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It helps that his name sounds cool as hell, or at the very least it's quite different. Of course, being awesome enough to have Robert Downey Jr. model his port
by rl3 9y ago
It helps that his name sounds cool as hell, or at the very least it's quite different.
Of course, being awesome enough to have Robert Downey Jr. model his portrayal of Tony Stark in Iron Man after you accounts for most of it.
- gordon_freeman 9y agoisn't it more like Richard Branson or Larry Ellison. I mean I can't imagine Elon spending so much money on such poor things like Yacht or private island. :)
- rl3 9y agoBuying expensive toys isn't the point, it's primarily the voracious intellectual nature of the character that makes Tony Stark. “But Robert Downey, when we were prepping ‘Iron Man,’ said, ‘There’s somebody we should sit down and talk with.’” “[He] said, ‘This is a guy who can give us some insight into what it’d really be like to be Tony Stark.’”[0] [0] https://www.recode.net/2016/10/12/13259344/elon-musk-iron-man-jon-favreau-tony-stark-spacex-recode-podcast https://www.recode.net/2016/10/12/13259344/elon-musk-iron-ma...
- skinnymuch 9y agoThat's stuff he did on the side. A major part of Iron Man and RDJ in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is his intense work ethic and intelligence with building the suit among other edgy tech stuff. Elon seems best suited.