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Otago Girls High School pupils (from left) Hannah Port, Mei Mackay, Elena Piere and Courtney Simpson, whose short film 'The Women's War' will be broadcast on Maori Television for the Anzac Short Film Festival. Photo by Linda Robertson. Making an award-winning short film recently not only taught four year-13 Dunedin pupils about cinematography, they also gained insights into the experiences of young women during World War 1.
Otago Girls High School history pupils Hannah Port, Mei Mackay, Elena Piere and Courtney Simpson (all 17) will be interviewed on Maori Television before their short film, The Women's War, is broadcast during Anzac Day commemorative programmes tonight.
The film-making process was rewarding but labour intensive. Research was carried out as an extracurricular project and filming took about two weeks. Digital editing, completed on the school's media-class equipment, took about 30 hours. The final version was just five minutes
long.
The film was shown during school assembly last Friday, when a plaque dedicated to Frances Anderson was unveiled. Miss Anderson was a former school pupil who died in Egypt while working as a nurse during World War 2.
Christian Bale's Gorr the God Butcher is Thor: Love and Thunder's villain, a tortured soul who resents the fact that the gods did not intervene to save the lives of his loved ones. Taika Waititi adapts Gorr's origin story from Jason Aaron and Butch Guice's Thor: God of Thunder #6, although he narrows the focus down solely to the relationship between Gorr and his dying daughter. It's a powerful, emotional introduction to the film, ensuring that viewers can fully understand Gorr's motivation.
While filming Thor: Ragnarok, Taika Waititi famously produced a number of shorts in which Thor Odinson lived with a roommate named Daryl (played by Daley Pearson). These aren't considered canon; they're deliberately omitted from the MCU timeline on Disney+. Surprisingly, Pearson reprises the role of Daryl in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo in Thor: Love and Thunder, where he plays a tour guide.
Taika Waititi revisits a trick from Thor: Ragnarok, with a group of actors putting on a show that sums up the last film's plot. Matt Damon, Luke Hemsworth, and Sam Neill return among the actors, reprising their own roles as Loki, Thor, and Odin, respectively. This time, they're accompanied by Melissa McCarthy in the role of Hela. It's easy to miss, but Ben Falcone, McCarthy's real-life husband and often director and co-star, appears during the curtain call.
The awkward reunion between Jane Foster and Thor sees them disagree over how long they've been split up. Jane guesses three or four years, but Thor has a much more precise count; "Eight years, seven months, and six days, give or take." There's a reason for the disagreement: Jane was among the people snapped out of existence in Avengers: Infinity War, meaning she "lost" five years before she was restored. This dialogue is key in placing Thor: Love and Thunder in the MCU timeline, suggesting the film is set in 2024 or 2025 given they had broken up by Thor: Ragnarok. It's also important in confirming Brandon T. Snider's novel The Cosmic Quest Volume II: Aftermath shouldn't be considered MCU canon, because according to that book Jane survived the snap.
The final battle between Thor and Gorr the God Butcher takes place at the very center of the universe, in a shrine dedicated to Eternity. The shrine features statues dedicated to some of Marvel's most powerful cosmic beings, including the Watcher (from Marvel's What If...?) and the Living Tribunal. A nearly omnipotent entity, the Living Tribunal was teased in the first Doctor Strange film (Mordo wielded the Staff of the Living Tribunal), while another statue in his honor was glimpsed in Loki. The Living Tribunal actually appeared in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it scene in which Stephen Strange and America Chavez blasted past him as they ricocheted around the multiverse.
The story of a battle between Māori gods, which occurs after the separation of the earth and sky. this animated film, based on a traditional myth of New Zealand's Māori people, captures the stylistic and symbolic elements of traditional Māori art.
"I had to reply to him immediately and say 'Wow, Michael, these films are something special. You've captured something in these films that I think the rest of New Zealand would be really interested in seeing."
"Michael captured some really, really important information from these guys. And they were at a time in their lives when they could openly share a lot of these things where previously they might not have. And Michael being a young innocent filmmaker, maybe they thought 'This is a time that I can open up.' Some of the things they say and the way they say them are really quite stirring."
Unlike previous years, the 2007 awards did not include a section for feature films, as the New Zealand Screen Director's Guild felt there had not been enough feature films released to "warrant a robust competition". Films produced in the 2007 eligibility period would be eligible for entry in the 2008 awards.[2]
A three-piece thrash metal band from Waipu, New Zealand, formed in 2010 by brothers Henry and Lewis de Jong, who named the band Alien Weaponry after watching the film District 9. The band consists of Lewis de Jong (b. 2002, guitar and vocals), Henry de Jong (b. 2000, drums), and since August 2020, bass guitar player Tūranga Morgan-Edmonds, who repaced Ethan Trembath (b. 2003). The great great great grandfather of Henry and Lewis, Te Ahoaho, lost his life in the battle of Pukehinahina. Maori is songwriter Lewis's first language and both he and Henry attended Kura Kaupapa Maori. The band has been performing in Te Reo since 2015.
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