x-men: first class

well, one week ago, mother took me to see x-men:first class!
i fell in love with the first movie simply because of the soundtrack. :)
but here are all my favourite quotes, trivia and quotes courtesy of imdb:
quotes first:
-[from trailer]
Professor Charles Xavier: Listen to me very carefully, my friend: Killing will not bring you peace.
Erik Lehnsherr: Peace was never an option.
-[from trailer]
Professor Charles Xavier: [to Eric] There's so much more to you than you know, not just pain and anger. There's good in you too, and you can harness all that. You have a power that no one can match, not even me.
-[from trailer]
Erik Lehnsherr: Tomorrow, mankind will know that mutants exist. They will fear us, and that fear will turn to hatred.
-[from trailer]
Erik Lehnsherr: [to the Class] You want society to accept you, when you can't even accept yourselves?
-[from trailer]
Professor Charles Xavier: [to Eric] A new species is being born. Help me guide it, shape it... lead it.
-[from trailer]
Professor Charles Xavier: We have it in us to be the better man.
Erik Lehnsherr: We ALREADY are.
-[from trailer]
Erik Lehnsherr: You want society to accept you. But you can even accept yourself.
-[from trailer]
Young Raven: You're not... scared of me?
Charles Xavier: I always knew I couldn't be the only one who was... different.
-Erik Lehnsherr: Excuse me, I'm Erik Lehnsherr.
Professor Charles Xavier: Charles Xavier.
Logan: Go fuck yourself. (A/N: this was the funniest quote from the movie, BTW! :P)
-Erik Lehnsherr: If you're using half your concentration to look normal, then you're only half paying attention to whatever else you're doing.
Erik Lehnsherr: Just pointing out something that could save your life.
Erik Lehnsherr: You want society to accept you, but you can't even accept yourself.
-Erik Lehnsherr: If you're using half your concentration to look normal, then you're only half paying attention to whatever else you're doing.
Erik Lehnsherr: Just pointing out something that could save your life.
Erik Lehnsherr: You want society to accept you, but you can't even accept yourself.
-Professor Charles Xavier: I suppose I am a professor now. Pretty soon I'll be going bald. (A/N: from the first few x-men movies, he IS bald! :P)
-Hank McCoy: Are you sure we can't shave your head?
Professor Charles Xavier: Don't touch my hair! (more emphasis on how bald he actually is)
-1st German: Who the Hell are you?
Erik Lehnsherr: Let's just say I'm Frankenstein's monster and I'm looking for my creator.
-Hank McCoy: Am I still a bozo?
Alex Summers: Yes Hank, you're still a bozo. But good job.
-Emma Frost: Erik, isn't it?
Erik Lehnsherr: I prefer... MAGNETO!
-Erik Lehnsherr: This is what they wanted, for us to turn against each other. I tried to warn you.
[turns to Moira]
Erik Lehnsherr: You did this.
Professor Charles Xavier: No Erik, you did.
Erik Lehnsherr: I want you by my side. We're brothers, all of us. We want the same thing.
Professor Charles Xavier: Oh my friend, we do not.
-Erik Lehnsherr: My parents didn't have a name. It was taken from them... by pig farmers... and tailors.
-Professor Charles Xavier: [to Angel] How would you like a job where you get to keep your clothes on?
-Erik Lehnsherr: [before Charles uses Cerebro for the first time] What an adorable lab rat you make, Charles.
Professor Charles Xavier: Don't spoil this for me, Erik.
Erik Lehnsherr: I've been a lab rat. I know when I see one.
-Professor Charles Xavier: You know, I believe the true focus lies somewhere between rage and serenity.
-Professor Charles Xavier: I can't feel my legs.
and now for trivia!:
The film is based on the "X-Men" comics 'Uncanny X-Men' (1963) and 'X-Men: First Class' (2006).
-The uniforms the X-Men wear are colored blue and yellow, in homage to the original blue/yellow suits the X-Men wore in the comics from1963 (their debut) to 2001 (when X-Men (2000) and the Grant Morrison written New X-Men comic inspired a change to black leather).
-Director Matthew Vaughn cited the first two X-Films, Star Trek (2009) and the 1960s Bond films as major influences on this film.
-In April 2006 Zak Penn was hired to write and direct this film; he was going to make a prequel about Magneto, in a vein similar to X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009). However, the filmmakers decided to shift the focus from the early years of one mutant to those of the X-Men. Penn found this approach more interesting than what he'd come up with and so stepped down with his blessing.
-Filming was originally to take place on Tybee Island, but a producer browsing on the online map program Google Earth found Jekyll Island to be a more suitable location.
-Matthew Vaughn instructed the cast to do away with all accents in their performances. James McAvoy had planned to copy Patrick Stewart's voice (since McAvoy was going to play a younger version of Stewart's Xavier), but Vaughn quashed it; Vaughn also told Rose Byrne that Moira MacTaggart would not have her trademark Scottish accent in the film (to the Scottish McAvoy's mild disappointment).
-The film was originally to be a prequel about Magneto. Screenwriter Sheldon Turner wrote a treatment which he described as "X-Men (2000) meets The Pianist (2002)": the story focused on Magneto's early years as a prisoner of war in a Nazi concentration camp, until liberation by a squad of Allied Forces led by Charles Xavier. They later meet after the war and become friends, and later become rivals. The studio decided to change the film's direction to the early years of the X-Men, but incorporated aspects of Turner's script into the film.
-To prepare for his role as Erik Lensherr, Michael Fassbender studied Sir Ian McKellen's performance as Lensherr in the previous X-Films, but also looked through the comics as he decided to make his own version of Magneto: "You want to respect what someone else has done, especially because the fan base really liked what Ian has done with it. But while I could have gone and studied him as a young man and brought that to the performance, I don't think Matthew is very interested in that. So I'm just going my own way and working with whatever is in the comic books and the script."-
To prepare for his role as Beast, Nicholas Hoult studied Kelsey Grammer's performance as Beast in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) and Grammar's early series "Frasier" (1993); he also underwent training in athletics, weightlifting and boxing.
-The filmmakers hired an "X-Men" specialist to help the cast understand their roles.
-Charlie Rowe was initially cast as the young Charles Xavier but, due to scheduling conflicts with Neverland (2011) (TV), he was replaced by Laurence Belcher.
-The filmmakers had only two choices for the role of Sebastian Shaw: Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon. They decided to go with Bacon as he was American and seemed more menacing than Firth.
-This film is a reboot that discards the continuity of the other X-Men films.
-The ending fight between Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr was going to have them use their powers, but Matthew Vaughn reasoned that since it was an origin story about the early X-Men the fight had to be a more conventional brawl: "Fox were saying, people want to see super heroes use their powers... but not in this film." "Sometimes they just want to punch each other. That, to me, is what's different."
-During the Cerebro sequence, one of the first mutants to be seen is Storm as a young girl, noticeable by her long white hair and dark skin color.
and finally, goofs: :P
-Revealing mistakes: In a wide shot, Charles moves his legs when lying injured on the beach, despite the fact he is newly paralyzed.
-Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Magneto is riding on the X-Men's plane as it is flying close the ground, only his hair moves with the wind, none of his other clothing appears affected by the wind even though the ground speed of the plane would be very high.
-Factual errors: Erik's memory of celebrating Chanukah with his mother includes a seven-branched candelabra. In Jewish tradition, Chanukah is celebrated with an nine-branched candelabra.
-Revealing mistakes: When the young Raven is in her true form the seams of her costume are clearly visible.
you know, i was so incredibly proud of mother for most of this movie! you see, poor mum's usually a nervous wreck, squeaking with fear and clutching @ me whenever sth even remotely frightening comes up. but last tuesday, she was so remarkably brave! it wasn't until the last ten minutes of the movie, when the war was happening and there were missiles and explosions and stuff, that she started squealing with fear and clutching @ me. but no tears! i thought, "could it really be? could mother really last one whole movie without bursting into tears?" alas, no. pfofessor xavier gets shot, and suddenly mother is blubbering. "well, now we know why he's in a wheelchair." i told mother calmly. she just turns to me and BAWLS, "oh, em, it's so touching! he did it to save his friend! BOOHOOHOO!!" and i'm like, "mother, please get a grip. it's just a movie." XD
and yay, mother also got us one box of popcorn to share! usually, i like to take one lil piece at a time, but mother was instead reaching into the box every so often and grabbing a whole fistful. so i copied her, grabbing a fistful everytime she did. only, i think my way of getting popcorn is better, just one kernel each time, coz doing it mother's way, i ended up with popcorn all over my seat! XD but mother said she apologised to the guy working @ the cinemas who comes in to clean up after each movie, about the mess i'd left. XD
one more thing: there were short snippets of exceedingly beutiful music throughout the movie, like when they were in that metal bunker thing discussing their next course of action.
all in all, a beautiful movie. :)
anyways, next post here should come toms! i haven't written about my experience of going to reflexology yet, and i'm going again toms night, so cya then!
cheers,
em. ^^