Both Magneto and Xavier (each were accompanied by supporters) arrived at Jean""s childhood home to compete for her loyalty.Rossen""s shattering experience of naming names in the 1950s HUAC hearings (after being blacklisted and then recanting two years later) influenced his writing for this film - the low-life, bruised film hero is both self-hating and cowardly.Arrius orders that Judah""s leg be unchained during he coming battle to give him a chance to survive.Their ship is rammed, oars are smashed, bodies are splintered, and their ship is boarded.Judah breaks loose, strangles one of the guards and retrieves he keys, frees many of his fellow prisoners from their chains, and goes on deck to find the flaming galley ship boarded by pirates in fierce hand-to-hand combat with the Roman soldiers.Bart steps forward and whirls around in fear o turn his back toward the broken store window and cover up the gaping hole in the window - he outstretches his arms [in a crucifixion pose?], and then reaches in to furtively steal the gun." Zaius described how the militaristic, bullying Ursus was poised to go on "a rampage of conquest," and as Minister of Science, he was obligated to join Ursus to find if life existed in the Forbidden Zone - something that might be a threat to simian survival and innocence.