But in truth, Ducard has evil intentions that were disguised from Bruce (figuratively and literally, since Ducard was actually the leader of the terrorist group after all). First films featured the heroes' mentors betraying them: In Batman Begins, Bruce trusts Henri Ducard to train him and comes to see the man as a friend and father figure, even though he still idolizes his real father. Notice, too, that each man's ultimate escape from the terrorist groups threatening them involves blowing up and burning down the terrorist camp.ģ. Then, each man goes through a second phase of reconstructing their new identity again, Tony building a more advanced suit while Bruce builds his actual Batman suit and gathers more equipment. While Tony is constructing a metal suit, Bruce is constructing a body trained to peak performance. Part of the process even involved learning from mistakes, since they each go out on test runs as their new secret selves and "crash" (Iron Man more literally, Batman jumping from a rooftop and crashing into a fire escape before realizing he needed a cape).Įach man begins building their new super-identity while in a far away land with a terrorist group, too - Tony is a captive, Bruce is there willingly, but each man ends up having an epiphany about their own nature and changing in a fundamental way as part of the creative process, with Bruce ending up like a prisoner when he's told to follow orders or die. And I mean this literally, since we see them building their outfits piece by piece and even doing the paint jobs on the costumes at one point. First films featured heroes creating their super alter-egos: Another similarity between Batman Begins and Iron Man is that much of the films' story focused on the hero creating his masked identity. That first Iron Man film, with its attempts to portray a somewhat realistic world around the hero, as well as some other elements I'll mention in a moment, were clearly influenced by Batman Begins, and it was a smart choice of influence - the Batman trilogy went on to blow the doors off the box office, and Iron Man's own trilogy became easily the most popular and highest-grossing of the Marvel Studios films.Ģ. to assume (contested) control over his father's company. Then, the story moves forward and we see him escape and finally make his way back to the U.S. In 2008, Iron Man used the same method of introducing billionaire Tony Stark, when we see him captured and hauled off as a prisoner in a foreign country before flashing back to give us his history leading up to his imprisonment. to assume (contested) control of his father's company. First films used nonlinear storytelling: In 2006, Batman Begins introduced us to billionaire Bruce Wayne by starting off with him already a prisoner in a foreign land, then flashing back to his past to show us how and why he got there, before moving forward again to his escape and ultimate return to the U.S. I'm going to explain the biggest ones below, and talk about why these similarities exist.ġ. Sean's article can be found HERE, and it goes into great detail about the nuances of the comparisons between the Dark Knight trilogy and the Iron Man trilogy. Meanwhile, both Sean and I have written up the comparisons for you to read as well. You can listen to that podcast and download it HERE. So this past weekend, we got together for a podcast in which we spoke about all of those similarities. As we talked about what we loved about the film, we started to note the many similarities between the Iron Man and Batman franchises. Sean and I saw Iron Man 3 early last week and came out agreeing it's the best of the Iron Man franchise and the best solo hero movie so far from Marvel- Disney.
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