It makes me think, also, that his employees really and honestly do like him -- and not just, you know. Pepper and Happy, whose contracts say that they have to. I mean, it's easy to pass off the applause and shit when the Phantom pulls up company headquarters and Obie does WHAT WE SUBSEQUENTLY REALIZE IS a dog and pony show with the hug and so forth, but the soldiers love him! They're fanboying him, and Tony is totally joking and pleased as punch. It's, like, the biggest, shiniest smile he has in the whole movie that's inspired by people and not, you know. A machine. Or being Iron Man.
And he tries really hard to make people like him. And they do. Which makes me dream about Tony at the Stark plant in, like, I don't know. Tennessee. In a hard hat, charming the living pants off welders who work on the fuselages of Jericho missiles and surprising them by how neatly he can do [insert complicated weld]
And yeah. Tony Stark. So totally a performance. In the "36 Hours Before" segment, it's pure Tony Stark performance until he starts talking to Everhart about his Dad and, more clearly, when he's down in the shop with the music blasting and NOT TALKING AT ALL.
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Re: TONY STARKS WON THE OSCAR, Y'ALL.
Date: 2008-06-01 01:41 am (UTC)How quickly he sort of bonded with them.
It makes me think, also, that his employees really and honestly do like him -- and not just, you know. Pepper and Happy, whose contracts say that they have to. I mean, it's easy to pass off the applause and shit when the Phantom pulls up company headquarters and Obie does WHAT WE SUBSEQUENTLY REALIZE IS a dog and pony show with the hug and so forth, but the soldiers love him! They're fanboying him, and Tony is totally joking and pleased as punch. It's, like, the biggest, shiniest smile he has in the whole movie that's inspired by people and not, you know. A machine. Or being Iron Man.
And he tries really hard to make people like him. And they do. Which makes me dream about Tony at the Stark plant in, like, I don't know. Tennessee. In a hard hat, charming the living pants off welders who work on the fuselages of Jericho missiles and surprising them by how neatly he can do [insert complicated weld]
And yeah. Tony Stark. So totally a performance. In the "36 Hours Before" segment, it's pure Tony Stark performance until he starts talking to Everhart about his Dad and, more clearly, when he's down in the shop with the music blasting and NOT TALKING AT ALL.