Jon Favreau's Iron Man wrestles with those responsibilities as well as a relatively unique conundrum: How do you make audiences
care about a character whose face is hidden under a metallic scowl?
Not exact matches
This is not a man who suffers; this is a man
about whom many tragic things are said, but for
whose integrity of
character no one on the production team seems to have
cared.
This may be inevitable in the case of Clooney's
character — it is, after all, difficult to
care too deeply
about the isolation of a man who does not
care too deeply
about it himself — but it extends to the rest of the film as well: the girl who has her heart broken, the workers
whose lives are abruptly shattered.
The filmmakers gamely attempt to make an audience feel invested in Vision and Wanda, two
characters whose development has happened almost entirely off - screen — not even Paul Bettany's considerable puppy dog eyes could make me
care about their relationship.
I have no interest in or patience with stories
whose plot or
characters I do not
care about, or those that display bad writing or poor editing (FAR too many, even from trad publishing houses).
From the cold and calculating would - be philanderer of a main
character, a man who has worked his entire life to keep his wife and children at arm's length due to the fact that they are women, to the spoiled adult children of this stereotypical New England family of privilege
whose mistakes get swept under the rug of propriety, there isn't a single person in this story that I would hold a door open for, let alone
care about.