Iron Man 2 is a 2010
American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Iron Man. It is
the sequel to 2008's Iron Man, the
film is Directed by Jon Favre au and written by Justin Theroux. I enjoy watching
the film Iron man 2, the reasons are
vary, for instance I am one of the fans of Robert Downey, Jr. and I like
superhero but I do not chose Avenger was
because there are several superheroes in it and all of them are the focus of
the film so it is hard for me to pick up which one to write up. The major reason
was that the difference between Iron I
and Iron II catch my attention - special
effect, that gives the audience a level of spectacle and action they can
expected.
Audience can easily find the special effects on Iron man 2. There are two kinds of special
effects first of all the computer effects. In Louis Giannetti’s, Understanding
Movies, it states, “Acting has also been affected by this technology, though
not usually in a positive way” (33) so Iron man 2 use computer to make effects which
show audience the technology on film is super advanced, for example the computer
animation. In the scene that iron man fly in to sky and the forces of evil
control the metal robot catch Iron man, they use computer animation also the
weapon they use, the orbit of
missile are computer controlled.
Also Iron
man 2 use blue screen technology which is the foreground and background shots
are shot separately and later superimposed one on the other. Certain areas of
the foreground have to be transparent for the background detail to show through.
(The
revolution of special effects in movies) This technology was used through whole movie, such as the walls in Tony’s
house are all touchable computers and when he writes a program on computer he can
use 3-D phantom to build a model on his lab.
The second kind of special effects is humanized
effects like use of blood bags, bullet hits and explosions. I believe the
suitcase suit in Monaco was perhaps the most challenging sequence because they
needed to prove that Tony had designed a suit that was portable and yet could
have the weight to protect him from danger. Also they needed to make sure that they
did not cross the line in making the suiting up moment too magical, due to the
movie is superhero movie not a scientific film.
Another part is that when the Ivan Vanko starts
the battle in
F1 track that could not
realistically set things on fire all over the track, or destroy several sport
cars, so they did not actually film in F1 track at all. I learned from the
bonus features on The Iron man 2 that they filmed some of the action sequence
in a car testing center, which they dressed to look like F1 racetrack.
The Iron
man 2 achieved one of the top ticket
offices in 2010 and the main reason was because of the amazing special effects.
The visual effects team did not care how long it took, but they wanted to get
every detail right.
The truth of touchable computer windows
The
revolution of special effects in movies
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