Thread:Marvelous 345678/@comment-26838855-20170701032609/@comment-26838855-20170703222926

T-888 wrote: Well there is a thing in filmmaking called real time vs movie time. Things can seem to take longer or shorter than they do in real life in a movie. Just because we don't see each day pass in a film doesn't mean that they haven't passed. If you were to inter-cut Iron Man, Incredible Hulk and Iron Man 2, the gaps in time don't seem as jarring. My point is, in movie time Iron Man 2 seems to only take place over the course of several days or months but it could be longer than that. Given the time it would take Vanko to build his suit, set up tickets for the Monaco Race, and however long he was in prison for. Take into account Bruce Banner's story going on at the same time. Iron Man isa longer movie than Incredile Hulk but it could have taken place over a longer course of time. Iron Man 2 can't go for longer, because it's constrained by the fact that Stark Expo runs for a year, then a couple of days later the screen says "362 days remaining" and then at the end on the day of the Expo battle the screen says "343 days remaining." Trust me, I've tried everything I can to stretch it and it doesn't work.

Also Iron Man takes place over 9 months, as shown in the MCU timeline, but you don't want Iron Man to take too long as the beginning of the film is set the year before the Monaco race in 2, "last year" Tony slept with Christine. The beginning of Iron Man is not the bit you want to push as far back as possible, it's "I am Iron Man"

And Bruce's story goes on for a few months, but that's all denoted by the "days since incident," and from when he arrives at Culver University it's all just part of Fury's Big Week. And all the events of Thor are part of Fury's Big Week