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X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (Casting, Rumors, Pics till release)

I'm another one who has found Banshee an odd name for a male character, but it's not an unusual occurrence so I'm not that upset by it.
 
^I'm not upset. In fact, what I in fact originally said was that I found it 'a little bit silly.' But apparently this means I "don't get diversity." Now, that does annoy me.

Of course, the rest of you who've also agreed that you think a male character having a name which means "Woman of the Fairy Mound'' is odd are apparently also guilty of it.
 
Some of you may or may not know that there was until recently a dispute over the writing credit for "X-Men: First Class". A number of writers worked on the project as has been mentioned prior in the thread. A decision was finally made last week and Bryan Singer is not pleased with it nor do I blame him. Jamie Moss wrote the first draft of First Class based on Singer's treatment.

http://www.gointothestory.com/2011/05/complex-x-men-first-class-screenplay.html
 
These writing credit cases are always so damn convoluted. I remember the big to-do when the WGA decided not to give Edward Norton credit for his work on the script for The Incredible Hulk and instead gave full credit to Zak Penn.
 
Well, the previews for this movie have done an amazing thing. They got my Dad into it. He was the guy who said that he was done with comic book movies that weren't the new Batman movies. The whole period piece aspect really interested him. If that can happen, I have really high hopes for this movie now.
 
Captaindemotion said:
^I'm not upset. In fact, what I in fact originally said was that I found it 'a little bit silly.' But apparently this means I "don't get diversity." Now, that does annoy me.

Of course, the rest of you who've also agreed that you think a male character having a name which means "Woman of the Fairy Mound'' is odd are apparently also guilty of it.
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I'm sorry, I didn't mean to say that anyone here was upset by it. I just meant that you see stuff like that alot, in comics, movie, tv, ect. so it's nothing unusual.
 
I caught a trailer for X-Men First Class last night during Thor. It was like the recent one except there were a few new scenes. Looked really good and at least a few people in the audience were into it behind me.
 
JD said:
Captaindemotion said:
^I'm not upset. In fact, what I in fact originally said was that I found it 'a little bit silly.' But apparently this means I "don't get diversity." Now, that does annoy me.

Of course, the rest of you who've also agreed that you think a male character having a name which means "Woman of the Fairy Mound'' is odd are apparently also guilty of it.
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I'm sorry, I didn't mean to say that anyone here was upset by it. I just meant that you see stuff like that alot, in comics, movie, tv, ect. so it's nothing unusual.
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No apology necessary. I was just trying to explain why I got annoyed by exodus' comments. You and I are cool. :)
 
CorporalCaptain said:
Broccoli said:
If anything, Americanizing the characters will probably help the movie move away from absurdity if you consider the time period of the film and that it appears that they are, in some part, working for the US Gov't.
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Meh.

In 1962, the threat of communism was world wide, and the United Nations had already been a major player in the Korean War. Communist expansionism threatened Europe and Asia directly, as well as the United States.

A little preaching of multilateralism is appropriate for today. It would also have been appropriate in 1962, since if people had thought more in those terms then, it might have spared the United States from the quagmire of Vietnam.

We'll see soon enough how much it helps or hurts the film.
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It probably won't make a difference.
 
I just jumped over the last several pages(5-6) cause the Banshee/Rouge codename as literal to the sex seemed pointless reading.
 
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