Thor 026: How Does Thor Turn Midair?

<h2>Minute Twenty-Six: From an Upside-Down Jotun Beast to a Right-Side Up Jotun Army</h2> <p>It’s a special week with a new guest each day! Today’s guest is Will Freeland from the Hype is my Superpower podcast. He’s here to talk about the fate of the Jotun Beast with us as well as our first view of Thor’s flight. But how does he do a midair turn?</p> <h3>In the twenty-sixth minute of <a href="https://trustory.fm/director/kenneth-branagh">Kenneth Branagh</a>’s 2011 film <em>Thor</em>...</h3> <ul><li>The Jotun Beast continues running along the ceiling of the crust of the surface as the ground gives way. How it does this we have no idea.</li> <li>But we also don’t really understand how such a thin surface stays up to begin with. Is it the chemical makeup of the ice on Jotunheim? We just have to write it off as something cool to look at but nonsense when you think about it too much.</li> <li>Kenneth Branagh directs the action really well, using all sorts of dutch angles, dark shots, god’s eye views, and more and has stayed consistent throughout this film. To that end, we’re okay with some of the nonsense of the Jotun Beast on the ceiling because the scene plays so well.</li> <li>We had never seen it before, but when Branagh cuts to the overhead of Sif running across the crumbling ice, you can actually see the Jotun Beast dart past her on the underside of the ice surface.</li></ul> <h3>We're calling this Bifrost Junction. It's the only logical name for it.</h3> <ul><li>The three of us debate about the spot where the Asgardians stop. It’s a cliff edge. Andy’s assumed it’s the spot where they arrived via the Bifrost. Why else would the filmmakers make it another cliff edge? Will debates that it’s likely just a distant spot where Heimdall will answer them when they call for him thinking they’re far enough from the danger, but it’s really hard to gauge.</li> <li>The runes aren’t here from the Bifrost, which we’ve seen on Midgard. Is that just a Midgard thing? or did it perhaps get covered up with snow? We’ll have to keep