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Chapter 698: Satisfactory Results

The plot of "Thor" is not complicated. It tells the story of the God King Odin having two sons, Thor and Loki.

Thor was reckless, impulsive and arrogant. Under the instigation of Loki, he arbitrarily launched a war with the Frost Giants, and was thus banished to Earth by Odin.

After losing his divine power, he made a lot of jokes on Earth and met Jane Foster, Eric Shavig, Daisy Lewis and a research team.

At the same time, SHIELD also noticed the Thor's hammer thrown by Odin, and Nick Fury and Agent Coulson, who appeared in "Iron Man" and "The Incredible Hulk", also appeared.

At the same time, this work also introduces another superhero, Hawkeye 'Critter Barton', played by Jeremy Renner.

Loki took advantage of the fact that King Odin was exhausted and unconscious to seize the throne. In order to prevent Thor from coming back and posing a threat to himself, Loki chose to cooperate with the Frost Giants.

He also released the Destroyer to destroy Thor on Earth. In order to protect Jane Foster and a group of friends, Thor faced the Destroyer alone, was recognized by Thor's hammer, and restored his divine power.

He returned to Asgard and defeated his brother Loki, and had to destroy the Rainbow Bridge to protect Asgard.

Loki fell into the endless star field, and Thor broke his promise to Jane Foster, but he was finally recognized by Odin and became a qualified Thor.

This story can be said to be a model play, and it seems that it can be applied to any superhero.

It is nothing more than a process of being arrogant in the early stages, encountering setbacks, then falling to the bottom, and rising again after growth.

Almost all superhero movies are basically of this template, there is no other, even Gilbert Jr.'s "The Dark Knight" is no exception.

However, "The Dark Knight" is more advanced in its technique. Even in the end, the question of who wins and who loses between the Joker and Batman will still make movie fans debate endlessly.

Although it is a model play, Thor tells a new superhero story after all. People who don't pay attention to comics don't know much about this superhero before.

In the cinema market, the film still achieved some success, earning $4256 million in the first three days of the weekend, which is quite good for a Thor movie without big stars.

Kevin Feige was relieved because of the very good first-week box office. He was under great pressure and carried all the hopes of the company.

Although Gilbert Jr. has repeatedly assured, if "Thor" fails, the market will lose confidence in Marvel Studios' rescue, which is not the result Kevin Feige wants.

Many media magazines also gave positive reviews. Empire magazine commented: "This is a work that restores Marvel's standards. They introduced a new hero this time, sweeping away the haze of The Incredible Hulk."

The Hollywood Reporter said: "Kenneth Branagh succeeds in making this film accessible, coherent and engrossing.

He took something that could have easily been silly and made it into a big, epic, visually intense superhero movie.”

Kayla Watney, a critic for the Los Angeles Business Journal, praised it: "Thor is not a groundbreaking film, but it is a satisfying and entertaining big-screen superhero movie."

Director Kenneth Branagh said in an interview: "During the entire film production process, Gilbert Jr. provided me with a lot of help.

From the script setting to the casting, as well as the shooting and post-production, he took care of every detail, which helped us complete the film very well.”

The film's lead actor, Chris Hemsworth, transformed himself from a miner into a movie star with the help of this film. He was quite excited when talking about this interesting experience.

"I'm a newcomer, and I'm very excited to be starring in such an exciting movie right from the start. When I first got the script, I read it seven times, imagining what it would be like to play Thor. I'm very grateful to Director Gilbert Jr. for his insight and choosing me at first sight."

Megan Fox said it was very complicated: "I have been through a lot in the past period of time, but fortunately everything is over. I believe that things will get better and better in the future."

Tom Hiddleston revealed that he will continue to star in Marvel movies in the future: "As far as I know, my character will appear in Marvel movies in the future.

I don’t know how it’s going to happen, that’s what they told me, and I’m looking forward to continuing to be in Marvel movies.”

Of course, Thor has also been criticized, most of which is that it is too comedic, with gags and jokes deliberately inserted.

Some film critics even commented that "Thor" successfully lowered the bottom line of superheroes and became like a B-grade shit and piss comedy.

But no matter what, the audience actually likes this movie quite a lot. The 7.5 points on IMDB is enough to prove that this movie is a qualified commercial film.

Under such circumstances, the second brother of "Thor" continued to win the weekly box office championship with a box office of 2533 million US dollars over the weekend.

With the $1520 million earned by the studio and the first-week box office, the North American box office has reached 8309 million. It doesn't seem like a lot, after all, now the top blockbusters can break million in the first week.

But for a superhero movie with a weaker cast and not as well-known as Superman, Batman and Spider-Man, this result is actually quite good.

Since the third weekend, Thor has been released in many overseas countries and markets. However, the overseas response was mediocre. Although it has gorgeous special effects, not every audience is interested in special effects.

In its first week of overseas release, Thor only earned $5574 million in overseas box office. At this time, the North American box office further declined, earning $1808 million in a week, and the total North American box office reached $1 million.

Including overseas box office, the total box office of "Thor" reached 1 million US dollars, which is still a long way from recovering the cost.

Gilbert Jr. thinks that Thor will make a small profit at the box office. But for Marvel, this is enough.

As long as the box office can recover the investment, or even make a small profit, that's enough. Gilbert repeatedly emphasized to Marvel executives that they should not care about the gains and losses of a movie, but should consider the overall situation.

Now many viewers already know that there is a superhero like Thor, and that is enough.

The same goes for "Captain America". Compared to the new-age superheroes, Steve Rogers is undoubtedly an old hero, an outdated one.

But his story must be told, otherwise the audience would be surprised if Steve Rogers suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

Although it is called "Captain America", Scarlett Johansson's role as the Black Widow Natasha Romanoff will actually have a lot of scenes. This movie actually tells the origin story of two superhero movies.

From this perspective, only Hawkeye (Critter Barton) is a little miserable, because he was an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. as soon as he appeared in "Thor".

Perhaps in the future, a series could be developed to tell the story of Hawkeye before and after he joined S.H.I.E.L.D. Of course, it would be best if Jeremy Renner was willing to play Hawkeye in the series.

As for producing and directing a movie, to be honest, Hawkeye is not qualified.

(End of this chapter)