![]() ![]() ![]() It's a little surprising he doesn't decide to control everyone's mind, and I like that First Stand doesn't shy away from showing how he wasn't always a saint. By comparison, Charles is reckless and disturbingly arrogant. Magneto may be angry and vengeful, but he's almost always in control and steadfast in his beliefs. Magneto agrees with Shaw's beliefs, "But, unfortunately, you killed my mother."Īs for Xavier, McAvoy doesn't just bring a nice sense of joy to the role, but also reveals Xavier's darker side, which was hinted at in The Last Stand. It's a crucial moment not only because it creates a deeper bond between Charles and Erik, but because it shows that even a happy memory can still be a driving force for good or evil. One of my favorite scenes in the film is when Charles' reads Erik's mind and sees his memory of Hanukkah. There has to be friendship, not just mutual respect. We also know they'll grow apart, and that's where McAvoy and Fassbender's chemistry is so important. They're not completely disconnected and you can believe that the Charles and Erik we see in First Class will grow into the men we saw in the first three movies. Fassbender and McAvoy wisely avoid impressions of Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, respectively, and instead try to tap into what these characters would have acted like as young men. Vaughn also reeeeally likes his wide-angle lenses, but it gives the film a more expansive feel, although shifting the focal points can be a bit distracting a times. After two visually bland features, X-Men roared back to life with a style that didn't shy away from the flashy 60s aesthetic, but never made it so distracting as to render the film a parody of the era. For a film set in the 1960s, it doesn't share the time period's progressive attitudes.Īdmittedly, I didn't pick up on these flaws the first time around because X-Men: First Class is so (no pun intended) magnetic, and it's easy to get lost in director Matthew Vaughn's exciting vision. ![]() Also, if you watch the deleted scenes, you'll see that the ones with Moira are just her being wooed by Charles. From a plot perspective, she could have added a lot to the film by showing the goodness of humanity, but instead she's relegated to a background character whose final scene is having her boss dismiss her on the basis of being a woman. While Mystique is a good female lead, Moira is reduced to eye-candy from the start as she's able to break into the Hellfire Club because apparently she decided to wear her sexy underwear that day. I won't go so far as to say that First Class is hypocritical film, but it's certainly disappointing in how it doesn't fully practice what it preaches.Īlong with Darwin's death, the film's handling of Moira ( Rose Byrne) is what stings the most in X-Men: First Class. ![]() This leaves an entirely white team of heroes (Mystique may be blue and the film's best representation of an African-American character, but they still chose to cast a white actress you can argue that's because Rebecca Romijn is white, but Mystique can take any form). Angel decides to leave to become one of the bad guys and Darwin engages in the tiresome, outdated trope of the minority character nobly sacrificing him or herself for the good of the group. XMEN FIRST CLASS AMAZON MOVIEThe movie has two black characters: Angel and Darwin. However, in practice, First Class is a bit regressive in its race relations. ![]()
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