Why is it so important to change Cyclops race if you are never going to act like it matters
Never said it wouldn't matter. I've already mentioned twice that it would factor into his story and serve as social subtext for the treatment of Native Americans. Would it be his defining character trait? No. But it would be part of his origin and it could inform how his outlook on certain things. And you can inject little quirks derived from his culture into scenes that wouldn't be "contrived" in canon as you put it.
It is an easy change to make Scott & Alex Alaskan natives
Is it not your point that it would mean so much for the Native American community to have a Cyclops who looks like them be represented?
Never said he'd be white-passing with only 1% Apache in him. I said he could still resemble Scott from the source material which can be interpreted many different ways.
Booboo Stewart and Taylor Lautner are both visibly not "white" & could still resemble comic Scott. it wouldn't be as jarring of a change as a dark-skinned black Cyclops as Bored Guy mentioned.
Even within the actual text (not even subtext) of that film itself the underlying attraction of not just the racial discrimination (Jewish/Black rights) but additionally the social ostracism of just being a teenager going through puberty are all equally important aspects of what make X-Men so universal.
Already acknowledged in my previous post to you
No one is arguing having diversity is not a good thing just whether race and gender bending are the way to accomplish it predominantly.
Some race-bending is going to be neccessary to tip the scales. No lead X-Men besides Storm are poc. Unless we're gonna have Christopher Muse taking up the spot Gambit used to occupy as a main X-Man because there is not infinite space.
If for some reason, they go with the O5 then gender-bending may also come into play
I'm sure you might have a good point in there somewhere but it is not very clear. You seem to assert that a black Spider-Man will obviously make money at the box office yet we can look at Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse as an indication otherwise as it too underperformed. That said, I love that film and it was critically lauded so too was considered a "good movie."
If Miles Morales was in the MCU and it was a live action film, it would have been a bigger deal and got more people's attention. Just like Captain America now being black will do.
Yes, Spider-Man is a hugely popular brand but that was an animated feature not a four quadrant blockbuster
Look there is no secret formula unfortunately. Even Disney has bombs so to use diversity in good films as your main argument is not a 100% guarantee of success either.
Of course not, but it's a factor that can contribute to success. Having more than one type of person represented in your film, in a meaningful way- will make more groups want to see the film. It's not the recipe to success, it's an ingredient. There's a reason why execs are pushing for more diversity in the market. They go where the money is.
Did you just forget the 90s and 80s with Generation X and New Mutants both having an extremely diverse cast?
I said
X-Men
Rambo did not have a progressive stance but a conservative one.
And nobody saw the film because nobody was interested in seeing another Rambo film.
Almost everyone? Movies, even movies with social commentary, are supposed to transport its audience into another world. This is a fictional tale not a documentary after all.
And you'd get that fantastical escape from the real world's boundaries with sprawling superpowered mutant battles, colorful costumes and badass technology.
But you aren't seeing an X-Men movie to escape from the
social reality of the real world i.e the "Heavy times" of today.
That's why Claremont's works are so timeless because he doesn't plant a timestamp directly on his work and they can be realized not just at a particular period in history.
. Right, hence why Claremont had Magneto come across MAGA stand-ins complaining about immigrants and then have his team free Mutant children from Detention centers held in Texas -- in a comic published in 2018. Hmm, I wonder if that has anything to do with the current political climate..
Not even mentioning X-Men: Red (2018) which saw Jean and her team of X-Men lead a group of mutant refugees fleeling persecution from their Government's military to seek asylum in Atlantis.
Nope, doesn't ring a bell at all.
There is no way to know that until the next film comes out.
Captain Marvel already came out. There was a huge smear campaign perpetrated by childish men in an attempt to derail the movie. It failed. There is nothing more to prove. Carol Danvers has been embraced by the general audience and she's going to be the face of the MCU going forward, whether they like it or not.
That is what you keep implying by saying you would would be fine with a Homecoming-like overhaul of the characters which is something I can't support.
But Homecoming had white characters. It was just a multi racial group of characters that perfectly represented what Queens, NYC looks like today.
So if it happened three times with random bloggers and youtube personalities then it is cause for national alarm?
Code Switch is an award winning Media organization site that specializes in topics of race and culture. The article I linked was their analysis of X-Men and how mostly-white, mostly straight mutants standing in for minorities in socially charged stories about discrimination & oppresion is disingenuous at best.
Not enough for you? Try Esquire's take on the X-Men
You're Overthinking the X Men
If your only refute to their sentiment is "Well, the X-Men aren't only a metaphor for racial, religious and sexual minorities" despite the fact that 80% of the dramatic conflict and relevance of the X-Men comes from these parallels and analogies. The dramatic conflict of 'Operation: Zero Tolerance' and 'Genosha' does not come, simply from a bullied kid in HS (Poc and LGBT are bullied all the time in HS btw so the Puberty metaphor can be applied there too). Yes, the mutant is also an analogy for Puberty and commencement into adulthood, but the racial, religious and sexual discrimination subtext is what comes into play after that fact and is what drives the conflict of this franchise.
I'm out if they do anything close to the disrespectfulness of many of those adapted characters that were in HC.
Well, I guess all you can do is hope that Feige doesn't follow the model that has already proven successful raking in billions of dollars for him. He's following it into Phase 4. So good luck with that
