Reflection Of The Movie Iron Man

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In Jon Favreau’s movie Iron Man, the story starts off with Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) riding in a military convoy with U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. While joking around with the soldiers, their vehicle suddenly gets attacked. Tony quickly runs out and hides behind a nearby boulder while the soldiers attempt to fight but are rapidly killed. All of a sudden Stark sees a missile fired which lands close to him. Before it detonates, he notices that the missile has the Stark Industries logo on it. When it explodes, the missile severely injures Tony allowing the terrorists to capture and record him on video.
The movie then flashes back to 36 hours before the attack takes place so the audience can understand how Tony Stark presented himself before he became Iron Man. In the public’s eye, Tony was known as a billionaire, genius, playboy, entrepreneur and philanthropist that became the CEO of his father’s company, Stark Industries, at the young age of 21. He was more concerned about having a good time and partying instead of working hard and caring about the improvement of his own company. When Tony was offered to accept an award for his accomplishments, his right-hand man Obadiah Stane (former partner of Tony’s father Howard Stark), takes the award for him because Tony was nowhere to be found. It is then when Starks good friend Colonel James “Rhodey” Rhodes goes looking for him eventually finding him partying in a nearby casino which shows that Tony has a lack of respect for others and only cares about what he wants to do instead of what he should be doing. He then goes on to avoid answering a reporter’s questions about Stark Industries and instead brings her back to his house and sleeps with her. In the morning, we are int...

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...illing the Iron Monger. Also without Rhodey, Tony Stark would have not been able to keep his project so secretive to the general public and saved his life when the fighter jets were in pursuit of the “unidentified aircraft.”
In order to finance Tony’s secret project of the Mack II and Mack III, Pepper was able to assist him being his executive assistant along with Tony already being a billionaire and owning a company which builds military weapons. Since Tony is the CEO of Stark Industries and a genius, everything that happens within his company first goes through him. However, I believe that he should not have tried to run everything and keep his projects secret from everyone like he did throughout the movie. In the real world great ideas and inventions come from groups of people so that all the best ideas from each individual can be put into one great outcome.

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