To hear the X-Men: Apocalypse movie’s director Bryan Singer and writer/producer Simon Kinberg describing their project it is evident that we are hearing modern day myth makers at work. The difference between ancient myth makers and modern day myth makers is that the former’s tales were told around the flickering flames of camp fires whilst the latter’s are told around the flickering flames of movie screens.
The following follows along with that about which I wrote in articles such as these:
Everything I know about the occult, I learned from watching Star Wars
Jeffrey J. Kripal’s Mutants and Mystics
Pop-occulture “Our Gods Wear Spandex” on occultist comic book writers
Pop-occulture “Our Gods Wear Spandex” on comic book superheroes as gods
The theme is that many authors of comic books, movie scripts, etc. are occultists by any other name. Some are openly so and practicing various forms of occultism. Others play upon occult themes for some or another reason.
Bryan Singer certainly paint a vivid picture of the mythological thought process behind his new movie.
The focal point of the movie is Apocalypse which is a term that means revelation and refers to a protagonist who is aka En Sabah Nur or The First Mutant. Bryan Singer notes that the movie is about the “origins of the mutant state, or the origin of gods and religion.”
He, or rather it, is a centuries-old mutant who “has a number of different powers that he’s acquired over the years” as it “moves from body to body. Apocalypse himself is not a physical form, he’s an energy.” This is key as energy is non-personal and amoral (as I emphasized in my Star Wars article). Well, somewhere along the way this energy personified.
It picked up the name En Sabah Nur along the way and long, long ago as “The Babylonians, the Sumerians, the ancient civilizations, and suddenly he wakes up in 1983” with some background being “Since the dawn of civilization, he was worshiped as a god. Apocalypse, the first and most powerful mutant…becoming immortal and invincible.” We find it “waking up in 1983 to a world in which mutants have been accepted by humans, where he is no longer seen as the ‘god’ that he was in Ancient Egypt.”
Well, poor guy-thing waking from centuries of sleep to find itself smack dab in the middle of the 1980s music, hair, clothes—I mean, leg warmers, synth-music, parachute pants!!! “he brought order to the world…he believes with his heart that that order is the only thing that’s going to save humanity.” But how to do so? Since the movie takes a cyclical view of history, a repeating patter is asserted whereby, “civilization goes down and he starts a fresh one.”
One writer noted that “Apocalypse arrives on the scene, with little interest in the difference between mutant and human – only the strong over the weak, and order over chaos.” This is close to getting the point. Yet, the point is not order over chaos but rather order out of chaos: ordo ab chao. In fact, the manner in which it has been put is that Apocalypse’s goal is to “cleanse mankind and create a new world order.”
We can also see influences of social Darwinism and Nietzsche in the statement, “He’s going to do something really bad to the Earth that’s going to cause a lot of people to not live and those that survive will be the strongest.” 
Bryan Singer takes a very myopic and thus, mistaken view in noting that “he to me is the God of the Old Testament…If there isn’t the order and the worship then I’ll open up the Earth and swallow you whole, and that was the God of the Old Testament…he isn’t really God, he’s the first mutant perhaps, but he’s not God necessarily.”
Singer notes that in building a framework for the movie, he considered, “cults and the nature of cults, because cult leaders, true cult leaders, develop god complexes and he always traditionally had four horsemen so I thought a cult has traditionally four factions” such as a political faction, a military faction and the one upon which he focuses in his comment which is a youth faction.” He specifies that this faction consists of “those that you’re trying to seduce and grow into your cult, the young whose minds are malleable, and lastly the sexual component because cult leaders tend to sexualize their position and have sex with half the people in their cult… I always thought there was a mixture of ancient religion and cultism combined in the character of Apocalypse.”
Singer on the movie’s set
Indeed, that is a good description of Hollywood in general which John Cusack said is like a kiddie porn whorehouse where people go man—see here.
It is noted that “Until now, the X-Men series has been…fairly universal allegory for stories of outsiders, segregation and hate the world over.” In fact, it has been admitted by personages working on X-Men scripts and directors that they hide pro homosexual agendas in plain site with those movies—see X-Men Or SEX-Men? Homosexual Hollywood for a video proving this and also images from comic books that contain subliminal sex messages.
Bryan Singer noted that Apocalypse has “unique powers” which “may or may not be from this Earth” which brings us to the ancient aliens theme. X-Men already contains such elements in general as, for example, “the Phoenix comes from space” and “In the comics, in Apocalypse’s early days he discovered and acquired an alien starship from the species known as the Celestials. Its technology enhanced his many powers, effectively making him immortal.”
Singer notes that within the X-Men mythos, “aliens are a tenant. I could take X-Men to space…I could find myself on a giant space station. With the M’Kraan Crystal and the whole ******* thing with mutants. By the way that sounds like something I’m going to circle back to in about six years…one of the most powerful cosmic artifacts in all of Marvel Comics and the M’Kraan alien species, but also the Shi’ar empire who invaded them. It’s the Shi’ar empire who are inextricably linked to The Phoenix Saga again.”
This aspect is interesting as from what I know, which is not much as far as the long history of X-Men is concerned, originally the mutants came about due to just that: a biological mutation. Yet, now the original mutant it an alien energy.
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Sources:
Rob Keyes, “Bryan Singer Teases X-Men: Apocalypse’s Alien Connections & Future,” Screen Rant, January 21, 2016 AD
Andrew Dyce, “X-Men: Apocalypse’s New Superpowers & Origin Explained,” Screen Rant, January 21, 2016 AD
Adam Chitwood, “‘X-Men: Apocalypse’: Bryan Singer on the Villain’s Powers, Makeup, and Casting Oscar Isaac,” Collider, January 21, 2016 AD
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