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Mar 3, 2024 · Taika Waititi's films often mix comedy and drama. Waititi believes that putting happiness on-screen is a worthy challenge, and that comedy is underrated. As he told The Guardian in 2019, comedy can be used to disarm audiences, and convey "more profound" messages. "Comedy is a way more powerful tool than just straight drama, because with drama ...
Feb 13, 2015 · What We Do in the Shadows: Directed by Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi. With Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, Jonny Brugh, Cori Gonzalez-Macuer. Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav are vampires who are struggling with the mundane aspects of modern life, like paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate conflicts.
Nov 17, 2023 · Taika Waititi’s “Next Goal Wins” concerns the quest of a historically bad national soccer team, the 2011 American Samoa men’s squad, in their struggle to qualify for the FIFA World Cup after an infamous 31-0 drubbing against Australia. “Next Goal Wins,” inspired by a 2014 documentary of the same name, is a sports movie that delights ...
Nov 3, 2017 · It led to a meeting in 2010 with Waititi's future leading man, Chris Hemsworth. According to Hemsworth, it was an "awkward sort of first date"—the first time an actor had sought Waititi out ...
Feb 12, 2020 · The morning after the Academy Awards, Taika Waititi — the winner of the adapted screenplay Oscar for “Jojo Rabbit” — is drinking a Pedialyte. But however hungover the filmmaker might be ...
Nov 4, 2021 · After making his mark on the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Taika Waititi is diving into a new comic book world. The filmmaker is attached to direct and co-write a feature adaptation of The Incal, the ...
Jul 5, 2022 · 2. He is the son of a Jewish mom and a dad from the Te Whānau-ā-Apanui Māori people. (Māori are the indigenous people of New Zealand.) Via Ted Talks. “I come from New Zealand, and I come from these two people, who met in the early ’70s,” Waititi explained during a Ted Talk. “The woman is Robin. She’s of Russian-Jewish heritage ...
