21st
May
2010
On Iron Man 2
Iron Man 2: A Review in Two Parts
By John David Ebert
1. Quaternio
At one point in this film, Tony Stark, who realizes that he is dying of palladium poisoning (the fictitious element that powers his artificial heart) sets to work in order to synthesize a new element that will enable him to replace the palladium that is currently poisoning him. He finds the design for this element encoded in a model of a prototype city (think of Disney’s original plans for EPCOT) bequeathed to him by his dead father, Howard Stark, who was a physicist and urban designer (sort of a cross between Walt Disney and Howard Hughes). Read the rest of this entry »
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