[#DailyMovieSketch × #InfinitySagaArt]Iron Man (2008)Directed by Jon Favreau “‘I am Iron Man.’ Think you’re the only superhero in the world? Mr Stark, you’ve become part of a bigger universe. You just don’t know it yet.” Little did we, the audience, realised just how true that line would end up becoming! It's been several years since I watched 2008's "Iron Man", the movie that began the whole Marvel Cinematic Universe, getting to 11 years now and 21 future movies! While it's not the first movie to have a post credits scene, this one, where Samuel L Jackson's Nick Fury comes to Tony Stark's building wanting to talk to him about a little something called the "Avenger" initiative, is significant, because it's the start of the "shared continuity" which Marvel Studios pulled off so well.I remember when this film came out, I was not expecting too much out of it, and Iron Man was not that popular a hero. I was pleasantly surprised as it was a very well made movie, and thought it was one of the best movies of that year. It holds up well even now, it's entertaining, action packed, the story is involving, it has a nice tone and the visual effects are great. Robert Downey Jr owned the character of course.A few things of interest — the movie ends with Black Sabbath's song "Iron Man", and in "The Avengers", you see Tony wearing a Black Sabbath t-shirt.There's a reference to "The Big Lebowski" in "Avengers: Endgame", and Jeff Bridges who plays the villain here was in that movie! So wait, Lebowski was actually a movie released in the Marvel Universe? No one noticed that the actor in that movie looked like Obadiah Stane? Speaking of Jeff Bridges, do check out the actor's website, he documented the shoot of this movie with some awesome wide angle film photos!I loved the music by "Game of Thrones" composer Ramin Djawadi in this movie, pity that his themes were not used in subsequent Iron Man movies.I thought of doing one inch art pieces based on each movie in the saga, and have come up with a list (check on Stories). This is the first one, featuring the scene mentioned above. Drawn with 0.5mm 2B pencil on A6 Brustro sketchbook and scanned.#441 / 1-May-19
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