Film Quote of the Day: Professor X’s Most Moving Lesson on Hope and Finding Your Way

I absolutely adore the X-Men movies. They were sort of the first foray into whether or not people would take these blockbusters seriously, and they absolutely rocked. As the franchise continued into the 2010s, we saw characters across time, with the ultimate team-up movie being X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014).

It merged both timelines of the X-Men movies into one.

Bryan Singer directed the movie, and Simon Kinberg wrote it, and it functions as both a prequel and a sequel at the same time.

The stakes are the entire world, and you get cameos from some of the most memorable and best characters throughout the series.

One thing these movies have always done well is deliver a poignant quote about humanity that pretty much sums up each movie.

And with two Charles Xaviers in the story, you can bet we got an all-timer line with this film.

Let's dive in.

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The Scene in Question

The gist is that, in the future, a small contingent of surviving mutants battles sentinels. They send Wolverine's consciousness back to 1973 to stop the robots' development and save the world.

But the 70s were a tough place both politically and personally for young Charles Xavier (James McAvoy), who was going through a rough patch, now confined to his wheelchair and not feeling much like a hero.

Well, once back there, and via Wolverine's mind, the young Xavier bridges a temporal telepathic link across decades to connect with Old Professor X (Patrick Stewart).

It's a literal meeting of the minds to discuss how they can save the world. It also serves as a moral boost for young Charles, who needs to hear that it all works out okay.

Old Charles does not offer easy solutions. He focuses on empathy, not just for the situation they're in, but for what he knows he was experiencing at the time.

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