Post by charzhino on Oct 24, 2017 13:57:40 GMT
They barely mentioned the Holocaust so hows its exploitative. The opening to X1 is the most theyve ever used holocaust centric footage. Exploitative would be having Eric use the words Nazis, Jews, concentration camp, holocaust in all his arguments repeatedly on screen but its barely mentioned at all precisely because Fox dont want to overuse it and cause offense. A few momentary glimpses like the serial number on his wrist is all we get not on the nose stuff.
If Mutants were anything like what happened to Jewish people in the Holocaust, it would be. But the mutant thing is nothing like that, so it falls flat. The fear of mutants is based in logic, not how Nazis viewed Jewish people (it varied from Nazi to Nazi, plenty of them didn't care if they were Jewish and just wanted a scapegoat).
Nazis wanted a perfect race and exterminated Jews because Hitler viewed the Aryan race as superior and saw Jews as non-humans. He thought he was doing the world a favor. The issue with the X-Men is slightly different because the humans view mutants as a threat because of their capabilities. But in Erics mind the common denominator is he feels history repeating itself simply because of what he was born as. He was targetted simply for being born Jewish. Now hes being targetted for being born a mutant.
And before you say, yes humans have legimate threats to be scared. It might not be explicitly shown in the films but its natural. Humans are hostile to other new/foreign humans who are vastly different. History and present day prove this. Just look at the immigration debate in America and Europe from the influx of Muslims. If mutation actually produced people like in the Xmen in real life, its entirely natural to think humans would be concerened and mutants would eventually dominate through social evolution alone. As is implied in First Class/DOFP with Charles's Oxford thesis on homo Neanderthalis becoming extinct from the superior homo sapien - something Trask warns the commitee about but is laughed out of the room.