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To mark the opening of the X-Men Master: Gordon Smith exhibition in the CIBC Canadian Film Gallery, we present the first X-Men film, which features some of the veteran makeup designer's most outstanding effects work.
Marvel Comics' mutant superheroes came to the big screen in spectacular fashion in this blockbuster that launched the second wave of cinematic comic-book adaptations. When human-hating mutant radical Magneto (Ian McKellen) kidnaps the powerful young mutant Rogue (Anna Paquin) to stage a devastating attack on world leaders, the telepathic Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and his team of "gifted youngsters" — Cyclops (James Marsden), Storm (Halle Berry), Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) and the surly, cigar-chomping new recruit Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) — suit up in fetching black-leather duds to stop him.