Charles Xavier: "Your violence will solve nothing. We must use our special gifts to bring peace to mankind." Magneto: "You're a fool, Charles. Look at them. They can't even make peace with each other." - X-Men: The Animated Series, 1992
+spideyfan2002 "Ladies and gentlemen we appear to have misplaced our reel of the new X-Men film, but we did manage to find a copy of Shoah for you to watch for the next 9 hours.
I admire Bryan Singer for having the courage to do this opening. Yes, X-Men First Class had this scene reshot, but most superhero movies don't approach this level of depth and maturity anymore, which is a shame.
@@7hew0lv3r1ne that's my biggest fear. Especially with Magneto. The fear that we'll use him as an example, will loose his entire reasoning behind why he hates humans and instead Disney may just say "Oh he got bullied a lot"
when I saw this I had no idea that this was during ww2 and that they were at concentration camps I just thought that they had to separate for a while and magneto was so distraught that he decided to break the gates idk
I mean what exactly is Charles supposed to say in response to this? “Gee Erik, I’m sorry you got ripped away from your mother by Nazis, but I still think you need to calm down a bit.”
Basically that's what makes Magneto so complex! He was a holocaust survivor and an mutant. And after the holocaust, he no longer have faith in humanity because of how they treated him. If the Holocaust and WW2 never happened, we probably wouldn't have a Magneto.
@@-RMZB We have done all this throughout history, it isnt anything new. Still im sure he was doing the [redacted] joke. like the [redacted] that occurred in china. I mean...did not occur.
Are you saying that this isn't for old people? implying that their softies? cause I think right now most of the holocaust survivors are already like 70+ so it's kinda ironic Also in a way magneto is a superhero for grandpas cause he is usually portrayed as an old man
I remember back when I was 5 years old we had this movie on DVD (I was 2 when it came out so I was too young to watch it) I was starting to get into superheros and I didn't know what the holocaust was at the time. I asked my dad about it and he told me it was a very bad thing in the worlds past, after the movie ended he took me to the local library amd got me a few books on it because he wanted me to learn about it in my own way but he'd be around if I had questions. He instilled a love of learning and how important it is to learn from history at a young age.
That's good your dad did that. The vast majority of parents probably have limited knowledge of it or even the willingness to learn about it. History is being suppressed in schools. I too was able to learn about that dark past. Growing up in a Jewish community and meeting holocaust survivors had a huge impact on me.
Your dad is a great man for teaching you about history, rather than trying to pretend like it never happened which would’ve inadvertently taught you to be offended by everything. It was a terrible thing that happened but it’s important to know that those kind of things did happen, because evil people feed on ignorance.
@@nickc3856 Not funny, dummy. 1.1 million people died here. Many were executed. Most of the others died of disease or starvation. Crawl back into your hole.
i cant think of a more intense intro for a comics hero movie yet made in hollywood; maybe even any movie produced by hollywood. 22 years later and it still delivers chills
I felt alittle bit more tension from this version than the 2011 version, both were good (Seeing we got to see what happened to his mum), but her screaming and the father having to cover her mouth so she wouldn't get shot down right there, just sent chills down my spine. Very well performed on Bryan Singers part per the actors.
I feel like the original NEEDED more tension as this was during the time where comic adaptations weren’t seen as seriously;nowadays,we’d praise and show more love towards proper adaptations;but audiences weren’t at that point yet (guess that’s the reason Bryan Singer told everyone NOT to read the comics and create their OWN version of the characters (Hugh Jackman didn’t listen,which is why we had an accurate Wolverine)).First Class was when we were at that point and had more accurate adaptations of the characters such as Kelsey Grammer’s Beast.
The audience in my theatre were BLOWN away the bad guy was a holocaust survivor - WTF?????? Back in 2000 - this was a GIANT leap Prior to this - comic book movies were thought of as Batman and Robin
A lot of people dub Christopher Nolan as the first director to successfully show that superhero movies can be dark... I call BS. This scene changed grounds in the superhero movies. Not saying Nolan didn't either but Nolan was not the first by far.
+BeingHonest Umm wrong XMEN movies are owned by FOX Studios... They stayed out of bankrupcy by selling the rights to the XMEN and Fantastic $ to FOX and Selling rights to Spiderman to Sony. Then after gling a bit and being successful in 2008 with Iron Man a bit later after a few movies Disney buys the Marvel Studios and rest is hiostory
Tim Burton's Batman still felt like Tim Burton films. They were darker but weren't realistic feeling and serious. Blade to me isn't a superhero film as much as a vampire hunter film. I know he is a superhero basically because he's a Marvel character but even Blade felt corny at times with the one liners and such. It's funny. There's a lot of people out there who still don't even realize Blade is a Marvel character.
+Santee Cruzer Tim Burton's Batman felt almost like an extension of Beetle-juice. But hey, the movie was entertaining and it certainly had a lot of funny deaths in it too.
@@MAnuscript421 especially this one 1:17 where it looks like he wants to say something but can't in fear of getting punished worst reminds of that scene from Sophie's choice where the girl thought she was actually in the holocaust
When I was a little kid I didn't understand this scene of the concentration camp, only after the classes of history of World War II and when I saw Schindler's list and The Pianist I finally understood. But still I can't believe how the nazis were capable of such things like this.
And any one is capable of extreme violence and prejudice..look at the riots going on lol against trump ...he hasn't done any of these things and yet folks hate him and they don't even kno why
Great scene, Ive translated some of the shouty dialogue 1:16 Erik Polish: "Prosze, nie!" English: "Please, no!" 1:24 Mom Polish: "Moje dziecko, prosze prosze, nie! Jestem jego matka! Moje dziecko!" English: "My child, please please, no! I'm his mother! My child!" 2:01 Erik: Polish: "mamusiu, ratunku..." English: "mommy, help me..." I don't know if this was intended, but "mamusiu" is a very sweet and loving way to call your mom, which could mean they had a good bond - makes the scene even sadder on my eyes. Interesting that they speak in Polish? I thought Eric's family was German but moved to Poland shortly before being captured?
Mateusz Chojnowski remember that in central and Western Europe most Jewish were Ashkenazi and yet they use Yiddish which is based on an old German viarity, for that reason there might be Jewish people with "Germans" last names in places like Poland, Ukraine, Romania among other places where there was a huge amount of Ashkenazi communities.
Magneto isn't truly evil. He's the comic equivalent of Malcolm X like Charles Xavier is the equivalent of Martin Luther King Jr. Magneto suffered through the holocaust and saw what mankind was capable of when at its worst. This and the way the nazis treated jews and other different beings makes him doubt mutants and humans can get along together.
Stan Lee(rest his soul) said he came up with the idea of mutants from people of different colours and heritages, and how we were segregated or something like that i cant remember that much
@@kobi7955 hate to comment this late, but the Mutant Metaphor, as it is called in the community, is a subject of much debate, both textually and in the real world. There are aspects of sexuality (being in the mutant “closet” is the subject of many character arcs) race (what it means to be a “visible” mutant vs. a mutant who is “human passing”) and even disability politics (especially in the cases of Charles Xavier and Hank McCoy) that play a major role in the Mutant Metaphor. I think the X-Men as a story has always been politically progressive for the time they exist in, and the ways in which mutants are used as metaphors for marginalized struggles have constantly been evolving. It’s what makes the X-Men one of the most consistently interesting books at Marvel
I remember seeing this in the theater when it first opened!!! It was a packed theater and it set the tone of how dark and menacing his past was. When it started showing the bars being bent, you hear people saying “Magneto” and people were getting hyped. You don’t see this depth of darkness and origin anymore. And in 2000, there were still thousands of Holocaust survivors, so it must have triggered many emotions. I wish superhero movies returned to this level of drama ❤️
If you really think about it. Magneto has every right to hate humanity as not only did humanity treat him badly because he was Jewish but also because he was a mutant. He got the double dose of evil. So in all honesty, how is he a villain when he had to endure one of the most evilest things that humanity could have ever done to someone. You can only take so much hate.
WhenxChristxReturnsx He's an anti-villain, not an anti-hero. In stories, an anti-hero is a protagonist who has questionable morals. Magneto is the antagonist of the story, but has understandable and sometimes sympathetic views and intentions, making him and anti-villain.
sassbrat But Magneto is out of line to generalize all humans. Not everyone are anything like the Nazis who held him prisoner at the concentration camp and by attacking them, he becomes just as monstrous as the men that tortured him. He reminds me of Gerard Butler's character in the movie , "Law Abiding Citizen" where after his wife and daughter are murdered, we root for him to get his revenge on the men whom killed them but when he starts murdering judges and lawyers, you realize that he has to be stopped by any means necessary. That's how I feel about Magneto.
@@thebalkanguy5256 I think the OP meant: "The Holocaust horror was too much for some audience members to bear," so "too realistic" in that way. But not realistic in the sense that no one actually has the superpower to telekinetically pull open metal gates.
Legendary scene, powerful move start a series based on superheroes like this. When I saw this as a kid I knew they are taking superheroes serious this time.
I was 11 years old when I saw this scene for the first time. It was the first time I had ever seen Magneto use his powers on the big screen and I was absolutely spell bound. From this scene onward I was completely absorbed in the movie.
this has to b one of the best movie intro scenes of all time, its so horrifying on so many levels. if you dont know the comics that well then its strange to see someone do something so terrifying as smash the gate without even touching it, and even if you did know the comics, could you possibly expect a scene like this to b so horrifying in the ways that only Holocaust scenes can deliver?
Magnificent sequence, truly memorable. So many emotions: the horror of the concentration camp, the anguish of separation, shock and amazement when the metal is twisted.
I would say that this opening scene was one of the things that MADE this movie. It set it up perfectly. You don't need anymore reason for why Magneto would be the way he is and you don't need anymore reason to see why prosecuting someone for being different is wrong no matter what.
I loved seeing this in theatres with people who were diehard fans of the comics. I didn't know what was going on with this character, but once the fence started moving, all the comic fanatics were squirming around going "OMG YES!! THIS IS AWESOME!" It got me so excited :D
The moment the father understood he and his wife were going to die, so he puts his hand on her mouth so their son can have a chance that when the tears come T_T
From what I read, the comic version of how Magneto discovered his powers was even darker. He and his family were to be executed for escaping the Warsaw Ghetto and buried in a mass grave. Magneto was the only survivor of that massacre because his magnetic powers stopped the bullets aimed at him but not his family.
They both saw the world for what it was. They just had different objectives to change it to what they wished the world to be. Charles saw coexistence and Erik wanted domination and kinda became what he hated.
X men 1- magneto in Auschwitz X men 2 - nightcrawler attack in oval office X men 3 - angel cutting off his wings All three of these opening scenes are amazing
My dad didn't bother to let me watch this movie when I was six or seven, he even explained to me what happened in WW II, some may say it's irresponsibility and overexposure of a child but I call it good parenting. I loved Magneto even tho he was a villain.
"So, you're about to make an inaugural title in a new age of superhero films, whose larger than life adventures will dominate summer box offices for decades to come. How did you want to start?" *Singer, DeSanto, & Hayter:* "We were thinking a gray, gut-wrenching scene in the middle of one of the worst events humanity has ever experienced."
Just watched X-Men First Class (2011), and the opening scene is literally the exact same as this one from 2000. Totally brought me back to the first time I saw X-Men as a little kid. Really cool that they recreated this powerful scene for the 2011 reboot. reminded me how powerful this scene was as a little kid. I mean, either they meticulously re-shot this scene by scene for First Class, or they borrowed some of the original footage from the 2000 version....it was so perfectly re-created! The young boy looks to be a different actor, but maybe some of the general shots are the old ones. Wasn’t sure if anyone knew how they filmed the 2011 version of this!
The audience in my theatre were BLOWN away the bad guy was a holocaust survivor - WTF?????? Back in 2000 - this was a GIANT leap Prior to this - comic book movies were thought of as Batman and Robin
Yeah, that would actually work. And maybe the story will be a Young Magneto trying to escape and leading his people to freedom by beating up Nazis, think the Shawshank Redemption meets X-Men. Yeah I know it's not historically accurate, but this is a comic book movie!
I reeeally freaking wish we had closure of magneto’s fate in Logan. I mean we don’t know for sure he was one of the mutants Charles accidentally killed
Charles killed everyone at the Mansion, it’s less likely that magneto was there. But Charles was dying of dementia and old age, and Magneto was older than him so there’s a decent chance he passed away some time before
The very first scene of a movie that began the revival of the superhero genre and eventually led to the popularity and dominance of superhero movies in cinemas today.
Although this was only a good x-men film, starting it like Schindler’s List was a bold move. That and casting a guy who recently played an escaped Nazi as a vengeful Jew was also a stoke of genius.
It's such a powerful scene that there was no way you could have left out even though first class was a reboot. Honestly, I believe this scene alone is what legitimized comic book movies as art. I remember going into this movie thinking it was going to be the biggest piece of crap since batman and robin. Then this scene happened and I was completely sold. All my previous skepticism was erased. And X-Men turned out to be a pretty damn good film. As an X-Men movie, it still ranks highly up there. The moms scream at 1:37 still gives me chills.
They even used some of the film from this opening. When the Nazi soldier hits Erik on the head, in First Class you can tell it's the same shot, they just grafted the new Erik's face onto the old Erik.
Magneto's hatred towards humans is completely understandable, especially after all the horrors and the heartache he has had to endure because of them... i don't blame him for hating humans, sometimes I do too
He suffered and disctrimates through the hand of humans before he even knew he was a mutant. He also discriminates and suffered after he understood what he is . Poor magneto
Charles Xavier: "Your violence will solve nothing. We must use our special gifts to bring peace to mankind."
Magneto: "You're a fool, Charles. Look at them. They can't even make peace with each other."
- X-Men: The Animated Series, 1992
Tbf Magneto was the target through a total of 3 genocide attempts. Charles is just living through one and spent his life hiding.
Magneto x men
@@jackster9775wait. During WW2, the hunt of the mutants, what’s the third one?
Yo just saw that episode no lie 😂
How humanity is capable of this is beyond me.
To know that around this time, Wolverine and Sabertooth are storming the beach of Normandy.
And soon enough Wolverine will be imprisoned in Nagasaki before the atom bomb
Probably a few years after in fact.
And Captain America is off fighting Nazi’s
@@itsmedanika7301 and so is wonder woman
@@putocelular9375 nope
I remember seeing this in the theatre and thinking, "Did I go into the wrong movie?"
+spideyfan2002 "Ladies and gentlemen we appear to have misplaced our reel of the new X-Men film, but we did manage to find a copy of Shoah for you to watch for the next 9 hours.
+spideyfan2002 If that was the case then everyone would have died of boredom about 40 seconds in
***** Pftt. Whatever floats your boat.
+inFamousVonVirus not every movie has to bee filled with action and magic powers
Merriell Shelton I'm aware of that. I just found Schindler's List to be an incredibly boring, overrated movie.
I admire Bryan Singer for having the courage to do this opening. Yes, X-Men First Class had this scene reshot, but most superhero movies don't approach this level of depth and maturity anymore, which is a shame.
Very true
IN my opinion, this opening has more raw emotion than First Class.
I hope when the X-Men are integrated into Marvel Studios, they don't lose their depth and emotionally resonant attributes.
@@IBESMusic94 damn you stole my comment. 😂 I was gonna put that
@@7hew0lv3r1ne that's my biggest fear. Especially with Magneto. The fear that we'll use him as an example, will loose his entire reasoning behind why he hates humans and instead Disney may just say "Oh he got bullied a lot"
"I have been at the mercy of men following orders my whole life...Never again".
Fucking chills man
yeah... I cannot think of a worse thing to say to a holocaust survivor than the literal Nuremberg Defense. It's like Charles, Charles, wtf?
@@kate1600”what a poor choice of words”
This is one of the best opening sequences for a movie ever!!
Just rewatched this movie. Completely forgot how dark this into was.
They ruined it in first class
@@shuukoanisong2897 Will you shut up, first Class did it better and was a far superior movie to this. It is actually the top 4 x men movies.
when I saw this I had no idea that this was during ww2 and that they were at concentration camps
I just thought that they had to separate for a while and magneto was so distraught that he decided to break the gates idk
@@chriszone50 Nobody ever talks about how First Class is responsible for 90% of the continuity problems in the franchise
You really can't help but sympathize with Magneto after watching this :/
I mean what exactly is Charles supposed to say in response to this? “Gee Erik, I’m sorry you got ripped away from your mother by Nazis, but I still think you need to calm down a bit.”
Basically that's what makes Magneto so complex! He was a holocaust survivor and an mutant. And after the holocaust, he no longer have faith in humanity because of how they treated him. If the Holocaust and WW2 never happened, we probably wouldn't have a Magneto.
Monsters aren’t born, they are created.
Aragorn Elessar it’s actually overthinking and being naive that makes you think some stuff are too cruel to be true.
@@-RMZB We have done all this throughout history, it isnt anything new. Still im sure he was doing the [redacted] joke. like the [redacted] that occurred in china. I mean...did not occur.
One hell of a way to announce to the world that this ain't your grandpa's superhero movie.
Project Two Five Zero One same with Watchmen and V For Vendetta( well that one wasn't strictly a superhero movie, but it was still DC Comics).
Still the most powerful opening scene to any superhero movie ever.
Because this movie we had Spiderman (2002), and because Spiderman we had Ironman and all the UCM today
Shuuko Anisong Dont Forget Batman Begins. Kevin Feige said that Begins was a huge influence to the MCU.
Are you saying that this isn't for old people? implying that their softies?
cause I think right now most of the holocaust survivors are already like 70+
so it's kinda ironic
Also in a way magneto is a superhero for grandpas cause he is usually portrayed as an old man
I remember back when I was 5 years old we had this movie on DVD (I was 2 when it came out so I was too young to watch it) I was starting to get into superheros and I didn't know what the holocaust was at the time. I asked my dad about it and he told me it was a very bad thing in the worlds past, after the movie ended he took me to the local library amd got me a few books on it because he wanted me to learn about it in my own way but he'd be around if I had questions. He instilled a love of learning and how important it is to learn from history at a young age.
That's good your dad did that. The vast majority of parents probably have limited knowledge of it or even the willingness to learn about it. History is being suppressed in schools. I too was able to learn about that dark past. Growing up in a Jewish community and meeting holocaust survivors had a huge impact on me.
Your dad is a great man for teaching you about history, rather than trying to pretend like it never happened which would’ve inadvertently taught you to be offended by everything. It was a terrible thing that happened but it’s important to know that those kind of things did happen, because evil people feed on ignorance.
Good dad. Mine liked booze and drugs and beating everyone in the house.
At least it wasn’t a dull environment 😂
@@ChadKakashibro I think you should report that😢
this made me very happy and your dad was awesome
Unspeakable atrocities occurred there, it's no wonder magneto wants revenge.
As a Jew, or a mutant?
+Ragitsu both
As much as I oppose Magneto in his whole world hatred, I understand his anger...
@@nickc3856 Huh?
@@nickc3856 Not funny, dummy. 1.1 million people died here. Many were executed. Most of the others died of disease or starvation. Crawl back into your hole.
i cant think of a more intense intro for a comics hero movie yet made in hollywood; maybe even any movie produced by hollywood. 22 years later and it still delivers chills
I come back to rewatch this scene every few years. It amazing well done. The chills are real
I felt alittle bit more tension from this version than the 2011 version, both were good (Seeing we got to see what happened to his mum), but her screaming and the father having to cover her mouth so she wouldn't get shot down right there, just sent chills down my spine.
Very well performed on Bryan Singers part per the actors.
Yeah I watched the 2011 one right after this and the music and especially the mother screaming in this one sell the horror in this really well.
I feel like the original NEEDED more tension as this was during the time where comic adaptations weren’t seen as seriously;nowadays,we’d praise and show more love towards proper adaptations;but audiences weren’t at that point yet (guess that’s the reason Bryan Singer told everyone NOT to read the comics and create their OWN version of the characters (Hugh Jackman didn’t listen,which is why we had an accurate Wolverine)).First Class was when we were at that point and had more accurate adaptations of the characters such as Kelsey Grammer’s Beast.
Marvel: I want an unforgetable opening targeted to children.
Fox: Hold my beer.
The audience in my theatre were BLOWN away
the bad guy was a holocaust survivor - WTF??????
Back in 2000 - this was a GIANT leap
Prior to this - comic book movies were thought of as Batman and Robin
A lot of people dub Christopher Nolan as the first director to successfully show that superhero movies can be dark... I call BS. This scene changed grounds in the superhero movies. Not saying Nolan didn't either but Nolan was not the first by far.
+BeingHonest Umm wrong XMEN movies are owned by FOX Studios... They stayed out of bankrupcy by selling the rights to the XMEN and Fantastic $ to FOX and Selling rights to Spiderman to Sony. Then after gling a bit and being successful in 2008 with Iron Man a bit later after a few movies Disney buys the Marvel Studios and rest is hiostory
+Santee Cruzer Well, what about Stephen Norrington and a little movie called Blade?
Tim Burton's Batman still felt like Tim Burton films. They were darker but weren't realistic feeling and serious. Blade to me isn't a superhero film as much as a vampire hunter film. I know he is a superhero basically because he's a Marvel character but even Blade felt corny at times with the one liners and such. It's funny. There's a lot of people out there who still don't even realize Blade is a Marvel character.
What's the difference between Blade fighting evil vampires and the X-men fighting evil mutants?
+Santee Cruzer Tim Burton's Batman felt almost like an extension of Beetle-juice. But hey, the movie was entertaining and it certainly had a lot of funny deaths in it too.
"The humans must be crushed, and I have the power to do it" - Magneto X-Men animated 90's
Way better and so much more emotion than the one in First Class.
Amazing acting from the kid playing young Erik.
The build up is longer ans the scene goes longer. The first class version is heavily edited and shortend
@@MAnuscript421 especially this one 1:17 where it looks like he wants to say something but can't in fear of getting punished worst
reminds of that scene from Sophie's choice where the girl thought she was actually in the holocaust
You can actually feel for him, despite all he does later in life
From this scene began the resurgance of Marvel in 2000
Blade?
A lot of casual marvel fans don't know blade is a part of the marvel universe.
Stan Lee was a Jew who changed his last name to avoid discrimination.
William Levy I don’t think so
@@SuperDeadpool4321 blade isnt everyones type of movie, unlike the x men films
When I was a little kid I didn't understand this scene of the concentration camp, only after the classes of history of World War II and when I saw Schindler's list and The Pianist I finally understood. But still I can't believe how the nazis were capable of such things like this.
Same here
Wasn't nazies who did this it was the SS and even then they were mostly just giving and following orders
And any one is capable of extreme violence and prejudice..look at the riots going on lol against trump ...he hasn't done any of these things and yet folks hate him and they don't even kno why
But the SS are nazis too
@@chadwickmacarthur4760 The SS was the military arm of the Nazis. They were very much Nazis.
Great scene, Ive translated some of the shouty dialogue
1:16 Erik
Polish: "Prosze, nie!"
English: "Please, no!"
1:24 Mom
Polish: "Moje dziecko, prosze prosze, nie! Jestem jego matka! Moje dziecko!"
English: "My child, please please, no! I'm his mother! My child!"
2:01 Erik:
Polish: "mamusiu, ratunku..."
English: "mommy, help me..."
I don't know if this was intended, but "mamusiu" is a very sweet and loving way to call your mom, which could mean they had a good bond - makes the scene even sadder on my eyes.
Interesting that they speak in Polish? I thought Eric's family was German but moved to Poland shortly before being captured?
Kurde oglądałem to z lektorem i zdawało mi się że się pierdykli i dali dubbing dobrze wiedzieć że Magnetobma polskie korzenie
The slang of Auschwitz was mostly polish but was a mixture of polish German, Romanian, and the other languages that the victims spoke
Mateusz Chojnowski remember that in central and Western Europe most Jewish were Ashkenazi and yet they use Yiddish which is based on an old German viarity, for that reason there might be Jewish people with "Germans" last names in places like Poland, Ukraine, Romania among other places where there was a huge amount of Ashkenazi communities.
The fact that you just translated everything and I now understand what's being said makes it all the more depressing.
Thank you. I've been wondering what the dialogue was between Erik and his mother. Seriously thank you for taking the time to translate
Magneto isn't truly evil. He's the comic equivalent of Malcolm X like Charles Xavier is the equivalent of Martin Luther King Jr. Magneto suffered through the holocaust and saw what mankind was capable of when at its worst. This and the way the nazis treated jews and other different beings makes him doubt mutants and humans can get along together.
Ben Wasserman great analogy ver accurate👏🏻
Stan Lee(rest his soul) said he came up with the idea of mutants from people of different colours and heritages, and how we were segregated or something like that i cant remember that much
@@ma2443 and now they are metaphors for gay people which doesn't even make sense anymore
In a way, Magneto faced discrimination as a child during the Holocaust and now he sees history repeating itself with mutants and humans.
@@kobi7955 hate to comment this late, but the Mutant Metaphor, as it is called in the community, is a subject of much debate, both textually and in the real world. There are aspects of sexuality (being in the mutant “closet” is the subject of many character arcs) race (what it means to be a “visible” mutant vs. a mutant who is “human passing”) and even disability politics (especially in the cases of Charles Xavier and Hank McCoy) that play a major role in the Mutant Metaphor. I think the X-Men as a story has always been politically progressive for the time they exist in, and the ways in which mutants are used as metaphors for marginalized struggles have constantly been evolving. It’s what makes the X-Men one of the most consistently interesting books at Marvel
I remember seeing this in the theater when it first opened!!! It was a packed theater and it set the tone of how dark and menacing his past was. When it started showing the bars being bent, you hear people saying “Magneto” and people were getting hyped. You don’t see this depth of darkness and origin anymore. And in 2000, there were still thousands of Holocaust survivors, so it must have triggered many emotions. I wish superhero movies returned to this level of drama ❤️
Me too. But, I was too young to watch X-men movie, when I was 3 years old.
I cry every time I see this scene.
You're not the only one.
me too
pathetic
@@nickc3856 you know we can see all of your comments right? You little neo nazi shit
@@goro123451 you gonna cry, schlomo?
Probably the greatest scene of the entire series
If you really think about it. Magneto has every right to hate humanity as not only did humanity treat him badly because he was Jewish but also because he was a mutant. He got the double dose of evil. So in all honesty, how is he a villain when he had to endure one of the most evilest things that humanity could have ever done to someone. You can only take so much hate.
sassbrat You could say he is an anti-hero rather than a villain.
WhenxChristxReturnsx True. I think that he does want to keep mutant save and not have what happened to him happen to them.
WhenxChristxReturnsx He's an anti-villain, not an anti-hero. In stories, an anti-hero is a protagonist who has questionable morals. Magneto is the antagonist of the story, but has understandable and sometimes sympathetic views and intentions, making him and anti-villain.
sassbrat But Magneto is out of line to generalize all humans. Not everyone are anything like the Nazis who held him prisoner at the concentration camp and by attacking them, he becomes just as monstrous as the men that tortured him. He reminds me of Gerard Butler's character in the movie , "Law Abiding Citizen" where after his wife and daughter are murdered, we root for him to get his revenge on the men whom killed them but when he starts murdering judges and lawyers, you realize that he has to be stopped by any means necessary. That's how I feel about Magneto.
got a point on that. Sometimes we all lose our way and what we are truly fighting for.
Little did we know at the time, someone was watching...
+Max Frankow Shaw
Shaw died
Thanos?
The Watcher! Stan "The Man" Lee.
Kevin Beacon
The mom always gets me. I can't forget her screams.
1:54 me neither.
This scene was a little too realistic to be in theaters, very fucking sad, and in some ways powerful.
In "some" ways?
the realism is what made it memorable.
@@thebalkanguy5256 I think the OP meant: "The Holocaust horror was too much for some audience members to bear," so "too realistic" in that way. But not realistic in the sense that no one actually has the superpower to telekinetically pull open metal gates.
Genius opening. You "get" Magneto from the word go, and he becomes more than a cardboard cutout villain.
This opening was more heavy than I expect. Definitely set a good tone for the rest of the film.
Not many movie openings go straight into the villain’s backstory
I saw this when I was 4 in theaters in 2000 I had no idea what was going on. As a grown up, this scene is very powerful and emotional
I feel like this is one of the most underrated opening scenes in a movie
Me too
This movie really helped explain how Magneto turned out the way he did.
Exactly.
I cried. Magneto is such a good character and deserves the world on a silver platter.
I love Erik, he has so much emotional depth to his character, it's tragic
It’s much sadder than Wolverine backstory.
Legendary scene, powerful move start a series based on superheroes like this. When I saw this as a kid I knew they are taking superheroes serious this time.
best movie intro scene ever.....
Such a hard-hitting opening even to this day
im pretty sure this opening scene was a game changer for comic book based movies back then. So proud of this film :)
One scene less than three minutes and we know everything that we need to know about the motivation of the villain.
Let’s just say magneto hates humans because they’re afraid of mutants.
I was 11 years old when I saw this scene for the first time. It was the first time I had ever seen Magneto use his powers on the big screen and I was absolutely spell bound. From this scene onward I was completely absorbed in the movie.
Seeing what Erick went threw made have a lot more respect for him, not just as a mutant but as a person.
this has to b one of the best movie intro scenes of all time, its so horrifying on so many levels. if you dont know the comics that well then its strange to see someone do something so terrifying as smash the gate without even touching it, and even if you did know the comics, could you possibly expect a scene like this to b so horrifying in the ways that only Holocaust scenes can deliver?
After 20 years....because of history books....i did search this scene and watch again and now i can understand the pain of magneto.....
I watched this movie when i was 9, I didn’t understood what was happening until my mother and an uncle told me, OMG 😨😨😨
22 years and this scene still gets me, I can't see Disney topping this with their X-Men!
In all the years since this movie came out, I've NEVER seen a villain origin story as dark as this.
Outstanding sequence, still blows my mind after all these years
Magnificent sequence, truly memorable. So many emotions: the horror of the concentration camp, the anguish of separation, shock and amazement when the metal is twisted.
I would say that this opening scene was one of the things that MADE this movie. It set it up perfectly. You don't need anymore reason for why Magneto would be the way he is and you don't need anymore reason to see why prosecuting someone for being different is wrong no matter what.
I loved seeing this in theatres with people who were diehard fans of the comics. I didn't know what was going on with this character, but once the fence started moving, all the comic fanatics were squirming around going "OMG YES!! THIS IS AWESOME!" It got me so excited :D
The moment the father understood he and his wife were going to die, so he puts his hand on her mouth so their son can have a chance that when the tears come T_T
Scenes like this is why the X-Men Franchise by Fox is so underrated.
From what I read, the comic version of how Magneto discovered his powers was even darker. He and his family were to be executed for escaping the Warsaw Ghetto and buried in a mass grave. Magneto was the only survivor of that massacre because his magnetic powers stopped the bullets aimed at him but not his family.
This has got to be one of the greatest cinematic openings ever...
Way I see it, Erik has every reason to despise Humans, after all he's experienced first-hand the absolute worst of us.
Legionnaire Undying What he saw was Hell.
You can appreciate the sincerity of this opening the molding of a young man
Charles saw the world as what he wished it to be
Erik saw the world as it is.
They both saw the world for what it was. They just had different objectives to change it to what they wished the world to be. Charles saw coexistence and Erik wanted domination and kinda became what he hated.
X men 1- magneto in Auschwitz
X men 2 - nightcrawler attack in oval office
X men 3 - angel cutting off his wings
All three of these opening scenes are amazing
I forgot how heartbreaking this scene was.... I had not seen the scene in years and am once again moved almost to tears.
Me too
My dad didn't bother to let me watch this movie when I was six or seven, he even explained to me what happened in WW II, some may say it's irresponsibility and overexposure of a child but I call it good parenting. I loved Magneto even tho he was a villain.
This is the most heartbreaking superhero opening scene ever.
Still gives me chills seeing the untapped power if magneto. Great opening
"So, you're about to make an inaugural title in a new age of superhero films, whose larger than life adventures will dominate summer box offices for decades to come. How did you want to start?"
*Singer, DeSanto, & Hayter:* "We were thinking a gray, gut-wrenching scene in the middle of one of the worst events humanity has ever experienced."
watching this as a kid, was a bit scary, seeing it now, its a very powerful scene, especially as a intro to a tremendous film series
Marvel Studios may have grossly misrepresented Wanda & Pietro, but at least FOX has established that Magneto is a Holocaust survivor.
Yep
Just watched X-Men First Class (2011), and the opening scene is literally the exact same as this one from 2000. Totally brought me back to the first time I saw X-Men as a little kid. Really cool that they recreated this powerful scene for the 2011 reboot. reminded me how powerful this scene was as a little kid. I mean, either they meticulously re-shot this scene by scene for First Class, or they borrowed some of the original footage from the 2000 version....it was so perfectly re-created! The young boy looks to be a different actor, but maybe some of the general shots are the old ones. Wasn’t sure if anyone knew how they filmed the 2011 version of this!
The two best X-Men films as well in my opinion.
This is a very powerful and moving scene.
I have tears in my eyes everytime I see this. Especially the pain of the mother. Heartbreaking.
1:48 me too
First time rewatching this as an adult amazing how so much goes over your head as a kid
This could be the next new opening scene in the MCU.
Disney wouldn’t have the guts
Such a powerful and awesome scene, it captures why he is the way he is!
Imagine being a kid in 2000 so excited to see this movie and being traumatized by literally the first scene thinking you went in the wrong movie lol
That didn’t happen to me when, I first saw on 📺
Very emotional scene
The audience in my theatre were BLOWN away
the bad guy was a holocaust survivor - WTF??????
Back in 2000 - this was a GIANT leap
Prior to this - comic book movies were thought of as Batman and Robin
One of my favorite scenes of the whole franchise
I think if they made x-men origins magneto it might be better than the wolverine one
Man, anything is better than origins wolverine =/
X-Men Origins: Magneto turned out to be First Class anyway, so it was way better
Yeah, that would actually work. And maybe the story will be a Young Magneto trying to escape and leading his people to freedom by beating up Nazis, think the Shawshank Redemption meets X-Men. Yeah I know it's not historically accurate, but this is a comic book movie!
God this version is so much more visceral and heart breaking
I have been marked once, my dear, and let me assure you, no needle shall ever touch my skin again.
And this ladies and gentlemen is what elevates the X-Men franchise above for rest...
Man I wish Steven Spielberg would make a movie about Erik’s life during and after wwll
0:21 [ Men Shouting ] [ Shouting In Eastern European Language ] [ Woman Screaming ] [ Electricity Zapping ]
This scene is incredible. Villains are made.
the first time i cried in the very beginning of a movie, i really didn't expect this sensitive scene
6 million of God's Chosen people were killed. Imagine seeing this daily over there
I reeeally freaking wish we had closure of magneto’s fate in Logan. I mean we don’t know for sure he was one of the mutants Charles accidentally killed
Charles killed everyone at the Mansion, it’s less likely that magneto was there. But Charles was dying of dementia and old age, and Magneto was older than him so there’s a decent chance he passed away some time before
@@TW-sh2unthat’s what I have been asking the same question about magneto in Logan.
The very first scene of a movie that began the revival of the superhero genre and eventually led to the popularity and dominance of superhero movies in cinemas today.
Although this was only a good x-men film, starting it like Schindler’s List was a bold move. That and casting a guy who recently played an escaped Nazi as a vengeful Jew was also a stoke of genius.
When I was a kid and first saw this movie I had no idea it was the Holocaust, I honestly they were rounding up mutants and not jews.
Respect to one of the greatest Marvel characters and comics characters of all time!
*Meanwhile from a nearby window*
Shaw: Hmmm. *calmly sips tea*
You know
There probably a story out there where magneto is a good guy and he is fighting bunch of warlords,
I would totally watch that.
When I saw First Class I noticed right away the clever editing of new and recycled footage. The color matching was seamless.
Erik: "What do you know about me?"
Charles: "Everything."
One of the top opening scenes in movie history............
They reshot this almost identically for first class, didn't they?
No, they reused the footage, just cut it a little bit here and there.
It's such a powerful scene that there was no way you could have left out even though first class was a reboot.
Honestly, I believe this scene alone is what legitimized comic book movies as art. I remember going into this movie thinking it was going to be the biggest piece of crap since batman and robin. Then this scene happened and I was completely sold. All my previous skepticism was erased. And X-Men turned out to be a pretty damn good film. As an X-Men movie, it still ranks highly up there.
The moms scream at 1:37 still gives me chills.
They even used some of the film from this opening. When the Nazi soldier hits Erik on the head, in First Class you can tell it's the same shot, they just grafted the new Erik's face onto the old Erik.
Completely unnecessary if you ask me.
Josh Gerlach Well nobody DID ask you, now did they?
This scene still gives me chills. One of the creepiest openings ever.
Scene always makes me cry. 🇬🇧 Never forget!
Magneto's hatred towards humans is completely understandable, especially after all the horrors and the heartache he has had to endure because of them... i don't blame him for hating humans, sometimes I do too
Keep in mind that he married a human after this, and an angry mob killing his firstborn human child that made him the villain he is today.
Me too.
@@TrueLegateDamarthat’s from X-men apocalypse.
He suffered and disctrimates through the hand of humans before he even knew he was a mutant.
He also discriminates and suffered after he understood what he is .
Poor magneto
Magneto’s past is much more sadder than the wolverine’s origins from his childhood.
This scene not gonna lie scaresd me growing up. Even when rogue kissed her boyfriend. I miss this dark vibes in the mcu. We need it back
I was 5 years old when i saw this & soon as i heard "eric" & the metal bending, instantly knew it was magneto 🤘🏼
Because of scenes like this, X-Men (2000) remained my fav superhero movie of the 2000s (until TDK in 2008); hooked on the franchise since 2000.