X-Men: First Class, hailed as a "summer blockbuster good," traces the origins of a legion of young mutant superheroes racially charged back to the years of the 1962nd X-Men comics, such as the popular film is based, has been described mutants that were homosexuals, Jews and blacks to join their marginalization in the grand narrative mutants-as-marginalized. But in X-Men: First Class, super-hero fighting bigotry and prejudice are all white. The black mutant? Let's just say it meets a Hollywood cliche destiny. Given the acute relevance of civil society the film rights to control the time, the filmmakers blow it with "clear" X-Men?
X-Men: First Class is disconcerting "blind to race": The film mutants are so white "as the Eagle Scouts of Mayfield, says Ta-Nehisi Coates at The New York Times. And they are supposed to be" courageous and cons prejudice and fear? Not only is First Class blind to race, it is "blind to his own time." Here is a film that "in times of Ella Baker and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.," and " strongest opponents of apartheid is a dramatically lit white guys team. "
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In fact, it's a movie because of the race: The race-specific mutants do not care, "said Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch in the Los Angeles Times, because the end is a film about" how to thrive as a community. "Americans are more tolerant and diverse than ever, and do not identify as" black or white. "Instead," we delight in our crossbreeding and hybridization in progress. "Mutants to understand social reality and social aspirations" of 2011 in the United States. "Make no mistake. What we are up there on the screen
"We're all X-Men in a multicultural world"
Let us not mutants, like the allegory of a minority too far while the votes are white, the film is obviously trying to draw parallels between his "protagonist mutants", and the real life of ethnic minorities, has Kevin Marshall said on Times Union. But his attempt to equate the fate of mutants fighting to minority groups like blacks and Jews "rings hollow" because the plot of X-Men ". Deals with these groups so disdainful" First Class
