taika waititi sporting some sweet merch
Taika Waititi in Jeremy Renner’s Main Attraction Music Video
Anthony Hopkins in Thor wasn’t phoning it in I’ve seen him phone it in this was just him turning the ham up cause they told him he could be god and get paid a million dollars for it
Taika Waititi had to tell him he was too over the top could you imagine how hard he must have been going
#tru bros never let you live down that time you told anthony hopkins #to tone it down [starlingshrike]
“Why did I make this film? For kudos and followers on Twitter.” - Taika Waititi (x)
My prince.
Well cats and kittens, he’s done it again!! Or more accurately he’s just always been doing it, apparently. Boy is Taika Waititi’s 2010 feature, only his second. It tells the story of an 11-year-old Māori kid, the titular Boy, whose deadbeat ex-con father comes swanning back into his life after skipping off for nearly all of it. But to hear Boy tell it—and we do, with full-color visuals—his dad is the coolest thing since sliced bread and Michael Jackson put together, larger than life, and the only reason he hasn’t been in his son’s, is because he’s been too be busy having wild & wonderful adventures. To hear Alamein himself tell it, yeah that’s true. A chip off the ol’ block this kid.
So it’s a movie about identity, as you might imagine. And it’s Taika, so it’s honest and hilarious and full of kooky heart, a tender and clever and carefully made little film. It also, diverging from his others, deals more than a bit in magical realism, and I super want to talk about that, first by talking about a conversation I had last week with a coworker of mine.
The May Patreon Pick was Boy, and once again, my people are good, they’re good at this, a good movie.