how did they get away with this?
It was legit funny.
it was ironic
it was nihilistic
>>69758937
It was 2008
>>69758937
It was pre sjw bullshit 24/7
PreGamergate
It was reddit
>>69758937
the answer to this and all these types of threads is because they can
media can't slam movies because it's just entertainment
actually the only real example of "how did they get away with this" is that kevin james movie about civil union for tax reasons and they just shoved a metric tonne of fag jokes into the movie about 1.5 years before the gay rights campaign took off
/howdidtheygetawaywithit/-core
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knwwgZNeIpA
>>69758937
I like how, in all the kerfuffle, it was lost that he's not actually playing a black character. He's playing a white character playing a black character.
WE
>>69759234
WUZ
Just remember that Downey was nominated for an oscar for this role.
> Imagine if he won
>>69759120
Didn't they get slammed for simple jack though?
It was before the current PC craze got kicked into overdrive so nobody really gave a shit. If he did this now he would get executed.
Because it was hilarious and even blacks liked it
>>69759252
>the best negro character ever portrayed in a movie was played by a jew
JUST
>>69759120
>actually the only real example of "how did they get away with this" is that kevin james movie about civil union for tax reasons and they just shoved a metric tonne of fag jokes into the movie about 1.5 years before the gay rights campaign took off
That movie had everything
>system cheating
>fag jokes
>Jessica Biel
EVERYTHING
>>69759526
The character wasnt negro though you mongoloid scum. That's the whole point. The characters character was though. So if kirk lazerus got an oscar you'd be right
>>69758937
Everything wasn't a SJW nightmare back then, and it was very clearly satire.
The internet didn´t exist back then, so the ssj3´s couldn´t share their anger with each other
>>69759480
No he wouldn't. Chris lily recently played various different races no one gave a shit. Just coz a few faggots whinge doesnt mean anyone that matters cares
fdfgdg
>>69758937
They thought RDJ was black.
>>69759173
Monty Python's humour actually still holds up today.
>Is it a boy or a girl?
>A little too early to placing roles on it, now is it?
>>69759252
holy shit I just looked this up. I mean I loved that movie...but an oscar nom?
ahh hell watta i know.
>>69759251
ARYANS
>>69758937
>This is what Shaun King sees when he looks in the mirror
>>69759252
>Just remember that Downey was nominated for an oscar for this role.
He deserved it, that's some legitimately good acting.
I saw this on normiebook the other day
>>69761099
Fuck off normie
>>69758937
My favorite example of this kind of butthurt was when Cloud Atlus came out, and the SJW crowd chimed in with something alone the lines of "Why couldn't you hire asian actors to play the asian characters!?"
The whole point of the movie was reoccuring/ reincarnated lives throughout a timeline, they made it easier on the audience by having the same actors play various races.
Also, they didn't say shit about the asian girl playing a white woman, so piss on them.
It was before the cancer that is social media took hold.
Black face/white face always gets a pass if its in comedy
If it was a serious film people get upset
No sjw's back then
>>69758937
I remember sitting directly beside a white girl during the movie. Little did she know that I was trying to gauge her level of racism. Fortunately, for the most part, we were both laughing at the same scenes with somewhat equal intensity.
But that's when IT happened.
>RDJ begins to sing the Jefferson's theme
>I'm slightly offended
>the actual black character in the film is offended
>white girl sitting beside me is hysterical
So I decided to sit there as a mute so she'd know, conclusively, that her laughter was inappropriate.
>her laughter continued on somewhat awkwardly beyond the scene
>it was the hardest she laughed except for the chinese baby at the end (but gd was that shit hilarious)
>our laughter was intertwined like a pair of lovers' legs during coitus
>we both heaved and finished together
Great movie.Oh yeah...By the end, I could tell that she wasn't actually a racist.
>>69758937
no one saw the movie.
Tom Cruise wouldn't participate in something racist
so i-it just can't be!
>>69762497
>Sitting beside a living breathing conscious girl
Cool story bro.
It baffles me that people actually find this 9Gag-tier "LOL SO RANDUUUUMB XP " piece of garbage to be funny.
>>69758937
Downy wasnt doing black face, his character was doing black face. Big difference, hence how they got away with it.
>>69761087
And they say there aren't enough blacks at the oscars? Psshaw
>>69758937
How did they get away with this?
>>69759252
First time I saw the movie, I legitimately couldn't tell that was RDJ til he ripped off his wig at the end. The makeup was pretty good and he acted mad niggerish which was right up my alley
>>69762811
>mad niggerish
>right up my alley
Faggot
>>69762690
Well, the theater was packed and she brought a guy that clearly wanted to fuck her along while I brought a girl that clearly wanted to fuck me along.We should've left that theater together.
>>69762710
Enlighten us then with your patrician tastes of what a superior comedy is then. What comedy makes a superior film critic such as yourself constantly laughing? Try and keep it within this decade.
>>69762883
No. The faggot is you anon for not getting that Charlie Murphy reference from Chappelle's Show.
Pleb
>>69760864
HE'S NOT?!
>>69758937
>>69762796
They got away with both by portraying a tiny segment of both communities ,valley girls and black army generals, which were commonly used, at times, as comic relief in some really popular media/movies.
>>69762719
RDJ was still wearing blackface. Do you think he would've still gotten away with it by portraying a character that was acting as a performer in a minstrel show?
the point of the character was to affectionately poke fun at the lengths some method actors will go, not ridicule black people (which is why an actual black character slams lazarus' performance halfway through the movie)
stiller was actually really scared it would rub people the wrong way though
>ITT: 14 year olds who think that PC culture didn't exist until 2 years ago
it was controversial and it got a lot of flack, as did the whole "full retard" joke which led to actual boycotts and protests at the premiere
>>69759210
Is it bad I thought that brown bird was kind of cute?
>>69758937
I never though this role was as funny as everyone else because I remember iron manlet said in an interview it was making fun of Australians (insinuating he was talking about Heath Ledger). Why can't it just be an exaggerating making fun of the absurdity of method acting? Why does it have to be making fun of actually talented people? Not aussie btw I just thought it made Downey sound like a jealous faggot.
>>69758937
Because people realized that putting makeup on your face to play a role in a movie isn't that big of a deal.
>>69762931
No problem.
>HAHAHAHA LE LOUD MAN IS YELLING INTO THE PHONE LOLOLOL FUNNIEST SCENE EVER
Great taste you have there, pal.
What the fuck was Al Jolson thinking????!!! Mammy!!!
>>69759526
Down Here isn't Ashynacki Jew is he?
>>69762497
>>RDJ begins to sing the Jefferson's theme
>>I'm slightly offended
>>the actual black character in the film is offended
>>white girl sitting beside me is hysterical
What a fascinating story, please continue.
>>69762646
>Tom Cruisemobile as a stereotypical kike
>>69762497
The part where he sings the Jefferson's theme was pretty fucking funny. Do you really think anyone cares or that you have any special rights just because you're an offended little negro?
>>69762710
It is literally a masterpiece in the comedy genre. It doesn't matter if you think it's "le 9gag". It's a fact.
Now I'm curious as to what piece of comedy cinema falls in your patrician taste, my man.
>>69758937
It was funny dipshit.
>>69763332
>Do you really think anyone cares or that you have any special rights
not really. i just thought the gesture might be acknowledged, if not outright, then on a subconscious level. there was a fair amount of controversy surrounding the content of the movie. the audience's response to its content, for me, was an interesting thing to observe.
>>69763295
>What a fascinating story, please continue.
at the end of the movie, i pissed myself laughing, died, and was reincarnated into your wife's son.
>>69758937
it was funny, self aware, and they even added a little black dude follow rdj around and point out how racist it was in case audiences didn't get the irony.
>>69758937
It was done really, really well and was a joke about black face.
>>69758937
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54_KvM1zvEQ
>Nobody has posted this.
>>69763646
Listen. You've GOT to have sex with my wife!
>>69763091
the character was Australian you dumb mother fucker
>>69763423
the first 35 minutes are. everything after stiller splits the group is shit except when mcconaughey shows up with the tivo at the end
>>69763743
damn, i've never seen this
>parfecto
>get the grape soda
hilarious
>>69763083
>soruce: my ass
he was just so good and the movie was legit funny, also the movie makes literally fun of Hollywood casting white successful actors instead of actually black actors
How did they get away with this?
>>69759210
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_VKl9VVpfM
>>69763055
>Do you think he would've still gotten away with it by portraying a character that was acting as a performer in a minstrel show?
Well yeah. People play fucking slave owners and people far worse than someone in a minstrel show, you dense mother fucker
>>69764287
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuaJLxmbDoI
>>69758937
away with what?
I actually didn't know that was Iron Manlet, and thought it was a black guy until he took off the makeup.
![zp2015[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/8ymU1yw.jpg "zp2015[1].jpg")
How did they get away with this?
>>69759198
What are you talking about? Everyone knew that, that's why there was no uproar.
>>69758937
Didn't he do the entire directors commentary in character too, just like his character in the movie says he does?
He was an actor acting as an actor pretending to be a negro.
>>69761812
The movie was a complete mess, the reincarnation thing didn't work at all, nor the "pay it forward" theme either, I so I get people not realizing it's meant to be rebirthing shit.
But yes it was retarded that Asian group had the cheek to complain about that but miss the Asian chick playing the white woman.
>>69764682
yes, and as his character goes back to being the australian 'actor', he does the commentary as him
>>69762710
What about it was "lol so random"?
It had a clear premise of being "a parody of diva celebrities making a Vietnam movie" and stuck to it, there was nothing LOL RANDUM at all.
>>69764725
This.
His character mocked diva actors and those that would do blackface unironically so it still satiated the general mass' desire for delicious social justice.
>>69764764
Is it worth listening to?
>>69764905
He was mocking method actors, not actual black face actors.
Stiller was the genuine diva
>>69761099
>Hiding the names
Fuck off
>>69758937
It's a prank, bro
He makes whiteface and yellowface too and gets called a koala hugging nigga by the black dude, do you faggots even watch the movies you talk about?
>>69762796
How can you seriously think these things are comparable? I just don't understand how you can be this obtuse
It was nothing new.
>>69764638
It's their culture
>>69763743
>that Herzog voice
>>69758937
NEVER GO FULL NIGGER
>>69764661
Except there was. It was just confused and not organized like it would have been in the modern Social Juices.
>>69758966
This. SJW's did not exist back then.
Also don't forget this film.
>>69763787
is this b8? I clearly knew that. I'm talking about how it was a shot at heath ledger. He attacked australian method actors and the only hugely famous one at the time was heath.
>>69765060
They aren't. RDJ is playing a white australian. White Chicks guys are playing white girls. Tropic Thunder is making fun of Hollywood glossing over black actors being ignored in favor of higher grossing white stars, whilst White Chicks is running an over-done "offensive" dumb blonde stereotype into the ground, so it's 100 times worse.
The other difference is that while some people are stupid enough not to realize what Thunder is making fun of and try to play the victim, those dumb white blondes couldn't be bothered to complain. That or they're too smart/stupid to.
>>69765364
>SJW's did not exist back then.
They did. But just like the bible belt still hadn't found 4chan, the SJWs still hadn't discovered bitching in the internet. In the grand scheme of things, literally nothing has changed apart from the media starting to think that the shit stupid people say online is news-worthy. Which it isn't, but try explaining that to the retards with the opposite opinion.
>>69758937
because he redeemed himself when he became white again
>>69758937
>Stiller previewed the film before the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and several black journalists reacted positively to the character.
Nigs got the joke and /tv/ didn't
>>69758937
lel
>>69759210
Caska?
>>69762497
I don't even know where you belong but it's not here.
>>69761099
but it's cool when it's reversed, rite ^^
>>69758937
it was supposed to look retarded and outrageous, that was the whole point
>>69765364
Yes they did but we didn't have extremely widespread social media on smartphones at the time where someone can complain and make controversy about every little thing and reach a wide audience immediately.
>>69759401
I think they just complained about the use of the word "retard" which happens any time a movie says retard.
>>69758937
People were still up in arms about it at first , they just didn't turn their Internet hate machines on it.
I remember specifically when the first photos leaked, people were saying, "with all the talented black actors in Hollywood, why would they insult us with a white actor in blackface?"
>>69758951
This. You'd get away with murder if it was funny enough.
>>69770403
Speaking of funny murder...
https://youtu.be/RC1d7dw24Gg
>>69765406
Wtf? Isn't RDJ himself an Australian
>>69758937
>>69761087
D R O P P E D
>>69758937
Because he didn't play Lincoln as a walking stereotype. Most blacks seemed to love him in the movie.
>>69760808
>The internet didn't exist back then
>>69758937
>how did they get away with this?
because it satire. Making fun of blackface and pretentious actors is okay, especially if they point out in the movie just how offensive black face actually is.
>>69772168
Not the way it is today with journalists sifting through social media to catch outrage so they got something to write about. No time for fact checking, no time to get a comment from the accused, no time to see how the story develops. The 24h news cycle ruined journalism and news reporting.
>watch movie way before i know any of the actors names
>didn't knew that was a blackface until they pointed that out
>>69772168
But he is right; facebook, twitter and all the bullshit were SJW's live didn't exist/wasn't popular enough.
:^)
>>69772168
This is bad bait
Tumblr filename fag xD
>>69763174
You mean he's not black!!!
>>69763743
What the fuck is this, a Blu-Ray feature or something?
It was ironic... They didn't have him playing a black person in a serious way. He was portraying an actor who was portraying a black person.
>>69764760
>>69761812
I liked it, desu lads. There were problems - not least the at-times-embarassing make up - but it was a great idea. Very ambitious, epic and with something for everyone to enjoy. I'd put it in my top ten desu
Because RDJ technically counts as a child due to his height and children cannot be held accountable for something like that. It was the perfect set up.
>>69772855
This. Black face is unacceptable when it's done legitimately. However, when there is a layer of self aware irony, it becomes funny. See Tropic Thunder and It's Always Sunny.>>69772855
>>69758937
Nig, here. Watch the movie with family and no one gave a shit.
>>69773044
Whose phone did you steal so you could post here Tyrone?
>>69769511
>e
kek
>>69763743
>That Werner Herzog-style voice over
Better than the flick. I'd watch a whole mockumentary like this.
>>69762811
I saw the controversy and the accompanying chimping out of people when they found out RDJ was playing a role of a black man so I knew what was up. It was Tom Cruise that blindsided me in the end.
>>69761929
This. It's okay to do blackface if you're playing a person doing blackface. Then we're laughing at how idiotic racism is. Straight up doing blackface isn't cool.
It was mocking white Hollywood method actors who take themselves too seriously. Hardly anyone even now is retarded enough to get offended at that.
The Simple Jack and Tom Cruise as Jewish studio boss got a handful of people upset though.
anyone remember this from MTV?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1czvD3aVk8Y
i wonder why they not making more movies together
>>69764908
absolutely. it's ben stiller, RDJ (in character) and jack black just shooting the shit for 2 hours. worth it for RDJ alone tho
>>69763743
The commentary of the bluray is GOAT. Everyone was in character the whole time.
He wasn't playing a black man. He was playing a white method actor in blackface with a black sidekick making you so racist remarks.
STOP MAKING FUNNY OF BLACK PEOPLES FAGGOTS
>>69763743
Dude, I would watch an entire movie of just this.
>>69761087
holy shit all that time it was Downey. Ayyy
>>69773775
could you BE anymore reddit?
>implying Jews aren't niggers the thread
>>69761099
ugh just wow
movie commentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8pW72Q2Bec
>>69773829
never actually visit the site
>>69773937
>Character says he doesn't drop character until the movies commentary
>legit doesn't drop character until the commentary
It's the little things.
>>69762646
Reminder that the still in production hell sequel for Tropic Thunder is meant to be a prequel about his Jew producer character.
>>69763055
So what?
Bruno Ganz was wearing hitlerface and everybody loved it.
>>69763743
hloly shit
>>69763743
this feels ad-libbed
>>69758937
It was self-aware and ironic. Stop whining.
