Daily Dialogue — February 17, 2019

“This drink, I like it. Another!”

— Thor (2011), screenplay by Ashley Edward Miller & Zack Stentz and Don Payne, story by J. Michael Straczynski and Mark Protosevich, comic book by Stan Lee & Larry Lieber & Jack Kirby

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Coffee.

Trivia: This movie makes extensive use of actual Norse mythology (on which the “Thor” comic was based):

• The war between the Asgardians and the Jotunns was based on the Aesir-Vanir War (the Jotunns were, in fact, a non-hostile, non-antagonistic race).
• Odin’s ravens Huginn (thought) and Muninn (memory), who gather information in Midgard (Earth) and relay it to Odin, are sitting on his throne during Thor’s coronation ceremony.
• The symbol seen at the weapons vault, and on Mjolnir, is the triquetra, a religious symbol. Its ancestor is the valknut, a German symbol associated with Odin.
• The Bifrost, originally thought of as the rainbow by the Norse, is seen as a beam of rainbow light.
• Heimdall’s golden observatory is based on the Himinbjorg, Heimdall’s home.
• When Odin appears in Jotunheim, he is riding his eight-legged horse Sleipnir.
• A Jotun calls Thor a “little Princess”, once Thor’s hammer was stolen, and he dressed up as the love goddess Freya to go back and retrieve it.
• Fandral and Thor each describe Loki as mischievous and a talented liar, an homage to Loki’s titles as the god of mischief and lies.
• Thor asks for a cat to ride. Thor’s mother Frigga has her chariot pulled by two large blue cats.
• Thor shows Jane a drawing of crossroads with nine orbs in it, his perception and representation of Yggdrasil, a great tree around which the nine worlds are tethered, making up the universe.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Conclusive evidence that Norse superheroes enjoy caffeinated beverages.