My fucking God.
us saying “the mcu wouldnt exist without tony stark” isnt a hot take its just a fact and if you argue with facts you end up looking dumb each time so by all means go forth lmao
“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the MCU would not exist without Robert Downey Jr.”
– Kevin Feige, President of Marvel Studios
Okay so facts, everyone: they made Iron Man because Marvel was losing a ton of movie because a.) previous movies sucked ass and b.) no one was really buying comic books at the rate they needed them to be. Iron Man was their Hail Mary pass, in a sense.
A lot of people were considered for the role of the metal man. Nicolas Cage wanted to play Tony Stark, Tom Cruise wanted to play Iron Man until 2004, and Sam Rockwell–who actually ended up playing Best Choice Brand Tony Stark (Justin Hammer)–was heavily considered for the role.
But Jon Favreau, director the Iron Man movie, wanted Robert Downey Jr. It’s rumored that he has an eye for talent, but he also saw the similiarities in roles at the time: RDJ had been in drugs, considered “washed-up,” and would’ve been a has-been in about two years tops. (Rough, personal estimate.)
So, Marvel eventually let Favreau have his way. Favreau himself said it was a gamble, saying “That was a big gamble on whether or not he was really serious about it…” And it turned out, he was.
When Iron Man hit theaters, it was a huge success. Tony Stark popped out as this likable asshole who had problems and was more human than anyone had ever seen before. The script was light and real, not manufactured to tell anyone the right thing. The actors weren’t there to look shiny and plastic and then demand a paycheck afterwards.
They played around with the script, improvising and bringing a fresh vitality into the role. Robert Downey Jr. was unpredictable, and it shows bright on screen. His interpretation of Tony Stark brought the audience to standing with applause and demanding an encore. His microexpressions and nuanced tone had everyone wondering what the bigger picture was.
Iron Man gave Marvel the green-light to continue on with pictures, and they had their genius way of making movies: humor with serious tones. It worked, and it’s all thanks to one man in a can.
how can you forget to mention that RDJ improvised the most important part of the movie. Admitting hes iron man in a press meeting
alchemizing shenanigans took up a fairly big chunk of homestuck and it was 100% worth it
Alchemy was, no joke, originally my favorite part of the comic and I feel like something was lost when characters stopped halting the plot entirely to showcase dumb ideas hussie had
youre right and you should say it
i wanna know what would happen if jade alchemized the different planets together on the ship
Put this in the Smithsonian.
direct action
I am l i v i n g for all the videos popping up recently of rapists and pedophiles getting their asses beat. Yall are doing god’s work.
Make pedophiles afraid again.
Make child molesters afraid again.
Make rapists afraid again.
Let’s keep these videos coming!
never 4get
GOD
hiddlestown struggles not to say “headcanon” in an interview
this is everything.
even fucking Tom Hiddleston refers to the grandmaster as “Jeff Goldblum.” He didn’t even play a character. Loki just hooked up with Jeff Goldblum.
I also love the fact that the question was ‘was there a pretty woman’ and he responds with ‘yes, it was exactly the same as the film Pretty Woman’.
via reddit.com
“In 2000, Virginia legislators got involved, asking Governor Jesse Ventura to return their captured icon.
‘Why?’ he asked. ‘We won.’”
LMAAAAO
All the salty racists in the comments are a cherry on top.
Die mad about it energy strong af
Okay but this is a story that @dadhoc loves to talk about because this is a REALLY BIG DEAL in Minnesota.
I have heard the story of The First Minnesota at LEAST ONE HUNDRED TIMES in the course of my marriage and now I GET TO TELL THE REST OF YOU.
So. It’s not just ANY Confederate flag. It is the Confederate flag that the First Minnesota captured on July 3rd, 1863. The First Minnesota prevented the Union line from crumbling by keeping the Federalists from being pushed off of Cemetery Ridge on July 2nd, and on July 2nd, the First Minnesota sustained 82% casualties.
EIGHTY-TWO PERCENT CASUALTIES. They started out as 262 men and ended as 47. But they held the line. They held. The. Line. Then on July 3rd they were placed in one of the few places where the line was breached, and they thus had to charge in again and retake the line breaches, and they did.
It was during one of these charges – remember, they’d already lost eighty-two percent of their friends – that Private Marshall Sherman of Company C captured the flag. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for this.
The survivors of the First Minnesota at Gettysburg served through the rest of the war.
Now, Virginians have asked for it back repeatedly, saying ‘it’s our heritage.’ But the response from the Minnesota Historical Society has basically been, as @dadhoc has summed it up, “to us, this is the legacy of 215 men who were killed or wounded in the preservation of the Union. What, exactly, is its legacy to you?”
No one’s been able to give an answer that isn’t ‘it’s our legacy of trying to destroy the US over slavery,’ because there isn’t one.
Fuck Virginia wanting that flag back, it belongs in Minnesota.
As someone who grew up in Gettysburg, I feel like I missed out on not knowing this story and now I need to pay my respects to these men next time I visit my mom. This is entirely amazing and I love it.
@dadhoc yells about this piece of their state’s history ALL THE TIME. It’s one of those pieces of history that should be talked about more because the fact that the First Minnesota held the line on the 2nd where they did is one of those “for want of a nail” moments, where if that specific spot in the line had broken, Gettysburg, and thus the war, would have gone VERY differently.
The flag was on display for a long time and IIRC it only isn’t now because of its condition. HOWEVER if any of my followers who live in MN want to go see the actual flag of the First Minnesota, IIRC it’s in the State House rotunda. (I told you, @dadhoc talks about this A LOT.)
