Robert Downey, Sr.

Robert Downey Jr has been one of Hollywood's most famous actors as well as one of it’s highest paid for around the last ten years. He started acting in 1970 in his father’s film Pound where he played portrayed a puppy. In his late teens, his acting career began to gain momentum. He starred in movies like Chaplin, Baby It’s You, Back to School, and Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, all of which did fairly well. He was also a regular cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1985 to 1986. However, Robert had a problem that was on the rise just as fast as his career. At the age of eight, he has introduced to drugs by his father, Robert Downey Sr. and was still addicted going into his 20’s. In 1992, he had a son named Indio with his wife Deborah…

“Robert downey Jr Born in New York City on April 4th, 1965, Robert Downey Jr. began acting as a young child. “Despite his active drug and alcohol addiction, Downey Jr. made a name for himself as a young actor in the mid- to late ‘80s. After a season in the cast of “Saturday Night Live,” Downeys growing success was married by the years of his struggle with drug abuse by his father. Eventually downey decide to turn his life around and he warned a resurgence of critical and popular acclaim and is…

Robert Downey Jr. is one of the most known who has ever appeared in the acting and entertainment scene. He has had many accomplishments in movies which have earned him all the money he has now and made him as successful as he is now today. Throughout the years, from childhood to adulthood, he has lived quite a life as he continues to do so while doing many things and accomplishments that not only has impacted, but have also left a legacy for others and most importantly himself. He has truly…

Faith Corvatch ( Marisa Tomei) was only a kid when a fortune teller told her the name of her true love Damon Bradley . Since then she has not stopped thinking and looking for him, but as the time went by she got tired of searching and soon met a doctor who she engaged a few years later. A week before her wedding she received a call from the guy that was suppose to be her true love (Damon) so she decided to go look for him again, with her friend Kate (Bonnie Hunt) . They went to Italy that was…

The Walt Disney Company, an entertainment conglomerate, purchased Marvel Studios back in 2009 for $4 billion (Vejvoda). When conglomerates eliminate industry competition, it can produce negative externalities in an industry. Marvel Studios has been committed to producing superhero movies since 1993 and recently has been criticized for its predatory business strategies. This can be shown through the salary dealings from its production of the Avengers series. The lead cast of the Avengers consists…

Men through centuries have felt entitled to own and posses women. In the movie Avengers: Age of Ultron, Tony Stark, the character played by Robert Downey Jr said that he would reinstitute prima nocta if he were king of Asgard; prima nocta is the right of a king to bed a woman on her wedding night. Women are then equated with things that can be possessed by men. The belief of men to have rights to women reminded me of the actions of Elliot Rodger, whom drove to a sorority house in California and…

Robert Downey Jr., male of course, played the character of Tony Stark. Stark was a very rich engineer that was held captive by the enemy in Afghanistan, but escaped by creating protective and weaponized suit. Once he was able to escape and brought back to the U.S., Stark was able to improve the suit to give him the capabilities of a superhero. Gwyneth Paltrow, female, is casted as Pepper Pots, Tony Stark’s secretary. It may seem that Pots was only written into the storyline to show that while…

investigation to track him down, with endless false clues and blind alleys which to this day has not been concluded. FRAMEWORKS: • Historical: Zodiac represents the realism of unpredictable and uncertain crime investigation procedures in America in the 60’s and 70’s. It focuses on real life historical facts and details, as well as the failures and unconcluded mysteries. • Authorship: David Fincher’s films are well known for their fascination in problem solving and mysteries, in addition to the…

The movie The Soloist starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx is based on the book with the same title written by Steve Lopez. The book chronicles Steve Lopez’s friendship with a homeless schizophrenic named Nathaniel Ayers. In the movie, Robert Downey Jr. portrays Lopez and Jamie Foxx portrays Ayers. There are multiple differences between the book and the movie; however, the main premise and struggles remain the same. After struggling to come up with an idea for his column for the Los Angels…