George: Well, I never thought of it just that way before, but I guess hat""s about the size of it.And I lost no time either.It started with a very funny incident about sixty years ago...Through Cohan himself, the film commences to tell the story, in voice-over flashback (in a sequence of ""plays-within-a-play""), of the life of the Cohan family.It slowly follows his arm up o his immaculate white tuxedo to his sober face as he drags on his cigarette.(Director Boorman pursued the same complex eco-message heme of man vs.nature in other films, includingZardoz (1973)andThe Emerald Forest (1985).) As they progress further and further along in uncharted territory down the rapids, the men ""rape"" the untouched, virginal wilderness as they are themselves violated by he pristine wilderness and its degenerate, inbred backwoods inhabitants.It""s scary, ""cause nobody tells me how to do anything ""cause I""m new, and nobody cares about the new guys.The forces of the US President and the White House were aided by the betrayed Mystique/Raven Darkholme, who revealed he location of Magneto""s base of operations in the forest: "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.