![]() He wants young Erik to display his power. Prodding and cajoling don’t work. He seems to work with them, not for them, for his own ends. Shaw wears a swastika pin on his lapel, but he derides the Nazis. Soon the boy is before Shaw in the latter’s office, which sports a record player and many leather-bound books. Four soldiers are not enough to null the boy’s attraction to metal. Shaw watches as young Erik Lehnsherr, a Jewish boy separated from his parents, rends the gates dividing them, seemingly by magic or force of will. Schmidt, as he was known in the camps (but I’ll continue to use “Shaw”), appears to work in Auschwitz in 1944, or, as the movie calls it, “Poland.” Until that moment we know him only as a big jerk who wears red scarves and pocket squares. It explodes, and Shaw crushes the explosive force like a stubborn aluminum can. He displays this power with casual malice when a man tosses a grenade at him. Kevin Bacon takes a rare villain’s role as Sebastian Shaw, a proto-mutant, perhaps, who can control energy. It would be easy to mock this gesture, but McAvoy deftly avoids mockability. The only way we know he’s reading minds is when he puts two fingers to his temple. McAvoy gamely assumes the role of the world’s most powerful mutant. “I’m afraid I’m not going to be much help tonight,” he says, perhaps not realizing that his statement was likely the most frightening sentence the non-mutants had ever heard. At one point, when he assists the CIA in confronting the chief villain, he tells them that another telepath is on the yacht. His slogan, “Mutant and Proud,” is easy for him to say, because his mutation is not on display. He seems repulsed by her blue, true form. Xavier worries about his adoptive sister Raven. At Xavier’s mansion, Havoc, Banshee, the troubled Magneto, and several other mutants Charles gathers find clarity in their skill. ![]() He wants to help them hone their powers, and with great confidence he does. Xavier gathers mutants to him with his singular goal of acceptance. Whether or not you agree, remember that no one knows the human mind better than Xavier, who can read them all. With such a wealthy childhood, perhaps Xavier believes that material wealth is immaterial in a person’s happiness. The young Charles offers Raven food because the Xaviers have plenty. He possesses a noble hope, one we all strive for, perhaps one born of prosperity. He knows that genetically superior species always win out, yet he believes mutants and humans can coexist. (The idea of James McAvoy unable to get laid is laughable.) He’s also trying to score girls by discussing their individual, innocuous mutations. Xavier is near to defending his thesis about homo sapiens displacing their genetic cousins such as homo habilis and the Neanderthal. Turns out it was the shapeshifting form of Raven ( Jennifer Lawrence), a blue-skinned, rust-haired mutant child. Xavier offers Raven food and a promise–she’ll never have to steal again.įlashforward to Oxford in the 1960s. He went there to find his mother rummaging in the fridge.Įxcept it wasn’t his mother, he knew, because she had never set foot inside the kitchen and never offered to prepare any food for her son. Late one night in his mammoth New York estate home he heard strange noises emanating from his kitchen. Hero (7/10)Ĭharles Xavier ( James McAvoy), dork at age nine, learned of other mutants from at that age. ONE SENTENCE PLOT SUMMARY: Mutants assemble for the first time, battling each other under the guise of the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis. When you hear critics and fans berating Hollywood because they want to see better movies with original ideas, remind them of the box office problems that befell X-Men: First Class. The lowest grossing of the mutant ensemble movies, it might be the franchise’s best entry. The old actors playing Magneto and Professor X would be recast with Hollywood’s hottest young actors. ![]() They recast all the characters, but made a prequel set in the 1960s, a film that would show the origins of the primary mutants. X-Men: First Class (2011): Matthew Vaughnįollowing the less-than-stellar success of X-Men: The Last Stand (not to mention its ultimate title), Fox decided to reboot the entire X-Men franchise.
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