X-Cruciating! Why is Liberal Media So Keen to Link Hit Blockbuster ‘Logan’ to Trump? – Heat Street

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.

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.

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.

NEWS ALERT! The border in the movie has no full wallandno character in Logan remotely resembles President Trump.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

Not even Logan in his prime could square that circle for them.

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X-Cruciating! Why is Liberal Media So Keen to Link Hit Blockbuster 'Logan' to Trump? - Heat Street