hugh jackman empire set interview
“I always know who you are. It’s just sometimes I don’t recognize you.”
Logan (2017) dir. James Mangold
based on this parks and rec scene, because it’s so logan and laura i just HAD TO!! (then again every ron and april scene seems to fit them too perfectly) laura is also quite proud of making logan’s frosted beard–
And here comes Logan. Here comes a hard, weary Western not even a year after the soapy absurdity of X-Men: Apocalypse. If this is the creative leeway you’re allowed when you’re Marvel’s second-fiddle franchise, then we should all be so lucky to be overshadowed.
Logan is the first true X-Men genre picture, wearing its Western heart on a torn sleeve. But while Shane may be directly referenced in the script, it’s far from the only cinematic influence at play here. The battered vehicles, the reluctant hero in the desert, and the warning of a world ruined by patriarchal capitalism — this is Mad Max. A dystopic near-future where no mutants have been born in decades, until a woman of color arrives with a miraculous child who must be transported to safety — this is Children of Men. A grim, blunt loner driving down a wilderness road with a fierce, traumatized young girl beside him — this is….the first X-Men movie.
Somehow it can all come back around, if you apply genre right. Sometimes that framework, that filter, can allow you to see the bones of a story more clearly.
I hope movie makers realize that the stakes in these superhero movies dont have to be so high. Like i literally didn’t care about total world annihilation by an ancient egyptian mutant but i would sacrifice my soul so that logan and charles could have their goddamn boat