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The parallels between Musk and Stark seemed perfect on paper. Both are billionaire tech innovators with a flair for the dramatic and dreams of changing the world.
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The parallels between Downey and Musk are much greater. Both are drug addicted pick me cunts.
Also you need some new paper if you really think that a fictional character is just like Musk.
His cameo in the 2nd Iron Man movie always felt so cringey to me. I don’t know how it came about, but I like to imagine Musk asked the production for the role. It is so clear to me that he desperately wants to be seen as the man who will single handedly save the world. His companies do incredibly impressive things, I cannot discredit the work of SpaceX, but the more he speaks, the more I am convinced that he is just an egomaniac cosplaying as a genius.
I don’t know how it came about
iirc the facility that we see housing the evil iron man ripoff suits was a SpaceX facility irl
Iron man 2 was filmed at SpaceX
The parallels between Musk and Stark seemed perfect on paper. Both are billionaire tech innovators with a flair for the dramatic and dreams of changing the world.
They’re not, though. Stark is a rare engineering powerhouse who personally pushed past a lot of engineering boundaries, and Musk is an investor/programmer who mostly puts his name on existing things.
I might change my mind if Musk personally invents AGI, nanobots, and a previously-unknown clean energy source capable of powering a 1/3rd of NYC with a room no larger than a foyer, like Stark did, but I’m not holding out much by way of hopes.
Considering he asked twitter programmers to print out their pull requests Im not even sure he’s not cosplaying a programmer
Did he want them faxed to him?
When he apparently was a programmer, this was a bit more normal.
I’ve met a few professors requiring uni assignments’ code printed.
When he wrote code at PayPal, people kept having to go back and fix it. He doesn’t know what he’s doing.
OK. I just meant that one can demand that as a sign of respect or something. With a sufficient degree of narcissism.
I imagine that a university level coding assignment and the backend code that runs the Twitter.com website (albeit just fractions of it) are several orders of magnitude apart from each other in terms of size and complexity. I don’t know shit about programming though, I took C++ in high school and got a D+. Should’ve called the class Introduction to D++.
Wow I hadn’t heard about that.
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According to Johnny Harris (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WYQxG4KEzvo) he does go into the details, according to Johnny’s sources. I can’t stand Elon as well, but I’m no longer sure if he’s just an investor.
I would not say Johnny Harris is a reliable source
Out of interest, do you have any sources that what he does is not reliable? This is not some kind of I’m pissed off about your comnent, I’m actually not. Having said that, I see tgis as an opportunity to learn about Harris’ shortcomings. Thanks in advance.
And yet
Back in 2016, Iron Man director Jon Favreau revealed that Musk had been a direct inspiration for their version of Tony Stark. Downey Jr even spent time with Musk to better understand what it would be like to walk in the shoes of a real-world tech mogul.
Tony Stark created likeability with a box of scraps in a cave!
Well he’s not Tony Stark…
Well, Stark is actually a fictional character in a genre that too often uses the term “smartest X alive” when that’s not how intelligence works at all. Also, like others have said, Howard Hughes is more likely the inspiration for Stark. That being said, the closest irl “tech savant” I can think of is John Carmack.
I vote John von Neumann for tech savant.
There’s a long list of historic examples of people who actual are what the techbros fantasy about being. I was limiting myself to living examples of people who were just interested in the tech. Carmack’s comments when he left facebook was fun to see. I always thought he was better then that company.
You could even put Ben Franklin as a tech savant of his time. While also being an influential person on the world stage and helped found a country at that.
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Yet he shook Elon’s hand on screen in iron man 2, solidifying that misconception. So I guess he’s cleaning up his own mess
Musk has much in common with Tony Stark though
Mainly being egocentric and a POS human.
The difference is that Tony had a character development that made him more likable, while Musk became more hated.
That and the genius bit, of course.
Elon wants to be Stark. He’s actually Iron Monger. He wants to be Stark so fucking badly.
From the article:
Back in 2016, Iron Man director Jon Favreau revealed that Musk had been a direct inspiration for their version of Tony Stark. Downey Jr even spent time with Musk to better understand what it would be like to walk in the shoes of a real-world tech mogul.
At most, Elon Musk is Tony Stark with none of the redemption ark that Stark got. That’s assuming he isn’t just the purse string holder that he is.
“This is what rich guys act like”
“Oh, except you’ll be playing one who is actually quite intelligent”
Elon Musk is a wannabe fanboy of Tony Stark, per Iron Man 2. It’s MCU canon.
From the article:
Back in 2016, Iron Man director Jon Favreau revealed that Musk had been a direct inspiration for their version of Tony Stark. Downey Jr even spent time with Musk to better understand what it would be like to walk in the shoes of a real-world tech mogul.
Yeah but Musk in the MCU got Thanos-snapped and the Avengers wisely left him out when they snapped everyone back
Tesla’s CEO; The Inspiration For Tony Spark
Elon “Baby-Brain” Musk as the inspiration of “Tony Spark” the cheap knock-off Tony Stark.
Tony Stark first appeared in Marvel comics 8 years before Musk was born.
He should follow Stark and sacrifice himself for humanity.
When Stan Lee created Tony back in the 1960’s he probably took his inspiration from Howard Hughes.
Hughes had been the inspiration for a famous novel of the time, “The Carpetbaggers.”
HH was played by Leo DiCaprio in ‘The Aviator.’
If you watched agent Carter, Howard Stark is clearly just Hughes by a different name.
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Millionaire geniuses were a dime a dozen in the Pulp Era!
[jk, of course you’re right]
Probably why Tony Stark’s father is named Howard, too.
Could be.
Off topic but fun.
The book ‘The Carpetbaggers’ became a movie; there was a Western actor mentioned in the story, Nevada Smith. Does anyone else know a daring character named after a state with a five letter last name?
Hannah Montana!
I’m, like, 90% sure that last name is more than 5 letters. (I mean I guess Cyrus but not Montana which is the character’s last name)
Oh, wait
Hannah Monta!
Now she’s not named after a state!
Alexis Texas.
Way more daring than Hannah ever was…
I told you before, I’m not doing any more research for your crossword puzzles. If you want to keep making them that’s fine, but don’t put the work on us.
/s just in case
Does anyone else know a daring character named after a state with a five letter last name?
That’s so reductive. The guy is MUCH MUCH MORE.
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Hughes was smart though. Unlike Elon “Phoney Starck” Musk.
You call them both innovators.
What has Musk innovated?
Buying other people’s ideas doesn’t count.
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The very first word in the article is a glaringly obvious fucking typo. Why on earth would I want to read anything that website has to say?!?
Yoi jist don’t inderstand modern artucles?
Because that’s a good canary to show the article wasn’t AI written?
