Theres something to be said about intent I think.hes saying a character doing blackface and that character is portrayed as wrong for doing it. I do t see it as much different as so.eone saying a character saying bigoted things, which is different from the actor actually being bigoted.
Because saying RDJ was in blackface implies Kirk Lazarus was black, which he wasn’t. He was a white method actor who went so overboard with method acting that he thought blackface was a good idea, which the film portrayed as racist and unhealthy.
look, Tropic Thunder is *trying* to say something about narcissistic method actors who make godawful choices to get into their roles. i get that. but there had to have been a better way to do it than putting RDJ in blackface for an hour and a half. you have made a distinction without a difference
just because the character is a white person doing blackface doesnt mean they didnt literally put RDJ in blackface. youd have to be impossibly dense to not grasp this
In very limited fairness the whole point of that was to make fun of method actors and the terrible choices they make for the sake of their “craft” but you could also make that point in just… so many better ways.
Yes. I remember the movie from less than 20 years ago that made fun of narcissistic actors.
Anyone is free to not watch it or not enjoy it, but I don’t see how else they would nail a point other people had been trying to make about white actors for years.
I think it worked. Perhaps they could of cast a black actor.
Given that I have seen people saying that they didn't realize it was actually a white actor.
Maybe they should have cast a black actor, I think the joke would have still worked, just differently.
Blackface for comedic purposes only became truly taboo in the early 2010s. Kimmel and Fallon both have blackface bits from the late 90s/early 2000s. Not saying it's fine or good, just where we were at culturally at the time
Absolutely, Silverman's blackface episode is along similar lines. I think Obama really made white people reconsider what was acceptable to do as a joke about black people. 2000s comedies were filled with old ladies, Asian people, nerds, etc saying the n word as a joke
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Anyone is free to not watch it or not enjoy it, but I don’t see how else they would nail a point other people had been trying to make about white actors for years.
They had to go all or nothing.
Given that I have seen people saying that they didn't realize it was actually a white actor.
Maybe they should have cast a black actor, I think the joke would have still worked, just differently.
Downey is playing a stupid character who’s doing it. In universe it is not meant to be a good thing.