Ben Stiller REFUSES TO APOLOGIZE for Tropic Thunder - Footnotes

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  • Опубліковано 21 лис 2024
  • Something something "woke mob", something something "cancel culture".
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 35

  • @datamale
    @datamale  Рік тому +18

    Sorry if I sound funny in this one, I had a wisdom tooth done earlier in the week. Also I'm British.

    • @SemiIocon
      @SemiIocon Рік тому +2

      Bri'ish!

    • @platonicvulpine
      @platonicvulpine Рік тому +3

      I'm sorry to hear that and I'm glad you're taking care of your teeth

    • @datamale
      @datamale  Рік тому +3

      @@platonicvulpine Sorry to hear I'm British? Yeah me too

    • @i.c.3300
      @i.c.3300 Рік тому +1

      Yeah you do sound pretty funny ngl

  • @Sarcasticron
    @Sarcasticron Рік тому +10

    No, that's a pretty typical move for channels like Breitbart. I find The Good Doctor offensive, because it's spreading harmful stereotypes ("autistic boys have superpowers"), without any irony. But Tropic Thunder just made fun of Hollywood actors. Blackface was also hilarious and wonderful in Finnian's Rainbow (I won't spoil it for you, but it's a beautiful movie), and whiteface was hilarious in White Chicks. Context is important.

    • @datamale
      @datamale  Рік тому +7

      God I hate how smarmy the leading actor for "The Good Doctor" is in his Autism Speaks collab.
      It's everything Tropic Thunder mocks actors for, and I hope he never lives it down.

    • @MadDunhill
      @MadDunhill Рік тому +1

      doesn't he have savant syndrome in the good doctor? i think in the show his "superpower" is attributed to him being a savant rather than his ASD.

    • @Microfoot
      @Microfoot Рік тому +1

      The other thing to hate Good Doctor for is how they have the character behave ignorantly and insensitively to others with his autism used as the reason, including transphobia and islamophobia.

    • @datamale
      @datamale  Рік тому +1

      @@Microfoot I saw that scene when doing research for this video.
      What a horrible vehicle to deliver such a cheap scene of:
      "Oh, you're different just like me"

  • @mightquinnable
    @mightquinnable Рік тому +15

    Yeah, don’t apologise for it

  • @MrJevman
    @MrJevman 11 місяців тому +8

    The film is great and if it seriously offended you, you need to re-evaluate your life.

  • @Shield-Theyden
    @Shield-Theyden Рік тому +35

    So much of conservative culture seems to revolve around making up a group of people and then getting mad at that group.

    • @datamale
      @datamale  Рік тому +13

      Hilariously fragile behaviour for the group that love throwing around "snowflake" accusations.

    • @MadDunhill
      @MadDunhill Рік тому +7

      strawmanning till the day they die

  • @itcouldbelupus2842
    @itcouldbelupus2842 Рік тому +10

    I think it works as satire because it made fun of so many AWFUL tropes that Hollywood did unironically in the past that no big budget movie will do them again.
    It will age poorly over time as we get further and further away from the offensive tropes it's satirizing.

    • @datamale
      @datamale  Рік тому +10

      Exactly. It's not a bad thing to enjoy these movies but still question them. Conservatives like to think it's one or the other, but they just fall into the same dogmatism they accuse the left of.

    • @Anna-xh6fk
      @Anna-xh6fk Рік тому +3

      @@datamaleif you want to call it a comedy that makes fun of these hollywood-types then sure, but as a satire, it fails. How? Look at its audience’s reaction to it. Like I know the point of this vid is “conservatives create fake outrage that isn’t there” (w more nuance but that’s the jist) but actually, people have critiqued the movie and calling something satire doesn’t absolve a movie from doing what it’s supposedly satiating. Like no, the joke isn’t always on Ben Stiller. The punchline is often “don’t go full r--“. The insistence that the joke isn’t often against neurodivergent ppl is naive or foolish. Maybe you don’t want to believe that bc u like the movie. Let’s just not prepend that it doesn’t pedal the same beliefs it mocks it’s characters for. (Like family guy mocking Fox News & also being wildly transphobic; yes, we know who they’re mocking, that’s not the point of contention).

  • @SemiIocon
    @SemiIocon Рік тому +3

    Yooo, it's me in the credits!

    • @datamale
      @datamale  Рік тому

      Hell yeah, thanks for supporting the channel!

  • @Tacom4ster
    @Tacom4ster Рік тому +10

    Conservatives act like Old man yell at cloud meme

    • @datamale
      @datamale  Рік тому +5

      Clouds are more concrete than half their fears, if we're being honest.

  • @deefpaladin
    @deefpaladin Рік тому +1

    It just feels like people really wanted to defend black face and this is just and excuse.

  • @PauLtus_B
    @PauLtus_B 2 місяці тому

    No person labeled "woke" is going to complain about this sort of stories, I feel it's an immensely "woke" joke.

  • @yuvi2764
    @yuvi2764 Рік тому +2

    underrated asf

  • @nathangibbons9492
    @nathangibbons9492 Рік тому +5

    Beyond the blackface and Simple Jack, I think we need to talk more about Tom Cruise's character Les Grossman considering that he's a borderline Jewish stereotype.

    • @rdrrr
      @rdrrr Рік тому +5

      Tropic Thunder is a self-referential mockery of Hollywood. Les is a spot-on send up of a stereotypical Hollywood producer, and "stereotypical Hollywood producer" is about as Jewish as it gets. Two out of three of Tropic Thunder's scriptwriters are Jewish, btw (Ben Stiller and Etan Cohen).