X-Men: The Last Stand
X-Men 3 Politics
“The movie’s really about power, the use and misuse of power,” said X-Men: The Last Stand director Brett Ratner. “It’s really about a choice and it deals with alienation. Someone invented a cure for being a mutant and so they face a choice, whether to conform and become human, to one prejudice or they maintain their uniqueness or identity and their powers and embrace what makes them different.”
On the surface, it may seem like a no-brainer. Who would want to give up super powers? “Halle Berry, [Storm], why would she want to lose her power? She’s worshipped in her village in Africa for changing the weather. For Rogue, Anna Paquin, she’s never had contact with a human.”
If you haven’t gotten it by now, the mutant cure is a metaphor for current political hot button topics. “You can relate it to abortion, you can relate it to homosexuality. The question really has strong racial, political, social and sexual aspects of it. What if an African-American could take a pill and cure them of being black or if a gay could take something that would alter his sexuality. So those choices are really strong choices to make and we show both sides of it. The cure, some people feel that it’s going against nature, the same way people feel about abortion.”
The Last Stand also addresses more interpersonal issues, as it deals with the Dark Phoenix storyline. When Jean Grey comes back in a different form, her love triangle with Cyclops and Wolverine gets even more complex. “We wanted to make Dark Phoenix as psychological as possible. It’s a character driven franchise so it really has to be about the characters and the psychological journey of these characters. The Jean plot is about choice as well. That’s why I love it because when do you give up on somebody you love?”
X-Men 3: The Last Stand comes to theatres this weekend, May 26th.
For the trailers, clips, movie stills, posters, synopsis and movie info, go to
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