XMA - Professor Charles Xavier's Opening Narration (Allusion to the Children of Dune Miniseries)
- 8 years ago
James McAvoy's voiceover in 'X-Men: Apocalypse' contains a few references to his role as Leto Atreides II in the 'Children of Dune' miniseries.
The sand dunes of Ancient Egypt are reminiscent of the deserts of Arrakis.
"...born with extraordinary abilities, and yet still, they are children, stumbling in the dark, searching for guidance." Leto in the mini-series is a 17-year-old (9 years old in the novel, which coincidentally is the age that Xavier's psychic powers first manifested in the movie-verse) who is conflicted about his destiny as the Kwisatz Haderach son and heir of Muad'Dib.
"A gift can often be a curse." Leto is cursed with the gift of prescience.
"Give them the power of prophecy, and they may live in fear of the future." Leto is tormented by the knowledge that humanity is doomed unless he makes a terrible choice.
"Give them the greatest gift of all, powers beyond imagination, and they may think they are meant to rule the world." By the end of the story, Leto gains god-like powers and metamorphoses into a grotesque God Emperor, and the next novel shows that he becomes a brutal tyrant for 3500 years.
The only outlier is "Give someone wings, and they may fly too close to the sun," which is a shout-out to the Greek myth of Icarus and Daedalus.
The sand dunes of Ancient Egypt are reminiscent of the deserts of Arrakis.
"...born with extraordinary abilities, and yet still, they are children, stumbling in the dark, searching for guidance." Leto in the mini-series is a 17-year-old (9 years old in the novel, which coincidentally is the age that Xavier's psychic powers first manifested in the movie-verse) who is conflicted about his destiny as the Kwisatz Haderach son and heir of Muad'Dib.
"A gift can often be a curse." Leto is cursed with the gift of prescience.
"Give them the power of prophecy, and they may live in fear of the future." Leto is tormented by the knowledge that humanity is doomed unless he makes a terrible choice.
"Give them the greatest gift of all, powers beyond imagination, and they may think they are meant to rule the world." By the end of the story, Leto gains god-like powers and metamorphoses into a grotesque God Emperor, and the next novel shows that he becomes a brutal tyrant for 3500 years.
The only outlier is "Give someone wings, and they may fly too close to the sun," which is a shout-out to the Greek myth of Icarus and Daedalus.