What We Do in the Shadows is an amazing movie, and he has become a douchebag. Both things are compatible.
I don't think he's inherently a bad person. But modern left has become some kind of pseudo-religious cult. Some people are more vulnerable to religious thought, and the result is those people (who aren't really bad) end up behaving like jerks because their faith justifies it.
Do you think that Muslims that go in a religious killing spree (and that happens almost every day) do that because they wake up saying 'oh, I'm bad, I'm so bad!!'? They do because they have a system of beliefs that justifies the use violence to spread their faith. They do because they believe they're doing the right thing.
Something similar happens with Waititi: he surely thinks that he's doing the right thing when he behaves like a jerk. I'm deadly serious.
There's people who are born jerks. And there's people who are strongly religious, and they try to do their best... but they just happen to follow a toxic religion, like most of Islam, or some ultra orthodox branches of Christianity, or Judaism or Confucianism, or the radical modern Left. In the case of Waititi, if it weren't for this modern Left pseudo-religion that has invaded Western World, I'm sure he would be quite a nice dude.
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Poozer91 (605)
5 years ago
How has he become a douchebag? I have never heard of him doing anything wrong and his movies are mostly solid. The only thing I don't agree with is getting Natalie Portman back in the Thor series after hearing the way she behaved and treated the team on Thor: The Dark World.
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Jinx (3721)
3 years ago
How did Natalie Portman treat the team on Thor: The Dark World? I haven't heard, I can't really picture her being too awful to anyone.
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Poozer91 (605)
3 years ago
She heavily campaigned to get Patty Jenkins as the director, but when Jenkins left due to creative differences, Portman became angry with Marvel and threatened to pull out of the film. She eventually stayed but refused to do any publicity for the film and gave the bare minimum in terms of performance. She also refused to return for reshoots. When Thor kisses Jane at the end of the film it is actually Chris Hemsworth's real wife Elsa Pataky, wearing a wig and shot at an angle where we cannot see her face. So I was not surprised that they ditched her character in the third movie. But, to be fair Thor: The Dark World is by far the worst movie that has any of the Avengers in it.
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Jinx (3721)
3 years ago
Thanks for sharing the info! I Love the Thor films, but mostly for Loki because the Character is fun, I never really liked Jane. I thought Natalie Portman did a fine job I just didn't feel much of a connection with Thor -Jane. I thought that Ragnorok was great and didn't miss Jane at all, I was glad that they didn't have to shoehorn her in like they usually do with the romantic elements of Marvel movies.
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