yeah.

WAITITI: Yeah.

Do you wanna get out of here?

MATUA: Yeah.

WAITITI: Yeah.

Okay, there you have it, folks.

We're gonna leave.

Thanks for watching this film

and listening to this

ridiculous director's commentary.

I don't think

you would've learnt anything.

It was just me talking really,

wasn't it?

MATUA: Scary, Dad.

WAITITI: That's Jeff Goldblum.

He is scary.

Yeah, thank you.

MATUA: Scary dragon.

(WAITITI CHUCKLES)

MATUA: Look at how scary...

WAITITI: Do you wanna say goodbye

to everyone?

Say goodbye here. Right here.

Into this, okay?

MATUA: I know this one.

WAITITI: I made this one.

MATUA: Oh, boy! And again.

WAITITI: I know. It feels like

it's "And again," doesn't it?

Oh, look, spaceship.

MATUA: I wanna see a spaceship.

Another one.

WAITITI: Yeah.

MATUA: I'll be careful.

WAITITI: Okay.

MATUA: I wanna go see it.

WAITITI: Look.

This is a tag scene,

so this a little tag-a-Rooney.

MATUA: I wanna go see what's to eat.

WAITITI: Oh, you want food now?

MATUA: I wanna go food to eat.

WAITITI: Yeah, okay, let's go eat.

- Okay, say goodbye!

- MATUA: No.

WAITITI: Say bye.

MATUA: No.

WAITITI: Bye-bye.

MATUA: Bye-bye, guys.

WAITITI: Bye-bye, guys.

MATUA: No.

No.

No. I wanna go bye again.

WAITITI: Bye-bye.

MATUA: Bye-bye, guys.

I wanna go bye again.

(GROANING)

Oh, boy.

(SCRAPPERS EXCLAIMING)

(GROANS) on.

I just... I gotta say,

I'm proud of you all.

This revolution has been a huge success.

Yay, us!

Pat on the back.

Pat on the back. Come on.

No?

Me too.

'Cause I've been a big part of it.

Can't have a revolution

without somebody to overthrow.

So, you're welcome.

And, uh, it's a tie.

English - SDH

Source: Blu-Ray

Translation: Original

Commentary with Director Taika Waititi

Editing: MBB