Week 6

This is kind of an image, but kind of not; I'm going with the more liberal view the class proposed on blog prompts this week. A picture is an image...so isn't a moving picture one? Anyway, I watched a movie trailer, which might seem lame or dumb at first, but it was for the next X-Men movie, called X-Men: First Class. A lot of people don't like the way that the directors have changed the movies around from their comic origins, but I find enjoyment in a good film, regardless of stupid biases or cultural uprising. The trailer began by showing pictures of a couple characters from the original X-Men movie trilogy, named Charles and Erik (Professor X and Magneto). And then after each showed pictures of them in their young age, in this film. This created both a feeling of nostalgia and a feeling of intrigue, along with increasing excitement to see what would happen next. The next part of the trailer had a presidential address from the Cuban missile crisis playing in the background (this is in the 60s) as everything else was occurring; images of that era's events, and of the characters and so on. From that point it gradually builds everything up, displaying unwillingness to adapt, the outsider nature of the mutants, and rising anger for injustice from Erik. There is not much dialogue through the trailer. The next part is just a montage of a lot of dramatic, action-filled scenes, designed to evoke excitement and shock in the audience. The final part of the trailer shows a small exchange between the friends, with Charles saying "Violence is not the way to peace," and Erik responding with "Peace was never an option." Immediately following this, the characters are shown standing in the loading bay of an airplane, hanging in mid-air, while Erik's hand is outstretched, his face contorted with effort and anger. He is lifting a submarine out of the ocean and suspending it in slow motion above the fleet pursuing them. I don't know about you, but that image instills one thing into my mind: see this movie.