True, Erik's mental health is very likely affected by the long isolation, but he seems quite together on the plane with Charles. Also him going megalomaniac kinda puts in doubt the sensibility of breaking him out of prison in the first place. Like, Charles & co. could have gone ahead and sorted it out with Raven.
Re: the use of history in the second X-Men film series, I found this article on the series' marketing strategy, which also touches on the topic: http://www.dailydot.com/geek/x-men-movie-marketing-websites/. Now that you mention it, a compare and contrast with Captain America franchise, which is also drawn heavily from history, will be interesting.
I personally find the use of historical events in the new X-Men rather crude (the decision by both the US and the Soviet Union to fire the missiles in First Class is really heavy-handed in rushing the conflict between Charles and Erik). But being Vietnamese (though I study and work abroad), I do have an instinctive chill in seeing Havok being sent to the battlefield because it's been basically hammered into me how horrible the war was. So I guess it's effective.
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Re: the use of history in the second X-Men film series, I found this article on the series' marketing strategy, which also touches on the topic: http://www.dailydot.com/geek/x-men-movie-marketing-websites/. Now that you mention it, a compare and contrast with Captain America franchise, which is also drawn heavily from history, will be interesting.
I personally find the use of historical events in the new X-Men rather crude (the decision by both the US and the Soviet Union to fire the missiles in First Class is really heavy-handed in rushing the conflict between Charles and Erik). But being Vietnamese (though I study and work abroad), I do have an instinctive chill in seeing Havok being sent to the battlefield because it's been basically hammered into me how horrible the war was. So I guess it's effective.