The man was a one-man crew bent on hunting down the Nazis who destroyed his family and delivering his own special brand of justice. Since I love studying World War II-era history, I thought the scenes prior to Erik and Charles's meeting were especially fascinating. Fassbender gives Erik a breath-taking intensity and focus, whenever he's on-screen that is where your focus will lie. I want him to find peace, to let go of his rage and channel that into building a future for himself instead of allowing his past to define his future. Erik is the character I long to see redeemed and understood. As my friend Rachel so astutely pointed out on Facebook, when you think about it, Magneto is really just the Rochester of the mutant world - and I couldn't agree more.
Speaking of Erik, he is the linchpin on which the entire film rests, and Fassbender carries the burden with a debonair, dangerous sort of grace. Given his history, Erik whole-heartedly affirms Raven's mutation as her own brand of unique beauty - and with lines like that delivered by a mesmerizing guy with Fassbender's looks, Raven's fascination with Erik is easy to understand. I thought the set-up for Raven's fascination with Erik was extremely well-played. Raven is super-sweet here, but hurt and frustrated enough with Charles's (her first crush?) inability to accept her atypical beauty that the progression to the hardened, human-hating warrior Mystique later becomes is an understandbly slippery slope.
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Now, I'm not familiar with Lawrence's previous film work, but I thought she did a fantastic job as the young Raven - she's completely believable as a young woman who simply wants to fit in, and struggles with the blue skin and scales that are exhibited when her mutation is fully exhibited. And his delivery of mutant-themed pick-up lines was hilarious.įor someone like Charles whose as interested in helping mutants cope in society, at this point in his life it's interesting to see how even he exhibited a distinct lack of understanding toward mutants like Mystique whose abilities resulted in physical "abnormalities" instead of strictly internal mutations like his own telepathy. He was a good choice to play the high-minded idealist to Erik's hardened survival-minded pragmatism. Now, I love James McAvoy, but frankly he stood no chance of standing up to Fassbender's on-screen magnetism (no character pun intended). Mystique, is a fascinating beginning for these two characters, given their later film history as passionate rivals on opposite sides of the mutant vs.
This close history between Charles and Raven, a.k.a. His childhood friend Raven ( Jennifer Lawrence) is the only one who knows he's a telepath. Both mutants suffered horribly at the hands of men who wanted to control and manipulate their powers and abilities, and both are faced with a choice of how they allow their pasts to influence their futures.Ĭharles Xavier's ( James McAvoy) beginnings stand in sharp contrast to Erik's - raised in the comfort of wealth and privilege, Charles goes on to university and makes a name for himself studying human genetic mutation. In a way, Erik's twisted father/son/creator/experiment relationship with Shaw mirrors Wolverine's history with Stryker. Raised to believe he's the only one of his kind, after the war (when Erik-as- Michael Fassbender comes on the scene) Erik makes it his mission to hunt down and destroy the monsters who wrecked his life, particularly Shaw. In the previous film, it was left to the imagination what horrors Erik endured in the camps, but now we witness his terror when he can't "perform" his metal trick on command, leading to his mother's murder, and the subsequent mental abuse and manipulation that's inflicted on his mind by a repulsively giddy Shaw. The re-created scene is expanded with a brief shot introducing the evil scientist, Sebastian Shaw (a scene-stealing Kevin Bacon), who wants to exploit Erik's abilities. First Class opens with an excellent recreation of the concentration camp scene from the first X-Men, where a young Erik ( Bill Milner) reveals his ability to control metal with his mind.
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