We all know Iron Man as the charismatic, cunning billionaire playboy. Since 2008, he's featured in seven Marvel movies, which have all been big hits on their own. Although, let's say we take the first
Iron Man movie, and drop him in our current time now.
Black Panther screenwriter Joe Robert Cole thinks he would receive a much different response from the audience.
"Think about where we are now, with this very vapid, unintelligent president and our world is crackling on the edges because of that," Cole said at the SXSW panel on Saturday. "Think back to Tony Stark, him being douchey and being okay. If that character, Stark, was created in a movie today, I wonder if the response would be like, 'Oh, it's cool that he's douchey and disrespectful to women ... that's fine.' I think we're at a different place. I think it's a better place."
It's definitely an insightful and thought provoking message he brought out. Whether it's true or not remains to be his opinion, but it is interesting to ponder on. Regardless of that, Iron Man has proved to be a very popular character in this generation. Robert Downey Jr turned a B-List character into one of the most highly known superheroes around. Next time we see him will be in Avengers: Infinity War on April 27th.
What are your thoughts on this? Would Iron Man be received differently today?