As a director, Taika Waititi is capable of handling major shifts in tone, switching gears from irreverent to tragic or silly to serious in the blink of an eye.
His fondness for balancing darkness with light has made some of his movies polarizing, whereas others have enjoyed almost universal praise.
Among the examples of the latter is “Ragnarok-2017-movie-posters/”>Thor: Ragnarok,” the 2017 film that turned the quirky Kiwi funnyman into a household name.Just about every story thread in “Ragnarok” mixes hilarity with sadness.
There’s Thor and Loki, whose ongoing squabbles are both very funny yet tragic in the face of their shared personal losses.
There’s Valkyrie, whose heavy drinking is played for laughs until the film reveals it’s a coping mechanism for her Ptsd.
Even Karl Urban’s Asgardian warrior Skurge, who starts off delivering a rib-tickling speech about the stuff he’s collected acting as guardian of the Bifröst Bridge, evolves
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