Clipmarks | Vietnam Clips"Tropic Thunder" Comedy Mocks Hollywood And Movie-Makersclipped by: merrieclippers remarks: To save the movie, director Damien Cockburn (Steve Coogan) decides to shoot it documentary-style, with his actors improvising in the jungle. But that idea also goes awry, and the gun-toting actors find themselves up against a drug lord and his minions real guns. The premise is amusing, though the actual plotting doesnt always make sense, especially when the actors have to face the real-life villains. And as it goes along, the pleasure is not so much from character development as a series of set pieces, such as African-American Chinos view of Lazarus vision of an African-American, or Grossmans attempts at crisis management. Indeed, Cruise may be the funniest thing in the movie, although he gets competition, notably from Downey and from Jay Baruchel as Kevin Sandusky, the non-star in the acting ensemble. And movie buffs will have fun picking up on the allusions to other films, especially Apocalypse Now. Ben Stiller (left) and Robert Downey Jr. portray actors starring in a Vietnam movie in ``Tropic Thunder.  Tropic Thunder is loud, tasteless and crude. It is also funny for the most part, and very knowing about the way Hollywood views the world. Indeed, the movies skewering of Hollywood is crucial to any assessment of its use of stereotypes. But Tropic Thunder is in its way sympathetic to the very people criticizing it. The whole point of Simple Jack is that an actor ? in this case Tugg Speedman, the character played by Tropic Thunder director Ben Stiller ? will use the most extreme stereotypes in playing a disabled person, just to win awards. But its interesting to hear such an extended discussion of how part of Tropic Thunder is perceived when so much of the movie is about perception ? including how filmmakers perceive their audiences, how actors perceive themselves and even how audiences perceive what they see on screen. Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de |
2008/08/16
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