Tropic Thunder
Movie • 2008 • Action
ReportVietnam 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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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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One is killed but isn't abused.
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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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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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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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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.
I don't know that I'd call this body dysmorphia.
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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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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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"Retard" is used several times and the concept of a actor going "full retarded" is a concern.
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A blank man says it to a man pretending to be black.
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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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This is a movie about making a war movie.
There's guns and shooting people.
There's guns and shooting people.
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