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Article: 'Iron Man' Shows Strength of Character
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- The Washington Post
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- May 2, 2008
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It's difficult to imagine a better actor-character fit than that
between Robert Downey Jr. and Iron Man, the superhero who, out of
all of comic book writer Stan Lee's creations, probably possesses
the darkest of dark sides. Like Downey himself, Iron Man, a.k.a.
Tony Stark, has addiction issues; like Downey, the wealthy, hard-
partying weapons dealer has had his ups and downs, by turns reveling
in and suffering from the blandishments of privilege.
So it's easy to see why, as "Iron Man" opens, with Downey nursing
a Scotch and talking a mile a minute in the back of a Humvee racing
through the dunes of Kunar province, Afghanistan, he's greeted with
whoops of approval by the audience long ...