how did tropic thunder get away with blackface

[Blaze500]

i dont ever remember hearing any controversy about the fact that RDJ played a black guy in literal blackface

 

[Neil Tyson]

It's supposedly an acceptable form of black face said no black person ever.

 

[Mowgli]

Self awareness and having a black person there to cosign and be aware of its ridiculousness.

I wouldnt give a penny of my money to see that trash though on principle.

 

[StraxStrax]

When the point is it should not be ok, its ok.

 

[PikaDaDon]

I brought this up in the iron man thread and people ignored.

 

[DaddyTime]

I brought this up in the iron man thread and people ignored.

Self awareness and having a black person there to cosign and be aware of its ridiculousness.

exactly @Mowgli it was a parody of black face lol, everyone was clowning him for it in the movie... y'all got to peep the context it was used in, this wasn't your black face of old.

 

[Sauce Dab]

Yeah it's a good question but I think Stiller knew what he was doing when he had Brandon T. Jackson there. He was saying it wasn't cool repeatedly in the movie so they were still 'self aware'

 

[Vandelay]

Something between the context it was used and RDJ's popularity.

 

[MartyMcFly]

Because of the context homie. It was done to show how ignorant the practice was and how self absorbed actors often can be and how tone deaf hollywood can be. Plus you had a black guy there pointing out how racist it was the the only good black role in the movie went to a white guy. an australian at that. Come on @Blaze500 you're smarter than this

 

[I AM WARHOL]

What McFky said. And they went at Jews and the mentally retarded much harder. Plus it was funny.

 

[MartyMcFly]

What McFky said. And they went at Jews and the mentally retarded much harder. Plus it was funny.

You aint never lie. Ben Stiller took shots at everyone, including rappers

 

[Woodrow]

Because of the context homie. It was done to show how ignorant the practice was and how self absorbed actors often can be and how tone deaf hollywood can be. Plus you had a black guy there pointing out how racist it was the the only good black role in the movie went to a white guy. an australian at that. Come on @Blaze500 you're smarter than this

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[Jello Biafra]

I had a drama teacher who used to get really worked up when he felt people were using the term blackface wrong.
His opinion was that blackface was what minstrels did with the black greasepaint and exaggerated accented white/red paint to make a person look like a racist caricature of a black person.
While using make-up to simulate the skin tone of a black person (or any other race) was a time honored stage tradition like when a white person was cast as Othello.
I used to piss him off when I would always chime in with: "Why not just hire a black actor to play Othello though?"

 

[Kartel13]

Coli militants

 

[O.T.I.S.]

Because they made you know how stupid he looked and acted in the movie by using an actual black person to let you know.