I’m not going to tell folks to rewatch the first two X-Men movies, but I’m fairly certain you can piece that together from the cultural osmosis of that series. The opening scene of the first movie clearly states Poland and it is clearly identified as a concentration camp.
Plus I’m fairly certain it was also revisited in First Class.
EDIT: Don’t rewatch X-Men or X2 because of Bryan Singer.
EDIT 2: Singer has had multiple lawsuits and allegations thrown at him for sexual abuse, most notably of children.
Apt Pupil - Don’t Watch the Movie and Better Skip the Stephen King Novella
The movie Apt Pupil is where these specific allegations come from. To make it worse, that is an adaption of a Stephen King novella about a teenager who blackmails a Nazi solider that worked in a concentration camp into telling him stories about the war. I of course never watched the movie but I read the novella (part of Different Seasons). The striking part is the teenage boy has explicit dreams about raping girls who are imprisoned in the concentration camps. Yes, you read that right. A character fantasizes about raping Jewish girls.
I think that’s an easier argument to make with someone who is dead, like H.P. Lovecraft. It’s a different story when the artist is still alive and actively profiting off the work you are consuming.
Feel like I’ve been saying this a lot recently, but it’s pertinent:
Camp Auschwitz was in Poland, not Germany.
I’m not going to tell folks to rewatch the first two X-Men movies, but I’m fairly certain you can piece that together from the cultural osmosis of that series. The opening scene of the first movie clearly states Poland and it is clearly identified as a concentration camp.
Plus I’m fairly certain it was also revisited in First Class.
EDIT: Don’t rewatch X-Men or X2 because of Bryan Singer.
EDIT 2: Singer has had multiple lawsuits and allegations thrown at him for sexual abuse, most notably of children.
Apt Pupil - Don’t Watch the Movie and Better Skip the Stephen King Novella
The movie Apt Pupil is where these specific allegations come from. To make it worse, that is an adaption of a Stephen King novella about a teenager who blackmails a Nazi solider that worked in a concentration camp into telling him stories about the war. I of course never watched the movie but I read the novella (part of Different Seasons). The striking part is the teenage boy has explicit dreams about raping girls who are imprisoned in the concentration camps. Yes, you read that right. A character fantasizes about raping Jewish girls.
I’m a firm believer that if we only accepted art based on the morality of the artist, the whole world would be a bleak shade of grey.
Gotta separate the two. You can say “X was an incredible artist and I appreciate their work, but holy shit were they a terrible human.”
We can acknowledge the spectrum of the human and let the good parts into the world and still shun the bad.
I think that’s an easier argument to make with someone who is dead, like H.P. Lovecraft. It’s a different story when the artist is still alive and actively profiting off the work you are consuming.
As a black dude, I’m still not reading Lovecraft…
Yeah, that’s fair. He was so racist that even his contemporary racists were like “wtf?”
Piracy it is then!