One Line Review: A deal breaker that changed the history of Sci-Fi movies!
YouTube Trailer X-Men
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Rebeca Romijn, Anna Paquin, Famke Janssen
Director: Bryan Singer
Release Date: 14 July 2000
Introduction
Today was the day when the most iconic film series got started. On 14 July 2000, the first X-Men movie made its first appearance in the theatre, and like any other legendary series, this became an instant sensation between the young crowd.
The series made its place way before the superhero movie was cool. There was no Ironman, no Spider-Man, no Captain America movie. They only existed in comic books. Marvel comics started its marvelous journey to the filmmaking industry through this series, and the rest is history. I hope you will also feel the nostalgia like I do.
Our review for X-Men is 8/10.
Impact on the Young Audience
The movie made a significant impact right away. Remember, there are only comic books for the same series, but Marvel capitalized on the sensation after the release. There were toys all around the comic book stores. Toys include the action figures of the heroes and equipment and weapons used in the film. Halloween that you are changed into an X-Men costume festival whole show people got their haircut like their favorite mutant Hero. Wolverine was the most famous out of them. I guess the claws got the heart pumping.
Trivia
To get into the character of Wolverine, Hugh Jackman used to take ice-cold showers every day early morning without trying to make any noise. This way, he prepared for the character.
Plot Summary
A small mutant girl Marie gets kidnapped by Magneto, who wants to use her superpowers to destroy humankind and its traces from the earth. Magneto believes that mutants and humans can not live with each other. So the X-men (team of mutants created by professor X) gets along and goes on to save Marie from Magneto.
The Tough Screen Writing Job
You already know that the movie is based on comic book series. The comic series was already popular among teenagers (I am talking about when comic book readers were considered normal human beings, not dorks or nerds). So the success was already there.
The only thing required was a team of screenwriters who can take the story from a short comic book and create a 2-hour long screenplay based on which the movie is to be made. You can guess the challenge alreadyβpretty tough job. I don’t know what was going in the mind of those writers when they got assigned for the job, but it turned out so good that it was created by billions of fans and billions of dollars.
The attempt was so successful that the studio decided to develop trilogies for each major mutant superhero with their back story and challenges. Now comes the direction part.
Directing
Directing was also not easy. It wasn’t just a regular movie that is being shown to a cold audience. The problem was the audience they were targeting was already familiar with everything. They already knew who the villain, who is the most powerful mutant of all, is the funniest and witty (Deadpool, of course). They already had a paradigm, or you can say a frame in their mind. So the director had to match the expectation. He had to fit in the frame. But, boy, did he finish the job like a boss.
Acting
The acting job also had predetermined standards. The actor had to behave as their character behaves in the comic books. Their way of talking, walking, and the fact that who will be the ladiesβ man was already decided. The creativity was very narrow for the actor. Almost no improvisations. This must’ve become a pain in the back for the cast. It’s like being born as a girl in India. You have to behave like what people want you to act.
Sequels
They had plans to launch further parts of the movie. So X-men has eight films under the belt. The studio also decided to make trilogies of Wolverine and Deadpool, out of which we have three for Wolverine and two for Deadpool.
Conclusion
The conclusion is I’m sad. I’m sad because when I was finishing writing this review, I remembered the last Wolverine movie, Logan. I didn’t like the way it ended. I didn’t want Wolverine to die. The film was outstanding, but the reason why I was watching the movie was over at the end. I developed a profound connection with him. Maybe that’s why we called X-men the most iconic film above. Iconic things create severe relationships in the heart.
