- The Ultimate Story Checklist: Iron Man
- Straying From the Party Line # 9: Iron Man
- Rulebook Casefile: Exchange of a Symbolic Object in Iron Man
- Storyteller’s Rulebook: Plant Solutions as Problems
Are set-up and pay-off used to dazzle the audience (and maybe
distract attention from plot contrivances)?
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Yes and no: some plot contrivances
could have been covered up better with set-up and payoff: At the end, why is
Pepper standing in the same spot 10 minutes later? Why doesn’t Pepper call
Tony earlier? On the other hand: The icing problem is nicely set-up as a
problem, so that we don’t realize that it’ll be a solution later, and Tony
giving away his heart, and getting it back, is set up as a character beat, so
we don’t realize that it’ll be a plot solution later. Also: Coulson always
being around pestering Tony is seen as a problem, so we buy it when it turns
into a solution later.
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