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Ironman andI
By encinoman
I hadn&;t thought or written much about it much before the movie came out, but after seeing it at the Cinerama Dome, (arguably the most special place to watch a movie in the world)I I remembered that Ironman was my favorite comic book.
Why? Because Ironman was a nerd before it was a word. He&;s no Superman or even one of Professor Xavier&;s powerful mutants. Instead, he&;s the epitome of the brainy guy with the feeble body. As a smart four-eyed fat kid who got picked on, I grooved on the idea of building something so powerfully electric that it would help vanquish one&;s enemies. So, I suspect, did Bill Gates and the rest of the Silicon Valley crowd.
Apple creator the Woz, for example, is functionally identical to Bladerunner&;s replicant builder J.F. Sebastian, whose most famous line is &;There&;s some of me in you.&; Like Ironman and Robert Downey Jr., at least in the good old days, &;debonair&; billionaire Wozniak likes to live dangerously. He plays Segway polo and dates Kathy Griffin.
And to extend the riff, yes, Stephen Hawking is clearly Ironman.
Robert Downey Jr in “Iron Man.”
Tags: Stephen-Hawking, Wozniak
This entry was posted on May 15, 2008 at 12:09 am and is filed under bill-gates, Blade-Runner, Iron-Man, Robert-Downey-Jr..
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