Iron Man 3: Class Sci220 American Popular Culture

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The movie Iron Man Three displays many examples of current popular culture themes and concepts from the class SOCI220 American Popular culture. Many different examples of popular culture themes are presented throughout the movie. For several decades MARVEL comics has been producing comics. This addition of Iron Man is a spin off of the original Iron Man comics with a modern day twist about it. American audiences have always sought out and have been inspired by superhero movies. Some of the examples of popular culture elements that are identified in this edition of the movie are wealth, power, class, gender, sex, race, and fame. These values are explained throughout the entirety of the movie.
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Tony escapes captivity after the MK42 Iron Man suit arrives at a critical time. He then reunites with Rhodes when they both need to save the President and Pepper. Rhodes locates the president in a shipyard, and Tony tells JARVIS to unleash the House Party Protocol, which unleashes several Ironman suits, that are controlled my JARVIS to provide air support for confronting Aldridge Killian. Iron Patriot, also known as Rhodes, secures the president. While Tony is continuing to save Pepper he pins Aldridge Killian with the MK42 suit against the wall. Tony tells JARVIS to blow MK42 to hopefully kill Aldridge Killian, but since Killian has Extremis power it only set him back. Pepper comes running in glowing red affected with Extremis, she kicks an unidentified chemical at Aldridge and she takes the Iron Man hand and finishes the job. After the battle Tony mentions that he was a little scared and asks, who is a hot mess …show more content…

Iron Man is one of Marvel Comics most iconic characters and movies to ever hit the big screen. The basis of the Iron Man series is that throughout time we as people do not pick who we are. In today’s society, many Americans and people worldwide are attracted to the super hero movies and comic book legends. In this movie Iron Man describes himself as a billionaire playboy genius philanthropist. Everybody around him wants to be like Iron Man, and do the things that he does have the riches and the intelligence that he possesses. Iron is a symbolic American icon. This movie also embodies some of the social culture aspects of today. Tony Stark suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in this movie. Since the movie takes place after The Avengers movie, where he almost died, he has a lot of issues. These are shown in the scenes where he has anxiety attacks and does not like to be surrounded by many people. The Military Industrial Complex and the War on Terror is also present in this movie. Not only does the movie have two villains, but it shows how Tony Stark’s business from the first movie has taken on a whole new level for everyone to include the United States as well as other enemies from afar. It suggests that a constant threat is prominent. As we see in the second movie, where war

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