《钢铁侠》漫威电影宇宙的杰作
The Marvel Cinematic Universe grows just a little bit bigger and usually a whole lot weirder with every new movie and TV show that slides in front of our eyeballs.随着一部又一部新电影和新电视节目冲击我们的眼球，漫威电影宇宙（MCU）将变得愈加庞大、异乎寻常。
When the original Iron Man came out back in 2008, the world he lived in seemed pretty grounded in reality.第一部电影《钢铁侠》（Iron Man）于2008年上映，影片中，钢铁侠所处的世界似乎和现实生活极其吻合。
The strangest thing that could possibly happen in that film was a rich guy deciding to build himself a suit of armor in a cave to become an international vigilante,可能影片中最奇怪的事情莫过于一位富豪决心在山洞中为自己打造一身盔甲，并化身义务警察，then fight another rich guy in some other armor who wanted to be an even worse international vigilante.而另一位身着盔甲的富豪想成为更为可怕的国际义务警察，二人进行了一番战斗。
We’re still waiting for Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg to throw down and televise the whole thing on Facebook Live。
毕竟我们都期待着埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）和马克·扎克伯格（Mark Zuckerberg）互相翻脸，然后在脸书上。
So how has the MCU kept feeling as real and fun as ever?那么，漫威是如何保持一贯的真实感和幽默感呢？
The man in charge of just about all of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s designs over the past decade sat for an exclusive interview with us查理在过去的十年里负责所有漫威电影的设计工作，他在接受我们的独家采访时，
to talk about how and why Iron Man was actually the perfect superhero to kickstart the MCU as we know it.讲述了将钢铁侠定为最适合启动漫威电影宇宙的超级英雄的过程及原因。
“What was good with Iron Man is that it laid a foundation for what is tech on earth. How do we ground it to earth and to things that we understand?
“钢铁侠的优点在于他奠定了地球科技的基础。我们如何将这一点同地球、同我们所理解的事物挂钩？
Tech is something easier for us to sort of, we use it every day, right?”融入科技元素对我们来说更容易接受，我们每天都离不开科技，不是吗？”
He explained that Iron Man’s connection with technology is a convenient starting point for audiences to find a connection with a world that looks a lot like our own,他解释道，将钢铁侠同科技关联起来是一个切入点，方便观众与影片中的世界产生共鸣，因为那个世界看似和我们所处的世界非常相像，
That helpful foundation revealed that, despite Iron Man’s then-reputation as a lower-tier comic book character, he was the perfect choice to kick off Marvel Studios’ cinematic ambitions.这是一个很有帮助的点，因此尽管在当时的漫画角色中，钢铁侠的名声略显逊色，但他却是漫威称霸影业的最佳开始人选。
“Most people would have thought like why are you choosing a character that is sort of just a kind of a B character in the Marvel Comics world?“很多人都会想，为什么你要选一个在漫威漫画世界中的次要角色呢？
But you know I think that was a smart move.”我却认为这是个明智之举。”But technology isn’t the only reason Iron Man was such a strong choice for Marvel’s first film in a shared cinematic universe.但科技元素并不是支撑漫威选择《钢铁侠》作为第一部电影的最强有力的原因。
Even though we all use phones and computers every day, very few moviegoers are also jet-setting billionaires.
虽然我们每天都用电话和电脑，但很少有观众和钢铁侠一样是亿万阔佬。
to help audiences connect with the film, as well as the world it shows on-screen.
这样观众就能和这部电影以及电影中的世界建立联系。
“So it was great getting Iron Man situated and then having Robert Downey in that role.
“能把《钢铁侠》搬上银幕，然后让小罗伯特·唐尼出演这个角色，真的很棒。
It was, you know, it was amazing. He kind of is that character.
这简直是，不可思议。他就是钢铁侠本人。
It’s all the flaws that he sort of just puts out there, right? How do you make that character and that world more relatable and less scary?
他诠释了所有的缺点，对吧？但你如何让这个角色和这个世界更加融合，而看起来又没那么可怕呢？
It’s not a Superman character where it feels maybe too perfect and too alienating and hard for people to resonate with that somebody with lots of flaws.
这个角色不是超人，不需要太过完美，否则就会觉得太有距离感，不能有太多缺点，这会让人很难产生共鸣。
Once Iron Man established the baseline of the MCU’s reality, the studio could start to explore bigger, weirder ideas.
《钢铁侠》建立了漫威电影宇宙中现实世界的主线，工作室随即着手思考更伟大、更离奇的创意。
Marvel Studios’ third movie was 2011’s Thor which happened to be the first film Charlie Wen worked on at the company as the head of design.
漫威影业推出的第三部电影是2011年上映的《雷神》（Thor），这是查理·温执掌设计总监期间拍摄的第一部电影。
As it turns out Marvel Studios itself wound up doing just that by releasing Iron Man and Thor so close to each other, since they’re literally worlds apart.
事实证明，漫威影业就是这么做的，他们将钢铁侠和雷神的故事紧密结合，而他们本属于完全不同的世界。
