Iron man bleeding edge age of ultron6/27/2023 ![]() But very much, this seems to be Whedon’s project with the Avengers series of movies (more so than with the week-by-week forays into the Marvel Cineverse that comprise Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)-to fold one kind of story into another. It’s a bold move, using a movie adaptation of a superhero story to tell a Hollywood story. Think of James Spader as Jim Cagney or Robert Downey Jr. It’s the idea that the Hollywood of today, the fast-talking dealmaking we’ve come to associate with Hollywood particularly since the ‘90s (think, Robert Altman’s The Player, George Huang’s Swimming with Sharks) is somehow still deeply connected to the elegant glamour of that bygone era. Whedon’s savvy eye for casting (or for approving casting) draws the whole of Age of Ultron into a lingering prelapsarian moment. Imagine spending a morning at the Fountain Coffee Room (inside the Beverly Hills Hotel) then after, a press junket in the late afternoon, and after that having dinner at Musso & Frank’s, the iconic Hollywood restaurant since 1919. ![]() They’re proud and aggressive monsters of Hollywood, Spader and Downey Jr, and their very presence in the Avengers: Age of Ultron harks back to the glamour of Old Hollywood. More of them individually in their separate scenes, and more of them antagonistically when they both appear in the same scene and vie for domination. and Spader are nothing short of magnificent and you’ll find yourself wishing you could see more of each of them. Although to be fair, director Joss Whedon is skilled enough to allow that tension to be mirrored in the actors’ fictive selves and the enormous battles of ego between man and machine.īoth Downey Jr. Not their characters, but the actors themselves. Catch up on the first piece in this series.Ĭomes right down to it, Avengers: Age of Ultron is a showdown between Robert Downey Jr. You’ve joined us, Dear Reader, at the turning of the tide, so to speak.
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