03 March 2011

In his own way he is perhaps, the most dangerous man who ever lived!

So today at Spy Hop we were gonna shoot a bunch of cool stuff outside, (and by shoot I mean like filming, and by filming I mean like recording digital video,) but then the weather was bad and we watched A Fistful of Dollars instead.  I never would've watched this movie outside of class, so I'm glad Josh put it in.  I'll admit that most of the time I didn't know what was going on.  I guess two families were fighting each other, but Clint Eastwood was just hanging out and punching girls.  The final scene is really rad - Clint's character,  The Man with No Name, (who is occasionally called Joe, but usually referred to as "The American" (which is also a new George Clooney movie with lukewarm reviews)) after being nursed back to health in a cave and turning a sheet of metal into a makeshift bulletproof vest, goes to get revenge on Ramon, who is torturing the innkeeper (an ally of Joe's).  Ramon keeps shooting "The American" in the chest, but he's not dying.  At this point I realized that The Man with No Name is the original Iron Man.  Sitting in a cave, using scrap metal to build a super suit - this guys a real bamf!  He's like the Western Tony Stark.

Anyway, I googled "The Man with No Name is the Original Iron Man", and while I didn't find anything supporting my theory, I did find this cool article about Iron Man.  Jeff Bridges says they had no script for Iron Man. Isn't that just absurd? I think it's way cool, because, in a sense, the movie Iron Man itself is an Iron Man story.  A director and a star under insane pressure, improving lines, makeshift dialog and scenes - Jon Favreau and Robert Downey Jr. are real bamfs!  At this point I realized that the director/actor team of Favreau and Downey are the original Iron Man.  They're like the Improv Tony Stark.

1 comment:

Cat said...

Clint Eastwood is the man, and A Fistful of Dollars might be my favorite movie in the trilogy. Don't tell the Good the Bad and the Ugly I said that.
Your blog is quite enjoyable. And not totally just because I get blog shout-outs, even though I do like them.
Best Coast is cool.