How did they get away with it?

UH, ALL THE BLACK PEOPLE OR NIGGERS AS I LIKE TO CALL THHEM, GET OFF THIS COMMUNITY BECAUSE ITS FOR WHITE PEOPLE ONLY, UNDERSTAND, CAUSE IF YOU DON'T I WILL MAKE BLACK PEOPLE SLAVES AGAIN!!!

Because Robert Downey Jr has soul. Game recognizes Game.

NO TIMMY NO, YOU CAN'T SAY THAT ON MIIVERSE

rdj is an honorary nigger

First, take a big step back and literally

FUCK
YOUR
OWN
FACE

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T.CRACKER

This, he's been to prison

>tfw didn't know that was Tom Cruise until a few months after watching the movie

This and walk hard were the best comedies of that decade.

Youre an idiot

I was a teen back then, and hadn't watched any Tom Cruise movies, though I knew who he was.

Twitter wasn’t mainstream yet.

this pretty much. Soon as the Zimzam trial took off and Obama made a statement on it everything went godamn loony toons

>ahem
Fuck you, nigger

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Don't use that word here Facebook frog, it's beyond cringe

Black people fuck with Robert Downey Jr. It's a fact.

By being dem supporting cocksucking shitlib.

Why would he get shit for this if it meant to make fun of doing blackface? And it was a COMEDY

No, black, you’re supposed to be offended. Be offended. Do as I say, boy.

Because it was meta SJW signalling crap. You're obviously a dumb zoomer who doesn't understand that this wasn't in any way edgy, it was mocking reality and criticizing actors for playing disabled people

You're a fucking idiot. No one is supposed to be offended by it. Everyone claps and calls it progressive because it's satirizing racists

cause robert downy jr can do what he pleases.

Because he's a white man playing a white man playing a black man.

I hate millennials

This

The original script had Tugg Speedman saving baby pandas in the Scorcher trailers.

Why in the fuck they changed that I have no idea that would've been even funnier.

Isn't being black illegal in USA of America?

Only on a Friday night.

Imagine being a zoomer I watching these 2000's comedies and thinking "woah this is so edgy and controversial"

It was a different time
Literally no one thought anything of it and everyone thoughy it was hilarious. Then 2012 rolled around and everyone lost their mind

Dudeception. Every level of level of dude involved decreases the racism by an order of magnitude. Like this:

>RDJ just walking around in blackface: RACIST
>RDJ playing a black dude:Racist(RACIST/10)
>RDJ playing a dude playing a black dude:racist(RACIST/100)

So Tropic Thunder is only 1/100 as racist as just walking around in blackface.

He actually looked black and sounded like it

That's mean that RDJ is black.

mfw

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He really fucking nailed "I will massacre you" on the phone

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Even racist satire is still inherently offensive if done by someone white.

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that's actually how cruise operates daily, him being a nice guy? that's the acting

This movie should have won Oscar.

Because he was a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.

It was fucking 10 years ago.
Fuck off.

They got away with it because people shouldn't give a fuck about it.

We don't negotiate with terrorists

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It was an underrated movie.
>cradle the balls
>stroke the shaft
>work the pipe
>SWALLOW THE GRAVY

Jack Black was amazing in it

I didn’t even recognise Tom cruise, even when it said he was starring in it, I thought it was some dude with the same name. Am I retarded?

Because it was mocking the Australian actor Downey was playing not black people themselves you fucking morons.

If he wasn't a fudge packer blackmailed by Scientology he'd be based as fuck.
After R Kelly's fiasco you really must start to wonder about Cruise and Travolta.

Niggers is the political correct term.

WE HAVE SIMPLE JACK

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The intent doesn't matter. This would have been deemed problematic and racist today either way. They got away with it because it was the pre-SJW era.

What Aus actor were they mocking though?
I need to know this as Australian.

Russell Crowe

that's robert downey JR tom cruise was the dancing fat guy

I totally forgot about simple jack.
>you m-m-make me happy

I reckon this would go off better today than it would back then. People feed off bad publicity. In fact I think this film is before it's time with breaking PC barriers.
The issue is that the film probably never set out to do that, it just simply had "poor taste" as people put it at the time. Now shit like this has a growing market.

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10 years ago is a different time, retard.

Now, I don't know what kind of pan-Pacific bullshit power play you're trying to pull here, but Asia, Jack, is my territory. So whatever you're thinking, you'd better think again. Otherwise I'm gonna have to head down there and I will rain down an ungodly fucking firestorm upon you! You're gonna have to call the fucking United Nations and get a fucking binding resolution to keep me from fucking destroying you. I am talking scorched earth, motherfucker!

I WILL MASSACRE YOU

I WILL FUCK YOU UP

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Really this movies depictions of a retard were a lot more offensive than the backface

Shit is pure kino

Aussies kinda respect him here for revitalising the Rabbitohs though. Arguably saved a piece of Aus history.
Clearly yanks don't see that side of crowe.

The "never go full retard" quote was more offensive than the blackface

It was offensive back then too though. That's what blows my mind.
I mean, that's ok if your goal is to shock people. I think that was partially the goal with TT. TT came in the post Jackass era remember. People liked to be shocked by controversial shit.

That's reemerging too in the post MDE world. We're sorta beginning to ask "what can we get away with here" in some shows (well at least with some TV comedians). South Park is pushing it a bit still.

it was a better time

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People went off about it back then too. Nobody cared about the blackface as black people just didn't care about it. Disabled and mentally handicapped people were utterly disgusted even back then though. I remember it making the news for that.

Hollywoods Jackass era was unironically kino in retrospect. Those movies are now far more important than they were back then.

The point of the movie is that the white actor was taking a black mans role. Its not offensive at all as it is the plot of the movie. Anyone who complains about this is just retarded and does not understand the difference between showing something in a movie and saying that that thing is ok

This movie is without question the last good comedy movie to come out of hollywood. nothing has come close since then.

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youtu.be/X6WHBO_Qc-Q

Yeah, even for it's time this was way too edgy

Im surprised there wasn't a sequel, especially from pressure from the studio to make more money.

You wouldn't believe how different it was in 2012 let alone 2009.

Play video games from 2005 and you'll see caricatures that would get companies shut down today. The era of evergreen is over I'm afraid.

I made my mom watch this and the first few scenes about pussy juice booty sweat and farts were really not her bag
...baby

objectively no

>No one is supposed to be offended by it.
i guess you forgot all the negative press it got by you know who

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20 years ago 25% of movies produced by major studios were comedies. Last year it was 8%

that is shitty math if I ever seen it I tell you hwhat

Fuck yes. They all were. Literally every single character and performance was 10/10.

>MOTHER NATURE JUST PISSED HER PANTSUIT!

>The point of the movie is that the white actor was taking a black mans role.
Yeah, but the comedy of the movie revolved around Downey's over the top black impression. That's blackface even if you use a proxy like that. The comedy revolves around this actor doing a blackface sort of method acting.

It got press, but not that much. It would get outright protests today.

It's like a mixture of Russel Crowe and DDL.

People are pretty divided when it comes to Jack Black but he was used perfectly for that role.

Motherfucking masterpiece.

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>whoa it was like layered and shiet. It was a statement of society.

No you moron it was the concept of a method actor being satirized. Why would they be doing social commentary on issues from the 50s you stupid fuck. Take it at face value.

It's a white guy playing a black guy, it's absurd and that's that. The reason why it's so good is there's no political message attached.

>50s
People still talk about this stuff now you retarded faggot.

>An American Jew playing an Australian playing an American playing an African American

>libshits
>understanding satire
What year do you think this is?

It was self aware

Proof that good comedy pushes boundaries.

A scientologist actor playing a jewish producer.

White guys are still dressing up as black men in movies because they don't want to cast black men to play black characters?

Bit of a stretch. Which is what I said to ur mum incidentally.

because he was convincing and wasn't just some silly caricature of a black man

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Aren't retarded people too retarded to be offended?

It was a caricature.

I almost doubt that. I think they just were laughing at a lot of this crap and fooled people in it that it was deeper. That was why it was so good. Stiller has always been one for perverting comedy. It's just a pity he plays it safe in many of them. He brings out this perversion in this movie and movies like Zoolander though. Those sorts of movies that are only going to click with people with "free minds" that aren't held back by morality. That was his thing in the 00's from memory.

Because it was before the world entered in the kali yuga phase after 2012

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Clearly people in Hollywood were offended.

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>Play video games from 2005 and you'll see caricatures that would get companies shut down today. The era of evergreen is over I'm afraid.
Only because people are pussy and let faggots talk over them.

Cuz it was satire and the black dude even calls it out just to be safe.

I bet they were actually giving Downey pointers on getting that performance funny and perfect.

If you watch, he borrows from pretty much every famous black character that's ever been in a war/action movie. Before they leave the clearing, he turns around and gives the jungle the spooky eye like the dude from Predator.

gamergate started all of this. patient zero

anything before that is a fair game

this but unironically

>Jack Black is basically imitating Andy Dick dry in a jungle the whole fucking flick

Couldn't be more wrong. Gamergate was a reactionary backlash against this shit.

Crowe is always based even when he's a raging mad man throwing telephones at hotel employees.

When the fuck did we get ice cream?

Yeah it was 10/10.

Or trying to start a music career that is never going to happen.

Against what? A lot of the people in GG probably liked this movie. It doesn't have that stank you get from whenever social justice touches something.

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people keep on saying 10 years ago. you do understand that this portrayal wouldn't fly 40 years ago. the reason they got a way with it, is because the movie was a multi cast production that was presented as a Ben Stiller comedy. They didn't focus on Osirus even though hes the character everybody remembers. That and the jews run Hollywood they can make whatever they want if they feel it will make money.

what about zoolander

Many people didn't know that the special olympics were a thing until The Ringer. It also featured more handicapped people in a Hollywood movie than ever before.
Amazing how 'retarded' PC can get in not seeing the big picture with things.

That's only the top level of comedy. There's layers upon layers of it in this movie, the most cerebral of which is the contrast between cut-throat drug kingpin warlords and Hollywood executives, said contrast working out to roughly "None at all."

MORE STUPID

>Oo ... Gilligan takin a kidney shot.

what's up with mcconaghey running really fast out of the jungle in the overhead shot at the end

Special agent powers.

It's just ironic blackface.
It's still blackface regardless.

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Tom cruise had prosthetic hands for that role.
This Jew parody:
Is way worse then On the trigged scale.

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Yeah and thrn didn't used to. So would you say times are different?

>thrn
?

And the biggest difference today is that Hollywood was forced to include a lot of women in upper management roles. I take it there was a fuck ton of blackmail to do that because the recent revelations about cults, etc in that industry are fucking hilariously fucked up.

How did they get away with it again in 2013?

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I GOT YOUR TIIVOOO

The white discourse on black people is tainted by it's etymology. However, if you insist we adopt a new narrative, write it yourself.

There are several key aspects that make up today's white racism sin.

-Historical enslavement. We are very sorry for bringing you to this land and all the related suffering, but it can't be changed now. A place in this country's future is your reparation.

-Colorism and narrative of black inferiority. This was, and still is, a direct consequence of your economic situation. Similarly, Africa is plundered by all races because of its backwardness, not because we hate blacks. When there is power in Africa and in black communities, we respect it.

-Whites prefer one another in life and business. All races do this, it's an unfortunate struggle faced by ethnic minorities everywhere.

Now, Jews and leftists have tried to stand up for you, but their admonitions fall flat with a lack of black support. And what will you say? That whites need to do a ton of work bringing you along? Nobody wants to say or hear it except white lefties.
You won't impress white America unless you organize. Get some real leaders, and imagine a real non apocalyptic future. Think more 1960s, not 1970s. That's because whites, even our parents and older brothers, are used to seeing a violent, lower-class and disorganized version of you.

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People tried to talk shit about it at the start but then it came out the special Olympics and such all supported it because it showed downys and such in a positive light.
Johnny Knoxville is just golden

i remember this movie getting more flack for its depiction of the mentally retarded through simple jack rather than flack for RDJ in blackface.

Freaking Epic

It started in 2005 when king nigger was sworn in

>white discourse on black people is tainted by it's etymology
white discourse on black people is tainted by white people being too pussy to make fun of them today. Blackface existed for a reason. There are issues black people still aren't addressing with regards to their behaviour.

People only get outraged when they're told to. If everybody laughs then people won't see a problem and laugh too. It's one of the best explanations for people's opinions, they only care about what they're made to care about. People are told to care about CO2 pollution but not so much about aerosol pollution despite it being much more directly harmful and deadly, guess which they care about? Liberals care about what John Oliver tells them to care about, conservatives care about what Rush Limbaugh to care about, if told to care about the war on Christmas they'll care about that, if not told to care about the war on Yemeni civilians they won't care, even though they hear about it in the news, it goes in one ear and comes out the other unless someone tells them to care.

So no one told them to be upset by Tropic Thunder, otherwise they would have been.

>2005
Ah yes, Obama's first of three terms.

LANCE?

Imagine believing you could get away with this today

I remember a big ruckus locally about the movie. They didn't care about the blackface though, they cared that he said "retard"

It's not really about the discourse, liberals allow them to complain because of guilt for slavery and lynchings. Black people have some legitimate gripes, such as the government infiltrating or killing every black movement. So, I don't really care if they're mad, let them have another crack at political activism and they'll calm down.

Racism itself is a jumble of contradictory, cobbled-together concepts though.

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And you're just a thick moron, still a moron regardless.

It really fucking want. In 10 years people will be saying 2019 was "a different time" too

What will we think of as the good old days of 2019? Still having white leads?

>COME ON MANG! IT'S HOLLYWOOD. ERBODY'S GAY EVER ONCE IN A WHILE

Remember the viral video? RDJ making fun of himself and Iron Man.
>It'll do, until The Dark Knight comes out
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it was making fun of tryhard method actors that everyone loves for some reason. I'm black and watched it with my family back then and we all laughed. these days it'd be one hell of a shitstorm even though it's clearly against the practice.
tl;dr it was a different time

The denial is strong.
I'm saying that it was funny and that it was blackface.

You're just denying that the blackface was why it was funny.

Laughing at over the top political correctness and saying "thank god that's over".

still to this day the best aussie accent by an non aussie
>t. aussie

It really was a different time.

Was this on MTV?
Fucking hell it's changed.

Based

You can if you have a character in the show that actually calls it out and insults the character.

I don't know. I think the youngest "mature" black generation would have issues with this. It's been nearly 8 years since Trayvon. That's embedded in this new generation of black adults.
The older generations might not have problems with it, but the new gen definitely would.

On the other hand, by treating this sort of thing as a sacred cow is just worsening the divide between whites and blacks. I don't know how we will deal with this bubbling issue of a generation of black americans gobbling up the crap on the MSM. I'm hoping social media will make them see why what happened happened. That said, social media monopolies are now choking any free discussion on such thing too as they pander to advertisers, who are fucking retarded and believe the TV agenda a bit too much.

If you think that's the *only* funny thing happening in a movie that's a send-up of Hollywood in toto, you're a dullard.

I was stunned when I heard it.

Cause it was well down. Now it's easier to play it safe, you don't want the mommy bloggers against you.

I think you're in denial of your inner racial prejudice and how you, like all people, find stereotypes amusing. They're just fucking funny. It's how we engage each other as people, we mock our stereotypes. It's almost like we're saying "hey, don't look like this gross exaggeration because look how amusingly stupid it looks". Black people do it all the time nowadays with themselves and white people.

It arrived just as the ripples of wokedom began. Too small to effect the movie, but have you seen anything like it since?

Is that the young chegge vara?

I think you're just fixated on it and projecting, because I'm saying that there are plenty of funny things in it in addition to RDJ and you're insisting that there aren't. The fake movie promos were funny as shit, and the punchline of the entire movie didn't even directly involve RDJ's character.

"I'm a rooster illusion."
"Fuck it."

If you didn't know what was spoilered and don't get what makes it funny, then you're just a lowbrow trying to pass yourself off as something you'll never be.

I think you're just ignoring how most people perceived the film.
There were three stereotypes mocked in Downey's character alone:
>the actor
>the australian
>the black person.
Everybody laughed at these stereotypes. While they overlapped the fact is they had to understand the stereotype involved and could not laugh at one differential aspect of it without laughing at one of those stereotypes. It is impossible to not laugh at the stereotypes when laughing at what downey did.
I think you're doing mental gymnastics to avoid admitting to yourself that you laughed at that stereotype.

I never said I didn't. I only said it's not the only funny thing happening in the movie. That's you.

Are you fucking dumb. It makes fun of white men playing black roles, which was prominent some decades ago. There is no problem with it it's literally making fun of something racist.

Oh yeah, there was the retard stereotyping too.