Robert Dawney Jr on his use of blackface in Tropic Thunder, and if it could be made nowadays

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Everytime this comes up you can tell a lot about what kind of people you're dealing with on the coli.

The point of him being in blackface was because he was a method actor that got casted to play a black guy because Hollywood studios would rather hire a white guy to play a black guy than a black guy to play a black guy. Which is why the actual black guy in the movie is important because he keeps reminding him and you how racist Hollywood studios are. Yet the same nikkas run in these threads completely missing the whole point dap fishing. It wasn't shytting on black people, it was shytting on Hollywood.
 

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I dont like Joe Rogan. Brings on a prolific actor like RDJ and of course asks him about some anti-politically correct shyt

Of course it could still get made today. And the movie sucked anyways.
I listen to a lot of his podcast and that is actually the first thing he brings up when discussing politically correct shyt in comedy, he has been doing it for years so of course he was gonna bring it up when he finally got the man itself in front of him.
 
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Solution: View it all as entertainment. Allow artist to say/do whatever, hold them accountable for actions outside their respective platform that blurs line between reality and entertainment

Result is no more concerns about who supporting what for whatever reasons...who being cast to depict...equal outrage for all stereotypes/degeneracy outside of entertainment...easy to identify hypocrites that support behavior from their fav artist they otherwise claim to be against
 

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The Blackface didn't bother me....just how unfunny that movie was....what just a corny era in comedy where Hollywood
brainwashed people into thinking Ben Stiller and Will Ferrell were even a little bit funny :scust:@ all those garbage 2000s comedies
 

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Right-wingers have reduced his role and that movie Blazing Saddles in to some anti-pc crap, while simultaneously missing the overall anti-racist commentary.

Speaking of Blazing Saddles Alex Karras who played Mongo just made the Pro Football Hall of Fame he used to play for the Detroit Lions
 
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