I like last lines of movies. The classic is from King Kong, "It wasn't the planes that got him...it was Beauty killed the Beast!" (Watch the movie if you don't understand.)Today's post title is Wolverine's last line from "X-men, The Final Stand" when he sees the TV newscast that his now-buddy, Dr. Hank McCoy a.k.a. The Beast, has been made Ambassador to the United Nations for both regular and mutant Americans...part of his reward, I guess, for saving the world 'with a little help from his friends', as the Beatles used to sing. This is the male-bonding side of yet another action packed chick flick...chick flick trilogy, actually...where good old Wolverine has to run his adamantian blades through Jean Grey a.k.a. Phoenix, who was causing a really bad day to go with the power to destroy everything!! Gee, I guess he took the line, "You always hurt the one you love" a little too seriously?!!
So what's my point? (I seem to ask this rhetorically quite a lot these days.) This comic book presentation spiffed up with 21st century movie making technology is a morality play about the transformational power of love!! And you thought it was just a bunch of cool (especially Bobby, a.k.a. Iceman) freaks with super powers trying to decide whether they should wipe out the human race or fight the bad guy mutants who are convinced they should. Of course, true Love (no, not that found in "The Princess Bride") isn't even part of the equation...you know, as in the Lord?!!
Even though I enjoy these Manichaeistic superhero movies...the Light might win against the Dark side...I wonder if there are any writers/producers/directors out there who could put forth a version of Frank Peretti's Christian novels dealing with spiritual warfare that would actually grab the public and put forth a message of Truth without wimping out? It might be an interesting way to help pierce This Present Darkness.
In fact, "I think I'm quite ready for another adventure!"
Got popcorn?
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