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Two-time Oscar®-winner Cate Blanchett (“Blue Jasmine,” “Carol, “Cinderella” joins Marvel Studios’ “Thor: Ragnarok” as the mysterious and powerful new villain Hela, along with Jeff Goldblum (the upcoming “Independence Day: Resurgence,” “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” “Jurassic Park” who joins the cast as the eccentric Grandmaster, Tessa Thompson (“Creed,” “Selma” who will bring the classic hero Valkyrie to life on the big screen, and Karl Urban (“Star Trek” trilogy, “The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King” who will add his might to the fray as Skurge.
http://marvel.com/news/movies/26203...mbers_of_the_highly_anticipated_thor_ragnarok
So it sounds like Cate is great (no surprise there), but perhaps doesn't get enough screentime or stuff to do (which also wouldn't be that surprising given Marvel's track record).
Again hopefully she's not a one and done villain.
And she would be the stand-out performance were it not for Cate Blanchetts Hela. Although given scant screen time to work with (Thor: Ragnarok spends perhaps too much time on Sakaar and therefore away from Hela), she oozes charisma like no other. Her design is incredible a sure fire cosplay hit in the coming years and her dialogue delivery and conviction is unmatched. With just a bit more character work, she could have found herself as one of the all-time great villains in the MCU (though that is a short list)
Still, even those moments are grounded in the performances of the films three leads most notably, Cate Blanchett as Hela. The Oscar-winner brings a tremendous amount of gravitas to any role she takes on, but here she adds a delicious sense of scene-chewing malevolence to the mix. Hela is an incredibly powerful villain, capable of separating Thor from his hammer but she also takes obvious, compelling delight in being as evil as she can at any given moment. In a different film, her attitude might come off as cheesy posturing. But given Ragnaroks overall tone, it plays as a celebration, as if Hela is intentionally trying to one-up every villain in the universe.
And although Thor is absolutely more interesting than he's ever been, it's stiff competition whether he's the most interesting player in the mix. Blanchett is endlessly watchable as the film's main villain, as deranged as she is sexy. With a sneering smirk and akimbo stance, hip perpetually cocked out, Hela seems simply bored by it all as she decimates entire armies, but Blanchett is having a blast doing it. Her Hela strut is everything.
It's clear the actors are having a blast here, none more so than Cate Blanchett - who plays the film's big bad, Hela - with the two-time Oscar-winner rattling off exposition-filled monologues with set-chewing delight and proving a nice rebuff to Marvel's long-standing villain issue.
And if the old Batman gave us campy turns by Milton Berle as Louie the Lilac or Ethel Merman as Lola Lasagna, both Blanchett and Goldblum take full advantage of their Special Guest Villain status to go gloriously over the top. Goldblums trademark brand of stammering deadpan fits perfectly into this scenario, while Blanchett walks away with the movie; verbally, she plays like Dame Diana Rigg channeling both Joan Crawford and Eve Arden, and her physical slink (in one of Marvel Comics most wonderfully baroque costumes) calls to mind the sexy evil robot from Metropolis.
Hela, played wonderfully by Cate Blanchett, is a welcome addition to the films world. She turns in an amazing, sultry performance as the Goddess of Death who has her sites on Asgard and ultimately wants to rule beyond the nine realms. Her goals may be a bit simplistic, but shes a complex character with a personal connection to Thor that heightens the movies dramatic appeal. Even though she seeks out destruction and rampage like many other Marvel villains, Hela feels like the most compelling MCU bad guy to hit the big screen yet.
This Hela would kick comic Hela's ass handily, so there's that.
The problem is that, outside of one throwaway line in the mid-credits scene of Avengers. They've done absolutely nothing to establish the concept of Mistress Death whatsoever, in any way, shape, or form in the MCU.
So unless they're going to try and cram that explanation into IW as well along with the thousand other things going on there, simplifying things might be appropriate here.
^ yeah this.
She'll be familiar, she will not be abstract concept, and it leads to even more interesting character interactions- I don't think Hela would just be an appendage
I mean do you really think that they won't realize that when they see her in movies like Carol? "Aka, that movie where my mom has sex with Rooney Mara, who's also attractive."
"Cate Blanchett is really hot" is hardly a new sentiment.
I'm not sure, someone posted it on tumblr with no other info so I've been trying to find out. It seems to be from one of the new Marvel Legacy books, and from the hammer logo at the top I'm presuming it must be the Thor one. I'll update when I find out.
Mjölnir;35843099 said:I don't think we got back to this (where the comic panel with Thanos and Hela is from) and I just found it while reading Mighty Thor #700.
Yep, I found it a couple of days ago. t: Fantastic issue, I'm excited about where they're taking the Thor comics right now and I can't wait to see what Hela and Thanos get up to next.
I'm not saying it's a new sentiment, but Carol amd many films in Cate's filmography are hardly films that most teenage boys are going to be all that interested in. Ragnarok on the other hand... Her sons were already fans of the MCU and with the age they are they likely go online and read discussions about the films, e.t.c. Are you saying it wouldn't squick you out a little to go online and see a bunch of horny fanboys/girls talking about how hot your mom is and how they want to 'bang her' or let her dominate them? I'm sure it happens with lots of kids of attractive actors and actresses, I just never really thought about it until now.
Mjölnir;35843209 said:It was a very epic and sprawling issue, which was great. Giving the big arc the title "The Death of the Mighty Thor" also raised the stakes immensely so I this really feels like one of the highlights of Aaron's run.
I hope his run has a magnificent Ragnarok payoff and that we'll get a Jason Aaron's Thor Omnibus in the future, so I can pair it with my now ordered Simonson one. t: