[kj] OT Boycott the film Tropic Thunder

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

Robert Downey, Jr., who utters the objectionable word in the movie 
("retard") has even been mentioned as Academy Award material for this. 
(In Tropic Thunder he plays a famous Australian actor who undergoes 
radical cosmetic surgery to make himself into a US black man, and 
changes his manner of speaking, etc., to make himself seem truly black, 
unnerving his African-American co-stars). This plus Downey, Jr.'s 
performance in Iron Man may make this his year...

I am not sure how objectionable to find the movie yet, but from the 
previews and reviews I have to admit it seems pretty funny, and I am 
curious to see it. Anything that sends up the hackneyed conventions of 
US war movies automatically makes me wanna see it. "Don't you die on me, 
son!!" "I can't feel my legs, sarge!" and all that.

-Oliver


Leigh Newton wrote:

> I'm kind of looking forward to checking it out. I like that it falls into a very exclusive and rare sub-sub-sub genre of movies which involve people in situations which they believe to be fabricated when they are, in fact......very real. See also: the Three Amigos and The Man Who Knew Too Little.

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