I've really never been into comics and stuff (except for like the stuff we've read in this class hah) and I remember this summer, before I was into learning about our Muslim counterparts, I saw the movie and was not phased by it. I was temping at some event, and this woman was talking about it and I told her it was SUUUUUCH A GOOD MOVIE. And she gave me this look. She said that she couldn't handle it because it was about Afghanistan.
With Iron Man, what I found funny was that yeah, it IS about Afghanistan, but the main bad guy isn't the Afghanis, but it's Jeff Bridges. I'm not sure what I'm trying to delineate here.. but I think my general idea is that in the end, the white guy is still the superior bad guy. Not that I'm okay with Afghanis being depicted as the terrorists... but I think the relationship of the west and the Middle East is seen. I mean, of course the white guy is more bad, since we have more power. It's annoying.