X-Men (2000)

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Wikidata Q106182, film, IMDb tt0120903, TMDB 36657: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Tyler Mane as would-be Thor of a UPN TV show (Thor); 2 more episodes agree.

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Who talked about it

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Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Blade: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Blade ⇒ X-Men (the host's read). Blade is credited as the film that set the tone for the modern superhero era, with X-Men following two years later.
    “the 1st superhero movie that really set the tone for what we consider the modern era of superhero films is Blade, 1998”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:01:16 · Jason Concepcion (0.70 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Blade: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Blade → X-Men. Blade is credited as the film that set the tone for the modern superhero era, with X-Men following two years later.
    “the 1st superhero movie that really set the tone for what we consider the modern era of superhero films is Blade, 1998”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:01:16 · Jason Concepcion (0.70 sure it was them)

Captain Marvel: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Captain Marvel → X-Men. Expository Marvel dialogue needs a stentorian Shakespearean actor like Patrick Stewart or Ian McKellen, which Larson is not.
    “there's a reason that the X-Men movies cast people like Patrick Stewart and Ian McCellen”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:34:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)

Christopher McQuarrie: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Christopher McQuarrie → X-Men. A speaker says McQuarrie and Ed Solomon wrote X-Men although a Singer assistant is solely credited.
    “the X-Men movie was written by Christopher Macquarie and Ed Solomon”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:04:53 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Iron Man: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): X-Men → Iron Man. The X-Men films' approach of introducing everyone at once was the standard until Marvel changed it.
    “that approach is really the kind of, what the standard approach for superhero films was up until that time”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:03:24 · Jason Concepcion (0.60 sure it was them)

Joss Whedon: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): X-Men → Joss Whedon. Whedon's Astonishing X-Men comic captured Cyclops better than the movies did.
    “he's really the 1st guy that captured what makes Cyclops an interesting character.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:46:35 · Jason Concepcion (0.50 sure it was them)

Kevin Feige: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Kevin Feige → X-Men. Feige began as an assistant producer on the X-Men films before running the MCU.
    “started as like an assistant producer on those X-Men films and was put in charge of these properties”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:09:13 · Jason Concepcion (0.50 sure it was them)

Lauren Schuler Donner: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Lauren Schuler Donner → X-Men. Her producing career leans masculine and she got tied to X-Men.
    “even if you look at her career prior to like X-Men and everything, it's mostly pretty masculine films.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:35:38 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

Logan: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Logan → X-Men. Logan works by taking two characters and good supporting actors instead of shoehorning everyone in, as the X-Men films did.
    “I'm just going to take 2 of the characters and surround them with good supporting actors”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:42:59 · David Shoemaker (0.50 sure it was them)

Spider-Man: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Spider-Man → X-Men. Early superhero films ran out of action money, like the first X-Men.
    “that's what the 1st X-Men movie is.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 2:41:41 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.50 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (3)

  1. career (career): Kevin Feige → X-Men. Feige began as an assistant producer on the X-Men films before running the MCU.
    “started as like an assistant producer on those X-Men films and was put in charge of these properties”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:09:13 · Jason Concepcion (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Christopher McQuarrie → X-Men. A speaker says McQuarrie and Ed Solomon wrote X-Men although a Singer assistant is solely credited.
    “the X-Men movie was written by Christopher Macquarie and Ed Solomon”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:04:53 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Lauren Schuler Donner → X-Men. Her producing career leans masculine and she got tied to X-Men.
    “even if you look at her career prior to like X-Men and everything, it's mostly pretty masculine films.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:35:38 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Logan → X-Men. Logan works by taking two characters and good supporting actors instead of shoehorning everyone in, as the X-Men films did.
    “I'm just going to take 2 of the characters and surround them with good supporting actors”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:42:59 · David Shoemaker (0.50 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Captain Marvel → X-Men. Expository Marvel dialogue needs a stentorian Shakespearean actor like Patrick Stewart or Ian McKellen, which Larson is not.
    “there's a reason that the X-Men movies cast people like Patrick Stewart and Ian McCellen”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:34:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)

industry (2)

  1. industry (industry): Spider-Man → X-Men. Early superhero films ran out of action money, like the first X-Men.
    “that's what the 1st X-Men movie is.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 2:41:41 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): X-Men → Iron Man. The X-Men films' approach of introducing everyone at once was the standard until Marvel changed it.
    “that approach is really the kind of, what the standard approach for superhero films was up until that time”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:03:24 · Jason Concepcion (0.60 sure it was them)

lineage (2)

  1. lineage (lineage): Blade → X-Men. Blade is credited as the film that set the tone for the modern superhero era, with X-Men following two years later.
    “the 1st superhero movie that really set the tone for what we consider the modern era of superhero films is Blade, 1998”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:01:16 · Jason Concepcion (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): X-Men → Joss Whedon. Whedon's Astonishing X-Men comic captured Cyclops better than the movies did.
    “he's really the 1st guy that captured what makes Cyclops an interesting character.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:46:35 · Jason Concepcion (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about X-Men: The first X-Men casting was driven by Wizard magazine's casting column; Glenn Danzig was floated as Wolverine.
    “Glenn Danzig, I remember that was like one of the really crazy ones that was thrown.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:05:10 · David Shoemaker (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about X-Men: Why Cyclops is a downer: his eyes would kill everyone he loves.
    “every time he opens his eyes, he threatens to kill everyone that he cares about.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:46:49 · Jason Concepcion (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about X-Men: Krakoa era: mutants become a nation; issue one ends with Magneto saying we're your new gods.
    “the 1st issue ends with Magneto just saying we're your new gods.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:23:46 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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