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ELON MUSK: “They modeled Iron Man in the movies after me."

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ELON MUSK: “They modeled Iron Man in the movies after me. Robert Downey Jr. and Jon Favreau met with me and toured SpaceX.”

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I mean, he's not wrong. Hollywood jerked off to him til like 2018, even when he was blatantly evil already the hollywood liberal writer bubble loved their teslas so he was just a quirky genius to them. Buying twitter was the thing that made him a bad guy in their minds, but it was working with Trump 2024 that was the actual nail in the coffin and even after that there were op eds about how he should be welcomed back to the 'good guys' after he had his one week fallout with Trump. Being rich means you get infinite second chances
- He could of retired from public life as a hero but he got too big for his bazinga britches and inserted himself into the gop machine and fucked around and torpedoed his image lmao
  
  Many such cases.
  Musk specifically fired his PR firm around 2018, the time he made the ”pedo guy” tweet.
- star trek name dropped him in 2017 too
  guy with no actual skills who just bought some companies is a genius visionary apparently lol
  
  Ok but that was Terran Lorca who said Musk was a visionary.
- musk also had a cameo in iron man 2

i don’t remember the part where iron man hangs out with ghislaine maxwell
- Okay, so do you remember when Iron Man was in the mountains of Not-Afghanistan...
- The only reason Iron Man wasn't on Epstein's plane manifests was because he flew to the island himself

I'd believe it. RDJ's Iron Man is an insufferable character, but I kinda assumed that was just RDJ.
- I just watched Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and it was really good. That director knew exactly how to utilize him. RDJ is actually talented unlike Musk.
  
  lol that movie rocks.
  "I put only one bullet in there. There was like an 8% chance?"
  \ "Who taught you math?!"
  him and kilmer had incredible chemistry. it was a Shane Black joint (i watch all of his movies) and he has a preternatural talent for protagonist duos, their dialogue and characterization.
  also, the move of having a real actor play a role of a character who can't act successfully bumbling his way into pretending to be an actor from a fluke happenstance was such a funny bit.
  i gotta watch that shit again.

Elon reminiscing of the days he wasn't fucking despised and hated by the entire world.
You can't go back Elon, you had it all and you fucked it up.
- All he had to do was not get addicted to Twitter. If he'd kept his terrible opinions to himself he could have quietly contributed to super pacs trying to steal candy from babies or whatever and people would have compartmentalized that from the other things he does like they do for most other rich people.

I read a comic published from 1983 or so where tony stark was drunk and erratic. He absolutely isn't modeled after musk. He's got the charm of a wet box. Rdj's ironman precense is always felt for better or worse, musk has the charisma of a soggy loaf of bread
- Tony Stark was always a shit character, the only storyline that was good was Demon in a Bottle. It's amazing that a B-lister Marvel superhero got so famous.
  
  I think I gave myself a dare. It was the height of the Cold War. The readers, the young readers, if there was one thing they hated, it was war, it was the military ... So I got a hero who represented that to the hundredth degree. He was a weapons manufacturer, he was providing weapons for the Army, he was rich, he was an industrialist ... I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him ... And he became very popular.
  —Stan Lee
  
  yeah uhh and i'm not a comic person but even i know he was created by Stan Lee long before Elon was a thing... like 70s 80s during Vietnam. am i missing something? is movie stark considered separate from comics stark? is this actually a good troll by Elon for once?

The first movie was filmed in 2007. Did anybody even know who he was then?
He did get a pathetic suck-off cameo in the third movie.
- I found this article through Wikipedia that says they did tour SpaceX while filming the first movie: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-elon-musk-spacex/ (warning: it's from 2015, so it still has Musk
  shit)
  I vaguely remember hearing about him in 2008 when the first Tesla Roadster was released. His cameo was in the second Iron Man, unless he was in the third one and I forgor.
  
  They used Space X as the filming location for Hammer Industries in Iron Man 2. Which is it's own nugget because Musk is more of a Justin Hammer than Stark, depending on how much credit you want to give Stark as a character.
- In 2007 social media almost did not exist, Elon Musk most likely relied on PR companies until he started his complete loss of self control.
- Tesla was coming out with a cool electric car using a Lotus chassis back then (the original Tesla roadster) and the original SpaceX Falcon rocket was the first privately owned rocket to reach orbit, this was around 2008 I think so Musk was definitely making waves back then in nerdier circles.
- The book "Founders at Work" features an interview with Max Levchin in which he describes how Musk wanted to switch the PayPal infrastructure from Unix to Windows NT was published in 2008, and they didn't even feel it necessary to include his name, he's only alluded to as "the guy who ran X [who] became CEO".
  
  Impressive that he was still an idiot all the way back in 2008.
- Yeah, I'm ashamed to say I knew about him and thought he was cool in 2007

Yeah, they were probably partly based on the bullshit that most people believed about him at the time. Not sure why anyone cares.

Specifically they modeled the parts where he's a drunk callous divorced guy

No shit sherlock. It was incredibly obvious when watching the movies.

Didn't they model him after the comics that were around before this jackoff?
- the comics were modelled after him too

And The Blair Witch Project was based on a true story.

I bet he's speed balling on Cat traq and horse dewormer.

Wonder what Iron Man is doing right now...

it's the other way around - Elon Musk was modeled after Tony Stark. not the real Elon but the fictional character of Musk created by his PR team
but yeah that movie was partly responsible for the public perception that billionaires are smart and cool and I resent it for that
- He swapped the alcohol for ketamine though

Really want to know what his shirt says.

if there were an actual comic character analog to musk who would it be? i dunno enough characters to play this game right but I'll start anyway: Adam James Susan from V for vendetta.
a'course elon only dreams of the power Susan had, i'm focused on their similar broken personalities, their love of fascism and the weird juxtaposition of hating so many with the obvious desire to be loved by all

He's more like lex luthor. All the resources in the world and instead of doing good for the world? Trolls superman with 40 cakes

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