Reel Creativity, I'd say!

Henry Jackman can create such wonderfully inspiring music - indeed.

Just have a look at what it inspires!

It is undeniable that great music creates great things; it has great side-effects, it inspires greatness! A great soundtrack enhances the average movie from the bowels of mediocrity onto a level of respectability it had little hope of attaining otherwise - not that I am totally and completely of the opinion that it is the case with this latest X-movie - but you can figure out what I am really screaming out loud here - albeit all in writ!

And so, with all that in mind, let us see the results, compare them and rate them!

Is it not what this very blog is all about, after all?

The first clip is taken from the end credits of the movie itself: inspired by the overall production, and the music of course, the crew concocted something magical based upon the genome code, the theme of the film and old-style James Bond credits that were 007's trademark, really - and why not, since X-Men: First Class harkens back to the days of the Cold War, is set in the swinging sixties, features (quite heavily too) that British factor *and* truly stars a mutant version of Bond (in his "gotta get Blofeld" mode) in the Erik Lensherr character! Although some fanboys see other things in it... We will not get into that! (Or, maybe, we will..! Read on!)

From that end credits magic another creation was made - animation that, quite simply, supercedes the first! Don't believe me? View the evidence, on the second screen below:








After Jackman's inspirational notes, during the end credits of this film, there is yet another somewhat surprising musical piece that rounds things up for the muties, in unorthodox fashion, really: the British all-grown-up boyband Take That were commissioned to add their two cents and their contribution is an anti-hatemongering, anti-prejudice universal love message that gets to be misinterpreted left and right... Hence the reason why it is a surprising and odd choice, although some of the scarce lyrics written for the piece actually do touch upon the subject matter of this flick - still, it is not quite enough...
But that is another story, really...

However, since we're on the X-case, why not pick a winner between these as well:








It's ridiculously easy to see something else into these lyrics, and images - but, really, there is nothing more than the overall message of acceptance of the wretched mutants and freaks of this world - really!

The temptation is always too great to resist when one wants to see something they so desperately would want to see there but that just isn't there: but if one wants to see it there, one will, no matter what! However, perverting a friendship (or, in truth, an uneasy collaboration) when all that is there, in general, is a fable about the intolerance of the masses and the Establishment - and the original intent was to create a parallel with teenage angst, the Cold War and mankind's traditional fear of the "unknown" - which may include several types of outcasts of society, sure, but never any sort of "recruitment drive" in the sense that the GLBTA would have it...
The "LoveLove" here is Universal Love, morons - not ramming it up you know where!
No, there are no "go gay" vibes in this X-First Class - WHATSOEVER!
Anyone who sees that in there is just a queer wishful thinker...


But I sense they won't give up, so, in closing, I challenge them all to see a gay message in this one too:

Music: two steps from hell: Heart Of Courage 

two steps from hell: Protectors OF The Earth

Lego: nothing gayer than that, right?

(Kidding!)