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I… don’t get why that would make a difference at all. That’s like saying you wish Barney was played by a straight guy instead of Neil Patrick Harris, or that Katniss should have been played by an actual brunette instead of Jennifer Lawrence. It doesn’t matter at all and it’s not like someone who was Jewish would necessarily play MAgneto any better. Furthermore, from what I’ve seen in the cartoons and read in the comics, Erik pretty much abandons his faith completely so I’m extra puzzled why a specifically Jewish actor would be cool…
(Source: firstclassconfessions)
When I first saw the movie, this was the only way I could think about it. I still kind of see it this way but not so extreme.
Yeah, I sort of feel like Magneto and Erik Lehnsherr are two entirely different characters.
However, I don’t agree with the rest of this confession. I think Magneto is a persona that Erik created for the good of the Mutant cause. Whereas before he founded the Brotherhood, he was extremely effective at what he did but very much a loner, probably not at all social or inclined to form relationships. Stealth was extremely important to the way he operated during the period when he was hunting Nazis and Shaw; he liked to blend in, he liked to be able to get in, do what he needed to do, and get out without being noticed.
Magneto, on the other hand, deliberately seeks attention, from his brightly colored uniform to his bombastic and dramatic way of speaking. Rather than being a lone wolf, Magneto is a figurehead to a movement. He’s a leader, which means maintain a number of relationships with a very careful balance of distance and comradeship.
Erik liked to stay hidden, but Magneto needs to be seen to be effect - both by other Mutants and by humans. Erik kept to himself, Magneto would rally thousands. Erik is a number of very specific things - a German, a Jew, a homosexual - but Magneto is whatever the movement needs him to be, which means he’s both every Mutant and really no one at all.
Magneto is Erik’s way of being brave. It’s his way of handling situations which he isn’t really built to handle. It’s his way of becoming. He steps into this persona of Magneto to be more effective as a Mutant leader, but Magneto and Erik are two separate things, and I do think Erik controls Magneto rather than the other way around.
I also think when you see him looking so stressed out basically just crazy-pants in the last scene of the film, it’s because at that point he was trying too hard to be Magneto all the time, and he was losing track of himself. By the time we see him in the other films, he’s got a complete handle on both sides of himself, and can slip from one to the other without difficulty.
This exactly.
(Source: firstclassconfessions)
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The last panel D: D: <3
Oh my godddd…. that last panel KILLS me. Not gonna lie, it’s the ONLY expectation I have of XMFC2, however unreasonable it may be… Erik crying on Charles’ knees. D:
(via emwia)
“Things Unsaid”
Trade with Arcane Winter that I should have finished aaaages ago. She wrote a brilliant sequel to A Measure of Peace for me, called “It Goes Unsaid” and it’s bloody amazing so go read it at her LJ.
The hands were super fun to draw but damn those boys’ faces are hard and way too pretty!
MATTHEW VAUGHN IS OFFICIALLY BACK TO DIRECT!!!!!
First Class co-producer Simon Kinberg is currently banging out the initial drafts of the script, which I’m sure will now see revisions on the part of Vaughn and his writing partner Jane Goldman.
No word on what exactly the direction of the new story is, but now that Vaughn is officially back in the fold I’m very much relieved.
Additionally, Bryan Singer is also on board to co-produce with series regular Lauren Shuler-Donner.
Expect more updates soon in terms of an official release date and the eventual casting.
OH.
MY.
GOD!!!
MY EMOTIONNNNNS.
(Source: heroesandhellions.com)
Fox: “X-Men First Class Sequel is OFFICIAL!!!!!”
TWENTIETH Century Fox has officially confirmed plans for sequels to its summer hits X-Men: First Class and Rise of The Planet of The Apes.
Tom Rothman, co-chairman and chief executive of Fox Filmed Entertainment, says they hope to get Matthew Vaughn back for another X-Men instalment and Rupert Wyatt to continue the Apes storyline.
“Both of them were really great scripts and so we have to be sure to get great scripts again,” Rothman told ComingSoon at the Gotham Independent Film Awards. “We’re working hard on the scripts for both of them, but we have every hope of moving forward with them.”
Rothman’s public statement signals the studio’s determination to build on the critical success of both films.
http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/thegeekfiles/2011/11/fox-wants-matthew-vaughn-to-di.html
Well… yes and no. More no than yes, to be honest. Yes, the parellel can be drawn that both he and Hitler thought genocide was an option, but that’s where it ends. Hitler’s genocide was because he decided that Jews, gypsies, gay people, mentally ill people — all people who couldn’t help what they were and had no way of being anything like a threat to Hitler — were somehow sub-human. If Erik commits genocide, rather than becoming a separatist (which is far more likely, really) it will come out of a place of utter fear for his people, people who can’t help what they are and are being killed for it. A far more accurate parallel would be a Jewish person during WWII somehow gathering an army of other Jews and killing every Nazi in the world.
On the genocide point: at no point (in the movie, which I assume this confession is addressing) does Erik say he wants to kill all humans because they’re inferior. He thinks mutants are better than humans, yes, but he doesn’t get to the point of wanting to kill any humans until the humans attack mutants. Once that happens, it’s not a matter of killing them because they’re inferior, it’s a matter of survival. Humans have shown that they will forgive international tensions in order to band together against mutants, and humans outnumber mutants to an overwhelming degree. Erik doesn’t want to kill humanity; he wants to protect mutants. He desperately wants to keep his people, who can’t change what they are, safe from the people who have proved that they will kill them even right after they averted a nuclear crisis.
There’s a quote from Charles, in the comics, that I can’t quite recall, that goes along the lines of all Erik has ever wanted is a home for his people, a place for them to feel safe, and he’s terribly afraid that he’ll never find it, and that fear turns into hatred. Erik Lehnsherr is a man who has seen first-hand what humans do to people who are different, and he’s seen first-hand that humans, even supposed allies, can’t be trusted not to turn on mutants just because of how they were born, and he will do whatever it takes to protect other mutants from that. I honestly don’t think he’d push for a genocide unless humans proved that they weren’t going to stop trying to kill mutants until one side or both were dead. If Erik could believe that humans would leave them alone, I think he’d be quite happy living on a little mutant island nation, not even necessarily in charge. Just safe.
So… yes, sure, the parallel is there, but it’s a very shallow one, and it’s a disservice to the character to not look at it more deeply. Erik’s attacks against humans are not because they’re unworthy or because he thinks it will make the surviving race “superior”; they’re because humans can’t be trusted not to try to kill mutants. And until the next movie comes out and we have canon that he initiates attacks (since I can’t see how the later-chronological movies are in the same timeline, given the massive discrepancies), he has only ever reacted to assaults on mutants. He has never been the aggressor against humans, except in the pursuit of some other goal — finding Shaw being the chief one. His attacks on the Russian agents when he and Charles go after Emma are in pursuit of that goal, not because he thinks those humans were lesser. He would likely have done the same thing if they were mutants.
He doesn’t say, on the beach, anything that could be construed as “and now we kill the humans”. The closest he gets is “the humans have played their hand; now we get ready to play our own”. What he does say is “all of us, together, protecting each other”. Erik is not woefully similar to the men who put him through the hell that was his childhood; he is a victim fighting back. What that fighting involves remains to be seen, but boiling it down to “Erik is just like the Nazis” is disingenuous and blatantly untrue.
this this this this thiiiiissssss. I HATE it when people compare him to Hitler.
(Source: firstclassconfessions, via pragmatichominid)
Needed this…on my blog. Kthx.
I’m going to be a base-fangirl here and just say
LOLOLOL I WONDER WHY HE DIDN’T GET ANY SLEEP WINK WINK WINK
k done now
(Source: firstclassconfessions, via megneato)
This was only supposed to be a rough version of a Cherik piece but I ended up kind of liking the sketchy style.
….why can I never draw these two in anything but monochrome?
Leaked X-Men Origins: Magneto script (summarized by Meg)
As you may know, the script for the once-planned Magneto Origins has been leaked. You can get it here.
It’s like 115 pages long and I don’t have the patience. Luckily my friend Meg actually did read the whole thing! And was super helpful and provided me with these fantastic summaries of it. The short one is funny but the longer one BLOWS MY MIND. Seriously Meg, you win all the awards. Best summaries ever below:
“Here’s the short version: First half = Erik Lensherr makes a complete and utter fucking mess of his life. (Including but is not limited to: causing the deaths of both his wife and daughter. Hunting some Nazis. Then going to see his dying grandmother and realizing he’s all alone)
Second Half = Erik meets Charles Xavier and they prance around Israel being completely fucking useless. Erik leaves after getting Xavier’s institute blown up and goes to hunt Nazis. He’s failing pretty hard at life until Charles inexplicably shows up to help. Charles frees some mutants for an army and Erik kills the final boss (Kleinmein) with a tree, and the help of the Star of David. And when all is done, they buy some land together and start to build a school.(LOLI CAN’THANDLETHIS) But Erik still doesn’t trust Charles, so he makes his helmet.
The End.”
And now for the unbelievable, utterly fantastic longer version:
“First half = Erik Lensherr makes a complete and utter fucking mess of his life. Indirectly kills his wife/daughter, makes a deal with a sketchy American, who’s probably evil somehow, to hunt Nazis for him, arrests a banker, kills some marines in an embassy by displaying his mutant power to everyone there like an idiot, kills a doctor and scares the shit out of a little kid, kills a Nazi with braces and fails so hard at killing Decker(Kleinmein’s evil parter. Kleinmein is the Shaw of this trainwreck), goes to see his dying grandma and realizes he’s all alone.(my god this story all fucking over the place)
Second half = Meets Charles Xavier playing soccer. I don’t even know. He’s chillin’ in Israel coincidently helping holocaust survivors. Maaaaan all the propaganda in this script even down to the ‘Never again,’ not in reference to him being experimented on because of his powers or his parents being killed, but in reference to him being Jewish. This is X-men, not an Israeli documentary. I can’t handle you.
And then… Erik and Charles(who just met) beat the shit outa some thugs bare handed. ‘Nope, we’re not going to use our powers, we’re going to do this the old fashioned Hollywood way.’ And then they run away laughing from the cops, CHARLES XAVIER EVERYONE.(I can see drinking and womanizing at Oxford, but I think beating people up and running away is just a tad outside of Charles’ ethics) And THEN Erik asks for help and they have a nice little chat referencing religion. AND THEN THEY STOP TWO EGYPTIAN TANKS. AND THEN THEY FINALLY FIND OUT THAT EACH OTHER ARE MUTANTS. Yeah, it took Charles a display to know that. Really? Yup, really. He refuses to use his powers. Beating people up is A-okay, but looking into their mind is atrocious. (What in the fuck is going on, I don’t know either, and I read the damn thing) And now apparently Erik is concerned about being a mutant and not a Jew, and he’s like ‘Charles Charles, the Nazis are making their master race with these mutations! Help me with your awesome mind powers’ And Charles looks into his mind, and now uses his morals and refuses to go Nazi hunting, and Erik is like ‘Fine. Bye Thanks.’ AND GOES TO HIS ROOM TO READ A BIBLE.
Erik gets up in the middle of the night, finds Decker, drives his jeep off a cliff with him in it and in doing that, causes the institute that Xavier’s in (of course he gets out, jeez) to blow the fuck up. “Erik… you’re really awful at this,” Charles says. Okay, no he didn’t, but he fucking should have. And after getting Charles’ institute destroyed, Erik actually leaves to go find his final Nazi boss. Oh, and you know that sketchy American from earlier, yeah he was using Erik the whole time, who effing called that!
Erik proceeds in stealing an army van and finds the American at the zoo. He talks about sharks and betrayal then… Erik lets himself be cuffed but not before unlocking all of the animal cages in the zoo. And then Graves(the American) pissed himself and is eaten. NO BUT THAT’S WHAT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED. God fuck this movie. Okay, so Erik and Graves get away from the tigers, get into a car, I really hope that Erik is letting him take him to Kleinmein(Shaw) and is not just a giant tool. It could swing either way really… YOU ATTEMPT TO KIDNAP SOMEONE WHO YOU KNOW CAN MANIPULATE METAL AND YOU PUT HIM IN A CAR AND SIT WITH HIM AND DON’T TRANQULIZE HIM WITH THE GUN IN YOUR HANDS. Worst. Villian. Ever. Award, right there.
Welp, needless to say, Erik takes control of the car and they crash, then says “Shouldn’t you sedate me?” Umm really, yes why, yes he should, but he doesn’t. Because at this point, I’m pretty sure Charles has something to do with all of this, I think he’s taken control of Graves. AND HE HAS. He’s in the driver’s seat of the car they just got into, nice to see you actually using your fucking powers Charles.
Erik: “You know I had a plan back there.” You had no fucking plan Lensherr, don’t even.
Charles: “Yes, I believe it was hitting a fire hydrant and waiting for me to rescue you” Charles wins.
They drive towards a farmhouse in the rain. Erik sneaks into the farmhouse while Charles… (who wrote this)… while Charles summons a bunch of deer to cause a car crash outside between two military trunks. I’m not even making this shit up. Erik waltzes into a basement lab with absolutely no metal like an idiot to meet his maker Kleinmein, and these really creepy pair of blond haired twins. Kleinmein laughs as the twins beat the fuck out of Erik and then attempts to tranq him, but OH SNAP. Erik pulls out a Star of David necklace, the only piece of metal in the room. SAVED BY GOD. Though he doesn’t even use it in a practical way, it’s like brass-knuckle Hollywood bullshit. And while Erik is failing at life, Charles is off somewhere killing the shit out of a German scientist. Yup, yup he is. And Charles frees some captive mutants.(beast, Raven and some others) Erik kills the creepy twins, ruins some soldiers’ day by crushing them with a ceiling and meets up with Charles only to leave him AGAIN, to go after Kleinmein who’s driving away.(Apparently have your neck sliced open by a Star of David is not a legit death). Who he kills by sidestepping away from a tree. I’m very serious. No bending the metal in the car and crushing him, no making the gas tank explode, nope. I’m going to hide this tree behind me and make you crash into it. I. Cannot. Even. He walks away in the rain crying to go find Charles.
Ending = Erik and Charles drive away into the midnight air, with their mutant army and hopes of re-building. Then they buy some land together with plans to make a school, Erik states that he’s good at construction. Hur. But then Erik makes a helmet because after all, he still can’t really trust Charles. Skip to present day – Erik and Charles are old while bickering and listening to Senator Kelly give a speech.
END
FUUUUUUCK. This was so painful to read.”
First reaction: “Your dad’s name is MAGNETO???”As hot as he is, I can’t find Magneto sexy because he has the same name as my dad.
Www. Messy Cherik doodle that I colored…BECAUSE I CAN—but not because I should. Damnit. NEED. TO FOCUS—
Also, someone needs to take Skyrim away from me for just a week or two. The Temptation is driving me insane.
