![]() ![]() The new film, directed by Matthew Vaughn ( Kick-Ass), boasts established stars Kevin Bacon, Rose Byrne and January Jones, along with rising talents Nicholas Hoult, Zoë Kravitz, Oscar nominee Jennifer Lawrence and Bill Milner. He's more of a realist than Charles, even if he is a cynic." A lot of (his dire predictions of human treatment of mutants), happens. "The fact that he is a Holocaust survivor, that he did try to live a normal life and there was the death of his child and his subsequent revenge and therefore, essentially, his mistrust of the human race you can see where it's coming from. It's quite easy to make choices because of that," says Fassbender. "There was so much history in the character, so much reference material, that I could definitely have a picture in mind - right from the first scene, I know what his very strong, clear objective is. The new movie is set about 40 years before those others, when Erik and Charles first become close friends - until their divergent views of mutant-human relations cause an unfixable rift between them. There is a decent individual at the core of it all," says Michael Fassbender, who, for X-Men: First Class, takes over the role originated in the Singer films by Ian McKellen. "I suppose in some ways there are heroic elements within him. Eventually Magneto will choose war with Homo sapiens to defend the very existence of mutantkind. ![]() ![]() In this way, he bears comparison to none other than Hannibal Lecter - like him, a Holocaust survivor - in his devaluation of human life. This doesn't come out of some random megalomania before he became Magneto, Erik Lehnsherr was just a person of prodigious burgeoning gifts whose worldview was permanently altered by personal tragedies. At the opposite pole from X-Men leader Charles Xavier, he is one of the world's most powerful mutants - considering his name, he unsurprisingly harnesses the power of magnetism - but one with a bona-fide vision of a new world order: mutants, or Homo superior, taking their rightful place atop the hierarchy after years of being oppressed by inferior humans with homo-superiorphobia. ![]()
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