X-Men: First Class (2011) Rewatch and Thoughts.

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It's true black people were treated worse in the 60s, but appropriating the civil rights struggle from that era into the movie and then doing that and making the Angel a villainess seemed to be in poor taste.

Shaw seemed villainous to me, considering he was willing to cause the deaths of millions.

Appropriating wont be the word. check out this scene,

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Again another perfect example of social commentary and metaphors maybe even the best we had in the series in a subtle way,

magneto and xavier sitting on the steps of the lincoln memorial talking about if mutants will get equal rights after their efforts in the ussa and usa war. magneto is not yet convinced.

this scene has so much meaning in the world of xmen and the world of 1960s reality, since the movie takes place in the 60s. MLK gave his famous speech there of equal rights.

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when you say appropriation only because the fictional characters are not black although ignoring one is still jewish that survived world war 2 holocaust and it is xmen not mcu black panther, that won't truly count with objective criticism, the actual objective film criticism is honouring the civil rights struggles with a totally fictional group of characters who in their world are facing the same prejudice, that even gets more praise because. usually , this is not what we expect from a comic book movie ,as you said, we expect action mostly. first class was far more than that. it was deeper than the standard good fun superhero film.