It’s also worth remembering that the Grandmaster is no stranger to the Infinity Stones either, and he even has the ability to travel between time and dimensions (something omitted from Ragnarok). He also, as you’ve probably noticed, has a bit of a thing for games, and as a result is an ongoing antagonist for a lot of Marvel heroes, including the Avengers. The Grandmaster actually crops up fairly frequently throughout various Marvel comic series, and, along with the Collector (who first appeared in Guardians of the Galaxyin 2014) is part of a group called ‘The Elders of the Universe.’ Basically, he’s very old and very powerful. This element is somewhat aligned with the comic books, but there’s certainly a lot more to this character than that. In Ragnarok, the Grandmaster is depicted as the founder and leader of Sakaar, and father of the ‘contest of champions’, where gladiators are unwillingly pitted against each other in a fight to the death. But to understand why Goldblum is such a great casting choice for one of Marvel’s more eccentric characters (even by comic book standards), you have to go right back to the source material. But even after being warned to “prepare yourself” before being confronted with the Grandmaster on the screen for the first time, there was no real way for audiences to prepare for this particular spectacle. There’s no doubting that Goldblum was an inspired pick for the Grandmaster, and he’s exactly the type of eccentric, odd-ball character that Goldblum is skilled at playing. But one of the main features that sets Ragnarok far above its predecessors (and maybe even above all other films in the MCU – but that’s a discussion for another feature), is Jeff Goldblum’s skilled performance as the Grandmaster, the unhinged (yet strangely likeable) founding father of Sakaar. Injected with Taika Waititi’s quirky humour, Ragnarok far exceeded audience expectations even against the relatively low standards set by Thor (2011) and Thor: The Dark World (2013). To be clear, even without Jeff Goldblum’s fantastic performance as the Grandmaster, Thor: Ragnarok would still be a high-quality film by anyone’s standards. To celebrate Goldblum’s return as Ian Malcolm in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (out on 6th June), we’re going to take a look at just how he managed to rip the comic rug out from under Hemsworth’s feet in Thor: Ragnarok. Sporting dashing blue eyeliner, glamorous robes and an entirely apathetic attitude to killing people with a ‘melt stick’, there’s no denying that his scenes were the highlight of an already highly enjoyable film. Jeff Goldblum has been stealing scenes on silver screens for a long time now, and so it should come as no surprise that he was at it again in 2017’s Thor: Ragnarok as the eccentric Grandmaster.
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