WOLVERINE, THE, (2013)

WOLVERINE, THE. James Mangold, dir. Mark Bomback, Scott Frank, script. USA: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation presents, in association with Marvel Entertainment, Dune Entertainment, et al. (prod.) / 20th Century Fox (dist.), 2013. Stan Lee, exec. prod. (among other producers). Ian Gracie, supervising art director. François Audouy, prod. design. Isis Mussenden, costume design.

Female villain Viper weakens Wolverine by putting into his thorax and draining his heart an insectoid, vampiric device about the size of a small scorpion; cf. and contrast the device inside Neo in the first MATRIX film. Wolverine with his adamantium (sic) skelleton fights what appears to be a very large samurai robot made of adamantium, but which turns out to be a fighting suit cum survival suit, in the manner of R. A. Heinlein's or Joe Haldeman's fighting suits (although far more elegantly lethal than the military suits). See for mechanisms inside as both strengthening and malicious, and outside as protective containment for the wearer, but a threat to others. See for organism vs. mechanism, with organism favored, but Viper complicating the formula: she is a highly organic organic chemist, specializing in toxins but capable of using both very snake-like and mechanical (if insectoid in appearance) delivery systems. Significant movie for the theme of The Warrior and The Weapon in combination, from a very literal, and sympathetic, grizzly bear to Wolverine himself, to the snake-like viper, to variation of samurai and ninja.

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