If you cant Marvel...I watched the movie 'Iron Man' yesterday (those of you who are itching to ask me, "why the hell is a smart and intelligent woman watching a movie like Iron man?" Go away. This post is not for you. And I do have my dumb moments). The movie was a MARVELOUS one, just like all MARVEL ones. But unfortunately, I laughed instead of my usual open mouthed awestruck gapping exercise. So finally, I the great sage Yavanshi, has outgrown Marvel comics.
Once upon a time, we had a Panthom who stalked the jungles, protecting his teritory of Bangala, in a sexy mysterious suit. Panthom told a lot of ten-year-olds that protecting nature is heroic. Then there was Batman, who taught rich kids that incase they don't know what to do with all their money, they along with their butlers can spend it on saving cities like Gauthom from mad jokers with stupid ideas. Even superman, despite his obsession with his adopted country flag, had his moments as he went about saving bus full of kids. I even liked spidey until he started acting demented in his last movie. But I must admit, none of these ordinary super heores, nor the incredibles, electra, cat woman, the fantastics and the X-men combined can ever beat 'Iron Man'.
Yes, the Iron Man is the guy who teaches the perfect lession all children must know. That weapons are cool, but only if they kill people other than Americans, that bad guys are almost always people who suspiciously look like Muslims from somewhere like Afghanistan, that if there is by chance a bad guy from America, then he is definetly smarter than the muslim 'terrorists'. And that when the terrorist buggers who look like muslims kill their own folks the hero of America is the one who saves them.
And ofcourse, some of the minor lessons are 'bad physics works, unbearably sweaty metal suits are good to fly alongside bombers, always hire a secretary smarter than you and a friend dumber than you, popoye green drinks makes you strong (spinach is really good, right?)...."
Well, the rest you will learn as you watch the movie. With such lessons I think there should be statuaory warning that says "Children, listen when Iron Man says weapons are bad and then shut your mind while watching, so as to avoid mental damage due to prejudice."
Well, the rest you will learn as you watch the movie. With such lessons I think there should be statuaory warning that says "Children, listen when Iron Man says weapons are bad and then shut your mind while watching, so as to avoid mental damage due to prejudice."
2 comments:
Just stumbled into u r blog, seems to be interesting... Had to agree with the Apple juice posting you had made (solved my mystery too)...
Being a fan of all Comics, I couldn't hold myself from leaving a comment on the iron man post. "This is just a commercial movie and they intent to make money out of it. As a matter of fact, in the earlier versions of Iron Man the war he gets injured was the Vietnam war and later the Gulf war and now it is Afghanisthan! They are just trying to make good use of the situation and have nothing against the muslims of the world!
You cannot make "Chak de America" and expect it to be a super hit in India! The movie was targeted at the American audience (the largest revenue generator). Which I guess makes good business sense.
Anyway this is just a movie and above that a super hero movie so defying logic in metal suits is forgivable (IMHO). Just imagine a super hero in his dhoti who sweeps the streets
"Cleaning the world of crime one street at a time" :-)...."
your review of Iron Man was good, the anonymous comment better....
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