Tropic Thunder (2008)

Sep 7th, 2008 by admin

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A commercial depicts rapper Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson) promoting his two brands: the “Booty Sweat” energy drink and “Bust-A-Nut” candy bar, while performing his hit song, “I Love Tha’ Pussy”. The first trailer shows action star Tugg Speedman’s (Ben Stiller) latest film, ‘Scorcher VI: Global Meltdown’, a film so repetitive of it’s five predecessors that even the trailer narrator sounds shaky about it. Another trailer features funnyman Jeff “Fatty” Portnoy (Jack Black), playing the entirety of “America’s favorite obese family” in the highly flautlent ‘The Fatties: Fart 2′. The final trailer, entitled ‘Satan’s Alley’, features Australian “five-time Oscar winner” Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.) and Tobey Maguire (as himself) as two monks who begin an empassioned affair.

We are taken, via the narration of John “Four Leaf” Tayback (Nick Nolte), into a gruesome battle of the Vietnam War. This is actually a scene from ‘Tropic Thunder’, a big budget adaptation of Tayback’s wartime memoir. Starring as the central platoon are Speedman, Lazarus, Chino and Portnoy, as well as young character actor Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel). To play his character, Sgt. Osiris, an African American, Lazarus has dyed his skin dark and refuses to break character from Osiris. A take of Osiris crying over Tayback’s (played by Speedman) blown-off hands is ruined when Speedman is unable to cry and Lazarus dribbles uncontrollably into Speedman’s face. This causes great frustration for the film’s director, Damien Cockburn (Steve Coogan). The chaos is further exacerbated when the film’s pyrotechnics expert, Cody (Danny R. McBride), mistakes Cockburn’s conniptions for a go to set off several expensive explosions.

We learn, via Access Hollywood, that Speedman’s career has been on a downward spiral. In an attempt at Oscar-bait, Speedman had played the “retard” title character in the flop, ‘Simple Jack’, apparently considered one of the worst films of all time. Much to the horror of Speedman’s agent, Rick “Pecker” Peck (Matthew McConaughey), Speedman doesn’t even have TiVO on location. Elsewhere, Cockburn is berated in a meeting, via satellite TV, by studio head, Les Grossman (Tom Cruise). With filming a month behind schedule only five days into shooting, the media has dubbed the production “the most expensive war movie never made”. Cockburn tries to explain that the primadonna stars are what’s dragging the production down, but Grossman is not sympathetic. Later, the real “Four-Leaf” Tayback, takes Cockburn aside and suggests that he drop the actors in a real jungle and use Cody’s explosive to inspire real fear in them. Cockburn enthusiastically agrees.

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