{"id":2480,"date":"2008-04-23T04:50:58","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T09:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2480"},"modified":"2008-04-23T07:09:48","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T12:09:48","slug":"2480","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2480","title":{"rendered":"Didn’t See This<\/i> Coming…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Downey – not only working again…:<\/p>\n

A winking nod to that tumultuous history is baked into the banter in \u201cIron Man.\u201d The movie opens with Mr. Downey\u2019s mitt wrapped around a tumbler of whiskey, rumbling along in a Humvee, AC\/DC\u2019s \u201cBack in Black\u201d blasting on the soundtrack and Mr. Downey acting all lusty and incorrigible. And when Gwyneth Paltrow<\/a>\u2019s character, the dewy-eyed, ever-loyal assistant he sees with new eyes by the end of the film, learns about his alter ego, Mr. Downey\u2019s Tony Stark goes deadpan.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s face it,\u201d he says. \u201cThis is not the worst thing you\u2019ve caught me doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

That running dialogue \u2014 between audience and actor, between Mr. Downey\u2019s past and present \u2014 gives the film a symbolic power not usually found in comic book movies. In the interview he preferred to leave that history between the lines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…to say nothing of “alive”…<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has struck me lately that I don\u2019t have to talk about last century at all,\u201d he said with a dismissive wave. But he does so, obliquely.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…and – um – conservative?<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a really interesting political point of view, and it\u2019s not always something I say too loud at dinner tables here, but you can\u2019t go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary and really understand it and come out a liberal. You can\u2019t. I wouldn\u2019t wish that experience on anyone else, but it was very, very, very educational for me and has informed my proclivities and politics every since.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Suffice it to say he is not one of the Hollywood types who weeps over innocents trapped behind bars.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A hollywood actor who’s more conservative that I am?<\/p>\n

I love this country.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:\u00a0 Robert, not Morton.<\/p>\n

Why on earth\u00a0 <\/em>would a conservative pundit think “Morton”, anyway?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert Downey – not only working again…: A winking nod to that tumultuous history is baked into the banter in \u201cIron Man.\u201d The movie opens with Mr. Downey\u2019s mitt wrapped around a tumbler of whiskey, rumbling along in a Humvee, AC\/DC\u2019s \u201cBack in Black\u201d blasting on the soundtrack and Mr. Downey acting all lusty and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-conservatism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}