If you loved him in X Men it is time you watched his other movies too
From his first screen appearance as an actor in Steven Spielberg's award-winning television miniseries Band of Brothers to the actor Michael Fassbender has become now puts displayed his exuberant acting skills. In 2011, with making his debut in the Marvel Comics' supervillain Magneto in X-Men: First Class, Fassbender rose to stardom. He was followed by sharing the role with legendary Ian McKellen in X-Men: Days of Future Past and then reprising the role again in X-Men: Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix. Michael Fassbender also has many independent films like Fish Tank, Inglourious Basterds, A Dangerous Method, Frank, Prometheus, and its sequel, Alien: Covenant, to his name. Let us take a look at some of his movies that you must watch.
Steve Jobs
This2015 represents the story of one of the most influential and powerful figures of our time. And Michael Fassbender, like Steve Jobs, has done an impeccable job. The film follows the journey of Steve Jobs at three different times in his life. The narration and execution is a slow process showing his evolution as a man. This biographical drama film is directed by Danny Boyle and was adapted from the 2011 biography by Walter Isaacson and interviews conducted by Sorkin covering 14 years –from 1984–1998- of Steve Jobs' life.
Shame
This2011 psychological erotic drama film by director Steve McQueen follows siblings' lives, portrayed by Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan - grown together. The film received positive reviews, especially garnering praises were Fassbender and Mulligan for their realistic performance and a grave amount of depiction of sexual addiction. But, more so, Fassbender's portrayal of a tortured and withdrawn man jostles one, and so does the definition of addiction in the film.
Slow West
This British-New Zealand Western genre film follows a young Scotsman – played by Kodi Smit-McPhee –searching for his lost love in the American West. He is accompanied by a bounty hunter portrayed by Michael Fassbender. The film comes into the list all because of Fassbender's effortless portrayal of the character and showing with ease its evolution through the course of the filming.
12 Years a Slave
This 2013 biographical period-drama film is an adaptation of the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup. The story was of his own life when he was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery. Steve McQueen directs the film, so obviously brings into the picture Fassbender portraying the role of Edwin Epps, a slaveholder. This performance of his earned him his first Oscar nomination as a sadistic slave owner.
Other of his movies are Inglorious Basterds, Hunger, and 300, among others.
