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New Images from Tropic Thunder — More Blackface Downey Jr!
Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on March 11, 2008
Paramount Pictures has released a slue of pictures from ShoWest in Las Vegas, and since I am currently in Austin for South by Southwest, I am of course working on that instead of finishing my review of Forgetting Sarah Marshall. This first update includes two great new looks at Ben Stiller’s Tropic Thunder, which as you will remember, stars Robert Downey Jr. as a pretensious actor whose part was originally written for a black man, so he dyes his skin to fit the part.
As I said before, I am getting more and more excited about this comedy as the marketing campaign begins to gear up. Consider this just the next step in the building of my excitement. I say bring on the ridiculous premise! Take a look at the new pictures below.
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4 Comments
March 11th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
This movie looks great, I can’t wait to see it. I liked Zoolander, so I’m hoping that this at
least lives up to that.
PS: Your full-size image links are broken.
March 11th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
@Eddie
Good call-out on the pictures. Thanks for letting us know. It is fixed now. Enjoy the big pics.
March 12th, 2008 at 6:58 am
Really really really finding it difficult to remember it’s RDj, and not Don Cheadle! Just at first glance, he looks very like him
March 12th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
The movie looks like a nerdy version of Platoon. Don’t know what to think of it yet. It looks like it would be a cool double feature with Pineapple Express.