And Kevin Feige called Winter Soldier a political thriller. People say a lot of things
Branagh's directed like 5 actual Shakespeare adaptation movies. He's acted in others. He comes from the stage in Britain. He's going to try to explain shyt from that lens of experience. Thor has familial squabbling/rivalry and struggles for power. That doesn't make it Shakespearean. If it did, I could cite Shakespeare for a ton of different films. In fact, there are arguments that have been made that every narrative since Shakespeare (books, poems, movies, tv shows) directly steals from something that he wrote. That's obviously not true. Trust, I'd laugh at Branagh if he said Thor was inspired by Beowulf, and that would be much easier to defend