Robert Downey Jr in Blackface??????

i am outraged ok

OMG RDJ IN BLACKFACE?

SOMEONE START A THREAD

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very, very good

Yes, Joel Siegel is missed.

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i think someone should start a thread about this

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I was lucky enough to see what they said was the first public showing of this movie to a test audience on February 19th in Phoenix AZ. Security was tight, lots of metal detector wands, airport type security walk through, ladies purses inspected, no cell phones allowed in. They want to make sure no one is filming or taking snapshots of the movie. It is very funny, Ben Stiller is the star and is a fiction action star with lots of films to his credit. While filing in Vietnam they stumble into a war with drug lords who think they are DEA. Stiller and cast believe there are hidden cameras and they are still in production making their epic film. Tom Cruise also stars and when he appeared I told my wife there is Tom Cruise, at the end of the movie she said which one was Tom Cruise? Go figure, he is not playing the Tom we know and love from Top Gun. As the first test audience we answered questions about the movie and some viewers were selected for a discussion panel afterwards. This should appeal to Ben's fans as well as anyone wanting a laugh filled evening.

when he appeared i told my wife there is tom cruise

she said which one was Tom Cruise

go figure!

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oh, he's gonna play the brando character

nah, Studio boss

ugh, ruining side boob for everyone

tom cruise's arms look horrible

compared to ben stiller's

maybe it's a fake arm

I'm actually kind of glad to see TC let himself go a little. Who says a thetan doesn't need a cheeseburger now and again?

a thetan needs some coppertone

LOL TOLHURST IN BLACKFACE??????

Robert Downey Jr in the middle here

Oh my go, where is that picture from?!

I wish there was a thread about this!

the answers to all your burning questions, including: where is that picture from?! OMG RDJ IN BLACKFACE? has anyone started a thread about this yet?????????????????, and This better not take me to that inferior thread!

i made up the last one. it's a plea that fell on deaf ears.

so last night I fell asleep to a 1980 BBC production of Othello, and Anthony Hopkins played the title role in blackface.

Start a thread!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/435000/images/_436448_bob.jpg

also starring bob hoskins as iago!

all the pictures I am finding try to hide the blackface:

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also starring bob hoskins as iago!

...in the Very Odd Couple.

RJD2 in Blackface?????

I actually googled "rjd2" + "blackface" yesterday and the first hit was an ILM thread about Sasha Frere-Jones, lol.

i prefer R2D2 in blackface

RDJ in blackface: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P3Wc-37pC4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36w-CyqCO1A

ROLLING BLACKFACE THREAD 08

R2D2 IN BLACKFACE

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Black Threepyo would be funny

in what sense

Like, if he put on a purple kangol hat and went, "Say there sould-robot! How 'bout slipping me some steel?" It would be hilarious.

i saw it on Family Guy

okay you completely trumped my along-the-same-lines joke dammit

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/435000/images/_436448_bob.jpg

hopkins blackface more convincing than hoskins beard

the best part is I woke up my sleeping boyfriend to inform him that, holy shit, that's Anthony Hopkins. no, not him, that's Bob Hoskins. He's the BLACK GUY.

Hoskins apparently masks his charming cockney accent by yelling all his lines.

that's a shame, it's hard to play devious when you're yelling

I watched that Hopkins/Hoskins production in a Shakespeare class in college.

I think I watched the royal shakespeare co's video production but I can't remember who played othello. probably patrick stewart.

could it have been this one? I don't remember the civil war setting, which is a pretty interesting choice...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0357995/

anyway, I just read an interview this week with downey about the blackface thing. lots of "no, really?" statements like "if this isn't done right we're going to burn in hell."

I mean, in a perfect world I guess it wouldn't matter what sort of an ethnic background an actor playing a character has, but knowing the history of Hollywood these kind of choices often reek of the "all non-Western people look alike" sort of thinking.

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I mean, no doubt in China she's a superstar, and film buffs probably recognize her from all of the films she's done that play in American arthouses (Farewell My Concubine, Shanghai Triad, etc.), but 90% of the Miami Vice audience probably has no idea who she is.

awhat bout "all latin american people look alike and come from the same ethnic background" sort of thinking? xp

whats with all these european and african people playing north americans in movies?

xp But Tuomas, the diffence is that I don't think Michael Mann was trying to pass off Gong Li as actually being Hispanic. She was playing a woman of obviously Asian heritage living in Latin America.

i'm fine with africans playing north americans if they just bother to explain why the hell they're there. of course in a perfect world we wouldn't need that explanation but we don't live in a perfect world.

you guys are obviously forgetting the clusterfuck that was the "Gong Li in South America??????" thread 2 years ago

xp But Tuomas, the diffence is that I don't think Michael Mann was trying to pass off Gong Li as actually being Hispanic. She was playing a woman of obviously Asian heritage living in Latin America.

Fair enough, I guess I just thought the movie was dumber than it was.

Though part of my comment was also about the star image, and how it's sorta inseparable from the roles a star plays. I don't think Jackie Chan could ever play a Mexican without the movie explaining his background, but I guess Gong Li isn't that famous in US for her image to be a distraction for most people.

I mean, people are always complaining when American stars play Britons with a bad accent. Maybe their characters are merely American who've moved to Britain but haven't picked up the local accent properly?

What I'm trying to say is, certain (if not most) movie stars are so much tied with their country of origin that just placing them in any sort national context without any explanation would feel distracting to most, even if the characters they're playing wouldn't require such an explanation.

too bad, Tuomas, I'm casting you in my Western anyway.

Miami Vice was great and I have no idea why Tuomas would think Gong Li's character actually had a monologue explaining her mother's (southeast asian) background during the film.

err, bad editing, I mean I have no idea why he would think she was cast as hispanic as she DID have a monologue

certain (if not most) movie stars are so much tied with their country of origin

I sort of understand your point about this, esp. Jackie Chan, because so much of his image in the West is reducible to "Chinese guy" -- I mean, this is precisely what the Rush Hour films exploit. But I don't think that anyone at a Charlize Theron film is trying to figure out how her character got out of South Africa.

err, bad editing, I mean I have no idea why he would think she was cast as hispanic as she DID have a monologue

??? I don't remember such a monologue at all.

Jackie Chan never plays a character that isn't himself.

Found a first draft of the Miami Vice script, and Isabella is described as "Afro-Cuban." Obviously that was changed, but I wonder if you'd have had the same trouble if the role had been played by, say, Thandie Newton.

I sort of understand your point about this, esp. Jackie Chan, because so much of his image in the West is reducible to "Chinese guy"

except when it's "that Japanese guy" or "the asian dude"

ade langston to thread

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cuban ppl are the most disgusting savages in all the world imo

^fishing for an otm^

http://movies.yahoo.com/premieres/7011951/

Trailer

great trailer

looks really funny

Just cause it's a theme song don't make it not true.!

"what do you mean by that?" rofld me

I wish this was out for Father's Day so my dad and I could get blazed and watch this.

new "red band" trailer, pretty rofflicious:

http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/trailers/new-tropic-thunder-redband-trailer-might-be-the-trailer-of-the-year.php

It's like, seriously GORY!

when he throws the baby

is that prop head supposed to be steve coogan?

This looks like it might be great!

omg

this shit does look pretty funny

holy shit this trailer

SIMPLE JACK

y-you muh-muh-make mah peepee maker tiiingle

i sort of recall the gong li character in MIAMI VICE explaining that her dad was chinese, her mom was cuban, etc. etc. or something to that effect.

amazing that i actually remember something from that movie, aside from the helicopter shots.

I think that looks awesome but I'm not entirely sure. Will it maintain over 90 minutes?

this is the kind of ben stiller i like. the silly, making fun of shit stiller from his old sketch show.

i just hope all the best moments aren't in the preview

http://www.rainofmadness.com/

behind the scenes of the movie within the movie

what do YOU mean, you people?

HUH

HUH

not so great, tho rdj was incredible

i saw it tonight and i still don't know what to make of it. i am deeply scarred by tom cruise.

"i'm a lead farmer, muthafucka!!!!" was kinda classic

also lol "alpa chino"

tom cruise stuff was pretty bad fer sure

tom cruise is even more creepy (than usual) when he's taking the piss

tom crus means well