Just in case you've somehow managed to miss any of the crazy early pre-pub on Tropic Thunder (the damn thing doesn't open 'til August 15th, I'm afraid people may get tired of it before it hits screens), here's the latest from last night's MTV Movie Awards.
I've got priors, so I'm gonna roll(!)
There was this from last weeks American Idol Final
And then here are a couple of trailers for actual movie they're promoting...
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Is it me just me, or does RDJ look like Richard Pryor on the poster?
Weird.
I can see the Pryor thing, but to me, he looks more like Fred Williamson. He did a lot of blaxploitation films in the 70's, used to play football.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Williamson
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004365/
It's amazing, so far, there hasn't been too much uproar over this. I'm sure the closer we get to the release of the film it'll heat up.
And be on lookout for this to sneak it’s way into the election rhetoric, too. I can see someone trying to make a talking point out of how far we haven’t come if we have Oscar-nominated actors in blackface.
For anyone that wants to bring that up, I’ve got two words for them: White Chicks.
At least this looks funny.
Wait...he's in blackface? He's supposed to look like Richard Pryor? or Fred Williamson?
I thought that was just war dirty face.
I need to get with the program. I did hear a little blurb on the morning news about how good this movie was going to be, but I was in the middle of routine and not really paying too much attention.
That's what I first thought when I saw the one sheet in the theatre! Dirty War Face. I went on thinking that (in addition to 'what a horrible title') for a month or so until I finally caught the trailer a couple of weeks ago.
It could get nasty the free press that'll surround this one.
RDJ has said, though, it was extremely important to him that he didn't come off as C. Thomas Howell or anything close to that. I don't think many other actors could pull this off without crossing way over THATline.
As the story (supposedly) goes, this seems more (satirically) organic than, say, James Woods inexplicably playing an octogenarian for the majority of his screen time in Ghosts of the Mississippi...
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