tony stark singing disney songs to his kids and changing the words to be about technology. morgan spends at least the first few years of her life thinking that the lion king features the award winning song “the circle of spare parts”. peter absolutely encourages this and gets friday to make a recording of tony singing it to morgan so that he can learn all the changed lyrics. tony has no idea his kid just straight up doesn’t know the original song exists, but pepper does and she thinks it’s both adorable and hilarious. eventually it’s rhodey who breaks the illusion. he watches the lion king with morgan when he’s babysitting and is very confused when she tells him “it was a good idea to change the words to fit with the lions but i like daddy’s version better”. rhodey explains that the song was written for the movie and morgan, age 6, says very solemnly and precociously, “i guess ‘a whole new world’ isn’t about clean energy either”. she goes on to learn all the official lyrics but she still likes her dad’s versions better
okay oh my god, That Scene with Obadiah is terrible, but also, holy heck, What A Scene. What acting. What camera work. Fantastic. Like:
when you first hear the high-pitched whine before you see Stane, RDJ’s like body language there is so unworldly and hits so many visceral Wrong feels. Amazing!!
that like…perverse mockery of tender care by Stane (”Breathe. Easy…easy…”)
and then Stane just leaves it all behind and lays all his cards on the table basically
and then Stane comes around to the front of the couch and there’s all these cool camera angles, and then finally it’s purposefully at a tilt so him and Tony look more vaguely upright, but the wall/column on the back is at this off-putting tilt, and the camera moves around a bit but the angle remains as Stane’s pulling out the arc reactor and there’s this spooky atmospheric soundtrack in the background of it all
holy shit this is fantastic:
it’s direct-ish and confrontational – which suits the fact that Tony is the hero, etc etc, but everything is still off and there’s this Wonderland/Up is Down/Mystery Spot eeriness to it that so fckn Works.
“Do you really think that just because you have an idea, it belongs to you? Your father, he helped give us the atomic bomb. Now, what kind of world would it be today if he was as selfish as you?“ HOLY SHIT!!! HOLY SHIST!!!!
AND THEN HE PULLS THE REACTOR OUT, YEAH WHY ARE YOU BEING SO SELFISH NOT PARTING WITH THE VERY THING KEEPING YOU ALIVE, TONY
HOLY. SHIT.
“Oh, Tony. This is your Ninth Symphony” AGAIN, HOLY SHIT!!
yo the sheer symbolism in that allusion I’m going to flip a table. Beethoven’s 9th was his last work, greatest work, greatest work of all time, etc etc, he was fully deaf by the time he completed it, couldn’t even hear the applause and had to be turned around so he could see the ovation, etc.
also holy heck I just found this thing called the “curse of the ninth.” apparently it’s a superstition that a ninth symphony is destined to be a composer’s last, would be fated to die after it or before completing a tenth, those who give credence to this idea believe embarking on a tenth is to tempt fate. Holy. Fuck what is this, holy shit the symbolism.
and then finally the camera starts rotating as Stane sits down next to Tony admiring the thing and “showing it off” to Tony, his arm on the couch back behind Tony’s head. Tony, who is DYING because his LIFE-GIVING THING that Stane just unplugged and is just chilling with right in front of his face (”What a masterpiece, look at that”)
“This is your legacy. A new generation of weapons with this at its heart”
even after the camera straightened out, it’s not quite “straight,” there’s still these uncanny oblique angles
(edit: obligatory heart!!! HEART!!!!! screaming, I can’t believe I forgot this)
AND THEN THERE’S THIS:
this scene is so excellent and so creepy!!
“there’s so many uses for short term paralysis” oh my GOD (oh look i’m mad about whedon and the prima nocta joke again, how dare he???)
the way obadiah looms over tony, possessive and controlling and taking what he wants from tony’s body
just, there’s no way this scene wasn’t deliberately filmed to echo a sexual assault and it’s so horrible and so effective
iampinbitch 