Posted on 01/23/2019 6:28:39 AM PST by Red Badger
Over the past two decades, Bryan Singer’s films—The Usual Suspects, Valkyrie, Superman Returns, four of the X-Men movies—have earned more than $3 billion at the box office, putting him in the top tier of Hollywood directors. He’s known for taking risks in his storytelling: It was Singer’s idea, for instance, to open the original X-Men movie with a scene at Auschwitz, where a boy uses his superpowers to bend the metal gates that separate him from his parents. Studio executives were skeptical about starting a comic-book movie in a concentration camp, but the film became a blockbuster and launched a hugely profitable franchise for 20th Century Fox.
Singer’s most recent project debuted in November. Critics gave Bohemian Rhapsody—which chronicles the rise of the rock band Queen—only lukewarm reviews, but it earned more than $50 million in its opening weekend. By the end of December, it had brought in more than $700 million, making it one of the year’s biggest hits.
The film’s success should have been a triumph for Singer, proof of his enduring ability to intuit what audiences want. In January it won two Golden Globes, including the award for best drama. But Singer was conspicuously absent from the ceremony—and his name went unmentioned in the acceptance speeches. He had been fired by 20th Century Fox in December 2017, with less than three weeks of filming left. Reports emerged of a production in chaos: Singer was feuding with his cast and crew, and had disappeared from the set for days at a time.
On December 7, 2017, three days after The Hollywood Reporter broke the news of Singer’s firing, a Seattle man named Cesar Sanchez-Guzman filed a lawsuit against the director, alleging that Singer had raped him in 2003, when Sanchez-Guzman was 17.
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Bohemian Rhapsody is a great movie.
If you read between the lines in the later X-Men, its all about being different is being Superior to everyone else.
Singer really thinks that the Gay Lifestyle makes you superior to non-gays.
This is why Hetero’s are called “Breeders” within the dark confines of the Gay Community and it is a term of intense hate.
Rhapsody was knocked by the usual mob because it didn’t make Freedie M’s homosexuality the focus of the movie.
Which is why I liked it. I saw with my wife and 21 and 25 year old daughters. Last thing I wanted to see was Freddie packin’ fudge
Which might explain why a flaming homosexual was cast with the role of Magneto.
The Auschwitz scene was his double-victim statement:
Mutants in the X-Men movies are, for him, proxies for Jews and (so-called) Gays, and a pretext for his leftist stance on both identity groups.
As such, they are presumed to be innocent, and entitled to their hatred.
Notice that Magneto, a mass murderer, is never really portrayed as an evil man.
Personally, I denounce both racial persecution and identity politics.
It has been going n for decades. I submit that one of the jobs of the LAPD is to protect his ilk.
Chicago cops protected Al Capone.
Notice that Magneto, Ian McKellen the actor in real life, is a homosexual...................
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