With neither Stane nor Rhodey
onboard with pacifistic manufacturing, Tony secretly begins his own plans...to
build a weaponized super suit (though, to be fair, only he plans on using it...I’m
sure that plan won’t backfire in multiple films). Meanwhile, the Ten Rings are shown combing the desert—finding
the remaining pieces of Tony's giant metal suit (not even a sentence later and
Tony’s plan has already backfired).
As with the Arc Reactor and
prototype armor, Jon Favreau gives time and effort to showcase Tony’s
creative process when building his upgraded suit. Favreau wanted to make the suit seem as
believable as possible for the audience, specifically focusing screen time on
Tony developing the suit’s flight technology—one of the suit’s more fantastical
aspects—through various recorded sessions often resulting in comedic slapstick.
A ten percent flight capacity test ends with
Tony crashing into a wall, while a " completely harmless" flight
stabilizer test sends Tony soaring backward much to Pepper’s dismay.
The meat of these trial and error
sessions, however, is how believable they are crafted. Watching Tony take these gradual steps in
perfecting his technology really feels like a natural process that someone could actually do in real life. It’s as enlightening
as it is fun to watch Tony work, giving the audience a grip on how such
fictional technology works—conveying these sci-fi elements in a realistic sense within Iron Man’s grounded world. Downey does a fantastic job adding to the
scenes’s authenticity. I love when Tony
gives this anxiously excited laugh as he practices floating around in his
basement. The laugh is such a genuinely
realistic reaction—as if Downey is truly flying himself—to successfully doing
something but being very close to failing at any moment.
Tony decides to prematurely take
the suit out for a test drive (“Sometimes you got to run before you can walk.”)
despite J.A.R.V.I.S.’ logical objections.
Paul Bettany is the ideal voice for Tony’s A.I. companion, with his
sensible, blunt, and snarky personality working in beautiful contrast with
Tony’s offhand recklessness:
J.A.R.V.I.S.: After
completing the suit’s design The render is complete.
Tony: A little ostentatious, don't you think?
J.A.R.V.I.S.: What was I thinking? You're usually so discreet.
Tony: Tell you what. Throw a little hot-rod red in there.
J.A.R.V.I.S.: Yes, that should help you keep a low profile.
After seeing all the work Tony put
into crafting the flight technology, it’s very gratifying to watch Tony successfully
soar through the skies. Despite being
over ten-years-old, the scene’s CGI visuals hold up strikingly well—complete with a beautiful nightscape of a beachside city and a kickass soundtrack. In his reckless ecstasy, Tony makes a rather
stupid decision to test the suit’s ascent limits—causing the suit to shut down
from ice buildup, nearly killing Tony as he falls and just barely (and I mean barely) gets it back on again. For how brilliant Tony is, he certainly makes
foolhardy decisions, putting not only himself but the civilians underneath in
danger.
Tony decides to crash a Stark
Industries charity event he was not invited to, saying hi to a visiting Hugh
Hefner played by the late Stan Lee (Rest in Peace). At the event, Tony is confronted by agent Phil
Coulson about setting up a meeting discussing his escape, has an almost intimate
moment with Pepper, and is confronted once again by reporter Christine Everhart—showing
Tony pictures of the Ten Rings using new Stark weaponry, recently shipped without
Stark's permission, to terrorize and oppress the peaceful locals. Tony confronts Stane about this new
information, the latter finally revealing his true colors that he has been
double-dealing with the terrorists and was the one that suggested locking Tony
out of his own company. An angry and
more determined than ever Tony decides to take vigilantism into his own hands
and, with his freshly painted super suit, flies off to deal with the situation overseas.
LINK TO PART 7: Tony's Subtle Transformation from Grandiose Narcissist to Communal Narcissist
LINK TO PART 7: Tony's Subtle Transformation from Grandiose Narcissist to Communal Narcissist
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