When I came back from the cinema, I had a strong feeling for Iron Man. I’m afraid this feeling mostly comes from the film’s high-intensity visual impact and sound shock, but also partly from my previous fascination with Transformers and the Holy Warriors.
I believe that such a movie is mostly positioned among the young audience, because it caters to the psychology of young people who like to pursue excitement and curiosity, and can make people get heartfelt satisfaction and pleasure.
Iron Man” is based on MARVEL’s original comic book of the same name, MARVEL Group is the world’s most prestigious animation factory, we are familiar with the “Spider-Man”, “X-Men” and “Fantastic Four” series is the group’s works. In the comic book world, our brothers of steel and the above three can be said to be the same name; but in the film world, because it came late, for the domestic audience, not “Spider-Man” so well-known household name. So, this MARVEL Group and Paramount Pictures to create, can be said for the comic book superhero “Iron Man” paved a smooth road to the screen, and is definitely a very successful debut.
Generally speaking, this kind of movie will follow the original to take the route of the superhero to save the world, “Iron Man” is no exception. The difference is that Iron Man’s superpowers are not “inherent”, but all come from the highly technological steel suit, without it, he is no different from any rich kid. In addition, we can see that the writer and director to get rid of the simple model of the previous magical power to save the world and spent a lot of effort, or in the original framework into a lot of fresh factors, not only greatly enriched the characterization, but also in the plot arrangement to do a full article. First of all, Tony Stark character in the comics is not fictional, but based on the American entertainment legend Howard Hughes, he is “an inventor, adventurer, millionaire, flirt, and definitely a maniac”. In this way, the film of our brother of steel is very interesting, he wears the golden armor when the fight against the forces of evil, and save the refugees from fire; he takes off the armor is an arms dealer and inventor, in addition to a small part of the time in and out of the social scene, most of the time in his genius of intelligence research all kinds of fun weapons. As its producer said: “Howard Hughes was one of the most interesting characters of our time, and the reason I wanted to create the character ‘Iron Man’ was because I wanted to create a character that was different from the average superhero. In 1963, the character of ‘Iron Man’ was not a character of interest to young readers: he was an entrepreneur and made weapons of war. I said to myself: I want to create Tony Stark, the main character, so that young people can like him, because Tony is rich, handsome, funny, and charming. At the same time, I deliberately designed his heart is very fragile, so that he does not look too perfect, and the audience will therefore be more concerned about his well-being.” As a result, our audience really fell for him, not only cared about the human side of the character, but also liked this “imperfect” superhero.
I personally like three scenes: one is Tony was kidnapped by the “freedom fighters” to a cave head idea “escape” scene, the overall pace of this section is relatively fast, watching people thrilled. Those thugs would have liked him to make high-end weapons, but I did not expect him to build a magical steel suit with the assistance of a “glasses old man” with a superb IQ, that is to say, “Iron Man” is spawned in extraordinary circumstances. Steel battlesuit first “stunning appearance” let people can not hide admiration, despite the appearance of very rough, welding seams are still visible, but I already do not mind its “ugly”, but think that this is a remarkable invention: the sword and gun is the minimum Defensive capabilities, fire when the killing power is also very powerful, but more importantly, it can fly. To be able to fly is definitely an exciting thing, but at this time the flight still lacks coordination, the brothers of steel just flew into the desert in mid-air head first. In addition, speaking of magical flight, it reminds me of the great inventor Ah Fat in “The Greatest Detective in the Land”, he can rotate the two propellers to the point of taking the whole person flying, and mouth spitting missiles, bombing killers. Of course Ah Fat’s combat power is only a rather imaginative spoof, while Iron Man’s combat power is the crystallization of modern high-tech plus imagination. The second paragraph is the steel brothers a man to fight two fighter jets exciting air combat scene, this time the suit has been further modified, smoothness and flexibility are greatly enhanced, in the fighter jets around the occasion, even accidentally one of them to crash, of course, he rescued the pilot who fell in time to parachute. In this scene, the visual impact of the scene from the sense of speed and realism of the high altitude flight have reached a shocking, and then with a very appropriate sound effects, I believe that the audience to see here will be very enjoyable. The third scene is the last two “Iron Man” “physical combat”, which is also the most climactic part of the film. This time Tony is already wearing the “upgrade” again after the red suit can cross the super high altitude, while the secret manipulation of the Stark Group, the intention of the world’s domination of the old man Obadiah to steal Tony’s crystallization, the production of a large battlesuit. If he had not taken away Tony’s “machine heart”, his piece of big head is at most even a 1.5 version, simply can not compete with Tony’s red 3.0 version. In this scene, forced to replace the “primitive movement” of Iron Man began not and Obadiah old man hard, but exhausted 90% of the energy to lead him to super high altitude, so that it blows up. Generally speaking, the bad guys in the battle to the death are always unusually tenacious, otherwise there is nothing to see. Sure enough, Papa Obadiah magical reappearance, at this time almost exhausted energy Tony has been at a disadvantage, he let his female assistant Pepe push the button to trigger a giant explosion, only to send the arrogant Papa Obadiah to the West.
The point that I would like to make is that Tony managed to escape and repositioned his company as soon as he returned because he saw that the weapons originally made by their company to maintain world peace were used by thugs to brutalize people and slaughter the innocent. I do not intend to analyze the meaning of this too much, and I do not think it is necessary to analyze the meaning and theme of a commercial film. However, I did think of another thing: the United States has the most advanced weapons in the world, and while they protect their own national interests, they are also using these sophisticated weapons to invade other countries, under the pretext that “weapons of mass destruction” have been found there. On the one hand, they play the banner of maintaining world peace, and on the other hand, they trample on world peace, feeling that such a bridge for the United States seems to be very ironic.
After watching this movie, if there is anything that makes people particularly swept away, it must be the scene of Iron Man wearing a battle suit. People who have seen the saints and steel warriors must be very interested in this, remember as a child to see the “five little strong” wearing the holy clothes usually come to a partial close-up, the whole process is very perfect. And Iron Man is here to do a good job, the steel suit in the whole process of putting on the body to show particularly detailed, each part of the connection, each combination of parts are given a very detailed shot, which to a large extent to meet the audience’s curiosity. Thinking back to the previous Transformers lightning version of the transformation process, fast and a little rhythm, as if afraid of people to see out, it is too unpleasant. In addition, in Tony’s private studio, his dialogue process with various machines and computer virtual production battlesuit three-dimensional display, not only to give people full of fun, but also let people secretly sigh the development of modern technology. Of course, Robert Downey Jr. Tony played by Robert Downey Jr. is very likeable, his funny personality and paranoid spirit and the charm of the body is also my interest, but unfortunately such an outwardly convergent flirtatious lover did not leave a kiss on the screen, perhaps “flirtatious” is just the world’s prejudice against him it. In addition, the hero is not so good, because the development of the suit not only requires a high IQ, but also requires a lot of courage, like “The Aviator” played by Leonardo’s paranoid buddy, almost died in a flight test. So, every time I see Tony for the debugging of the flight function and fall down from the heart admiration, I believe that this courageous spirit of risk-taking to a large extent will also arouse the love of female viewers.
Although the film’s picture, sound and story gave me a near-perfect impression, but in the storyline there are a few hard feelings: first, Tony and “old man eyes” were locked in a cave in the face of close surveillance, since the production and cutting-edge missiles are completely different steel armor to, is the writer and director intended to lower the intelligence of the thugs? The film is a good example. In addition, the film appeared Obadiah’s father and the freedom of militants behind the scenes deal, from these thugs have “weapons of mass destruction” to see, are made by the Stark company, so it can be inferred that they behind the scenes deal may be some high-end weapons. Since weapons can be traded, but also kidnapped Tony to do what weapons ah? Furthermore, the head of the “freedom fighters” in Tony escaped when the great disaster, thought he had a fight with Tony, did not expect just a small third-rate role, by the Obadiah father anesthesia after nothing to do, I guess it is not to keep such a small rolly for the sequel to prepare? Finally, in the big bang, Tony and his assistant Pepe since they can be safe and sound, but also quite incredible.
In retrospect, it seems that we do not need to criticize this too much, and the film itself is a wonderful display compared to those is nothing, not to mention the film itself is adapted from the comics, with a comic book color is not surprising. Therefore, it is not difficult to understand the movie, the heroes are always ready to save the people, to maintain world peace as their mission, while those evil elements are all deliberately destroying the peace, ambitious to dominate the world. Just like the world of martial arts, who get a who think the world’s best martial arts secrets will claim to dominate the martial arts world.
I think, can master such a grand scene and cleverly combined with a variety of high-tech factors, and not pile up visual effects of the director is no ordinary people, although I’m not familiar with Jon Favreau, but he can bring a comic book to the big screen successfully is very impressive.
Overall, this is a comic book movie with transcendent significance, the Brotherhood of Steel with his high-tech equipment to succeed, not only to sit at the top of the superheroes, but also in the North American box office war to go ahead.