Robert Downey Jr. Stands By ‘Tropic Thunder’ for ‘Railing Against Tropes That Aren’t Right’: ‘Things Have Gotten Very Muddled’ With Audiences

by KillerCroc1234567

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  2. The only thing muddled is whatever he thinks he was saying here. I can’t make heads or tails of his comments. Is he trying to say he wouldn’t be able to do Tropic Thunder now?

  3. I’m sick of this nonsense, there was absolutely zero backlash against RDJ or Tropic Thunder for that role. Every major Black Comedian defended him strongly, there were no editorials or protests, no fellow stars criticizing him. There might have been a dozen critical tweets aggregated for clickbait.

    I’ll be the first to say, cancel culture is a popularity contest first and foremost and if it was a less beloved actor, there probably would be some controversy. (ie the movie Soul Man made the exact same argument as Tropic Thunder)

  4. Tom Cruise’s deal with WB can only mean one thing… give us a stand alone Les Grossman movie. Make it happen, Tom!

  5. If he weren’t an MCU actor then the role likely would’ve been a problem for him today. But that’s not the reality we’re living in, so why is he on one about it?

  6. Seems like there’s an article on this every couple months. Can’t they just search one of those up if they’re seeing Tropic Thunder for the first time in 2024?

    Tldr; context and nuance matter. Generally it wouldn’t be ok but it was satire.

  7. There’s a huge difference between racist humor made to mock and degrade people of that race versus satire made to critique and lampoon the former.

    Stop killing satire.

  8. I’ve seen like four actors from this movie make statements where they keep framing themselves as “brave” or “standing by they’re creative choices” even though I’ve yet to see anyone actually complain about that it’s like these actors are afraid they need to look important because Ben Stiller is behind the scenes now and rdj post avengers work over the past five years is Dolittle and being pretty good in Oppenheimer.

    You know it definitely gonna be about relevantcy when Michael Rapaport starts telling us how brave he was for wearing blackface in bamboozled.

  9. What would happen if Mel Brooks did a remake of Blazing Saddles today?

  10. I was a kid when All In the Family first came out. Even we kids understood that Archie Bunker was a dope and that you weren’t supposed to admire him or imitate him. It’s only today that certain elements of the community are too stupid to recognize what Archie was trying to satirize. The same as true of that movie Tropic thunder. You would need to be fool to think that Tropic Thunder was supposed to be something serious, or pro-racism!

  11. I read a reddit comment saying tropic thunder is the 21st century blazing saddles. I agree.

  12. Every 18 months, some media outlet wants us to relitigate Tropic Thunder.

  13. How many times are entertainment publications going to bring this up? Absolutely nobody online is bitching about this, and people keep pretending they are.

    It’s stupid.

  14. People do realize that this was a commentary on how Hollywood would use black and yellow face in the past right. Where’s all the hate for Ben stiller in simple jack?

  16. His character was made fun of in the movie, it was depicted as the WRONG thing to do.

  17. I showed my friend blazing saddles, within 15 minutes he was talking about how offensive it is… he proved the point that people are too dumb to understand satire.

  19. It’s wild that I got to watch blazing saddles for the first time in a high school European history class. (In 1991). Wouldnt fly in todays culture

  20. Have you guys actually met somebody who was offended by Tropic Thunder?

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