An actor's reference: Branagh had Tom Hiddleston study Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia and The Lion in Winter for Loki's emotional volatility.
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Thor
Thor: it draws on 3 recorded sources.
What influenced Thor
The works this one is recorded as drawing on.
Kenneth Branagh's Shakespearean approach: Tom Hiddleston played Loki as "a comic book version of Edmund in King Lear, but nastier".
Real-world influences
Events, places, movements and ideas outside fiction that this work is recorded as drawing on.
Mythology & Folklore
Real world
Real-world influenceHIGH
- Norse mythology
The film takes Marvel's version of the Norse thunder god, with Odin, Loki, Asgard, the Bifröst and the frost giants of Jotunheim, all drawn from the Norse myths behind the comic.