Robert Downey Jr DID NOT DO BLACKFACE IN TROPIC THUNDER, PART 2
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
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It wasn't blackface. He was a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.
Of course, Robert Downey Junior was playing Kirk Lazarus a white australian. The white Australian character he was playing arguably did blackface by having a "pigmentation alteration procedure", but that was what the white character he was playing in the movie did not him.
Robert Downey Junior wasn't making fun of black people with the character (he WAS totally and completely making fun of method actors) or actually taking a job from a black actor himself by playing the character.
Also, something a lot of people miss is that Jack Black is essentially playing Chris Farley and John Belushi, which was ultimately a possible inevitable end of RDJ when he was all doped up on Black Tar heroin!!!
Do people not realize that?!
People often take such surface level observation of shit, not understanding the power of story telling.
People are so soft these days. Nobody complains about “white face”. Ever watch White Chicks or White Chicks 2?! It’s comedy. Let it be just that.
Primarily, RDJ's character makes fun of those method actors that take themselves too seriously and go through the most demanding & excruciating physical changes in order to get a role. It makes fun of people like Christian Bale for getting super buff on one movie and then going super skinny for the next one; "his body his choices" ok, but it's still concerning nonetheless. In a key of comedy, you either point the thing out with a direct & explicit example (which can be a bit rude) or you take it to the next level with the most ridiculous and exaggerated version you can think of, in this case a full race swapping surgery process.
I think I met you at Highlight. You got an energetic personality dude. Your channel will grow much faster than mine.
chris tucker was talking about them screaming when they see godzilla lol
What about the old school film”soul man “ in 80’s when life was happy and fake victims didn’t exist…because people had better things to do with their time
what gets me is...OK, let's say that the RDJr character is in blackface (let's accept the premise for a minute)
IT'S THE CHARACTER THAT'S IN BLACKFACE
the character is a method actor that takes things too far (ex. he won't come out of character after he's aware that they are in actual danger)
That's the whole point -- they are UNAWARE actors (socially and mirrored in their lack of awareness about the practical situation they find themselves in..that's the narrative device in play) BUT we see *character development* (in classic Ben stiller style,his character reverts and doesn't quite get it when he thinks he can still reason with the heroine operation at the bridge blowing scene...only to face the physical reality of being stabbed by his 'adopted son' and chased by the whole population)
They even throw the issue into high relief by juxtaposing the racial issue with the ableist issue... the RDJr character gets "don't go full retard" [verbatim to respect the statement] ...and notice how the components are there, but the lesson isn't learned yet b/c the understanding of the why is b/c the academy won't reward it.
The RDJr character falls into 'blackface' (racially insensitive) moments talking about cooking [I'm white with a wife from Baton Rouge, we eat mudbugs, I'm from KY I eat cornbread and squirrel,..which is funny b/c it adds a layer of insensitivity as a _Hollywood type_ trying to describe what could also be seen as "redneck food" - but I digress]
-- but the film calls attention to _exactly that_ with a black character calling him out
From there, we have the recon scene where the RDJr character starts the realization of 'being confused' and there is the "but we're cool/not really" moment that, again, points to the problematic nature
then, later, we have the RDJr character shedding the artifice which is *part of the growth arc*
...and hthat's the thing : the movie actually CRITICIZES blackface and racial insensitivity.
Complaining about RDJr blackface is like complaining about an actor being antisemitic for PORTRAYING a NAZI officer in a WWII film
To quote another stiller movie *I FEEL LIKE I'M TAKING CRAZY PILLS* people really can't see that?!
which is why Tropic thunder is comedic genius
Media literacy is so underrated. I reckon a lot of the same people who would describe this movie of doing blackface would also pause to consider that maybe Star Trek really has gone woke.
Thanks for this. Now I feel better about loving this movie than I have for the last several years. 😂 Being white I know that just because _I_ didn't think it was a thing doesn't mean it's not a thing, so I will happily accept that we saw this the same way.
"being white" god how do you not feel a wave a shame typing that. You have a brain, he has a brain, now communicate like people who have brains. Stop bringing up the asthenic features you were born with it's so cringe
All of the UA-cam first time reaction videos I've seen from black people have no issue with RDJ in this movie. They get the fact that RDJ's role wasn't to steal a part from a black actor or to mock black people/black culture. Anyone that has seen the movie without being filled with hate from some predisposed sense of inequality get it.
WTF did i just watch!?
Isnt it fun censoring yourself?