In short order, Stark is wounded and captured his life is saved by an imprisoned Afghani doctor and in one of the more effective metaphors of the movie, the doctor has to remove bits of Stark Industries shrapnel, remnants of the shards of his professional life, that are threatening his heart. ![]() In portraying this action, the writers brilliantly mimic the narrative arc of Robert Downey Jr.’s life as his character, Tony Stark, opens the movie with a glass of scotch on the rocks while bouncing along a dirt road in Afghanistan in a humvee. Stark sees the error of his ways, returns home to confront his personal (and business) demons, and spends the rest of the movie trying to do good, home and abroad. The central myth of the movie “Iron Man” is that of a billionaire playboy whose experience as an incarcerated hostage causes him to transform from an economic and social predator into a born-again pacifist.
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