Thor 058: So Thor’s the Sort Who Kicks a Guy When He’s Down?

<h2>Minute Fifty-Eight: From Coulson’s Entrance to Mjølnir’s Shadow</h2> <p>Joining us to discuss Thor’s fight tactics against the huge SHIELD agent and Mjølnir’s shadow are Andrew Darowski from Disney Animation Minute Essentials and Joe Darowski from The Protagonist Podcast.</p> <h3>In the fifty-eighth minute of <a href="https://trustory.fm/director/kenneth-branagh/">Kenneth Branagh</a>’s 2011 film <em>Thor</em>...</h3> <ul><li>Thor finally sees Mjølnir. Great dutch angle again as Thor swaggers on his walk to his hammer.</li> <li>But then he’s punched from out of nowhere by the huge SHIELD agent. But where did this guy come from? We just saw a wide shot and he wasn’t there. He would’ve had to be running in to get here.</li> <li>We try to figure out if there’s any rhyme or reason for the dutch angles in this film. We think it’s largely Branagh’s desire to make a film that looks like a comic book.</li> <li>Do that many comics have dutch angles in their frames? Andrew and Joe point out a few examples, including the comic Silver Age as well as the Batman TV show.</li> <li>Release the dutch cut! Ha!</li> <li>How many people understand what a dutch angle is? Is it a common bit of knowledge?</li> <li>There’s certainly a sense of love of dutch angles here, and we talk about them in relation to Orson Welles’ <em>The Third Man</em>.</li> <li>The huge SHIELD agent who punches Thor may just be the first person who can hold his own against Midgard-bound Thor without his powers. They really feel more on the same level.</li> <li>Unfortunately, we can’t figure out who plays the huge SHIELD agent. (Check back next week when we figure it out!)</li> <li>Thor’s cockiness remains as he seems excited to have to fight this big guy, who sadly is only known as ‘huge SHIELD agent,’ as we’ve been calling him.</li></ul> <h3>Thor and the huge SHIELD agent take the fight outside. Well, not intentionally.</h3> <ul><li>They end up bursting through the plastic wall of the hamster cage and land in the mud. Great mud wrestling fight!</li> <li>It’