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astri13You know what else is awesome about X-Men First Class? They bothered to make German sound like actual German. I mean in the cantina scene that one actor was completely fluent and the other did a good enough job of it. And as Michael Fassbender is of German and Irish decent, he is fluent in it as well. Probably doesn't speak often as he carefully enunciates some words but still.
After so many times of movies/shows showing a minor "German" side character who made me wanna rip off my own ears as soon as they opened their mouth, that was a neat attention to detail.
Also, something that cracked me up on my, oh I don't know, twentieth rewatching or so :) for someone who can control minds and make others do as he wants, Erik has a ridiculously easy time to make Charles go along with him at points. Well, until the end that is.
But really, check out Charles and CIA director discussing the use of Cerebro to find other mutants. Charles is all agreeable and excited, seemingly without much qualms. In walks Erik who demands a strictly no-suit policy on the endeavour and Charles? Immediately agrees with that.
Later after the attack on the CIA facility, Charles wants to send the kids home right away. Erik says they need their own little army. And just like that Charles turns around and tells them all they'll have to train.
The one time Charles doesn't give in to Erik (again until the end) is when Erik basically bounces in front of him, giddily wanting Charles to shoot him point blank as training. And note that Charles has no qualms to offer himself and Hank up for target practice for Alex or let Sean attempt to fly out of a second-story window so obviously safety regulations during training are lax at best. But there he stands with the gun in hand and hems and haws adorably and just can't, neatly deflecting the topic to why won't Erik rather raise submarines anyway. In conclusion. Awwwww.
Oh, and a small comment about the Wolverine tells them to "go fuck yourselves" and what do Erik and Charles do? Try to talk to him at least once? Tell him off for being so rude? Punch him in the face? Hm, lets see. *g* Instead they look at each other, shrug and walk out in a quick pace. Bahahahaha. It was like they both went "okay" and off they were. Considering they put that phrase in Wolverine's mouth right there it was just awesome.
After so many times of movies/shows showing a minor "German" side character who made me wanna rip off my own ears as soon as they opened their mouth, that was a neat attention to detail.
Also, something that cracked me up on my, oh I don't know, twentieth rewatching or so :) for someone who can control minds and make others do as he wants, Erik has a ridiculously easy time to make Charles go along with him at points. Well, until the end that is.
But really, check out Charles and CIA director discussing the use of Cerebro to find other mutants. Charles is all agreeable and excited, seemingly without much qualms. In walks Erik who demands a strictly no-suit policy on the endeavour and Charles? Immediately agrees with that.
Later after the attack on the CIA facility, Charles wants to send the kids home right away. Erik says they need their own little army. And just like that Charles turns around and tells them all they'll have to train.
The one time Charles doesn't give in to Erik (again until the end) is when Erik basically bounces in front of him, giddily wanting Charles to shoot him point blank as training. And note that Charles has no qualms to offer himself and Hank up for target practice for Alex or let Sean attempt to fly out of a second-story window so obviously safety regulations during training are lax at best. But there he stands with the gun in hand and hems and haws adorably and just can't, neatly deflecting the topic to why won't Erik rather raise submarines anyway. In conclusion. Awwwww.
Oh, and a small comment about the Wolverine tells them to "go fuck yourselves" and what do Erik and Charles do? Try to talk to him at least once? Tell him off for being so rude? Punch him in the face? Hm, lets see. *g* Instead they look at each other, shrug and walk out in a quick pace. Bahahahaha. It was like they both went "okay" and off they were. Considering they put that phrase in Wolverine's mouth right there it was just awesome.
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Date: 2011-06-19 06:02 pm (UTC)They might have communicated but I took it more as Charles not wanting to alienate Erik right away. He was pleased to see the man stay so backing him up on this matter was going to gain him some modicum of trust.
And probably Charles agreed on some level. He was obviously upset when Raven changed her eye colour in the bar scene, fear of slipping up and so on so his easy-going optimism aside, he must have had some instict to hide.
I am certain the actors had at least one discussion about how their characters should have conversations with each other no one elese ever hears.
I hope the DVD has a cast audio commentary. I love those. And it would crack me up to hear James McAvoy go "yeah, they totally should have had (or had) sex" during the entire movie. *g*