These Marvel Studios movies look so good we could watch them on mute
Thor: Ragnarok
With Thor: Ragnarok, it’s all about homage. Each of these movies has had a unique struggle for its designers and artists, and for the Lord of Thunder’s third outing, it was getting the visual styles of previous Thor and MCU movies to mesh with the disparate styles of Norse mythology, epic album art from heavy metal classics, and Jack Kirby’s colorful characters and worlds.
Kirby is one of the founding fathers of the Marvel universe and so his influence is inevitably somewhere in every Marvel film, but Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige said that Ragnarok is a “direct translation†of Kirby’s work meant to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the influential artist’s birth.
“We really wanted [Thor: Ragnarok] to be an unabashed love letter, and a film by Taika [Waititi],†Feige said speaking to ScreenRant. The team would consult Kirby’s artwork throughout the design process, and Waititi would push for closer parallels to that art, Feige said. That’s what got us the over-the-top world of Sakaar, looked over by Jeff Goldblum’s colorful Grandmaster. It’s arguably one of the best destinations we’ve seen the MCU hit, right up there with Wakanda and Ego, if not surpassing them.
But then the story takes us back to Asgaard where Hela looks to snag the power of the gods for her own. Here, we see the huge wolf Fenrir taking on Hulk, Thor leaping into a horde of draugr as lighting crackles around him (set perfectly to Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Songâ€), and Surtur bursting forth from the depths of Asgaard to rend it to pieces with his gigantic molten blade. One after another, we get these shots that combine the heroism of Marvel characters, the headbanging coolness of metal albums, and the colorful lightness of Taika Waititi’s visual style. Before you underestimate his influence on the visual style of the movie, check out the twitter account devoted specifically to his fashion.
Article source: https://www.technobuffalo.com/2018/03/24/mcu-most-visually-impressive-movies/