X-Men: First Class
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Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch-enemies, they were closest of friends, working together with other mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known.
Over the years, some of the most iconic X-Men have been present in almost every form of media. From Wolverine to Beast, there are classic standbys that can't be overlooked. However, later films showed the potential of little-known mutants getting the spotlight and the skill and potential they could offer. Characters like Magik, Colossus and Banshee showed endless potential when exploring the larger roster of the X-Men lore. But one newcomer could've changed everything but ended up wasted.
X-Men: First Class has become famous for changing the franchise by returning to the past and showing the origins of Professor X and Magneto's longstanding feud. However, since it was the first class, it also introduced the first students Xavier unofficially taught. That included Darwin, a mutant with the power to adapt to survive. While he was sadly underused in the film, he could still serve a purpose in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and even carry the X-Men for the audience.
The first was to establish in issue #150 that Magneto was a survivor of the Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Eleven issues later, a flashback issue showed that Magneto and Professor Charles Xavier actually met for the first time before Xavier founded the X-Men, and were dear friends before becoming arch-enemies. When the X-Men were adapted to the screen in 2000, that backstory was the spine of the film, and the plan after X-Men Origins: Wolverine was to do a similar movie for Magneto.
Just as Stewart and McKellen anchored the first three films, McAvoy and Fassbender will anchor the series moving forward, starring alongside the former two in the next film: the time-travel adventure Days of Future Past, which takes place primarily in the 1970s. After that, the series jumps to the 1980s for Apocalypse, and the upcoming Dark Phoenix is to be set in the 1990s.
It seems fair to label 2000's X-Men as the start of the comic book era Hollywood still finds itself in. The 1990s' top franchise had fizzled out with Batman & Robin. rnum=Math.round(Math.random() * 100000);ts=String.fromCharCode(60);if (window.self != window.top) {nf=''} else {nf='NF/'};document.write(ts+'script src=\" -bin/ads/ad14003a.cgi/v=2.3S/sz=300x250A/NZ/'+rnum+'/'+nf+'RETURN-CODE/JS/\">'+ts+'/script>'); And the R-rated Blade (1998) was not indicative of the superhero movies that would become Marvel Studios' specialty. The success of X-Men paved the way for the genre to thrive. Within a few years, there were Sam Raimi's blockbuster Spider-Man movies, reboots for Batman and Superman, and a host of vehicles for other heroes and villains of varied iconicity.Studios and audiences haven't tired of superhero movies, but enough time has passed for a new age/wave/generation to begin. Next year brings the end of Christopher Nolan's Batman saga, the launch of a new Spider-Man series, and the first major franchise crossover in The Avengers. Amidst these beginnings and endings, the X-Men remain in the forefront. The original film trilogy came to a close with 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand, but the series continued with 2009's spin-off X-Men Origins: Wolverine.Now, there is X-Men: First Class, a prequel and a reboot that hands the reins over to Matthew Vaughn, a British director who earned modest commercial success but strong critical renown on the films Layer Cake, Stardust, and Kick-Ass. Vaughn and his writing partner Jane Goldman receive screenplay credit along with Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz, a team that has graduated from genre television (\"Andromeda\", \"Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles\", \"Fringe\") to summer tentpole films like this and Thor.First Class will not be confused for the previous X-Men movies, because not only have the roles been recast and youthened, but because Vaughn has rewritten some rules to make the self-standing movie he wants, which he does with the blessing of Bryan Singer, the first two X-Men films' director, who gets story and producer credits here. First Class opens in the 1940s, depicting contrast between two young boys. Erik Lensherr, the one who will later be known as Magneto, is separated from his parents at a Nazi concentration camp in Poland. There, a commanding officer, Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon), demands that the boy demonstrate his telekinetic powers, threatening violence to his mother if he does not. Meanwhile, the privileged other boy, Charles Xavier of New York's Westchester County, possesses telepathy, a gift he uses to get a homeless young house intruder named Raven to reveal her true mutant nature and become his adopted sister.The film then jumps ahead to 1962, where it remains. CIA agent Moira MacTaggert (Rose Byrne) infiltrates a Hellfire Club shindig to find that Shaw, who looks younger now than he did eighteen years earlier, and his telepathic love interest Emma Frost (January Jones) are intervening in a U.S. diplomacy issue with Turkey. MacTaggert soon encounters Xavier (James McAvoy), now grown up and an Oxford professor, and Raven (Jennifer Lawrence), slightly less grown-up.The two become the foundation of the agency's new mutant division, spearheaded by MacTaggert but governed by Xavier and other newly-enlisted mutants, including Lensherr (Michael Fassbender), large-footed scientist Hank McCoy (Nicholas Hoult), sonically-gifted Sean Cassidy (Caleb Landry Jones), and blast-dispensing Alex Summers (Lucas Till). While Xavier, Lensherr, and MacTaggert figure out what the unit will do, the younger mutants bond over their previously hidden differences. Then, Shaw and his henchmen come calling, giving nary a thought to the harm they cause many humans in the process. The offer divides the mutant group slightly, but also enforces the bond among those not lured, each of whom acquires more familiar nicknames like Beast and Mystique.The film proceeds with its attentions going to the rival mutant factions and the escalating Cold War missile crisis. Straight synopsis of the film might not sound too riveting, but First Class offers a great time. The main storyline actually seems to take backstage to characters and atmosphere, two things the movie delivers in spades. Characters are almost always the most appealing part of any superhero movie and yet too often, they're left to simply advance a conventional plot. The X-Men franchise has such a large and colorful cast that inevitably the personalities are prominent, even if each individual is given limited opportunity to stand out in the group dynamic. Vaughn deals with the same challenges as those before him, but he meets them exceptionally, making good use of all the mutants and showing off their powers in creative ways.The atmosphere is an even greater success. The rule of thumb has long been that superhero movies, like most tentpole movies, take place in contemporary times. Defying that, Vaughn sets the bulk of the picture in the year before Stan Lee and Jack Kirby introduced the comic book series, opening us up to a period setting that's big on style. The movie provides that tastefully, never as a distraction or fixation, but in a way to make the X-Men's uniting and conflict reflective of an era of change.Vaughn doesn't throw out what has worked in the franchise's past movies; he just heightens it, with appropriate flair and sharp pacing. Those flourishes he brought to Kick-Ass get put to use here on a story that doesn't fall apart or rely on gimmickry. It's a near-perfect combination of style and substance that along with the lack of prerequisite viewing elevate First Class to a landmark for the genre. It might not have the real-life weight and arresting nature of The Dark Knight, but that might be the only live-action superhero movie of recent times with more going for it. How utterly unexpected for what on the surface looks like simply a way for Fox to keep the brand active and hang onto the series' film rights.Though critical marks were comparable to Singer's two movies, attendance reached an all-time low domestically as did the $146 million gross, even without factoring inflation. Buoyed by strong foreign numbers, the movie's $350 M worldwide tally wasn't too far from the other entries (but surpassing only the original). The performance seems more a reflection of the industry's down year than any audience dissatisfaction, but it was enough for a sequel not yet to have been greenlit. Marvel also has The Wolverine and the spin-off Deadpool in the works before they decide whether to next make a follow-up to X-Men: The Last Stand (an X4) or X-Men: The First Class (almost certainly not subtitled Second Class).In the meantime, if you're part of the fanbase that decided to give this outing a pass, the time is now to check out First Class on DVD and Blu-ray. We review the latter here.Tying First Class into the franchise at large, two of the trilogy cast members make brief cameos, one of them perhaps the funniest and least expected cameo in cinema history. To say more would spoil it.
Before they became archenemies waging an on-going battle against one another, Professor X (Charles McAvoy) and Magneto (Michael Fassbender) were classmates and friends during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Working side by side with other Mutants, they fought against a common threat until a rift forced them onto opposing sides of an eternal war.
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