frau kaleun
09-29-11, 09:40 PM
So I'm watching "Thor" with the director commentary on, and Ken Branagh (I call him "Ken" cuz we're tight like that :O:) makes a comment during one scene that piques my curiosity. It's the scene near the beginning where Thor's big day is interrupted by the Frost Giants trying to steal back their thingy what Odin took from them way back when. When they cut to the Hall of Weapons it shows the guards walking down past all the niches where different weapons and artifacts are kept, and Branagh mentions that they had fun by showing three things there that are not named or otherwise referred to in the story but which might be recognized by some sharp-eyed viewers who were adequately familiar with... either the Marvel Universe or the traditional mythic background of the Thor narrative, or both, I can't remember which it was. Anyhoo... I went back and looked at the three items in question and I'm ashamed to say, I got nothin' so I'm wondering if anybody here can identify them.
http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/2323/hallofweapons1.jpg
http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/9250/hallofweapons2.jpg
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/2531/hallofweapons3.jpg
He also commented on the item in the briefcase that Nick Fury shows to Dr. Selvig in the teaser that plays after the credits, something about it being a callback to something seen in the movie proper that was left behind after all the brouhaha and found by SHIELD. Fury talks about it possibly being a source of "unlimited power." So I'm trying to figure out what it is, but all I can come up with is that it's a still "active" piece of the Destroyer that Thor, er, destroyed on earth after he got his hammer back. :hmmm:
Edit: now that I look at it, that third thing in the HoW looks like maybe Odin tried to get a sooper dooper magical replacement eye made only the contractors got the scale wrong. :O:
Edit: OH WAIT is the thing in the briefcase in the end the insides of the Frost Giant's magic casket thingy? Did it fall to earth when the Bifrost was destroyed? Cuz Loki had it out there when Thor arrived and they fought and stuff. If Loki fell to earth and was stripped of his powers he might need to use someone else to get access to it. But if he's stripped of his powers would he have been able to do the "magic" necessary to get into Selvig's head like that? And appear like that at that end? If he was an ordinary mortal looks like that wouldn't be possible.
http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/2323/hallofweapons1.jpg
http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/9250/hallofweapons2.jpg
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/2531/hallofweapons3.jpg
He also commented on the item in the briefcase that Nick Fury shows to Dr. Selvig in the teaser that plays after the credits, something about it being a callback to something seen in the movie proper that was left behind after all the brouhaha and found by SHIELD. Fury talks about it possibly being a source of "unlimited power." So I'm trying to figure out what it is, but all I can come up with is that it's a still "active" piece of the Destroyer that Thor, er, destroyed on earth after he got his hammer back. :hmmm:
Edit: now that I look at it, that third thing in the HoW looks like maybe Odin tried to get a sooper dooper magical replacement eye made only the contractors got the scale wrong. :O:
Edit: OH WAIT is the thing in the briefcase in the end the insides of the Frost Giant's magic casket thingy? Did it fall to earth when the Bifrost was destroyed? Cuz Loki had it out there when Thor arrived and they fought and stuff. If Loki fell to earth and was stripped of his powers he might need to use someone else to get access to it. But if he's stripped of his powers would he have been able to do the "magic" necessary to get into Selvig's head like that? And appear like that at that end? If he was an ordinary mortal looks like that wouldn't be possible.