IRON MAN 2 (2010) | Behind the scenes of Robert Downey Jr. Superhero Movie #1

This is Russell Bobbitt, he's our prop master and we're designing a new shape for the rt light for when I change it to the triangle and the costume will be a triangle, but we're trying to preserve something. of the personality of the old silhouette uh that appears through the shirt from the light, so we are trying to incorporate the triangle, but we are limited by the shape of the hole in Tony's chest and also when you just put a triangle on it. He feels kind of super masculine, which we want, we want to keep him as ours.

If you squint depending on your personality, you can find anything there. I think he looks like a Jewish star. I think if you swap those two things. It looks like a Jewish star and it seems like we are sending a strange religious propaganda message that no, no, no, no, we are nothing against Jewish stars. It looks good on a necklace, I don't think so. necessarily looks good on

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man's chest oh it's just going to work, you get so lost in the technical talk and ultimately it's all

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comics logic that to have something graphic that goes from a circle to a triangle, people will understand that there is The following is a new advance in that technology, so keeping it graphically simple is great, plus it helps us build our armor room with many different designs, which is part of the mythology of Iron Man.

Here we are, the final adjustment, right? It looks great, what do you think? Questions, comments, concerns. She weighed 170 pounds when I hired her. He stood in the shadows. He's been training three hours a day at least on stunts alone. Oh yeah, no, don't forget the two hours I spend lifting. lifting my own body weight where is that too? she lifts her own body weight she looks fantastic I've eaten so much tuna sashimi since we started I'm an American we're trying to decide between this and this put it on film and soon we'll be the fighting duo that's right you and I better bring Hi, I'm Heidi, I'm Scarlet Stuble.

We've been working with her on this move for a couple of weeks and she's really going for it. she maybe she can perform it today it's kind of a cartwheel, a one arm cartwheel with a leg lock around a guy's neck and then you throw him to the ground, it has a front back twist. Scarlet works very hard and lifts him up. many of the moves, in fact, she can make the initial introduction of this and she can also finish the final flop. Oh my gosh, happy, are you okay? Just sorry, you just got served, happy day 44. in the garage our last day in the garage uh Tony trashed his house and is forging the new element using components he brought from Stark Industries with the exception of a few shots here, ya We're almost done with the set.

We'll leave it standing because when we finish the film the workshop is always useful, so we're not going to tear it down yet, but we're about to move to Monaco. We shot with the second unit in Monte Carlo and we're going to try to make the plates we shot overseas match what we've built here, so I've never done anything like that. I'm waiting excited. It should be fun. A storyboard has been created with a previous animation. I hope it does. to be the fun set piece of our

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, it's important for us to show Tony Stark, that Iron Man is a global hero, he's a member of the jet set, so the idea of ​​filming in Monaco and the idea of ​​filming in Monaco during the historic Grand Prix it was very Monaco is exciting for me and sums up all of Tony's worldly endeavors and also one of his passions which is racing, the historic Monaco race has the best of the Formula One cars, all the cars They have about 500 horsepower driven by the owner drivers who are Tony Stark types. of characters with a fairly high level of wealth hello I'm happy hogan I'm happy to be in monaco hello I'm a paperback here we are in monaco 3 2 1 it's our first day of filming here in monaco we had to close a certain section of the circuit and we go through all of our vehicles to imitate the movements of the race cars, the starting car, as well as Happy and Pepper in the Rolls-Royce when they come to help Tony, uh, save the day. 400 meter mark, look where it is. gap, yes, there is no barrier, yes, that is where that should happen, yes, I think we have a boom that is due to that and the action is a combination of empty license plates, sort of cars driving with cameras down the street to which digital racing cars or tony races will be added. background plates behind people just to make it look like we're really going to Monaco and then we'll combine that with other footage that we shot on sets in Los Angeles that are also built to replicate this env

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ment so it looks like the whole fight and all the actors they were here in Monaco, when in reality they weren't, all of their work was filmed in Downey, California, when you're recreating a race, how do you avoid all of these logistics?

Racing cars are very temperamental, you can just start them. once it takes 12 people to start it, there's a crew that drives the car, so we built a section of the track that we could use as a foreground where we could actually flip cars and have explosions and people in the stands and steer because that would have been really possible. We built that track in Downey, which is a location where we filmed the first movie and is a film-friendly studio with a lot of outdoor space, so we're building a large set with a huge green screen. It's a thrill, it's a challenge, it's much more complex than any sequence we did in the first film and it's not even our most important sequence in this film.

I think the whole Monaco scene is going to be ridiculously out of place and I'm really excited to see it. That whole whiplash sequence, so Tony Stark himself is racing in the historic Monaco Grand Prix, ignores it, goes off to have fun because that's what he does, ends up getting in trouble and that's one of our action

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more important. We premiere Whiplash in the The first version of the suit he puts on Tony while he is vulnerable on the track. I just thought it was interesting someone who is willing to attack you and one of the most is like in the Super Bowl.

You know what I mean? It's like it's the European Super Bowl. The idea that in Monaco during a race, the guys cut the cars into half a suitcase, the suit appears, that's the fight here, you would take a step from your right side to the back, you would throw there, we did whip training, we used whips and then we got to where we could do it. certain things with the bull whips, you know, which is difficult to coordinate with both hands, grab a five eh by the neck, yeah, by the neck and the arm wraps around, pull up and then we can choose the trajectory and adequate animation.

Because it's an action movie, it was a very challenging thing to do and that was part of the appeal for me, you know, Mickey and I, the stuntmen and John and all these big things set up and hanging upside down, it all comes off. things over here and I'll do that you're not in the scene back off john back off you're in my balls man you're killing me yeah back off I got the wrong pages I got the wrong pages I don't have the whips I don't have anything to back it up with the cars exploding and flipping in the air would be very easy to say, let's make that as a digital car what we did is dan sudek Who is our special effects guy came up with a way to catapult cars into the air, flip them over and they explode?

It's always good to mix the practical with the digital, so when we plan

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we always try to figure out what can be done. practically to mix with the digital so that it has a better look of the film, we actually built 17 racing cars, some with smoke being blown at the cars at certain points on the track, so it looks like the tires are blocked, so that's what some of these tubes are these are our cannons, they'll shoot a six inch pole into the ground launching the car into the air we started months ago, we probably started in January, figuring out the shots, figuring out the track system, ya You know, doing the math. in all the jokes doing some tests photographing some tests getting the director's approval and that got us to this point here these cars are actually being flipped in the air falling down the track a quarter mile track exploding and the actors in the scene in which there is a ratchet so we are going to pull it with a pneumatic device based on the position of the other car in front of it.

It's one of those things where we know the acceleration and we have to calculate the deceleration so we don't throw the cameras off and ruin the film thank you very much and um and also thank you for putting up with these conditions and all that running and the energy of the sun and I know which is, I understand and I know how difficult it is to do what I'm doing, thank you very much, I want to thank the crew also for the date, uh, it's the 30th. We are here, um, at the Van Nuys airport, but he is playing like France.

This is Justin Hammer's corporate jet. Look, it's this hammer on the side. g5 for sure and this is when you complain and have dinner with mickey rourke after having dinner with mickey rock everything is crazy, it was sam's choice that you were eating something sweet in every scene. I noticed you had a Sunday here, yeah, I guess. sunday a lollipop you're looking at the camera when you talk when you talk i'm looking at the camera i'm always looking at the camera people are much more the same way i'll do my chris walken voice ok hammer like chris locke ok so here we are iron man it's a humdinger i like john favreau i like to swing all the time justin has the white photographer he has the black floor he has the dark side you have the lights you get the light suit you get the yankees yin the salt and pepper how many times we work together now we did it together maybe so g force g force we are gathering pigs in g force together and that's when At first we were thinking about you and that's when I saw you we started talking about this in the geforce dubbing session that's right That's right, you made very exciting films, a lot of hustle and weights.

I like birds. I'm sure I like them all the time. words today many words every day we receive weapons, we have a set of rooms, we have a little time to prepare this, although it was good, we did not change it too much, yes, a little time, a little memorization, it would be good I give you a little more time with the words, but things change a lot around here, yeah, yeah, everything we film changes everything else, everything is changing, but we're going to try to keep your stuff pretty much intact so you can prepare. and go deeper into it I'm changing my sexual preference in this movie everything has changed crazy everything is at stake I want to go crazy with the cockatoo mickey rock running get a bird first day working with mickey what did you think was cool?

I loved doing it, yeah, it was amazing, yeah, I really liked it, actually, he's like who is this guy, he's good, I said, yeah, he's good, huh, and that's it, one day, here, in and out, pretty good, it's on, okay, we're on. setting up here for the black widow hallway sequence, this is where she takes out 12 guards and john fights a guard. Scarlett and John walk in the front door and this is hammer business. When they enter the front door, they encounter a guard. John begins. fighting I used to fight a little bit that's true, I trained and I was able to fight, it was fun, Scarlet has been training an incredible amount for this and for some of the more dangerous parts of this sequence, I put Heidi in just because I can.

It doesn't run the risk of Scarlet getting hurt, but it's kind of a culmination of about eight weeks of solid training for her, about four hours a day, and when I first saw the sequence they wanted me to do when it was complete and choreographed, I thought for myself. oh my god no, I just don't know what this is like, how am I going to do this? This right here what you're seeing is the highlight of the movie for her, where we're really showing off all of Scarlet's talents, Tommy. Harper combined many different fighting styles and was willing to learn.

She wanted to know what it's like to hurt giant bodyguards and do all kinds of crazy things and stuff. I think we have it. When Tom says she understood it, then I know he understood it, it was good, you felt good about it, I didn't see anything, are you sure? Yes, we're still going to pick up specialties, yes, yes, okay, I know I feel like that. so low that I'm practically shooting into the ground, it was a lot of work and sometimes it's very frustrating. Let's do one more after it cools. He shoots what he shoots again so low, sure, too low, which I'm sure.

Look at it behind the scenes, I just say why you know and I want to do it right in the room. I felt good at times. A shot that makes a star think of Marilyn Monroe with the subway. That is cute. I like that. zoom and he's having trouble keeping it on zoom, that's all fun, so let's look at it, let's look at it from the beginning. Visual effects are one of those areas that takes a lot of work to dookay and let those guys get out of the game. strap and they just the idea just pours out, it's just spins of ideas that come to you with so much enthusiasm and they were like, dude, make sound effects and then this happens, shoot, this just blew up, it was just great and I was just delighted with it. this, I mean, yes, we will do it and everyone says how we are going to do it, I think we will figure it out later, we will not do everything from the first movie, it has been very important John and us who do not just do everything cg just to make it cg As good as we are in the world of computer graphics, you always look at a handy reference so you can match it or increase it. danceutic released real racing cars, we had real fire, real explosions, so all these decisions are being made it's a process that takes you even through publishing, everything is rushed, no matter how many months you give us, we're always trying to beating the clock, a lot of ideas that would work very well in a 2D animated environment like you go to 3D and visualize the ideas that seem right and the ones that don't and then you start to see that there are certain adjustments that need to be made, but the spark, the core and the inspired ideas to try to We really nurtured and preserved it and I will continue to do so as we move into post-production.

We face that. Schedule-wise, we've given ourselves less time on this film than last time. It is a much more ambitious project and this was it. part of the fear I had when we started so late, uh, less than two years to do this, come up with the story, set it up, prepare it, shoot it, cut it and put all the finishing touches on it, it's no excuse, let's go I have to make a great movie , but it puts everyone under an enormous amount of stress. At first it was ambitious and now we have it in full swing.

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