This week, let’s be controversial with Ben Stiller’s 2008 action-movie satire, Tropic Thunder! How do we talk about comedy? Is friction inherently interesting? Who can stick the landing on double-reverse satire?
Content warning: discussions of racism, ableism, antisemitism, hate speech, drug use, gun violence, military violence, gore, misogyny, profanity
Unanswered Questions:
- Which of the controversial elements of the film have aged the worst? Which have aged the best?
- Is Stiller a convincing leading man?
- Should Robert Downey Jr. have been nominated for the Academy Award?
Further reading:
- Robin Hood: Men In Tights
- Empire Of The Sun
- The Frat Pack
- The 81st Academy Awards
- Maria Menounos
- The Last Star In Hollywood Definitive List Of Tom Cruise Films
- The Last Star In Hollywood: Production Schedule
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Join us next time we return to very serious and worthy film-making with the World War II drama Valkyrie (2008)!
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