Here via marina! I enjoyed all of these thoughts! Because yes, Erik at the end of the movie is kind of, um, a leap from "I'm going to kill Shaw" to "DEATH TO ALL HUMANS." But of course the movie isn't pushing the reading of Shaw as a Nazi, it's all about Erik's personal revenge tragedy, and thank you for using the term "revenge tragedy," because it's perfect.
I find allegory to be a really dangerous interpretative or artistic style, because everything is not everything else. The particular is important, differences matter, and you can't collapse every distinct fucking set of issues into a generic plea for tolerance and some pabulum about how hatred is wrong. It's no coincidence that Charles and Erik find Darwin driving a cab and Angel in a strip club, okay, and the fact that they're mutants doesn't change what put them there. Which is one of the strongest arguments in favor of Charles' ideals, really, not that he could see it.
AND
Emma Frost is not as dumb as I had gathered, and nor is January Jones as bad an actress. I mean, I look at Emma and I think, "Oh, another smart woman who has made the best choices she could when the plot society is stacked against her and who doesn't believe the bullshit of the men around her!" I mean, she is a telepath, you guys! There is no way she doesn't know what a horrible piece of shit Shaw/Schmidt is and how much he doesn't give a shit about any of them.
I would like to marry both of these quotes. In New York!
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Date: 2011-06-25 16:13 (UTC)I find allegory to be a really dangerous interpretative or artistic style, because everything is not everything else. The particular is important, differences matter, and you can't collapse every distinct fucking set of issues into a generic plea for tolerance and some pabulum about how hatred is wrong. It's no coincidence that Charles and Erik find Darwin driving a cab and Angel in a strip club, okay, and the fact that they're mutants doesn't change what put them there. Which is one of the strongest arguments in favor of Charles' ideals, really, not that he could see it.
AND
Emma Frost is not as dumb as I had gathered, and nor is January Jones as bad an actress. I mean, I look at Emma and I think, "Oh, another smart woman who has made the best choices she could when
the plotsociety is stacked against her and who doesn't believe the bullshit of the men around her!" I mean, she is a telepath, you guys! There is no way she doesn't know what a horrible piece of shit Shaw/Schmidt is and how much he doesn't give a shit about any of them.I would like to marry both of these quotes. In New York!