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X-Men
X-Men (2000) is an action movie released in 2000 about a group of mutants - the "next step in human evolution", with superhuman powers - who act as comic book superheroes called the X-Men . The X-Men defend against evil mutants, but are feared or hated by many normal humans. In allegory, the film treats the themes of discrimination and prejudice.
- The movie was directed by Bryan Singer from a screenplay by [[David Hayter]. [1]
Dialogue
- (Wolverine has found Rogue stowed away in his trailer)
- Wolverine: Get out.
- Rogue: Where am I supposed to go?
- Wolverine: I don't know.
- Rogue: You don't know, or don't care?
- Wolverine: Pick one.
- Rogue, looking around interior of Logan's pickup truck/home: Wow.
- Wolverine: What?
- Rogue: Suddenly, my life doesn't look so bad.
- Wolverine: If you prefer the road --
- Rogue: No! No - it looks nice. It looks...cozy.
- Rogue,regarding Wolverine's claws: When they come out... does it hurt?
- Wolverine: Every time.
- Professor Xavier: I'm Charles Xavier. Would you like some breakfast?
- Wolverine: Where am I?
- Prof. Xavier: Westchester, New York. My people brought you here for medical attention.
- Wolverine: I don't need medical attention.
- Prof. Xavier: Yes, of course. (Storm, Cyclops, and Jean enter.) Ah - Logan, I'd like you to meet Ororo Munro, also called Storm. This is Scott Summers, also called Cyclops. They saved your life. I believe you've already met Dr. Jean Grey. You are in my School for the Gifted - for mutants. You'll be safe here from Magneto.
- Wolverine: What's a Magneto?
- Prof. Xavier: A very powerful mutant. He believs that a war is brewing between mutants and the rest of humanity. I've been following his activities for some time. The man who attacked you is an associate of his called Sabretooth.
- Wolverine: Sabretooth? (looks at Storm) Storm. (looks at Xavier) What do they call you - Wheels? This is the stupidest thing I ever heard.
- Wolverine: Magneto's right: there is a war coming. Are you sure you're on the right side?
- Storm: At least I've chosen a side.
- Wolverine: You gonna tell me to stay away from your girl?
- Cyclops: If I had to do that, she wouldn't be my girl.
- Wolverine: Well then, I guess you've got nothing to worry about, do you, Cyclops?
- Cyclops: It must burn you up that a boy like me saved your life, huh? Better be careful. I might not be there next time. Oh, and Logan - stay away from my girl.
- Senator Kelly: I have here a list of names of identified mutants living right here in the United States.
- Dr. Jean Grey: Senator -
- Senator Kelly: Here's a girl in Illinois who can walk through walls. Now what's to stop her from walking into a bank vault, or the White House, or (gestures toward the gallery) into their houses?
- Dr. Jean Grey: Senator, please -
- Senator Kelly: ...and there are even rumors, Miss Grey, of mutants so powerful that they can enter our minds and control our thoughts, taking away our God-given free will. Now I think the American people deserve the right to decide if they want their children to be in school with mutants. To be taught by mutants! Ladies and gentlemen, the truth is that mutants are very real, and that they are among us. We must know who they are, and above all, what they can do!
- (Wolverine confronts Magneto for the first time.)
- Magneto: You must be Wolverine. That remarkable metal doesn't run through your entire body, does it?
- Wolverine: What do you want with me?
- Magneto: My dear boy, who ever said I wanted you?
- (Rogue is in the clutches of Magneto.)
- Storm: Where are you going?
- Wolverine: I'm gonna find her.
- Professor Xavier: How?
- Wolverine: The traditional way - look!
- Cyclops: Professor, I'm sorry, but he'll endanger the mission.
- Wolverine: Hey, I wasn't the one who gave the train station a new sun-roof, pal.
- Cyclops: No, you were the one who stabbed Rogue through the chest.
- (Commenting on the X-Men uniforms)
- Wolverine: You actually go outside in these things?
- Cyclops: Well, what would you prefer? Yellow spandex?
- (This statement is funny because Wolverine's comic uniform consisted of the aforementioned yellow spandex)
- Cyclops: Storm, fry him!
- Magneto: Oh yes! A bolt of lightning into a huge copper conductor. I thought you lived at a school.
- Cyclops: All right, we can insert here at the George Washington Bridge, come around the bank just off of Manhattan, land on the far side of Liberty Island, here.
- Wolverine: What about harbor patrol? Radar?
- Cyclops: If they have anything that can pick up our jet, they deserve to catch us.
- (Cyclops thinks Wolverine may be the shape-shifting mutant Mystique)
- Wolverine: Hey, hey - it's me!
- Cyclops: Prove it.
- Wolverine: You're a dick.
- Cyclops: Okay.
- Magneto: Doesn't it ever wake you in the middle of the night? The feeling that someday they will pass that foolish law, or one just like it, and come for you and your children?
- Professor Xavier:It does, indeed.
- Magneto: What do you do when you wake up to that?
- Professor Xavier: I feel a great swell of pity for the poor soul who comes to that school looking for trouble.
Magneto
- "Toad has a wicked tongue, Senator. Just like you."
- "You homo sapiens and your guns!"
- "Are you a God-fearing man, Senator? That is such a strange phrase. I've always thought of God as a teacher - a bringer of light, wisdom, and understanding. You see, I think what you really fear is me. Me and my kind: the Brotherhood of Mutants."
- "Welcome to the future... brother!
- "You'll have to kill me, Charles - and what would that accomplish? Let them pass that law and they'll have you in chains with a number burned into your forehead!"
Wolverine (a.k.a. Logan)
- "You lost your money. You keep this up, you'll lose something else."
- "This certainly is a big, round room..." (in Cerebro chamber)
- "You're so full of shit! If you were really so righteous, it'd be you in that thing."
Others
- "These mutations manifest at puberty and are often triggered by periods of heightened emotional stress." ~ Dr. Jean Grey
- "Ladies and gentlemen, the fact is that mutants are among us. We must know who they are and, above all, what they can do." ~ Senator Kelly
- "Mutants are not the ones humanity should fear." ~ Dr. Jean Grey
- "People like you are the reason I was afraid to go to school as a child." ~ Mystique
- "Welcome to Mutant High." ~ Bobby Drake
- "The first boy I ever kissed wound up in a coma for three months. I can still feel him inside my head." ~ Rogue
- "Scream for me." ~ Sabretooth
- "Don't you people ever die?" ~ Toad
- "Do you know what happens to a toad when it's struck by lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else." ~ Storm
See also
Cast
- Hugh Jackman - Wolverine/Logan
- Patrick Stewart - Professor Charles Xavier
- Ian McKellan - Magneto/Eric Lehnsherr
- Famke Janssen - Dr. Jean Grey
- James Marsden - Cyclops/Scott Summers
- Halle Barry - Storm/Ororo Munro
- Anna Paquin - Rogue/Marie
- Bruce Davison - Senator Robert Kelly
- Rebecca Romijn-Stamos - Mystique
- Tyler Mane - Sabretooth
- Ray Park - Toad
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