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some_stars) wrote2011-07-17 08:57 pm
some_stars) wrote2011-07-17 08:57 pm
any day now I will start on the comics, and you will never hear from me again
I'm distracting myself from...everything with a new vid or two, as I tend to do, this time two ideas using all the X-Men movies, and I found another way that First Class has done weird creepy things to the first two (okay, I'm going to have to use at least a little X3 in these vids probably, but I nonetheless refuse to admit it actually exists). It's in the first movie, when they're all looking at Logan's x-rays or MRI scans or whatever, at his adamantium skeleton, and Xavier murmurs, "Experimentation on mutants...it's not unheard of." Not unheard of! You don't say.
And then through the whole movie and of course X2, Logan's memories and flashbacks, the way he experiences them in little fragments and dreams--all of a sudden there are PARALLELS, which of course were never intended to be there. Really I prefer the X1/X2 version of Magneto's backstory, because the First Class version is both a really lazy way to beef up the analogy and by doing so make it no longer an analogy but just an equality (a false equality that deeply distorts the reality of the Holocaust), and also it smacks of "well, sure, he's a Jew who lived through the Holocaust and both his parents were killed in a camp when he was just a child, but it needs something more." Which is totally gross. BUT--it does lead me to the place I'm in now where I want massive amounts of XMFC-verse fic and/or vids comparing his experience with Logan's in these movies. I mean, the first movie flirts with it a tiny bit, with the shot where Magneto's looking at the Wolverine dogtags in his hand and the camera pans down to the tattoo on his forearm. But XMFC makes it impossible not to think about.
Also and unrelatedly, I discovered the X1 deleted scenes for the first time ever despite having owned this DVD for five years and just rewatched it a couple weeks ago. And it would have been such a better movie if they'd left nearly all of those in, I don't know what they were thinking. Of course it was pre-LOTR and action movies had to keep well under two hours, but STILL.
And then through the whole movie and of course X2, Logan's memories and flashbacks, the way he experiences them in little fragments and dreams--all of a sudden there are PARALLELS, which of course were never intended to be there. Really I prefer the X1/X2 version of Magneto's backstory, because the First Class version is both a really lazy way to beef up the analogy and by doing so make it no longer an analogy but just an equality (a false equality that deeply distorts the reality of the Holocaust), and also it smacks of "well, sure, he's a Jew who lived through the Holocaust and both his parents were killed in a camp when he was just a child, but it needs something more." Which is totally gross. BUT--it does lead me to the place I'm in now where I want massive amounts of XMFC-verse fic and/or vids comparing his experience with Logan's in these movies. I mean, the first movie flirts with it a tiny bit, with the shot where Magneto's looking at the Wolverine dogtags in his hand and the camera pans down to the tattoo on his forearm. But XMFC makes it impossible not to think about.
Also and unrelatedly, I discovered the X1 deleted scenes for the first time ever despite having owned this DVD for five years and just rewatched it a couple weeks ago. And it would have been such a better movie if they'd left nearly all of those in, I don't know what they were thinking. Of course it was pre-LOTR and action movies had to keep well under two hours, but STILL.