a5c7b9f00b Vietnam veteran Sgt. John "Four Leaf" Tayback's autobiography is being made into a film titled Tropic Thunder. The main cast consists of action-star Tugg Speedman, whose career is in stagnation, Australian Academy Award winner Kirk Lazarus, two-bit comedian Jeff "Fats" Portnoy, who has gained notoriety for his severe drug abuse, rapper Alpa Chino, and rookie actor Kevin Sandusky. Despite the massive amount of money pumped into the film, production is a month behind schedule, and director Damien Cockburn cannot keep the cast in order. After studio executive Les Grossman threatens to shut down the film for good unless Cockburn can get his house in order, Cockburn comes up with an unorthodox way of reshooting the film, which includes sending the five-man acting crew into the isolated jungles of Southeast Asia on their own. However, the actors don't realize that they have been sent into the Golden Triangle region, a drug-producing region where the Flaming Dragon cartel is operating. When the actors realize they are facing a genuine threat, they are forced to become the very soldiers they are portraying.
Action movie star Tugg Speedman is on the downslide of his professional career. He wants to be considered a serious actor, but his latest serious rolethe title character in "Simple Jack" resulted in negative reviews and ridicule. Comedian Jeff Portnoy is best known for his leading roles in sophomoric comedies, and may be less well known for his rampant drug use. Five time Oscar winner Kirk Lazarus is a serious method actor, who immerses himself in whatever the role. On location in southeast Vietnam, they are the stars of "Tropic Thunder", based on Vietnam war veteran 'Four Leaf' Tayback's memoirs of his rescue during the war, that rescue which was considered a near suicide mission for the assigned army force and resulted in him losing both hands. For his role, Caucasian Australian Lazarus even went through a controversial surgical skin dying procedure so that he could convincingly play a black man. Production is not going well since rookie director Damien Cockburn is unable to control the prima-donna attitude of his three stars. Cockburn and Tayback decide that the five primary actors - Speedman, Portnoy, Lazarus, rapper Alpa Chino, and newcomer Kevin Sandusky - need to work togethera unitdid their real life characters. The five are placed in the middle of the jungle, and with only a map and their prop machine guns in hand, are asked to work together to battle through the stunt pyrotechnics in their way. What none of the seven of them know is that they have been dropped into a real life drug war led by the Flaming Dragons. It isn't until Speedman is captured by the Flaming Dragons and tortured that they all realize that what they believed was make believe gunfire and land mines was actually real life. As the four actors try to figure out what to do concerning Speedman's situation, all five go through their own journey of self-discovery. Meanwhile, the movie's megalomaniacal profanity spewing producer Les Grossman and Speedman's faithful agent Rick Peck argue about what to do about Speedman's situation. And Tayback inadvertently shows a little of his true self.
Do not expect it to be better than Zoolander. Tropic Thunder has, still, great humorous scenes, great acting and a nice script. It guarantees to raise some new laughs and keep you interested in the plot.<br/><br/>Despite of a (in my opinion) misuse of Jack Black's skillsa comedian (I think he was put on there just to get some more attention on the film), the acting is marvelous. Robert Downey Jr. takes most of the acting credits with a great performance (actually it's like a triple or quadruple performance) although Ben Stiller keeps his popularity and main role. I expected this movie to be full of dumb typical jokes and the same old comedy-like character disposition, but it really surprised me, right from the beginning. Funny scenes just come up naturally, not forced nor absurd. I believe it could set some new kind of comedy standard. Worth watching.
Ben Stiller is at it again, making unfunny comedies for unfunny enthusiasts. Seriously, after stinkers like Dodgeball and A Night At The Museum, Ben Stiller would finally fall out of view. But, I was unfortunately wrong.<br/><br/>This time, he's got a new line-up of talentless hacks to back his pitiful performance. Losers like Jack Black (Kung Fu Panda, School of Rock) and Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man, and other films today's theater generation doesn't care about). He even got Tom Cruise out from leading his tyrannical cult and beating his wife to play some pointless role. As usual, it all falls flat in an instant.<br/><br/>Probably the most prominent aspect of this film is Downey Jr. in blackface. Groups and organizations have come up protesting the film for its derogatory usage of the word "retard", but so far, nothing about blackface. Whatever. Now the character can go down in the annals of internet meme-dom forever.<br/><br/>If you waste your time watching this movie, I pity you. If you demoralize yourself by quoting this film, I pity you. If you defend the integrity of this film over the internet via message forums, IRC or instant messages, I pity you. Please, if you have to watch this film, respect yourself and others enough to end your life promptly. Otherwise, drink 18 SlimFasts with some heavy duty ChocoLax, wait 30 minutes and then go to the bathroom – you've now experienced Tropic Thunder.
Apart from startling, out-there comic turns by Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Cruise, however, the antics here are pretty thin, redundant and one-note.
Tropic Thunder is based on an idea from comedian Ben Stiller, who also directed, co-produced, and stars in the film. It was adapted for the screen by screenwriters Justin Theroux and Etan Cohen. It's said that Stiller got the idea for Tropic Thunder while he was shooting <a href="/title/tt0092965/">Empire of the Sun (1987)</a> (1987) and became aware of how "self-important" some actors considered themselves to be when they were attending fake boot camps in order to prepare for war film roles. Tropic Thunder is meant to be a satire of other Vietnam War films, including <a href="/title/tt0091763/">Platoon (1986)</a> (1986), <a href="/title/tt0078788/">Apocalypse Now (1979)</a> (1979), <a href="/title/tt0093058/">Full Metal Jacket (1987)</a> (1987), <a href="/title/tt0093137/">Hamburger Hill (1987)</a> (1987), and <a href="/title/tt0077416/">The Deer Hunter (1978)</a> (1978). The connection to Apocalypse Now is significant because that film ran into delays, budgetary problems, and went well over its intended production time while director Francis Ford Coppola shot in the Philippines. The troubled production of Apocalypse Now has been much-written about and analyzed and was the subject of a documentary, <a href="/title/tt0102015/">Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)</a>, produced by Coppola's wife, Eleanor. Yes, most are a combination of celebrities who have been known for one or more of the flaws that many of the movie characters have. Tugg Speedman has been called a younger Sylvester Stallone, Vin Diesel, Steven Seagal, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and/or Wesley Snipes. Jeff "Fatts" Portnoy is likened mostly to Eddie Murphy but also to Chris Farley, Martin Lawrence, Tim Allen, Tom Arnold, and, to a lesser extent, it's a slight poke at Robert Downey Jr. with the references to the character's repeated drug arrests. Kirk Lazarus is likened to Colin Farrell, Daniel Day-Lewis, Heath Ledger, Russell Crowe, Robert Downey Jr. himself, Christian Bale, and Marlon Brando. With regard to Alpa Chino, take your pick of rapper-turned-actors. He's mainly a combination of Snoop Dogg, Will Smith and Lil' Jon in regards to Snoop Dogg putting his name on everything, Will Smith taking on a major film role to help boost his record/product sales and Lil' Jon having his own energy drink. Finally, Les Grossman has been likened to Hollywood producer Scott Rudin and also to Harvey Weinstein. Also Four Leaf Tayback seems to be inspired in part by authors Dick Marcinko and Tom Clancy. In the late 19th century and early 20th century, Vaudeville theaters made common practice of employing Caucasian actors to portray Black characters in Minstrel Shows (an entertainment consisting of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music, which viciously lampooned blacks in disparaging ways, i.e. ignorant, lazy, buffoonish, superstitious, joyous, and musical). The actors would paint their face using shoe polish or grease paint and play into the stereotypes of the time. After the Civil War, former chattel slaves or their free-born descendants, in the United States, began to appear in "blackface", forming a number of Black-only Minstrel troops that rivaled the popularity of the early Caucasian performers. This practice continued in early cinema and has been variously viewedranging from "comedic" to "racially stereotypical". Sort of. In terms of color, yes albeit only partly, and otherwise not. There is a drug called methoxsalen, marketed under the trade name Oxsoralen that can be used in this way. Author John Howard Griffin used it, but in conjunction with spending up to fifteen hours daily under an ultraviolet lamp, to darken his skin in order to investigate racial segregation in the South. He also used dye to cover the parts of his skin that were uneven. Griffin's experience is detailed in the non-fiction book Black Like Me (1961). Journalist Grace Halsell did the same, resulting in a book Soul Sister: The Journal of a White Woman Who Turned Herself Black and Went to Live and Work in Harlem and Mississippi (1969). Prior even to Griffin and Halsell, a journalist for the Pittsburgh Post Gazette named Ray Sprigle attempted to do the same in 1947. This was before the advent of methoxsalen, so Sprigle attempted to deepen his skin color with walnut dye and iodine but eventually ended up suntanning himself darkly.<br/><br/>In the movie, however, the process Kirk Lazarus (<a href="/name/nm0000375/">Robert Downey Jr.</a>) uses is referred to in dialoguea surgical procedure. At the end of the film, he removes his contact lenses and fake facial hair in the enemy camp, and later appears at the Oscars with his normal skin tone. Just one: Damian Cockburn, who steps on an old landmine and is blown to pieces. In the movie-within-the-movie that they were filming at the beginning, however, Sandusky's character gets horribly disemboweled, a fellow soldier gets shot in the head, and in the director's cut, a helicopter gunner is hit with a large piece of shrapnel. Aside from these, countless Vietcong combatants get shot down. "Sometimes When We Touch", a late 1970s hit by Dan Hill. Before the actual plot progress begins, there are four in-universe advertising snippets (mostly unrated trailers) shown to introduce some of the main characters. (1) An advertisement for Alpa Chino's Booty Sweat energy drink and Bust-A-Nut energy bars featuring his hit single "I Love The Pussy". (2) A trailer for Universal Pictures' upcoming film "Scorcher VI: Global Meltdown", once again starring Tugg Speedman in the lead role. The inclusion of this trailer parodies those of typical summer action blockbuster franchises. (3) A trailer for New Line Cinema's "The Fatties: Fart 2", again starring Jeff PortnoyAmerica's favorite obese family. The trailer is footage of Jeff Portnoy breaking flatulence excessively in a French restaurant and is a hybrid parody of The Nutty Professor, in which Eddie Murphy portrayed every member of the Klump family, and Terrence & Phillip from South Park, whose sole running joke is farting. (4) A trailer for Fox Searchlight's "Satan's Alley", a film in the vein of Brokeback Mountain and starring five-time Academy Award winner Kirk Lazarus with MTV Movie Award's Best Kiss winner Tobey Maguiretwo medieval monks who are romantically involved. The film was winner of the Beijing Film Festival's coveted Crying Monkey Award. There is no scene at the end of the credits, however, there is a scene at the end of movie that carries over into the credits. Many people have called this movie ironic for the fact that it is a satirical film, which is making fun of actors who are only taking on roles in films in order to win awards, mainly the Academy Award. (SuchTugg Speedman taking on the role of Simple Jack, hoping to win an Oscar, and Kirk Lazarus getting plastic surgery in order to play the role of Lincoln Osiris.) The irony, however, is that actual Oscar buzz surrounded Robert Downey Jr.'s portrayal of Kirk Lazarus, and he in fact ended up receiving a nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category, when such was not "intended". There was even buzz about Tom Cruise's minor roleLes Grossman after he received a Golden Globe nomination, though an Oscar nomination did not happen. "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield. This plays in the opening of the green-band trailer when it first plays out like a serious war movie.<br/><br/>"Gimme Some Lovin'" by Spencer Davis Group. This plays in both the green and red band trailers when the three main characters are being introduced"The Action Guy", The Award Winner", etc.<br/><br/>"Name of the Game (Clean Name)" by The Crystal Method. This plays in both the green and red band trailers when the writer (Nick Nolte) tells Damian (the director - Steve Coogan) to put the actors "in the trees" ("in the shit", in the red band trailer)<br/><br/>"Sympathy For The Devil" by The Rolling Stones. This plays (but is cut short) while the main characters travel through the jungle.<br/><br/>"War" by Edwin Starr. This plays in both the green band and red band trailers after the Vietnamese soldier spots the actors, thinking they're spies.<br/><br/>"Awaking The Dragon" (aka "Sleeping With The Dragon") by RipTide Music. This is the "epic action movie trailer" music that plays when the trailer begins listing off the names of the three lead actors. The theatrical version of "Tropic Thunder" is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America. This version was later released on DVDwellan Unrated Director's Cut. The Director's Cut runs more than 17 minutes longer than the theatrical cut and adds more story, dialogue and action to the film.
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