I decided to interview a friend of mine, who I will refer to as Big L. He is a fan of the X-Men movies, and since I have only seen the first one, I figure I can gain some perspective and insight about the rest of the series of movies and the characters.
These are some questions that I have been thinking about asking...
- Do you feel that action hero stories have had a positive influence on American culture?
- What is it about the X-Men movies that you find interesting. Do you think this makes X-Men stand apart from other hero stories?
- Which character do you most identify with and why?
- Is there any quality or trait that this character has that you wish you could posses as well? In other words, what is so admirable about this character?
- If you were an "X-Men", what special power would you want to have?
3 comments:
I think this is going to be pretty interesting. I was never into comic book super heros too much. my neighbor loved x-men but i dont remember it at all. i've never seen any of the movies and i dont really have any plans, too. Im kind of intrigued by people that love superhero movies. Okay, the batman movies were great but i hate the super man movies, and all the other marvel movies that have come/are coming out. They just aren't appealing to me and I know people that get REALLY into them and I just don't get it. So this should be pretty interesting!
I think you have a lot of good questions to work from. Another idea to look into for your interview is whether the person is/was a fan of the comic books and if so does this influence their opinion of the movies.
Also, you might want to ask the person which X-men movie they like the best and why, especially since the last X-men movie was directed by a different person than the first two.
I have been an X-Men fan since I was a kid. While it is always fun to talk about which character's super powers you would want, X-Men is unique in the comics world because it portrays super heroes being persecuted for their differences. I think it would be interesting to try to direct your interview at least in part toward the idea of X-Men as an allegory for gay or minority rights. If you find an interviewee who is a really big fan, he/she will almost certainly bring up this point.
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