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.
I wanna die in bed surrounded by fat grandchildren, but guess that's off the menu.
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§ ita § - Jul 03, 2007 7:42:52 pm PDT #9849 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
DavidS - Jul 03, 2007 7:58:55 pm PDT #9850 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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.
Polter-Cow - Jul 03, 2007 8:17:38 pm PDT #9851 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Basically the drag queens of the mutantverse. Disinterested in passing.
Er, more like physically incapable of passing.
DavidS - Jul 03, 2007 8:30:52 pm PDT #9852 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Er, more like physically incapable of passing.
Except Mystique.
Laga - Jul 03, 2007 8:40:18 pm PDT #9853 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
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.
§ ita § - Jul 03, 2007 9:53:22 pm PDT #9854 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Laga - Jul 03, 2007 9:59:08 pm PDT #9855 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
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.
Sean K - Jul 03, 2007 10:30:15 pm PDT #9856 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I have just printed out tickets for tomorrow for Ratatouille at the El Cap.
I love the digital age.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 04, 2007 1:21:44 am PDT #9857 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Well, I didn't mean that it wasn't used as a metaphor for anything else. But Bobby's conversation with his parents in X2, for example, strikes me as far more a gay metaphor than a racial one. And though it's more subtle, likewise Rogue's discovery of her power as a sexually awakening teen, the resultant shame and issues about romantic interaction, and the trope of fleeing home to build a new family among friends.
Tom Scola - Jul 04, 2007 1:55:29 am PDT #9858 of 10001
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Other SF movies:
Play It Again, Sam. One of the few Woody Allen films of the period shot outside of the NYC area, because the NY film crew was on strike.