Ahahaha, WORK. I KNOW THE FEELING. Or I would, if I was actually doing any. I'm pretending this is my lunch break, and then I'm leaving, like, at eight to make up for all the time I've spent wanking on the internets about Tony Stark's crazy hot emo eye-twitching. (IT'S WORTH IT)
And from the Stripper Pole interlude on the plane, we know that Rhodey really, really loves and talks about it like it's his girlfriend and his family and his cultural history, all in one.
YES. That's one of my favorite parts about Rhodey - he feels as strongly about the military as Tony does about making things explode. Tony doesn't yet realize people are capable of feeling just as strongly about a stance completely opposite to his, and being equally right, because his entire world and the people in it, for as long as he can remember, literally revolved around him: Obie watched over him, Rhodey looks out for him, and Pepper works for him. He doesn't yet know how to live in a world where that isn't always the case and boy is it fun to see him struggle.
RDJ does that subtle thing with his features and then lifts his chin, it just kills me. It kills me dead.
That was pretty much how I spent my second re-watch, and I think we should turn it into a drinking game: every time subtle acting gets all up in my superhero movie's business, I'll take a shot, because yes. I pretty much go on ad nauseum at work, but I really think that's what sets Iron Man apart from most other superhero movies aside from X-Men, the characters feel like they have actual interiority. When Rhodey finds Tony in the desert, and he brings his hand up, but then lets it drop out of frustration, out of helplessness, out of joy, your heart breaks. Or when Pepper and Tony are on the dance floor, and there's a brief moment where their eyes just sort of fix on each other, like they're trying to read the truth there because they can only seem to talk around everything they really want to say, and it's gorgeous and subtle and sweet and it's like DAMN. Real actors chosen not because they can fill a suit or pad out spandex nicely, but because they can actually emote, and fill the silence with as much meaning as dialogue and explosions! Who'da thunk it?
Iron Man is a good film that just so happens to be about superheroes, and not the other way around for once, it feels good, man.
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Re: second time through = golden. i'm thinking about going time #3.
Date: 2008-05-27 08:16 pm (UTC)And from the Stripper Pole interlude on the plane, we know that Rhodey really, really loves and talks about it like it's his girlfriend and his family and his cultural history, all in one.
YES. That's one of my favorite parts about Rhodey - he feels as strongly about the military as Tony does about making things explode. Tony doesn't yet realize people are capable of feeling just as strongly about a stance completely opposite to his, and being equally right, because his entire world and the people in it, for as long as he can remember, literally revolved around him: Obie watched over him, Rhodey looks out for him, and Pepper works for him. He doesn't yet know how to live in a world where that isn't always the case and boy is it fun to see him struggle.
RDJ does that subtle thing with his features and then lifts his chin, it just kills me. It kills me dead.
That was pretty much how I spent my second re-watch, and I think we should turn it into a drinking game: every time subtle acting gets all up in my superhero movie's business, I'll take a shot, because yes. I pretty much go on ad nauseum at work, but I really think that's what sets Iron Man apart from most other superhero movies aside from X-Men, the characters feel like they have actual interiority. When Rhodey finds Tony in the desert, and he brings his hand up, but then lets it drop out of frustration, out of helplessness, out of joy, your heart breaks. Or when Pepper and Tony are on the dance floor, and there's a brief moment where their eyes just sort of fix on each other, like they're trying to read the truth there because they can only seem to talk around everything they really want to say, and it's gorgeous and subtle and sweet and it's like DAMN. Real actors chosen not because they can fill a suit or pad out spandex nicely, but because they can actually emote, and fill the silence with as much meaning as dialogue and explosions! Who'da thunk it?
Iron Man is a good film that just so happens to be about superheroes, and not the other way around for once, it feels good, man.