Tropic Thunder

Movie • 2008 • Action  

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Vietnam veteran 'Four Leaf' Tayback's memoir, Tropic Thunder, is being made into a film, but Director Damien Cockburn can’t control the cast of prima donnas. Behind schedule and over budget, Cockburn is ordered by a studio executive to get filming back on track, or risk its cancellation. On Tayback's advice, Cockburn drops the actors into the middle of the jungle to film the remaining scenes but, unbeknownst to the actors and production, the group have been dropped in the middle of the Golden Triangle, the home of heroin-producing gangs.
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not explicitly but probably
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I wouldn't say "stalked." A group of people watch another group for a bit, gathering info and planning a way to attack. they don't follow them around really.
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Is a child abused?
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Are there abusive parents?
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Addiction
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Coke addiction
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Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
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Panda is stabbed many times until dead, then the carcass is worn by the character. Another character eats a screaming live bat. Meant for humor in context, but the noises the animals make can be disturbing to hear.
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One is killed but isn't abused.
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Is there a dead animal?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Does a cat die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there sharks?
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Assault
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Is someone restrained?
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Is someone held under water?
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Is someone drugged?
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kicking/punching in the balls
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Not squashed, but mutilated in other ways
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is someone stabbed?
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Is there cannibalism?
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a character licks the insides of a severed human head, thinking that it is a prop in a movie
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Does someone break a bone?
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Dunking someone repeatedly into water
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Is there decapitation?
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Is there amputation?
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it's fake in-movie
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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Someone briefly does a fake seizure as part of a dance move.
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Is there a hanging?
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Death
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Does a non-human character die?
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Disability
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SiRenfield
Doesn’t necessarily apply to the film itself although the movie mercilessly parodies the tendency for Hollywood to do this such as the notorious flop Simple Jack and [SPOILERS] the revelation that in-universe the author of the book Tropic Thunder was a fraud that faked everything about him including his disability
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Is the r-slur used?
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SiRenfield
Said numerous times in a particularly (in)famous scene regarding the limits of neurotypical actors playing “mentally challenged” characters
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Does someone cheat?
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Someone is held hostage
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Fear
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Is someone possessed?
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Is someone eaten?
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Does someone vomit?
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Jack Black vomits just behind a rock, when he lifts his head he still has stuff on his lip and in his mouth a little.
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Does someone spit?
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In one of the fake previews before the movie, there is a parody of the famous dinner table scene from Nutty Professor II: The Klumps.
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Is there copaganda?
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Are there transphobic slurs?
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Is electro-therapy used?
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Is there menstruation?
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Does someone have cancer?
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It’s possible but not clear what the disability in Simple Jack is (even though yeah it’s very much taking the piss out of the inspirational disabled trope) and what some people forget is that there are consequences in the narrative since it’s regarded as a critical and financial failure, and even in-universe is considered horribly offensive hence why the only people that remember the movie are the drug gang
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A actor is such a character actor that he goes through some kind of operation or something to make him black (in reality he's just in black face.) Because of the changes he puts himself through for his role, he has difficulty identifying who he really is.
I don't know that I'd call this body dysmorphia.
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Does someone self harm?
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Severe drug withdraw can look like an anxiety attack.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Noxious
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Is there shakey cam?
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Sibelos
This being an R rated comedy, expect plenty of strong language.
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Is there screaming?
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Paranoia
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SiRenfield
Mostly in the beginning with the fake movie trailers
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Is someone watched without knowing?
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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Are there abortions?
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Is there childbirth?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
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Is there aphobia?
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Does the black guy die first?
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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Are there fat jokes?
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Sibelos
An in universe comedy is basically nothing but this.
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Everything about "Simple Jack" is offensive. (This is a movie Stiller's character starred in in which the character, Jack, may be autistic.)
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Anonymous
A blank man says it to a man pretending to be black.
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Is there hate speech?
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Anonymous
"Retard" is used several times and the concept of a actor going "full retarded" is a concern.
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Race
Is there blackface?
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SiRenfield
RDJ’s character for a vast majority of the movie, since essentially his character is a method actor that was so desperate for the part of a black man that he went through cosmetic surgery to have his skin darkened. It’s essentially elaborate satire of the absurd lengths Hollywood is often willing to go to to deny roles to minority actors done in a ermm *tsk* “ballsy way”
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Religious
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Sex
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Very first scene is up close of women twerking in bootyshorts. A clear scene of boobs as a man flips through a magazine, several pages shown.
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Does someone lose their virginity?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there bestiality?
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Sickness
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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Is someone terminally ill?
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Social
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Are there fat suits?
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SiRenfield
Tom Cruise as Les Grossman and also an in-universe comedy movie where Jack Black plays an overweight family
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Vehicular
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Does a car crash?
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Does a plane crash?
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Michael Ottinger
Army helicopter
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Violence
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Katla
Explosions yes, nuclear explosions no.
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Does someone drown?
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Is there blood/gore?
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This is a movie about making a war movie.
There's guns and shooting people.
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