Buffy ,'Lessons'
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Are all of Bryan Singer's movies gay? I don't think so.
Well, The Usual Suspects and Superman Returns weren't. I'd argue that his X movies used mutancy as a metaphor for the gay experience, and Apt Pupil was pretty damn slashy even before it was made into a movie.
I'd argue that his X movies used mutancy as a metaphor for the gay experience
Any more than for race?
Any more than for race?
Mutants tend to be in the closet.
Mutants tend to be in the closet.
Have you seen the Morlocks? Angel? Beast?
It would be odd to set up a narrative Malcolm X and MLK Jr. scenario and have it not be at all about race.
Have you seen the Morlocks? Angel? Beast?
Basically the drag queens of the mutantverse. Disinterested in passing.
I mean, really, that is the Morlocks function in their first appearance in the X-Men - to challenge the notion that mutants can/should assimilate.
Basically the drag queens of the mutantverse. Disinterested in passing.
Er, more like physically incapable of passing.
Er, more like physically incapable of passing.
Except Mystique.
I think the biggest difference between being gay and being black (as far as what mutancy is a metaphor for) is that most parents aren't surprised and disappointed to find out their kid is black.
The correlation to race is explicitly stated by writers, as is the Malcolm/Martin Luther thing. And since the positions of methods (by any means neccessary, etc) were designed to (and to me succeed in doing so) map to the civil liberties movements, I don't put homosexuality first.
I defintely see the MLK/Malcolm X thing. I think the movie can be both. To me the scene with Angel and the shears is all about trying to keep your parents from knowing the truth about you. Trying to cut away that part of you that doesn't fit in with society.