[Deadpool 2] Finally came.
"Xiao Jianjian" has opened up his usual tuberculosis mode, from his own X-Men to the opponent's DC universe, he can unceremoniously complain about it.
Humble spit: "You are so dark, are you sure it's not from the DC universe?"
Ganglishi took him to participate in the mission as a trainee soldier. He introduced himself when he came up and said:
"We are X-Men, a modern term used as a metaphor for racism in the 1960s."
Then I complained that X-Men was sexist and should be changed to "X-People". Later, I even taught the cords with bitterness, "You must judge a person by character, not by skin color."
At this moment, I'm afraid that the cable doesn't want to care about you, I just want to roll my eyes and give it to you.
Although the performance is a little bit exaggerated, [Deadpool 2] is really a "sand sculpture film" with roots in the consciousness of red and equal rights .
The connection between the X-Men and the racism of the 1960s is not groundless. The setting of the X-Men is really a microcosm of the black affirmative movement in the 1960s.
The original X-Men was born in 1963. Prior to this, Marvel’s Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, and Hulk had been very successful.
But Stan Lee suddenly wanted to be lazy. From another perspective, he used "gene mutations" to shape another super-British group. This is where the X-Men was born .
This year was also the year when the black affirmative movement was surging.
In May, Martin Luther King, the leader of the black affirmative movement , organized a large-scale protest in the southern city of Birmingham, which he called "the most severely segregated city in the United States."
On the first day, more than 500 blacks were arrested. Then, this inspired more than 2,500 blacks to gather in Birmingham on the second day and proceed to protest.
The famous old and stubborn police chief Eugene Connor, known as the "bull", chose to use the worst police dogs and fire hoses to deal with them.
The next day, the conscience of many whites was also awakened by a photo in the newspaper: a fierce big dog was rushing towards an unarmed black woman.
In August, Dr. Jin led a parade of 250,000 people from more than 30 states across the country and marched to the capital Washington.
They sang hymns and black hymns near the Congress, chanting "We will definitely win!" "Abolish the segregation of schools!" "A valid civil rights bill should be passed immediately."
It is here, in front of the Lincoln Memorial, that Dr. King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech:
I dream that one day this country will stand up and truly realize the true meaning of its creed: "We believe that these truths are self-evident: all men are created equal."...I dream of one day, my four children Will live in a country where they are judged not by their skin color, but by their character.
In the mighty crowd wave, the passionate, solemn, angry and tenacious black people, in this year, made a way for themselves and finally stood in the middle of the stage.
Going back, since the black people got rid of the bondage of slavery in the 1870s, they have never obtained equal civil rights.
At that time, the constitutions of the states set voting rights on poll taxes and literacy certificates, which actually deprived most blacks of the right to vote;
The Supreme Court’s jurisprudence has legalized the “segregated but equal” apartheid policy of the southern states and has prevailed for a long time.
They cannot share school with white people, and cannot enter waiting rooms, restaurants or even toilets used by white people.
Against this background, from the 1950s, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Little Rock Incident, Free Passenger Movement and other black people's struggle for racial equality had been staged like a drama, and finally reached a climax in the 1960s.
In 1963, after a long and hot summer, by the end of autumn, nearly 14,000 marchers had been imprisoned in the Southern Prison.
In '63, Stan Lee's mouth was "a good metaphor for what happened in the civil rights movement at the time", and the X-Men was born.
Many of the mutants in [X-Men] can be directly different from ordinary people in appearance:
"Beast" has thick hair and blue skin, "Angel" has wings, "Blue Devil" has fangs and tail...
Just like the black skin, it is intuitive and has nowhere to hide.
They are also subject to prejudice and discrimination from mainstream society.
In the [X-Men] True Story trilogy, members of Congress require mutants to register personnel, and mutant children and other human children are not allowed to enter the same school.
These are all the isolation and discriminatory treatment that black Americans received in those days.
And more importantly, the different camps and different ways of fighting that Professor X and Magneto chose are also projections of the black equal rights movement.
Professor X mirrored Martin Luther King Jr., who emphasized nonviolent resistance by "I have a dream." The prototype of Magneto is Malcolm X who chanted "We can't wait for freedom".
In the world of "X-Men", Professor X is a mutant leader from aristocratic background. He founded a mutant school to teach everyone to integrate into human society in a peaceful way.
His goal is also to create a beautiful world where mutants and humans coexist in harmony.
In the 1960s, for thousands of black Americans, Dr. King was undoubtedly the prophet who pursued racial equality.
In 55 years, an ordinary black woman named Rosa Parks in Southern State was arrested after refusing to give up her seat for a white passenger.
This incident finally triggered an outburst of anger that blacks had gathered for decades. Two days later, leaflets were everywhere, calling on all blacks to boycott buses.
This movement received the greatest support and solidarity from the local black churches. Among them, a young priest with a good reputation eventually became the leader of the movement.
This is Martin Luther King, also known as "Dr. King". He led everyone to refuse to take the bus, organized a car mutual aid group, organized and supported mass meetings, and delivered speeches, which was inspiring.
During this period, his house was bombed and he was arrested, but he has always stood at the peak of the movement. As a result, Dr. Jin became famous in one fell swoop and gained great popularity.
After that, he established the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and then led the black community to participate in the civil rights movement. He was featured in almost every exciting civil rights movement in the South.
Out of the Christian faith in "love", he believes in a "non-violent" way of resistance, and sit-ins, peaceful assemblies, and peaceful protests have become the labels of the Southern Movement.
Carry out "occupy seat" campaigns in segregated restaurants and libraries; carry out a "free passenger" campaign that provokes interstate segregation; boycott public transportation and refuse to spend on white shops...
The success of this series of actions, until the actual abolition of apartheid and the promulgation of the Civil Rights Act, was the success of Dr. King’s “non-violent” struggle.
The "X" of the X-Men means "unknown elements, mysterious", but if you make another interpretation, you have to go back to Malcolm X.
Malcolm's original name was Malcolm Little, and he declared his last name X, which originated from his hatred of white blood in his own bones.
His mother was a mixed race born after being raped by a white man. He once said that every black American of mixed race, looking back to the roots, may have been born in the belly of a black female slave who was raped by a white man .
Therefore, the original African surnames of blacks have been deprived. Before they get rid of the branded surnames imposed by whites, their surnames should be X.
The fashion inspired by Malcolm has not stopped. The T-shirts and hats with the word X have long been integrated into popular culture. It would not be surprising if the X-Men had this hidden meaning.
In the world of "X-Men", Magneto established the "Brotherhood of Mutants" to recruit abandoned and hunted down fellow mutants.
Their coexistence and communion goals are different from Professor X. What he wants is to build a world ruled by mutants.
[X-Men] In the movie, the phrase "whatever it takes" was quoted time and time again , which is from the mouth of Malcolm X.
Just like Magneto, who is in the opposite camp with Professor X, Malcolm X has always stood on the opposite side of Dr. King.
Malcolm's father was persecuted to death by the KKK, the white supreme ethnic group. Therefore, Malcolm did not believe in love and peace from the beginning.
He declared that "blacks are supreme, and whites are born evil", advocated the dignity of blacks and resolutely not compromised with whites.
He spoke everywhere, without taking a step back, advocating the most thorough fight against violence and racial discrimination against blacks in the United States:
The days of non-violent confrontation are over. If they think the KKK is non-violent, I will agree with non-violence, but as long as someone rejects non-violence, I don’t think anyone has the right to talk to me about non-violence.
Malcolm became the new hero of radical black youth, and the black struggle entered the stage of violent movement since 65 years.
It was also 65 years, three years earlier than Dr. King. He fell to the podium and three gunmen fired 15 shots at him.
At that time, he had just returned from the Hajj in Mecca, and his goal since then was not only to pray for African Americans, but also to fight for the equality of all races.
After all, the difference between the two leaders, Malcolm and Dr. King, lies in whether they can use violence. They have more in common than dissent.
Dr. King and Malcolm, one south and one north, one peace and one violence, jointly built the great revolution of the black civil rights movement in the 1960s.
And the X-Men, Professor X and Magneto, just like the "French Shark" who played Magneto said: "It is this split that makes their relationship more interesting and tragic."
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