X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (2011)

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS. Matthew Vaughn, dir., co-script (with three others). Sheldon Turner and Bryan Singer, story, based on the Marvel characters. USA: Bad Hat Harry Productions, Marvel (main prod.) / 20th Century Fox (dist), 2011. See IMDb for complex details .

See for relatively brief but possibly significant scene of Professor X (still Charles Xavier) wearing prototype of what will become his telepathy helmet, connected to a visible radar dome and (in the fiction) the radar device within. See generally for high-tech, including implausibly high-tech, weapons and other gadgets juxtaposed to or surrounding mutants and others of biological interest — combined with occasional suggestions of the supernatural (esp. Azazel, in some lores the Angel of Death, and certainly demonic in this incarnation). CAUTION—and alert for students of pop culture: For what in some moments tries to be an anti-sexist film, FIRST CLASS includes some oddly gratuitous and just odd misogynistic images and a willingness to display the female body unmatched by "beefcake" that might balance it a bit and (possibly) widen the audience. Whether unconscious or conscious (and commercial?), these are decisions worth study.