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Oh Look, Super Heroes
Jan. 23rd, 2008 12:40 pmTaking a break from being generally down. Trying to get excited by stuff helps, but I'm still in a daze. Probably just tired.
Everyone knows that Iron Man is The May Movie by now. Reason to be optimistic the first: the drunk, egotistical Tony Stark is played by the (ex)addict, egotistical Robert Downey Jr. Reason the second: this is Jon Favreau's baby, and he's proven himself an unironic fan of comics who is not blinded by their faults nor ignorant of the difficulties of bringing them to the silver screen.
Reason the third: this picture looks fabulous. Costuming is so important when you tell the super hero story, I can't even begin to say how much.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
decidedly, that doll, bought me the book on the making of Superman Returns and the conception of the costume--the changes they made and why--was so fascinating (I was still pretty sad it turned out something so lackluster, but the proces was interesting).
But yeah, I really dig the Iron Man suit. It looks so alien and severe and comic-booky in the good way. I like how the first pictures of it focused on showing Robert Downey Jr. with only part of the rest of it even constructed to really emphasize that even though it looks like there's no way in hell anyone could be in there...well, there's someone in there. Iron Man has had some pretty triumphant marketing with their visually stunning posters, and it's smart of them to play the teasing game so smartly. Because of course we expect the advance, professional stills, especially for a movie with a built-in fanbase like this. Pretty impressive.
Everyone knows that Iron Man is The May Movie by now. Reason to be optimistic the first: the drunk, egotistical Tony Stark is played by the (ex)addict, egotistical Robert Downey Jr. Reason the second: this is Jon Favreau's baby, and he's proven himself an unironic fan of comics who is not blinded by their faults nor ignorant of the difficulties of bringing them to the silver screen.
Reason the third: this picture looks fabulous. Costuming is so important when you tell the super hero story, I can't even begin to say how much.
decidedly, that doll, bought me the book on the making of Superman Returns and the conception of the costume--the changes they made and why--was so fascinating (I was still pretty sad it turned out something so lackluster, but the proces was interesting).But yeah, I really dig the Iron Man suit. It looks so alien and severe and comic-booky in the good way. I like how the first pictures of it focused on showing Robert Downey Jr. with only part of the rest of it even constructed to really emphasize that even though it looks like there's no way in hell anyone could be in there...well, there's someone in there. Iron Man has had some pretty triumphant marketing with their visually stunning posters, and it's smart of them to play the teasing game so smartly. Because of course we expect the advance, professional stills, especially for a movie with a built-in fanbase like this. Pretty impressive.
