THOR: THE DARK WORLD (2013)

THOR: THE DARK WORLD (2013). Alan Taylor, dir. Christopher L. Yost, Christopher Markus, and Stephen McFeely, script, from the story by Don Payne and Robert Rodat, based on the comic book by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, and Jack Kirby. Charles Wood, prod. design. USA: Marvel Entertainment (presents) and Marvel Studios (prod.) / Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (almost all dist.), 2013.

The Variety review of THOR [2] notes "its goofily offhand way of finding scientific explanations for blatantly supernatural phenomena", in dialog and visuals; significant here is the parallel weird way supernatural … stuff is handled through visuals of things technological: machines and structures of the po-mo, cyberpunk, heavy Industrial — VikingPunk? — variety. Insofar as one takes the images seriously, THOR [2] presents a kind of variation on A. C. Clarke's Third Law, whereby any sufficiently advanced, alien, and ancient technology is indistinguishable from the Mythic.

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