Technological Development of Marvel

From the first film to the most recent, technology has developed staggeringly over the years. With obvious audio technology developing and enhancing the viewing experience, the CGI technology has become more believable on screen.

In the first X-Men film, the character Mystique undertook an incredible change to her physical appearance which did not rely on Computer Generated Imagery, but between 8 and 15 hours of applicated make-up and prosthetics which took 5 hours to remove when filming with the actress’ face.

In one of the latest instalments to the series, in Canon with the previous trilogy, the sequels contain a character called Beast. He appears in the original films, as well as animated TV series, and comics, also has a long application process of make-up, however in X-Men: First Class, they rely on CGI to transform the actor into the blue bear like character, which possibly reflects a larger budget, and larger skillset due to the developed technology.

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In relation between older texts and newer texts underneath the Marvel company title, the older comics obviously contain a larger demographic of characters of which weren’t popular enough to make the ‘cut’ in the modern films. However a strong link between the older characters and the new films have been portrayed as background characters such as ‘Jubilee’ and ‘Shadowcat’. This also creates a definitive link across the cross-platform texts which can be relatable.