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I've really been enjoying reading about Taika Waititi and his approach to directing the new Thor movie. We had an interview with him earlier this week, and there's a nice Vanity Fair video where he breaks down his approach to a scene, which includes a lot of Waititi mocking himself.

I saw the movie over the weekend, and it really is pretty fun. In fact, the entire movie is structured around kind of just letting Waititi and the cast mess around — there's a quick setup of a villain at the beginning, a quick takedown at the end, and pretty much nothing of consequence in between. The whole middle of the movie is just one goofy, unrelated romp.

It's a structure that could easily be a mess — and it does leave the film with a weak villain — but...

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