Tag / X-Men: 1st Class

by crowfooted

azryal00:

megneato:

spiftynifty:

codenamecesare:

Ways Erik looks at Charles.

#The way Erik adjusts his fingers in the 3rd gif, from both being on Charles’ coat sleeve to one moving just enough to touch Charles’ skin.

#The last gif, where Charles just quickly pats Erik, has always struck me as awkward because even though we don’t really see them being touchy-feely with each other, the intensity of their chemistry is so strong at this point that such a gesture feels strange. Every time I see this scene arcanewinter’s line in her fic A Measure of Peace comes to mind: “…clapping Erik on the shoulder in some awkward assurance that he did in fact know the sort of contact they were supposed to be having”. That is what this feels like. Moira just interrupted something incredibly intimate (Erik having performance issues and Charles “going inside” him and reminding him he’s good, enabling Erik to “get it up”, both of them crying along the way), kind of reminding the boys of their situation and causing them (or Charles anyway) to revert back to what is “acceptable” by society. Don’t forget folks, Charles is afraid of being visibly different. That’s why he’s afraid of Raven slipping up and showing who she really is. He knows society isn’t ready for whatever he and Erik are(even in the most non-romantic canon these are two men eternally bound to each other). So instead he gives Erik this awkward good-job-dude pat and doesn’t wait up for him. And Erik just stands there still kinda winded by it all.

Or maybe I’m just reading into too much here. I need some sequel news before I start going through this movie framebyframe for more headcanons.

And I would not mind at all if you framebyframed the movie.

Ditto. 

You could do a whole blog of this.

by crowfooted

crowfooted:

projectsnark:

“i’m going to count to three and i’m going to move the coin.”

#the way Charles prepares himself in this scene shows exactly how much he loves Erik, because he can’t talk to him or try to dissuade him from what he’s about to do. he knows Erik’s going to do it and there’s no stopping him, but letting go of Shaw would mean he would die so Charles holds on and doesn’t let Shaw go and he suffers through that pain so that Erik can live and Erik can get his revenge and Erik can be free. Charles feels what it’s like to die for Erik because of Erik and he doesn’t hold it against him at all.

Okay. I give. I will go see this again this weekend.

And once more reblogging the first XMFC/Cherik post I ever reblogged on Tumblr, and the moment that sent me back to the theatre for a second viewing.

by crowfooted

helens78:

pearlo:

I remember having a conversation a couple months ago with somebody (Intro?) where we were discussing some of the ways the movie fails at not being sexist, and they brought up the way that, you know, every single female character is at some point made to parade around either naked or in their underwear, and it’s not like that’s the case with any of the dudes. This scene with Erik is really the closest we get (and it’s pretty clearly, I think, presented in a way that’s not intended to be sexual the way the women are – though of course whether we reinterpret the camera’s gaze for ourselves is a whole different thing).

Anyway. Thanks for taking the partial nudity for the team, Erik.

Let me be totally prurient for a moment here and say: Wow, I hadn’t noticed this before, but apparently Erik’s side of the bed is the left.  (Er… as you are in the bed, not as you are facing it.)

Well, shit, we’re just not gonna be compatible, then.  Guess I’ll need to get me a Wesley (who sleeps on the right).  Or, presumably, a Charles.  *g*

(…man, now I want to look through all the movies and figure out which side each of their characters likes to sleep on…)

Based on what we can see of the layout of the room, the door would be somewhere on or right near the wall that the camera is looking from, which makes the left side of the bed the “safe" side (if someone busts through the door looking to do you harm, they have to cross more distance to get to you, as well as you being able to quickly roll off the far side and put the bed in between you and the threat). So I wonder if Erik chose the left because he prefers the left, or just because it’s more defensible.

Makes me want to see (secretly?)protective!Erik taking the side closest to the door so that Charles will be in the safer position.