The new Iron Man 3 trailer is out and I’d love to hear your thoughts on it! Called “Tony Stark’s Darkest Hour,” this trailer shows off some of the tribulations Tony Stark/Iron Man will be facing in the movie and teases his new villain: The Mandarin. Played by the outstanding Ben Kingsley, The Mandarin is one of Iron Man’s most powerful foes. In addition to his keen intellect and deadly martial arts skills, The Mandarin has ten rings that allow him to do a variety of things: elemental blasts, psionic energy manipulation, gravity control, disintegration beams, etc.
He’s also Chinese…and Ben Kingsley is not. As talented as Kingsley is, it’s weird that a Chinese villain with a Chinese name will be played by a British man of Indian descent. Changing the race of Nick Fury or The Kingpin is one thing, since those characters aren’t tied to specific ethnicities, but this guy’s name is The Mandarin…and it’s because of his Chinese background, not because he hurls tiny oranges at Iron Man.
Anyway, when you have chance, check out the clip and let me know what you think (please!).
I think hurling tiny oranges in 3D would be a step in the right direction. Produce wars are no joke.
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Looks neat. Not sure how I’ll feel watching a movie where he might struggle to be IronMan the whole time.
Kingsley: I don’t mind this anymore. I know people who really love the source materials will harp on these things but I won’t. As long as the saga is still good I don’t know how much it matters. Watching the Walking Dead and reading it have made me realize this. Also the Game of Thrones adaptation has made me not want to latch onto source as long as the saga is well done.
The trailer makes the movie look interesting, but I’d still like to see more. The different types of armor will be fun to see, and the story looks like it might take a lot from the Mask in the Iron Man story arc (which I’m going to get eventually, but it’s a little further down on my purchase list right now) and supposedly Iron Man: Extremis as well. Ben Kingsley looks cool as Mandarin, but way to go Hollywood by taking what I thought should be without question an Asian role and making it white. I don’t claim to know much about the character, but that was the first thing I thought when I saw the first pictures of Kingsley in character.