"My people" early in the film, in the scene with the two old Nazis in Argentina, refers to the Jews, non-mutants and mutants alike; "brothers and sisters" at the end of the film refers to mutants, and only mutants, including two who helped Shaw kill a lot of people and were planning on mass murder on a global scale just moments ago.
I was really pleased by this inclusion. It feels like a very real callback to the first scene in which we learn that Erik is a Holocaust survivor - where he attempts to strangle Kitty by her Star of David and then has a moment of insight as to what he's doing and refuses to kill her. It still plays (30 years on) very much like he's not refusing to kill her because she was a mutant, but because he suddenly remembered he too, was/is Jewish.
One of the reasons I think a Genosha arc in the films could be very good is that it's a science fictional way to discuss some very real world issues we are all still dealing with. Of course fictional Magneto of the maybe-stateless, maybe-Israeli citizenship would be influenced by political Zionism enough to start his own mutant homeland. (And yes, I know Genosha was originally an apartheid metaphor but then again, look at the current state of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. So yeah.)
Unfortunately, I have pretty big doubts this would ever come to pass though I did like the take that 'Wolverine and the X-Men' had on it recently. (Did you watch that one?)
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Date: 2011-06-17 05:22 pm (UTC)I was really pleased by this inclusion. It feels like a very real callback to the first scene in which we learn that Erik is a Holocaust survivor - where he attempts to strangle Kitty by her Star of David and then has a moment of insight as to what he's doing and refuses to kill her. It still plays (30 years on) very much like he's not refusing to kill her because she was a mutant, but because he suddenly remembered he too, was/is Jewish.
One of the reasons I think a Genosha arc in the films could be very good is that it's a science fictional way to discuss some very real world issues we are all still dealing with. Of course fictional Magneto of the maybe-stateless, maybe-Israeli citizenship would be influenced by political Zionism enough to start his own mutant homeland. (And yes, I know Genosha was originally an apartheid metaphor but then again, look at the current state of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. So yeah.)
Unfortunately, I have pretty big doubts this would ever come to pass though I did like the take that 'Wolverine and the X-Men' had on it recently. (Did you watch that one?)