IRON MAN| Making of Iron Man: Realitätsbezug eng /

 

 

 

 

what's going on there coach finding my

character the inner driver yes what are

you doing today like a happy Hogan at

the time it seemed like a good idea

let's try to make my hair look like how

it looks in comics it's not too

dissimilar to your regular haircut is it

not just straight

it's nothing organized we're gonna put a

little product in here and straighten it

out a little thicker it's more of a

cameo in this film I wanted to sort of

give myself a way to be in the film as a

director of a big movie there isn't

really a lot of latitude to too much of

a performance but I was able to sort of

weave my way in and out of scenes he's

um he's an ex-boxer who's Tony Stark's

driver slash confidante bodyguard kind

of a sidekick of sorts although he's not

a superhero in any way and he doesn't

crack a smile and so he ironically is

given the name happy and it's more for

the comic book fans to see that you know

we're sort of trying you know in a way

to incorporate as much of the the source

material is we could being that this is

the first Marvel movie made for Marvel

fans

this is happy Hogan

of the fans like it

I could be it's great I really the real

reason I'm doing this I just broke it to

gwyneth the then I marry her

Edwards Air Force Base is here about 70

miles north-northeast of Los Angeles and

John wanted to include Edwards Air Force

Base in the story specifically just

because it has such a proud heritage of

flight tests they really wanted to tie

that into sort of the research and

development aspects of Stark Enterprises

so we did a lot of filming there we shot

there for three days we we shot on a

c-17 cargo plane we brought in an f-22

and a Global Hawk as set-dressing

and we used about 300 Airmen and extra

Marines as well as extras so you've got

first look one shot one kill we're at

the merge even before they know we're

there Terrence Howard we opted in this

film to make him an Air Force lieutenant

colonel although he was a member of the

military in the comic books he wasn't

somebody of that stature but he was

somebody that bonded pretty early with

Tony Stark as a matter of fact he was

involved with his rescue from what I

remember we tried to incorporate that

into the film in a way as sort of an

homage to the books but we really wanted

to flesh out the character even more and

Rohde becomes war machine if you follow

the the course of the books and and as

we sort of look forward to see this as a

chapter in a series of films and we

could be so lucky

I think that that following Terrence

Howard as he becomes a superhero in his

own right is something I'm really

curious and interested in that lovely

lady who woke up with what was his name

no as your sister right

come on give us a few seconds you guys

pleasure to meet you all

it's doing after that shoot those guys

cycled over to Afghanistan

so no joke those are really tough guys

and they get a real tough job to do and

it was really nice to see Terrance and

John and Robert interact with them and

just be really just humbled by what a

tough job those guys got and what real

pros they are I see the workshop was

always the most important set for me it

was the space that was gonna tell you

before he got captured and builds the

mark-1 suit that he's a guy who who

likes fabricating he likes working with

his hands we have him working on a 32

Ford that we show in a picture that he's

working with his dad on and it just

shows that he's a bit of a gearhead he's

a guy who not only is he a genius and as

far as design goes but he actually has a

hands-on knowledge of how to build

things and he's an inventor but the type

of inventor doesn't just work with a

pencil that was important to make that

leap so that it didn't just jump into

Fantasyland when he was in a cave and

builds the suit that he makes a

breakthrough that was inevitable because

he has a mind that is capable of these

kind of realizations so we put together

a shop that would be any car builders

dream we have everything from Old

English wheels that look like they were

passed down from generation to

generation maybe they were his dad's

that were passed down and he also have

like CNC machines that are sort of

state-of-the-art you know with plasma

cutters and everything we figured was

tied in and automated to the brain of

the house so I wanted to create a real

mix of high-tech and low-tech what

Husted me out here real

you don't like me what I don't like you

I don't like it when you have plans

well I'm allowed to have plans on my

birthday so there's our birthday it is

again isn't that funny

same day as last year Wow yeah I was

definitely not a comic book reader but

my brother was so I I grew up with

Marvel Comics around the house and my

brother had spider-man

underoos and spider-man sheets and

spider-man everything from a very young

age and he was definitely into comic

books so I was exposed to it although

you know I'm a girl let's face it so you

feel well

oh gosh don't worry about it's not

positon in organic organic plasma

discharge from the device it's not for

my bike oh it smells it's basically

making you a very tall upside down

I'm a huge military Channel and Sergeant

Rock I mean so we superheroes are great

superheroes who manufacture weapons and

then build one that they wear and used

to me is is just a complete nerdgasm in

origin story of a superhero you have

certain responsibilities one of which is

you know showing how the hero came to be

and it takes a lot out of a movie to

have that kind of burden but what it

gives you is the opportunity to allow

the audience to sort of become the hero

with the hero and I have the most fun as

a viewer when I see the learning curve

of a hero there's a tendency to want to

just go right for the fighting and right

for the action but I know my favorite

part of for a spider-man film was

watching him come to terms with his

powers learn how to swing from his webs

and I you know I referred back to a lot

as we met and went to pre-production

meetings talking about what the set

pieces would be finish this is a flight

stabilizer

we'll watch where you point your flight

stabilizer

it's received pictures I like to guy

he's probably just as likely to kill

himself trying to save people as he is

to do the right thing as far as Robert

Downey doing stunts he wants to keep

doing more and more and I got to keep

bringing him back because he's very game

to just keep right on gone while he's

going so when he hits the lawn falls

down

no movement and it just punctuated by

the blacks guys it's a timing thing so

I like to think that I can do a ton of

stuff and I'm pretty game and physically

able and probably should be for the next

like I said five to seven years so but

then I'll talk to Tommy and he'll be

like yeah yeah we're not gonna have any

death but I could do that he goes from

now good

well maybe you could but I wouldn't like

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it's towards but it hurts every day

getting up looking like this it hurts in

here but I'm doing better I'm doing

better can I go now

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thank you

we're about to do a Tony Stark

experimenting with the combination of

boots and gauntlets is his first

successful flight in his workshop Robert

here has done a lot of training on this

wire rig and the tests we've done over

pretty successful you're off right here

Fame up on me good day 11 test 37

configuration 2 point Oh for lack of a

better option dummy is still on fire

safety

if you doused me prematurely I swear to

God I will donate you you'll be at a

City College alright we're gonna start

off really nice and easy don't talk when

I'm talking 1 percent capacity in 3 2 1

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great steady I've done wire work both as

an actor and as a director in the past I

think people have been seeing wire work

for so long that whether consciously or

subconsciously they could tell where the

pic points are they could tell where the

wires are attached and even if you use

you know computers to paint everything

out there's something about the physics

of it that is unconvincing to me and I

was very skeptical if we could use it at

all or if we take the audience out of

the movie what we did was we developed a

way by which the character was picked or

supported by his feet so he wasn't being

suspended by a center of gravity or his

hips or his back as is usually done in

these films clean up later his feet are

supporting his weight so it actually

looks like he's being supported by the

blast of the repulsors in the bottom of

his boots and you could see the dynamics

as he's flying through the air feels

much truer to what the real physics are

flying being powered by your feet would

be learning ones powers is always the

most fun okay what would happen to you

or to me so anybody putting this thing

on and trying to operate it it's like

surfing feel pretty clumsy in the

beginning and here is he's wearing an

engine pretty elaborate thing yeah

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man something interesting happened when

we saw black-and-white rendering of the

mark 3 it looked kind of silver and that

started our wheels turning and then we

sort of backed into the design of the

mark 2 which is sort of a chromed

aircraft aluminum sheet metal looking

prototype version of the mark 3 and then

we started incorporating exposed rivets

and because of the wonderful finishes

that they were able to create through

the chroming process and nickel plating

process over at Stan Winston it really

has a very unique look and that's

something different from anything you've

seen in the books before but it helped

provide sort of an intermediate step

between the mark 1 or Myranda and the

final mark 3 design

how much that car $50,000 it's a replica

of a 1967 Cobra SC

in Poland at a big factory

that brings a tear to my he like cars at

all that hurts