Before Nick Fury showed up in Tony Stark’s living room, there was X-Men . The movie ends with a haunting shot of Magneto in a plastic prison, calmly walking toward the camera. When a guard asks him what he wants, he replies, "Peace... and a glass of water." He then looks up to see a piece of metal in the floor.
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Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and Magneto (Ian McKellen) are not simply hero and villain. They are ideological twins—two survivors of trauma (Xavier's unspecified past, Magneto's Holocaust survival) who arrive at opposite conclusions about coexistence. Xavier is Martin Luther King Jr., advocating for peace, tolerance, and integration. Magneto is Malcolm X (at least in his earlier, more militant phase), arguing that evolution has declared mutants superior, that humanity will always fear them, and that preemptive self-defense is not only necessary but righteous. Before Nick Fury showed up in Tony Stark’s
For those searching for the moment the modern superhero genre grew up, look no further than the year 2000. Look for the black leather. Look for the cage match in the woods. Look for the claws coming out for the very first time. and a glass of water
If x men.2000 had failed, Christopher Nolan would have likely never gotten Batman Begins made. Kevin Feige, who was a less-producer on this film, learned the lessons of character-first storytelling that he would later apply to Iron Man and The Avengers.
Critics predicted a disaster. Instead, they got a masterpiece of restraint.