X-Men: First decision
X-Men: First Class (original title: X-Men: First Class ) is an American comic adaptation by Matthew Vaughn from 2011. The film takes place in the 1960s and is about the formation of the X-Men . It sees itself as a prequel within the X-Men film series . The film was released on June 9, 2011 in Germany and previously on June 1 in the United States through distribution by 20th Century Fox .
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In occupied Poland in 1944 in a German excite concentration camp , the magnetic forces the attention of the concentration camp scientist of the young German Jew Erik liege Dr. Klaus Schmidt. He tells Erik to use his powers to move a coin and shoots his mother when Erik fails. In the ensuing outburst of anger, the boy unleashes his power, wreak havoc in Schmidt's laboratory and kills two soldiers. Schmidt is pleased to see that pain and anger seem to unleash Erik's powers, and takes him under his wing.
At the same time, the young American Charles Xavier catches a burglar at home who looks and speaks like his mother. He uses his telepathic skills to reveal her, and before his eyes she transforms into a blue-skinned girl named Raven. The two become friends and Charles takes them in.
In 1962 the now grown-up Erik Lehnsherr tries to find his tormentor Klaus Schmidt in order to get revenge on him. He found out about Schmidt's possible whereabouts in South America through a Swiss bank. In a bar in Argentina, however, he only finds two former Nazis whom he kills after a brief argument. He discovers Schmidt in a picture on the wall, and this trace points to Miami .
Meanwhile, the CIA agent Moira MacTaggert is shadowing the so-called Hellfire Club in Las Vegas. She follows a high-ranking US officer into the club, where he meets with Klaus Schmidt, who now calls himself Sebastian Shaw. With the help of the telepath Emma Frost , Shaw puts pressure on the officer to arrange for US nuclear missiles to be stationed in Turkey - i.e. directly in front of Soviet territory. The Colonel is forced to give his consent and is taken to Washington by the teleporter Azazel , where he realizes the project and thus provokes a conflict with the USSR .
Since MacTaggert's superiors do not believe her report, she travels to England to find an expert in genetic research . Charles Xavier has just completed his habilitation there in genetics . She asks him about the possible existence of mutants, whereupon he reads her mind and learns about the events in the Hellfire Club . Together with Raven, the two set off to Washington to convince the CIA that mutants really do exist.
Meanwhile, the officer used by Shaw wants to kill him with a hand grenade, but it turns out that Shaw is also a mutant. He is able to absorb any form of energy and use it for his own purposes. This ability also keeps him young. Shaw absorbs the energy of the exploding hand grenade and kills the Colonel with just touch.
At the CIA headquarters in Langley , Xavier gives a lecture on mutants, but isn't taken seriously until he and Raven demonstrate their skills. Xavier telepathically arranges for them to visit a secret CIA research facility researching paranormal phenomena. There they meet the young scientist Hank McCoy, whom Xavier immediately recognizes as a mutant, which Hank has so far kept from his superiors. The highly intelligent scientist has superhuman strength and agility, but is ashamed of his ape-like feet, which he hides. He and Raven enjoy each other.
During a nightly commando operation, the CIA, with Xavier's help, plans to arrest Shaw on his yacht in the port of Miami. Xavier tries to read Shaw's mind but is blocked by Emma Frost. At the same time, Erik also found Shaw's whereabouts and tried to kill him, but was thrown overboard by Emma Frost. The attacking boats with CIA forces are capsized by Shaw's mutants Riptide , but Erik cuts the yacht with the anchor chains. Shaw and his mutants escape in a submarine that formed the hull of the yacht. In his anger, Erik attaches himself to the submarine with his magnetic forces and is dragged along. Xavier, who noticed the new mutant, plunges into the water and saves Erik from drowning, while Shaw escapes.
With the support of the CIA and Cerebro , Xavier tracks down more mutants. He and Erik set out to recruit them. In doing so, they win over Angel , who has dragonfly wings and can spit fireballs, as well as Banshee , who can emit ultrasonic waves by screaming, Darwin , who can adapt to any environmental condition, and Havok , who can fire energetic rays from his chest.
While the young mutants make friends at the CIA research facility, Xavier, Erik and Moira travel to Russia, where they suspect Shaw. They break into the country residence of a Soviet general, but there they can only overpower Emma Frost. Through a mental connection with her, Xavier now recognizes Shaw's plan: he wants to provoke the USSR by relocating the US missiles to Turkey to station nuclear weapons in Cuba , and thus wants to trigger a nuclear war that annihilates "normal" people and makes the mutants the dominant species.
In the meantime, Shaw attacks the CIA research facility, kills all employees and tries to pull Xavier's mutants over to his side. Fearing Xavier's abilities, he wears a helmet that makes him immune to telepathic attacks. Angel actually joins him. Darwin tries to stop him with Havok, but Shaw kills him.
When Xavier and Erik return and learn of the attack, they decide to train the mutants. In Xavier's country estate, the mutants train their skills under his guidance. McCoy is now using Raven's DNA to develop a serum that is supposed to normalize his different feet and blue skin without making their actual abilities disappear. He injects himself with the serum, which, however, completes his mutation and transforms him into a monkey-like creature with blue fur, whereupon the others call him the Beast .
The Soviet general, who was put under pressure by Shaw, has in the meantime arranged for the USSR to send a cargo ship with medium-range missiles to Cuba, thus triggering the Cuban Missile Crisis. Xavier and his mutants set out for the Caribbean in a jet to prevent the looming third world war.
Ships from the Soviet and US fleets are already facing each other there, ready to attack. Since the Soviet cargo ship is now under Azazel's control and cannot obey the Soviet government's order to withdraw, Xavier has it bombed and destroyed by a Soviet officer under mind control. Shaw, who wears the helmet and is therefore invulnerable to Xavier, follows the events in the immediate vicinity in his submarine. He begins to absorb the energy of the nuclear reactor and wants to trigger an explosion that will eventually lead to war. Banshee tracks down the submarine, and Erik throws it onto the beach on a nearby island. Shaw and Xavier's mutants engage in a skirmish while Erik enters the broken submarine to face Shaw. He is defeated by Shaw, but can distract him and take his helmet off, so that Xavier Shaw immobilizes. Despite Xavier's protest, Erik puts on Shaw's helmet in order to seal himself off from Xavier, and lets the coin, which he could not move as a young boy, slowly penetrate through the head of his mother's defenseless murderer.
Meanwhile, the Americans and Soviets have come to an agreement that they have been pitted against each other and are resolving to end the emerging threat of the mutants here and now. They fire missiles on the island's beach, where Shaw's death has halted the mutants' battle. Erik stops the missiles in the air and steers them back onto the two fleets in order to destroy the "normal" people. Xavier rushes on Erik and the two fight each other. Moira shoots Erik, but he deflects the bullets and one hits Xavier in the back. Shocked by this, Erik briefly loses his concentration and the missiles fall into the sea. Erik says goodbye to his friend and asks the other mutants to follow him. Raven, who now calls herself Mystique and who is attracted to Erik, joins him along with Shaw's mutants, and they are teleported away from Azazel.
Xavier and the remaining mutants Beast, Havok and Banshee return to Xavier's family home. Xavier, who suffered paraplegia from being shot in the back and is now in a wheelchair, erases Moira's memories so that he can build his school for talented young people without the CIA's knowledge.
In the last scene, Erik and his mutants free Emma Frost, who is being held by the CIA. Erik now calls himself Magneto .
Cross references and differences
Scenes from other X-Men films
- The opening scene in the concentration camp was almost completely taken over from the first film X-Men and expanded by the current actors.
Characters from other X-Men films
- In X-Men Origins: Wolverine, a mutant named Emma appears who was able to use a protective diamond shield. Apart from that, both characters have nothing in common in terms of age, period and character.
- While searching for mutants, Erik and Charles meet Logan, who will later become Wolverine (played by Hugh Jackman ), but who sends them away with a "Go on, fuck off!"
- Alex Summers (Havok) is the brother of the mutant Scott Summers ( Cyclops ), who appears in the first three X-Men films.
- When Raven flirts with Erik, he initially rejects her as "too young". She then transforms into an older Mystique, played by Rebecca Romijn , who already embodied Mystique in the first three X-Men films.
Differences from other X-Men films
- Xavier explains in the first X-Men film that he built the Cerebro with Magneto. In X-Men: First Decision , however, Hank McCoy builds Cerebro before he meets Magneto and Professor X. However, this is a smaller version on the CIA premises.
- In the film X-Men 2 , Dr. See Hank McCoy. Although the film is set many years after the events of X-Men: First Decision , in this version the young McCoy has not yet been transformed into the Beast by a failed self-experiment. However, this is later explained by X-Men: Future is Past and X-Men: Apocalypse : There Hank developed a serum with which he can suppress his mutation.
- Professor X tells in the first X-Men film that he and Magneto met when he was 17. At the first meeting of the two characters in X-Men: First decision , however, these are much older.
- In the first two X-Men parts, Mystique has a distorted voice when she is seen in her true form, in X-Men: First Decision , however, she speaks in a normal, human voice.
- In X-Men: First Decision, Moira portrays an approx. 30-year-old woman. In the epilogue of the film X-Men: The Last Resistance , which takes place approx. 40–50 years later, there is another brief appearance by Moira, the however it still represents a 30 to 40 year old woman.
synchronization
The German synchronization was for a dialogue book and the dialogue director of Tobias Meister on behalf of Interopa Film GmbH in Berlin .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Professor Charles Xavier | James McAvoy | Johannes Raspe |
| Erik Lensherr / Magneto | Michael Fassbender | Norman Matt |
| Sebastian Shaw | Kevin Bacon | Udo Schenk |
| Raven Darkholme / Mystique | Jennifer Lawrence | Maria Koschny |
| Hank McCoy / Beast | Nicholas Hoult | Ozan Unal |
| Moira MacTaggert | Rose Byrne | Ranja Bonalana |
| Emma Frost | January Jones | Ilona Otto |
| Alex Summers / Havok | Lucas Till | Martin Kautz |
| Darwin | Edi Gathegi | Marcel Collé |
| Angel Salvadore | Zoë Kravitz | Anne Helm |
| Azazel | Jason Flemyng | Bernd Vollbrecht |
| Janos Quested / Riptide | Álex González | Raúl Richter |
| Sean Cassidy / Banshee | Caleb Landry Jones | Raúl Richter |
| young Charles Xavier | Laurence Belcher | David Kunze |
| young Erik Lensherr | Bill Milner | Paul-Lino Krenz |
| young raven | Morgan Lily | Paulina-Sara Ociepka |
| CIA agent | Oliver Platt | Lutz Schnell |
| Colonel Robert Hendry | Glenn Morshower | Kaspar Eichel |
| CIA Director McCone | Matt Craven | Till Hagen |
| US general | James Remar | Peter Flechtner |
| Pig farmer | Ludger Pistor | Ludger Pistor |
| cutter | Wilfried Hochholdinger | Wilfried Hochholdinger |
| Secretary of State | Ray Wise | Roland Hemmo |
| Logan / Wolverine | Hugh Jackman | Thomas Nero Wolff |
Production and Marketing
| Box office earnings [million] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| territory | U.S$ | € | CHF |
| world | 353.6 | 296.8 | 319.3 |
| Production costs | 160 | 134.3 | 144.5 |
 United States Canada
|
146.4 | 122.9 | 132.2 |
 Germany
|
7th | 5.9 | 6.3 |
 Austria
|
1 | 0.8 | 0.9 |
 Switzerland
|
Not available | ||
| (Access date: February 1, 2015) | |||
After the film opened in theaters on June 3, 2011, it grossed over $ 353 million worldwide on a production budget of around $ 160 million. In Germany, the film has been seen by 648,575 moviegoers since its theatrical release on June 9, 2011.
The first teaser was published on February 10, 2011. The international trailer was released on April 10, 2011. The cinema trailer was released on April 27, 2011.
British group Take That contributed the official theme song Love Love , which was played during the credits.
Reviews
The film received mostly good to very good reviews.
“The convincing expansion of the franchise combines spectacular action with credible character drawings, emotionally gripping conflicts; at the same time, the historical background is skillfully used to reflect on the devastating nature of enemy images and prejudices. - Worth seeing from 14. "
“Fortunately, director Matthew Vaughn remembers his ideological and metaphorical strengths when he talks less about imposing superpowers and more about the empowerment of a bullied minority. Mutant And Proud is consequently the watchword, and the consistently excellent cast of the film carries this claim over the existing lengths of the plot. "
“The naivety of these beginners and the pathos of the new beginnings shape the whole film. Matthew Vaughn, who most recently showed a sense of the ironic and the incorrect with the comic adaptation 'Kick-Ass', opts for the direct strategy, for clear colors and lines like in the early X-Men created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Stapling. Though there's a lot of space age decor, garish outfits, and tech clutter, the pictures look tidy. The action has its drastic moments, but it is assembled at a moderate pace and set rather sparingly between long passages in which the soap operas can unfold, which are as characteristic of the X-Men as the great politics. "
“And despite this predictability, 'First Decision' is fresher, more surprising and less redundant than 'Thor', the superhero film from last month. The latter is mainly due to the fact that the film affords itself the luxury of giving its characters time for their development. While the group of young mutants from 'Biest' to 'Banshee' is allowed to present themselves in individual numbers, the focus of the film is entirely on Charles and Eric, the fascinatingly incompatible friends. One of them, who comes from a privileged family, knows how to bind people to himself through self-confident charm. The other, on the other hand, is shaped by the iron and lonely determination of the early traumatized child. "
Sequels
In May 2014, a sequel called X-Men: Future is Past came to the cinema. Another sequel, X-Men: Apocalypse , premiered on May 9, 2016 , before the series was concluded with X-Men: Dark Phoenix, which was released on June 6, 2019 .
Trivia
- The National Socialists who fled to Argentina , embodied by Ludger Pistor and Wilfried Hochholdinger , speak German in the original English version.
Web links
- X-Men: First Class in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- X-Men: First decision in the online film database
- X-Men: First decision in the dictionary of international films
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for X-Men: First decision . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2011 (PDF; test number: 127 835 K).
- ↑ Age rating for X-Men: First decision . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ X-Men: First decision. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Total box office results from X-Men: First decision at BoxOfficeMojo.com (English), accessed on February 1, 2015.
- ↑ International box office results from X-Men: First decision at BoxOfficeMojo.com (English), accessed on February 1, 2015.
- ↑ X-Men: First Class on boxofficemojo.com (English), accessed December 17, 2011
- ↑ TOP 100 DEUTSCHLAND 2011 on insidekino.de , accessed on December 17, 2011
- ↑ Jordan Raup: Matthew Vaughn's 'X-Men: First Class' trailer . In: The Film Stage . February 10, 2011. Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. Retrieved March 15, 2011.
- ↑ X-Men: First Class Trailer
- ↑ X-Men-Prequel First Class: Don't be embarrassed for mutating at spiegel.de, accessed on June 10, 2011
- ↑ Sabine Horst: X-Men: Only those who mutate remain true to themselves on tagesspiegel.de from June 9, 2011, accessed on December 17
- ↑ As if it were actually magnetic on taz.de from June 8, 2011, accessed on December 17, 2011