DEADPOOL 2

DEADPOOL 2. David Leitch, director. Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Ryan Reynolds, script, based on the Marvel comics by Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza. USA: Donners' Company, Kinberg Genre, Marvel Entertainment, Maximum Effort, Twentieth Century Fox (production) / Twentieth Century Fox (US distribution), 18 May 2018. Run-time ca. 119 minutes. See IMDb for details of world-wide distribution.[1] Recut as a PG-13 movie ONCE UPON A DEADPOOL with a complexly referential frame parodying THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987), [2] released 12-24 December 2018, also with an approximately 119-minute run-time, depending on how one counts the intercuts with the credits and post-credit tribute to Stan Lee.[3]

Note Josh Brolin's Cable as a super-badass soldier-cyborg from the future; cf. and contrast, among others, Barry Dylan[4] in the Archer TV series[5] and emphatically compare and contrast the various Terminator robots that can pass for human; Cable is definitely and visibly a man-machine combination (with emphasized high-tech prosthetic arm and "twinkle" in the eye, hinting at a high-tech prosthesis). Note also the reductio ad finem (for now) of the battletruck motif with the huge truck used to transport superpowered mutant prisoner (wearing disempowering collars), for an image of collared humans (more or less) within plastic cells on a heavy-metal, Industrial truck suitable for transport in a cyberpunk dystopia, which DEADPOOL is not, although in good satiric fashion it mixes in some dystopic imagery ("satire": probably from satura, a medley, hodge-podge).[6]

The satura of ONCE UPON A DEADPOOL is less science-fictional than its core of DEADPOOL 2, but the scenes with Cable and the prisoner-transport truck are there and arguably more striking in a somewhat trimmed version of DEADPOOL 2 as such; so seeing either version is fine for the material relevant for Clockworks 2.

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Cancer-ridden Deadpool fighting cyborg Cable and, perhaps more so, the metallic Colossus, is a strong image of the relatively soft, highly vulnerable organic vs. the inorganic (and mechanical and cybernetic).

RDE, Initial Compiler, 18May18, 17Dec18; 15Nov21