i understood that reference.
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Robert Downey Jr. already in North Carolina to start Iron Man 3 shoot:
From Reddit user, OliviaC4:
“So Robert Downey Jr. stopped by my place of employment last night.I work at a seafood restaurant in Wrightsville Beach, NC. Iron Man 3 is being filmed right outside or Wrightsville in Wilmington and the crew chose our restaurant to host the kick-off party for the movie. It was pretty awesome … RDJ attended and even gave a speech, as did Shane Black.”(Source: Reddit)
“i shouldn’t be alive, unless it was for a reason. i just finally know what i have to do. and i know in my heart that it’s right.”
(Source: tashastarks, via -lazarus)
Iron Man and Captain America Parallels
#THE FIRST TWO GIFS THOUGH #I WAS LIKE #DAMN #THEY GOT SHIT TO AVENGE
(Source: petrichorofpanem, via jenlynn820)
Obadiah Stane: [to Tony] When I ordered the hit on you, I was worried that I was killing the golden goose. But, you see, it was just fate that you survived it, leaving one last golden egg to give. You really think that just because you have an idea, it belongs to you? Your father, he helped give us the atomic bomb. Now what kind of world would it be today if he was as selfish as you?
Ohhhhh god it’s every Tony Stark feel ever—how many times do you think Obie’s played that card before? The “selfish” card, the “your father would have done it better,” card; Tony was only 17 when Howard died. He spent most of his life away at school or at home but away in his own world, separate from his father, who never gave him the time of day—and some of what remains, sure, no question, is what pieces of that stuck with him, the memory of a game of catch they never played, Tony waiting for hours in the yard, glove still stiff and new. Because Howard Stark was a lot of things but he was never much of a father, wasn’t good at the emotional side of things, was dismissive and disinterested, didn’t know how to engage with a kid—but the way he speaks to the Tony of the future, right, in that video, that’s different, right, less dismissive even though still decidedly screwed up. Because who knows what their relationship would’ve been like, if Howard had lived? Still terribly fraught, probably, rife with things they did and didn’t say to each other, Tony’s hurt and Howard’s neglect, but there are conversations they would have been able to have, with both of them adults, they they didn’t have before Howard died. And hell, Tony himself knows that, acknowledges it in that whole “I never got to say goodbye to my father” speech in IM1.
But that’s just the way it played out; Tony didn’t get to say goodbye to his father. He didn’t get to say goodbye to his father and he was 17 and, you guys, the entire rest of his mental picture of Howard was probably shaped by Obadiah Stane. Both his parents died in that car crash (which, okay, it’s my headcanon, in movie-verse, that Obadiah engineered that, but regardless of whether he did or not, you KNOW Tony has wondered about it), so it’s not like he has his mother to talk to about it. For the 20 years between when Howard Stark dies and when Tony Stark almost does, Obadiah Stane is the only link to fatherhood Tony’s got.
So how many times has he said this, exactly? How many times has he said, “What would the world be if your father was as selfish as you,” or, “This is the way your father would have wanted it,” or a thousand other things, little manipulative tendrils because that’s who Obie is, building on Tony’s already-extant neglect and affection issues until they’re impossible for him to untangle? Because I’m guessing it’s enough times that Tony’s forgot where that thought came from, just thinks of it as the truth, and that, y’all, that is the worst part about what Obie does to Tony in this scene—because he’s been building the groundwork for years and years, because it’s just the icing on the cake of everything Tony’s ever thought about himself, because really, if you think about it, Obie ripped Tony’s heart out a long time ago.
(via nebulein)
