Anxiety really cramps my style like how am I going to seem chill and fun if I often start trembling and breathing heavily and developing a look of impending doom in my eyes
If Iron Man can do it, so can I
this is literally one of the most inspirational things
so i was watching infinity war again and i noticed that out of thor, tony, and steve’s entrances (marvel’s “big three”), tony’s is the only one where the avengers theme doesn’t play. steve and thor’s pieces are the avengers theme, but in tony’s there’s only two or three measures, just the very beginning of it, after which it morphs into something different and unique (it doesn’t play in his fight with thanos either). and i realized that while it was never addressed on screen, the score tells us how tony feels about the team post-civil war: he feels alone.
think about it: in civil war, natasha, steve, and clint all went against him. no one knew where thor and bruce were. civil war split the team, and left tony feeling that he was on his own, separated from everyone else.
there isn’t really a point to this, i just thought it was a really cool detail alan silvestri put into the score.
if anyone wants to listen to the music itself without the movie, these are the tracks i’m referring to:
another interesting detail is that tony’s entrance theme is actually more thematically similar to peter’s (he won’t come out 0:36-0:41) than any of the other avengers’.
there’s also never a moment where the avengers theme plays during a group shot, something both previous avengers movies had, signifying even more that the team has split apart.
a movie’s score, done right, is just as an important storytelling tool as the writing, directing, and acting.
So this has been an idea rattling around in my head for a while, but I didn’t exactly know how to write about it, but I think Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers 4 are drawing on some major chess metaphors.
The first hint of this is in Age of Ultron. Near the end, Thor says this:
“The Mind Stone is the fourth of the Infinity Stones to show up in the last few years. That’s not a coincidence. Someone has been playing an intricate game and has made pawns of us. But once all these pieces are in position…”
My suspicion is that this is a game between Thanos and Tony. They’re the two Kings.
Why? They’ve been referred to as the “big two.” Their conflict was the longest one in Avengers: Infinity War. The two are parallels to one another. They have an “existential connection” (per Joe Russo). They have discordant color schemes (Thanos is blue/purple, Tony is red/gold). And, what’s more, a great cost was paid to keep Tony in the game.
In chess, the king (♔,♚) is the most important piece. The object of the game is to threaten the opponent’s king in such a way that escape is not possible (checkmate). If a player’s king is threatened with capture, it is said to be in check, and the player must remove the threat of capture on the next move. If this cannot be done, the king is said to be in checkmate, resulting in a loss for that player. Although the king is the most important piece, it is usually the weakest piece in the game until a later phase, the endgame. Players cannot make any move that places their own king in check.
When Tony’s life was directly threatened (aka he was put in “check”), Strange (a player on Tony’s side) sacrificed not only himself, but several other players to keep Tony in the game.
When Tony asked why Strange did this, Strange replied, “We’re in the endgame now.”
“Endgame” is a term used to label the late stage of the game where there’s fewer pieces on the board (post-snap); and the King becomes far more powerful.
Friendly reminder that Tony loses FRIDAY as soon as the Q-ship leaves Earth. That means throughout the entire fight sequence on Titan, it is Tony’s quick thinking and pure ingenuity that’s controlling the nano bots on the bleeding edge armor. It’s 100% Tony bringing out all of the big guns against Thanos and also withstanding the power stone, which is known to destroy entire worlds.
Tony Stark, an ordinary human being pushing 50 with an extraordinary mind, fights Thanos without an AI and single-handedly makes the purple grape bleed – even if it’s just a drop. Just think about that…
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