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What comedy movies aged like fine wine?
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Everyone keeps saying they couldn't make tropic thunder today but I don't understand why? Other than tropic thunder having already been made, why couldn't it be made today?
Is it because RDJ blacked up? It doesn't seem to have hurt his career at all, it seems most people got the joke.
Is it because they use the word "retard" a lot? I don't think that's integral to the film, it's more just something that ages it a bit and you could easily change the dialogue and have basically the same gag.
I really don't see why "it couldn't be made today".
Having to convince investors to back it. A lot wouldn't touch a new movie without any potential controversy as it is.
Yeah, my guess is the blackface. But they really lean into it, and honestly, many of my friends of color thought it was hilarious, rather than offensive. Small focus group, but goes to show it's not a universally contentious topic.
And Tropic Thunder is a masterpiece.
Because these days people freak out more about those details. It was a very different time back then.
I don't think that's true at all. People say "tropic thunder couldn't be made today" but nobody says tropic thunder is racist or homophobic or anything like that.
It's not like the looney tunes cartoons from way back when where blatant racist shit was just the norm, TT specifically pokes fun at the racist stuff.
Put it this way, nobody has "cancelled" Tropic thunder, it's still just as good to watch today as it was then.
Nothing has changed to put the film in a different light.
Dude.... People freaked out about that stuff THEN.
Not like today.
We'll never know.
I know
Your mom knows.