How did RDJs career survive this?
>>214582498that’s Kirk Lazarus
this was the last gasp of the "you're a retard if you get offended by things" generation of comedy
The behind-the-scenes footage is even more offensive, lmaohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YupWUeE3A-k
>>214582498by not going full retard.It's literally say that in the dialog.>you never go full fentanyl-floyd!
>>214582538This. It was before OWS when everything people care bout today was still ignored and laughed at by most. Honestly I forget what it truly felt like back then, before literally everything was hyperanalyzed and seethed over to death before being instantly forgotten. Must have been nice
>>214582524fpbp
>>214582498he is playing a white man that did surgery to have black skin, its completely different from black-face.
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>>214582524/thread
More people got mad at the never go full retard joke than the blackface
>>214582547>praying to long dead egyptian godheadsAlmost every fucking line in this is great.
>>214583090I dont remember that. I didnt even realize that saying retard in public was a cancellable offense at any point in time until people suddenly started saying the "the r word is back" a few months ago
>>214582498>how did an actor's career survive him acting in a role that wasn't just being himself on screenGee, that's a real tough question you got there, anon
This was worse
>>214582498Because the entire point of it was that it was an outlandish and offensive thing to do.
>>214584005This. It was way back when context still mattered
>>214582547>I lie beneath
>>214582547wtf lmao
>>214582547>your mom’s just a ho kek
>>214584694Oh no no no
>>214582498In the film its made clear that a lot of people find what hes doing tasteless, like how when 30 Rock and Community did it, other characters point out that the person doing it is bad
>>214582498You know movies where a hero slides through a closing door and makes it in the last second? This movie came out at the very last second before cancel culture went batshit insane. One more year and Disney may have fired him
>>214582498the entire joke rests on it being tasteless and the audience knowing that it is tasteless, that is where the humor is derived from. It's not offensive at all.
>>214582547>we built the pyramids with soundRDJ researchin' some esoteric shit in his free time
>all these zoomersRDJ was at a point in life where he didn't HAVE a career. His addiction threw him out of the limelight for a while, and TT and Iron Man gave him a resurgence.
>>214582498He slid under the door and grabbed his hat before it closed
>>214582547>the character kirk lazarus played was named lincoln osirisIt's been a while since I saw Tropic Thunder and I never caught the Osiris part. Did he make any references to pyramids or egypt in the movie too?
>>214582498he literally just started his run as Iron Man.
>>214582498By being an Epsteiner.
>faggots on 30 rock and always sunny pulled their blackface episodes and they remain pulled>tropic thunder still plays on pretty much any streaming service including youtube
>>214582498before Iron Man, he didnt have a career
>>214582498People used to have a sense of humour
>>214582498He also played a guy playing a gay priest who banged spiderman
>>214582498He was a washed up recovering alcoholic and ex-con. Nobody gave a shit about him before this, or Iron Man. These were his comeback movies. >>214585334He's the son of Robert Downey, Sr., and has been acting since he was 6. Shut the fuck up ESL.
>>214585191Looking at his imdb page it looks like he never stopped working and the "thinnest" spot in the list is a single credit in 1995. 25 episodes of Ally McBeal in 2002. He may have been a pop culture punchline for a while but he was still making money.Then boom: Iron Man, Tropic Thunder and Sherlock Holmes all within 2 years.https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000375/
>>214585334Yes he did. He's been in movies since he was a baby. He didn't have a very good career going before Iron Man.
>>214585000>Did he make any references to pyramids or egypt in the movie too?No, not even once.
>>214585432You're mentally retarded. He has 96 film credits to his name so far.
>>214582498people still knew what jokes were back then
>>214582498because george floyd hadn't found fentanyl yet
>>214585537So his career was going good before 2008?
>>214582547is that SBF in the tub?
He was literally nominated for the Oscar for this role. A very different time
>>214584858Acoustic levitation works. Whether or not it works at that scale is a different story.
>>214585583learn to read kid.>>214585379RDJ was in General Population when he was behind bars. He wasn't some special snowflake celebrity doing time like Keifer Sutherland. He was on the verge of being a nobody before Iron Man and Tropic Thunder saved his career AND life both.
>>214586234Damn, maybe he really did build them
>>214582498it was really funny
>>214582547He could have single-handedly saved the comedy genre if he didn’t pivot to capeshit
>>214586234does it require a blanket like he said?
>>214582498Motherfucker he was nominated for an Oscar for this role. He lost to Heath Ledger posthumously for his Joker role.This movie came the same year as Iron Man and cemented RDJ as a comedic actor. The few movies he did besides MCU shit in that period were almost all comedies.
>>214582538This is the only answer you need. Back in 2008, not every single person speaking their mind was an oversensitive faggot.
>>214584774that which pulls the plow
>>214587788It's because of the rise of social media. Suddenly anyone thinking this way could be banned, silenced, and bullied into the background until they shut up. Then the masses of "you can't say that!" won by default. Anyone trying to day differently could then be canceled or have their work place notified of some farcically mundane thing yet be fired and have their life ruined.
Robert Downey Jr. is an ethnically jewish man
>>214582547Hopefully he brings this persona back when the woke era is put to bed for good
>>214586234Sure. But the point was RDJ has somehow learned enough about the subject that he's using the info to ad-lib a comedy scene.It'd be like if he invoked Yakub in the video.
>>214588172Because he's a Masonand part of what he said is true.he also walked around with a black eye to be like Horus
>>214588370>Because he's a MasonAh, didn't know that. Interesting.
>>214582547cameraman couldn't hold back his laughter at the pyramid part, kek
>>214582498They screened it for the NAACP who said they didn't see anything wrong with it since he wasn't acting like a negative black stereotype. They'd milk it for all the victim points they could now but at the time the movie was made, it would have hurt their credibility to make a big deal out of it.
>>214583671Every couple of years people try to make him apologize for tropic thunder
>>214586296>verge of being a nobody He has 96 film credits to his name you fucking retard.
this was the last great comedy movie. hopefully the death of woke culture revives comedy
>>214582498He's Jewish, they have a long tradition of playing black men.
>>214582498He was pretending to be an abo. No one cares about abos.
>>214582538This. Plus, people were smart enough back then to understand the joke wasn't "haha blackface," it was "haha method actors are dumb and think they can play anyone, even a completely different race."
>>214590430The pendulum is starting to swing back towards sanity now and people are starting to take context back into account
>>214582498He's even done it multiple times he dressed as a chinaman in the 2nd sherlock holmes movie>>214582547Holy kino
>>214590548Forgot pic rel
>>214582547>Getcha head under there nowLost instantly
>>214582547holy fucking kek this is pure gold, Dennis Rodman -level schizo kino
Both RDJ and Matthew McConaughey revived their careers with this kino flick
>>214590566is this movie worth watching?
>>214592482I remember both of the sherlock holmes movies he was in being fine. not great but not terrible, and fun enough to watch.
>>214582498>tfw society has healed enough to make another movie like this
>>214592482Fun but dumb movies, turns Holmes into an action hero which does actually work quite well. RDJ and Jude Law are both charismatic and Mark Strong and Jared Harris are good villains
>>214593906Not quite yet but it's getting there. Hope Stiller has the balls to make TT2
>>214582547https://youtu.be/efq3BlIc1do?si=NvlGY0GfOH_F8Tekwhat are some other behind the scenes kino?
>>214582547anon you gotta post the whole thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4ubqCMsTo4
>>214582547>But I remember when I built the pyramids, right? It was tough. It was tough as a muthafuckaJust the way he delivered that made me start wheezing
>>214592482>Sherlock does kung fuIt rules
>>214585334Nice bait.
>>214587466You use the blanket to absorb the soundwaves near objects you don't want levitated.
>>214592482Yes. Neither Holmes movies are great but they are surprisingly solid flicks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLuhWLNqpiA>>214594027Holmes is described in the books as not only being physically strong but also the master of a (made up) fighting system. It's just that he was mostly able to solve crimes and defeat adversaries using his wits rather than having to resort to fisticuffs.
>>214594433they don't put this kinda effort into movies any more
>>214582547>The blackface comedic genius of our age wasted his life making billions doing capeshit
>>214582538Yeah, if this move had come out just 4 years later, he would have been cancelled and there would have been protests at theaters showing it.
>>214582498Because comedy was comedy up until roughly that era, and wokies cranking their own form of cancel culture wasn't a thing yetAll one has to do is either vomit performative apologies, or shrug it off with something to the effect of "it was a product of it's time"
>>214588028RDJ was merely method acting as an ethnically jewish man in preparation of his role as Strauss in Oppenheimer.
>>214594433This is pure gold
Who left the fridge open?
When does Fart Two come out?
>>214582498It was a good movie, if it was bad people would use this to further the criticism
>>214582498Because the portrayal of a Vietnam era black American was flawless. Might be Downey’s greatest performance. Ask any black person around about that role, they’ll tell you he killed it.
How dod HW's career surive this?
>>214584816always sunny too
>>214595689It's not too late, anon. Just imagine: Doctor Coon.
>>214582498cuz it was funny and completely retarded>IM A DUDE PLAYING A DUDE DISGUISED AS ANOTHER DUDE
>>214582498now they own his white ass.
>>214582498blackface is a jewish tradition
>>214582498Depiction doesn't equal endorsement.
>>214584816It's not bad. There's nothing wrong with it. It's literally the job of an actor.
>>214582547the best african american comedian of his generation
>>214582547holy FUCK how have i never seen this before?RDJ may be one of the greatest actors ever
>>21458481630 Rock and Community both had those episodes pulled from streaming
>>214589263nta but there was a time he really became a nobody, he even did some shit c-tier action movie with Billy Zane and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (picrel) and that's a few years before jail.
>>214584816i mean the way RDJ pulls it off is unreal, where tasteless loops around into being - well, not quite tasteful, but not as offensive as say when always sunny did it. i have a jacket with lincoln osiris on it and when people ask about it i tell them who it is and they have no idea its RDJ
We loved him for it and I still do
>>214597680>not as offensive as say when always sunny did it.It wasn't offensive when any of them did it you unmitigated faggot.
>>214587937>mundane thing yet be fired and have their life ruined.facebook video /watch/?v=1855661337995450After that, I knew it was over for real.
>>214588172it might be the greatest ad-lib i've ever seenreminds me of xavier renegade angel in some ways>i lie beneath>his name is OSIRIS, the god of the underworldthere's a lot of layers in that short video
>>214582547too bad he went down the capeshit route
>>214597705fuck off former libtardmac and the gang literally meant for it to be as "offensive" in everyone's eyes as possible. i guess i have to specify for you autists whether i was personally offended by it or not - i wasn't, but it wasn't art like what RDJ pulled off. it was "lol blackface" which is low hanging fruit
It's like saying it's offensive and tasteless for Tom Cruise to be playing Les Grossman. He's portraying someone who doesn't like him and acts differently! Oh no, how could this be allowed to happen?!
>>214582498he was funny unlike Jimmy Kimmel
can anons think of anything in tv/film that was genuinely offensive? i mean something that just straight up calls blacks out on being 85-iq cretins, something real and raw that should actually hurt since it's true and there's really no arguing with iti can't think of a single thinghowever while i was typing this, one of mcmahon's old promos where he destroys the audience came to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipfrAHxJsVs
>>214598257Bitch your mama was low-hanging fruit and look what it led to.(You).
>>214598553>something that just straight up calls blacks out on being 85-iq cretins, something real and raw that should actually hurt since it's true and there's really no arguing with itThe Boondocks, Chapelle's Show, In Living Color.Though not in so many words.
>>214598553God vince was good.
>>214594346nobody has any recommendations? really?
>>214598553Keanu as a racist cop is completely unhinged and has many offensive lines. It's a movie that could never be made today.
>>214598553Not unless you go back a long way. And even then, they weren't offensive by the standards of their day.
>>214585537>96.ɘɔiИ
>>214595110>master of a (made up) fighting systemBartitsu was an actual martial art that was taught in England back when Doyle was writing Sherlock Holmes stories.
>>214599218But this movie rules.
>>214582498I wish this movie was better than it was
>>214601457nobody said it didn't? it's just a movie with highly offensive dialogue like OP asked for.
>>214582547this is just after working with Terrence Howard for Iron Manlmao, he knew
The libcuck obama wasnt in office yet
>>214582498RDJ greased all the right cocks.
>>214582653It's strange how rapidly the times changed. It's like the Obama administration poured nitroglycerin on this social media driven fire. It doesn't feel that long ago to me when Tropic Thunder was playing in cinemas.
>>214582547Oh fuck i forgot about this
>>214602025did terrence howard start pulling numbers that long ago?
>>214601749i know, manit's pure wasted potential
>>214599218>Chris Evens
>>214599376underrated
>>214601749>>214604494Name a better comedy made in the last 15 years
the world wasn't as gay and retarded as it is now
>>214583116there was a whole yt ad campaign about it
>>214582569Would this advice actually make American life better?
