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

[personaguy]

Some of you are very defensive of white men

 

[Barlow]

The thing that made RDJ and tropic thunder passable was the ridiculousness of it and the fact that they actually had Brandon T Jackson in the movie calling out the actor for using blackface.

it was the meta commentary of the whole thing.


Usually with blackface cacs are just so lazy and uncreative that they slap it on and call it a joke or say they’re trying to make some hollow point that isn’t clear.

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

I don’t think folks realize nobody is more sensitive now, it’s just social media gives people a voice, and we know how people feel.

 

[Westbama Heartthrob]

I don’t think folks realize nobody is more sensitive now, it’s just social media gives people a voice, and we know how people feel.

I'm glad somebody said it. Anti-pc mfs really think this the first time in history people been having these convos

Like 2 Live crew came out with pop that p*ssy and everybody was cool with it

Like this the first time comedians have had backlash for jokes about gay people

They be the biggest pussies too. Like they can't handle being challenged on anything

Scared to say what they got to say and be done

 

[Kairi Irving]

I was 10 years old when this was released, I real thought he was black for real majority of the movie

 

[Kaypain]

Man I don't give a fukk that shyt was funny as fukk and I'll watch it again.

 

[Dwayne_Taylor]

He was making white people who use black face look stupid. Context matters.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

So we're acting like Tropic thunder was made in 1950 or something. Has the world changed that fast?

 

[Cheese McNair]

I was 10 years old when this was released, I real thought he was black for real majority of the movie

Sometimes I forget how young posters are on here. I was 18

 

[Legal]

I think this would still work today. The goal was to make fun of white actors who really think they can do whatever they want.

But low key, the bit where he takes the map from Ben Stiller is the best part of the movie.

"Gimme the gotdamn map!"

 

[Bruce LeRoy]

Doesn’t make it any less funny today as it did back then. People are overly sensitive, in no way was he making fun of black people he was making fun of whites trying to act black and it was god damn hilarious

They were poiking fun at method /acting/actors who go to extremes to get into character.. Jared Leto, Daniel Day Lewis, etc.

I don’t think folks realize nobody is more sensitive now, it’s just social media gives people a voice, and we know how people feel.

The problem is social media has given alot of nobody nothing ass freelance/journalist/writers a voice to express every brain fart they have and alot of them think they are on some level because they are verified/blue checked... They are the main ones stirring up faux outrage.

 

[jwinfield]

They were poiking fun at method /acting/actors who go to extremes to get into character.. Jared Leto, Daniel Day Lewis, etc.

Yup, and the media within the movie was calling him a brilliant actor that was going to amazing lengths to become the character, while the actual black actor was giving him the the whole time.

The movie makes fun of Hollywood and how ridiculous it is. I talked about in another thread about this, how studios would rather hire a white actor to play a black character than a black actor. Even the only black actor in the movie wasn't an actor, he was a rapper. Someone the studios hired so they could send to BET and MTV to promote the movie.

 

[Randy Sandchild]

Love this movie and i have since its first dropped. I feel like rdj played the role perfectly. Like ppl said above, part of the gag was how absurd it was that he was going blackface in the movie. When he says "What do you mean YOU PEOPLE" and then alpa Chino says, "what do YOU mean? You people!?"

That line sums up the meaning of rdj's role to me. Now, i dont think in 2020 with this sensitive, look for ANY reason to be buttsore culture that this movie could happen again, but its a reach to act like the blackface in this movie wasnt self-deprecating and all satire. Just one mans opinion

 

[BlackDiBiase]

you know any retarded war heroes, you went full retard man

 

[Spence]

I’m just the dude playing the dude disguised as another dude!
So many fkn one liners from this movie