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some_stars) wrote2011-06-21 11:08 pm
some_stars) wrote2011-06-21 11:08 pm
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I'm watching through First Class again--aside from the boring parts--in an attempt to make my brain go and also to think harder about Raven for this Raven/Hank (and other stuff) fic I'm attempting, the basic synopsis of which is "they get to have sex, it doesn't really help anything, also being a young angry woman in 1962 really really sucks." (Working title: "How to show a girl a good time") So basically, I'm rewatching all scenes with Charles or Raven or Erik in them. And I'm still only at the beginning, and I noticed something so GODDAMN CREEPY I had to post about it: when Erik's at the Swiss bank, and he stops the banker from hitting the alarm button and makes that tsk-tsk noise? It's the same noise Schmidt made just a couple scenes ago when young!Erik couldn't move the coin. He adopted his tics. Suddenly I really viscerally believe that they spent a lot of time together D: D: D: D: D:
ANOTHER THING. This isn't something I just noticed, it's been annoying me since my second viewing: when Erik tells Raven (and possibly Hank too, the eye contact is brief and ambiguous) "if I looked like you, I wouldn't change a thing"--WHY does that get a musical cue of "ominous ominous evil incoming"? He's not a villain yet! There's nothing evil about that line! It's the fucking opposite of evil! See, this is what drives me crazy about XM:FC and to some extent the fandom. Because I don't want to be That Fangirl, the one who is all "omg this mass murderer is so woobie, his precious pain!!1" I DON'T, and I'm NOT, but I think I appear to be and I end up keeping terrible company. But he's not a mass murderer yet, okay, I know the movie treats him like one and gives him a villainous soundtrack and shoots him in ominous ways but HE HASN'T DONE THAT SHIT YET, and I'm not going to think about or write him as if he has. It's just so maddening, because EVERYTHING he does--I mean, jesus, that line! It's practically "Free to Be You and Me" up in here, for god's sake, there's no earthly REASON to score it like that and shoot it like that. This obsession with ominous fake foreshadowing seriously damages the supposed point of the movie, where we're watching how they become their future selves. Because apparently Erik already is his future self and EVERYTHING HE DOES is either evil or promises evil very soon.
But of course so much of the fic that seems to recognize this actually doesn't, it just excuses everything he does and ever will do, including actual mass murder of non-Nazis, because his pain is so attractive. Which is if anything even worse. The trials of my life, I tell you.
Okay, I'm just going to keep updating this as needed. THING NO. 3: In the scene with the "kids" all sitting around coming up with codenames--I can't keep calling them that, but the movie does kind of present them that way contrary to all logic, and anyway I need a collective noun--when Darwin asks Alex what his power is, he says 'gift.' "What is your gift? What can you do?" Not 'power', not anything else more negative than that. I think that's kind of neat--a small distinction and it makes perfect sense and builds a character from the few tiny brushstrokes allowed.
ANOTHER THING. This isn't something I just noticed, it's been annoying me since my second viewing: when Erik tells Raven (and possibly Hank too, the eye contact is brief and ambiguous) "if I looked like you, I wouldn't change a thing"--WHY does that get a musical cue of "ominous ominous evil incoming"? He's not a villain yet! There's nothing evil about that line! It's the fucking opposite of evil! See, this is what drives me crazy about XM:FC and to some extent the fandom. Because I don't want to be That Fangirl, the one who is all "omg this mass murderer is so woobie, his precious pain!!1" I DON'T, and I'm NOT, but I think I appear to be and I end up keeping terrible company. But he's not a mass murderer yet, okay, I know the movie treats him like one and gives him a villainous soundtrack and shoots him in ominous ways but HE HASN'T DONE THAT SHIT YET, and I'm not going to think about or write him as if he has. It's just so maddening, because EVERYTHING he does--I mean, jesus, that line! It's practically "Free to Be You and Me" up in here, for god's sake, there's no earthly REASON to score it like that and shoot it like that. This obsession with ominous fake foreshadowing seriously damages the supposed point of the movie, where we're watching how they become their future selves. Because apparently Erik already is his future self and EVERYTHING HE DOES is either evil or promises evil very soon.
But of course so much of the fic that seems to recognize this actually doesn't, it just excuses everything he does and ever will do, including actual mass murder of non-Nazis, because his pain is so attractive. Which is if anything even worse. The trials of my life, I tell you.
Okay, I'm just going to keep updating this as needed. THING NO. 3: In the scene with the "kids" all sitting around coming up with codenames--I can't keep calling them that, but the movie does kind of present them that way contrary to all logic, and anyway I need a collective noun--when Darwin asks Alex what his power is, he says 'gift.' "What is your gift? What can you do?" Not 'power', not anything else more negative than that. I think that's kind of neat--a small distinction and it makes perfect sense and builds a character from the few tiny brushstrokes allowed.
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I also think that Erik must have spent quite a while with Shaw, because he's ritualised things about him - the coin, the tsk-ing, the genial smile while you do horrible things to people across a table.
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