TROPIC THUNDER
(2008)
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POSTERS AND COVER ART
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WHAT THE STUDIO WANTS YOU TO KNOW
DESCRIPTION:
Ben Stiller, Jack Black and
Robert Downey Jr. lead an al-star cast in the outrageous comedy Tropic
Thunder. When three of Hollywood's biggest stars head into the jungles
of Vietnam to shoot a war movie, they have no idea how real things can
get.
Unexpected and controversial, Tropic
Thunder is "A knockout of a comedy that keeps you laughing." - Peter
Travers, Rolling Stone
RATING: R
STARRING:
Ben Stiller: Tugg
Speedman
Jack Black: Jeff Portnoy
Robert Downey Jr.:
Kirk Lazarus
Steve Coogan: Damien Cockburn
Jay Baruchel: Kevin Sandusky
Danny McBride: Cody
Brandon T. Jackson:
Apla Chino
Bill Hader: Studio Executive
Rob Slolom
Nick Nolte: Four Leaf Tayback
Tom Cruise: Les Grossman
YEAR OF RELEASE: 2008
SCREENWRITER: Justin Theroux,
Ben
Stiller, Etan Cohen
DIRECTOR: Ben Stiller
RUNNING TIME: 106 minutes
STUDIO: Dreamworks
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GIGGLES, GLOBES AND OSCARS
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
ACADEMY AWARDS
(1 nomination and 0 wins)
Best Supporting Actor - Robert Downey Jr.
(nominated)
GOLDEN GIGGLES
(3 nominations and 0 wins)
2008 - Best Picture (Comedy/Animation)
(nominated)
2008 - Best Supporting Actor - Tom Cruise
(nominated)
2008 - Best Supporting Actor - Robert Downey Jr.
(nominated)
GOLDEN GLOBES
(2 nominations and 0 wins)
Best Supporting Actor - Tom Cruise
(nominated)
Best Supporting Actor - Robert Downey Jr.
(nominated)
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Justin Theroux, one of the writers of this film, reprised
his DJ role from the film Zoolander. He can be seen briefly DJ'ing
during the party scene.
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Ben Stiller said he has been working on this movie for 10
years, he said originally this movie was intended to be about actors going
to fake boot camp for a movie role and then coming back with Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder. He says he got the idea from several colleagues he worked
with early in is career who were going to these fake boot camps before
appearing in war movies, and he always found the idea to be ridiculous.
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Jack Black bruised his ribs badly early in the shoot, and
as a result had to film nearly the entire film with the injury.
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Originally Kirk Lazerous was supposed to be Irish, however
at the request of Robert Downey Jr. it was changed to Australian because
he could fake the accent easier than he could Irish.
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After a promotional website for this movie went up featuring
the movie-with-in-a-movie Simple Jack, the movie studio was barraged
with complaints that this film was making fun of the mentally handicap.
After the controversy Ben Stiller and producers sat down with some of the
offended groups and gave them an advance screening of the film in hopes
that it quell the complaints. The groups demanded the website be taken
down and that film be edited. They agreed to take down the website, however
the material in the movie they found offensive was left in. Both Ben Stiller
and Justin Thereoux, primary writers of the film, have spoken out stating
they did not intend the use of the word retard or the plot to be offensive,
rather that they are using comedy to expose how the mentally challenged
are exploited in Hollywood.
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