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Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE (born December 31, 1937) is a Welsh and American actor, film director, and film producer. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a British Academy Television Award. He has also received an honorary Golden Globe Award and the BAFTA Fellowship from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In 1993, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the arts, and in 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his achievements in the motion picture industry. After graduating from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 1957, Hopkins trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and was then spotted by Laurence Olivier who invited him to join the Royal National Theatre in 1965. Productions at the National included King Lear, his favourite Shakespeare play. His last stage play was a West End production of M. Butterfly in 1989. In 1968, Hopkins achieved recognition in film, playing Richard the Lionheart in The Lion in Winter. In the mid-1970s, Richard Attenborough, who directed five Hopkins films, called him "the greatest actor of his generation." In 1991, he portrayed Hannibal Lecter in the psychological horror film The Silence of the Lambs, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor. He reprised the role in its sequel Hannibal and the prequel Red Dragon. Other notable films include The Elephant Man (1980), 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), Howards End (1992), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Shadowlands (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994), Meet Joe Black (1998), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Thor (2011), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), and Thor: Ragnarok (2017). He received four more Academy Award nominations for The Remains of the Day (1993), Nixon (1995), Amistad (1997) and The Two Popes (2019) before winning a fourth BAFTA Award and a second Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of an elderly man diagnosed with dementia in The Father (2020), becoming the oldest Best Actor Oscar winner to date. Since making his television debut with the BBC in 1967, Hopkins has continued to appear on television. In 1973 he received a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance in War and Peace. In 2015, he starred in the BBC film The Dresser alongside Ian McKellen. In 2018, he starred in King Lear opposite Emma Thompson. In 2016 and 2018, he starred in the HBO television series Westworld, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
Thor Odinson is not a superhero like Spider-Man or Daredevil. He doesn't catch criminals. His mission is to save the declining human society. He doesn't owe his powerful powers to a mutation or a machine, but was banished from Asgard (a parallel dimension separate from our world, based on Seva mythology) and he himself is the incarnation of an Asgardian (but he says he's a Norse god so he doesn't have to explain his complicated origins everywhere ). Thor was a mighty warrior. It took his father, the Asgardian ruler Odin a long time to bring peace to his realm. The coronation of Thor is interrupted by the invasion of the ice giants, who are trying to get the box, they want to conquer the nine worlds with it. They fail and are buried alive as punishment. Thor wants revenge, but Odin refuses the attack. Thor disobeys Odin's order and Loki provoked him into a punitive expedition. However, Odin is not going to tolerate his behavior any longer. He strips him of all his godly powers and as punishment banishes him to earth, like Donald Blake, the limping surgeon, to learn humility. The rejected Thor despises people at first, but gradually they start to get under his skin, especially the lovely scientist Jane Foster. But Thor is not allowed to enjoy earthly peace. The new situation decides to use his younger brother Loki, who begins to prepare a betrayal. He's never had a better opportunity to destroy Thor than now, so he decides to unleash his trusty destruction on Asgard and Earth.
