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Pumping Iron Man
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James Bowman’s review of Iron Man seems to forget that the movie can not claim a literary heritage. It remains true to the comic that it is derived from and the comic was warped the comic book code of the 1950’s and 1960’s.
The “vaguely left-wing and pacifist sort” of politics was built into the comic by the cultural watch dogs of the comic publication industry when the comic originated. Except for choosing this as a movie project, in this one instance Hollywood is nearly innocent of injecting additional hippy-dippy politics. It was already there. I’m just grateful that they abandoned the infantile “secret identity” dramatic device.
p>As an adult I would prefer to see Hollywood make Tuxedo Park into a film. Charlie Wilson’s War is probably as close as Hollywood is to get to a story of that sort. br> — Gregory Franke
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