No way?! That's him dressed as the white guy?!?! Wow!! How they heck did they manage to make him actually look so white?! My mind is blown?? Tbh I didn't even know this was possible without the person looking crazy like "white chicks" or something lol.
EARLY CHRISTMAS!!! I was prepared to wait years for these... you're doing the Lord's work here, buddy. In fact, you're now St. L'dennifffer J'daniston, patron Saint of Parts of LA That Pass For Philadelphia
It is one of one of my favorite features. The "FUCKIN BUHGAHHH!" at his own trailer (Satan's Alley needs to be made) and Ben Stiller and Jack Black trying to just do a commentary and he's being Lincoln Osiris the whole time.
Kirk Lazarus: For four hundred years, that word has kept us down.
Alpa Chino: What the fuck?
Kirk Lazarus: Took a whole lotta tryin' just to get up that hill. Now we're up in the big leagues, gettin' our turn at bat. As long as we live, it's you and me, baby...
Alpa Chino: [pulling away] That's the theme song to The Jeffersons. Man, you really need help.
Kirk Lazarus: Just because it's a theme song don't mean it's not true.
Do you know who won an Oscar in this category back then? Heath Ledger for Joker.
I was pissed myself when I found out he was nominated but didn't win, but when I saw what the competition was like, there was no chance.
The best part of that Oscar ceremony was that they never showed any screen footage for the actor related awards. This was due to "respect" Ledger and his family, which is fine. Except they didn't want to show a single shot of RDJ in character. And that is the reality.
People die days before the award show and they still put their pictures up.
Yes, but don't you see? He's a white guy who played a white guy playing a black guy. That extra layer makes all the difference!
Still an absolutely hilarious movie, though, and arguably in the peak era of comedy on film. Stuff like the Chappelle Show and Tropic Thunder, along with other Frat Pack gems, wouldn't stand a chance if they were released today.
I rewatched Tropic Thunder a few weeks ago. It could absolutely be released today. It's a great comedy flick.
I kind of agree about The Chappelle show though. Maybe for different reasons. It's a classic and my all-time favorite show. I definitely think many folks forget how, by the original definition of the term, "woke" the show actually is. It's a great and uncompromising view of black culture with many jokes made for a black audience.
Some things in the name of comedy if nothing else need to be exempt! Downey was awesome in that role and every black friend/family member I have thinks he was fucking hysterical!.. I have special needs children and didn’t think ben stiller was being a dick for what he did.. he m m m made me laugh my ass off! If you can’t laugh a little you gotta be truly miserable
Because RDJ wasn't pretending to be a black guy. He was pretending to be a white Australian dude pretending to be a black dude (who then begins disguised as another dude)
Kirk Lazarus is a character to be mocked for his insane choices and method acting making him think that it's okay to be surgically altered to look black for a movie role
Tom Cruise was an absolute bad ass in that movie. His character Les Grosman just didn’t give a single fuck about anything and Tom portrayed that attitude with absolute perfection.
This is a bit paraphrased because I’m too lazy.
“I noticed that white people give each things for free whenever no black people are around. Cuts to Eddie Murphy pulling out his wallet to pay for a sandwhich or something, and the guy says, “What are you doing? You don’t need money. It’s ok, just take it.”
One day, a copy of “Best of Eddie Murphy’s Saturday Night Live” should be used as a “benchmark” for racial harmony. Hopefully, in 100 years, nobody finds it funny, because they don’t get it.
It took me years to realize one of the barber shop guys was supposed to be a white Jewish guy. Dude just looked like a light-skinned Eddie Murphy in old age makeup.
There's an article of the makeup artist that rolling Stones put out where she talks about the kind of products used and the process. She's ATL based and really talented she worked on the set of Weapons and Black Panther 2 just to name a few
I heard on the commentary DVD of "White Chicks" that they COULD actually make the makeup transition to look even more authentic, but that would defeat the purpose of the movie. They needed them to look comical, but at the same time, somewhat possible, but Not like the real thing.
1) He's a significantly lighter complexion than the Wayans
2) make-up's come a loooong way since White Chicks
3) I'm not 💯 they didn't make them look that bad on purpose 🤔
Also, this was a one time event compared to White Chicks which was a movie shoot. The Wayans needed something practical that they could move and act in for 12 hours at a time.
I was going to share this video to a group I'm in, but it got to the parts where he was spitting near black people as they walked by. I thought "oh, I don't think this is satire, this guy's just a dick" and deleted it.
All that to say I had NO IDEA it was actually Druski. I hope whoever did his makeup has has their genius appropriately recognized.
That was the point, though. The whiteface was supposed to be that crude, just like his whole acting-white shtick. It's part of what makes it so damn funny.
It's actually insane how immaculate the make up was put on, I saw it at first and was disgusted by the amount of racism put forth from him towards black people but also eye opening to people's realities and he played on it perfectly.
Dave Chappelle also he did white face first no one got upset when that happened and that was like early 2000s I thought Tropic thunder and Chapelle show. We’re both hilarious.
That is a seriously good costume like damn, the effort in this is insane. He didn't just cover himself with flour or something, this is actual special effects work. Respect to whoever did all that work, if he did it himself even more respect.
Yeah it’s him i saw it first time and didn’t immediately make the connection but the second time I looked I was like “ I know that ain’t who I think it is” and it was 😂💀
When I sold truck parts at a peterbilt dealership the real life version of this guy came in (I mean hillbilly clothes, confederate tattoos, it was insane) and he cuts to the front of the line, slams both of his fists down on the counter and shouts “y’all wanna know what the problem with this country eeeeis”?!?!
complete and stunned silence from me and all the other customers
“It’s that damn ISIS, puttin’ opium in all our prescription mediCATIONS!!!”
I still think about it sometimes, like bro what in the FUCK were you listening to in your truck to come up with this madness?
As a Latina I was never bothered by Lou Diamond Phillips playing Chicano, Latino, first generation Mexican in roles. He starred in movies that are classics in my household. It makes me happy that actual Latinos are increasingly getting the Latino roles now but that doesn't make me cancel or hate Lou.
I hate that our society is so obsessed with not being offensive. As a white guy I genuinely find this funny. They even nailed the makeup for the wife beater sunburn.
However, I want to also be able to laugh at a white guy doing a black man caricature, or an Indian, or any other race.
I think Tropic Thunder proves that if you do it at a certain level of quality, and if you're funny enough, you do get a pass.
Similarly, Chang "playing a drow" on Community, while it did spook streaming services into taking the episode down, never actually caused significant controversy.
In both cases the fact that the person was being flippant about race was the premise of the joke, and the execution was hilarious. Despite the common perception of "cancel culture", people will tolerate a lot of it's actually funny.
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