New Wolverine spinoff movie Logan has enjoyed above-average reviews for a superhero action blockbuster and has generated over $250 million since it opened at the beginning of the month. <\/p>\n
You would have thought that the neo-western, which stars Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart, would be a big enough deal for the media as it is. <\/p>\n
But no. Donald Trump has to feature front and center of coverage about the latest X-Men spinoff. You see at the beginning of the film there is a fleeting shot of an imposing wall along the Texas-Mexico border. Logan also featuresa group of Mexican-American children trying to cross a border. <\/p>\n
NEWS ALERT! The border in the movie has no full wallandno character in Logan remotely resembles President Trump. <\/p>\n
But in the eyes of many, its a dystopian movie for these dystopian times in which a wall is glimpsed, so lets go to town with the Trump comparisons, however misplaced. <\/p>\n
Its worth pointing out the specious political comparison are not being driven byLogans director, James Mangold, and star Jackman. In fact Jackman told the BBCs Andrew Marr Show: I want to be really clear. All those things about the wall were all written into our script before all this stuff started to happen. <\/p>\n
Interviewing James Mangold, New York magazines Vulturewebsite headlined their piece: Logan Director James Mangold on Trumps Influence, the Films Last Line, and the Biggest Problem With Superhero Movies. <\/p>\n
Its [the plot] kind of a run from border to border, like a Huck Finn run in reverse, Mangold explained to Vulture writer Abraham Riseman. That seemed really logical to me. I didnt anticipate that Trump would win the presidency. So no influence at all from Trump then <\/p>\n
The urlfor theDaily Beastarticle about the movie reads: In Logan Hugh Jackmans Wolverine battles a Trump-esque deportation force. Aware that in fact actually he doesnt, there is no mention of Trump in the article by Melissa Leon. <\/p>\n
The X-Men characters have always possessed a knack for tapping into the zeitgeist (the comic book was an allegory for the civil rights movement). While they remain ahead of the curveborder issues and deportation are a big deal right nowhow canLoganbe an anti-Trump movie when it was written and filmed before he came to political prominence? <\/p>\n
Sooner or later parts of the liberal media will have to resolve portraying Trump as the most evil being on earth while relying on him as an unstoppable clickbait machine. <\/p>\n
Not even Logan in his prime could square that circle for them. <\/p>\n
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