This is to make it easier for people with mobile phones. fuck up the rescue plan (as fucked as it already was) by going straight for the drugs and allowing an open enough distraction for the more genre-savvy guards to reach for their guns. Alpa throws on an Australian accent to mock Lazarus. A man like that wouldn't take shit from anyone, unless he wasn't really a man like that. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. When the explosives expert realizes Cockburn and the Actors are missing and they'll have to go into the jungle. and the tot Tugg "adopts" at one point turns out to be quite vicious as well. I just know the sound it makes when it takes a man's life.". 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In a matter of days, the movie is way over budget and the actors won't cooperate. Find more questions on Movies on Yahoo Answers. Osiris mode, mentions that he "won't break character until the DVD release." kills a panda, an animal he loves more than anything else in the world. Also a meta-example: Kirk Lazarus, while in his Sgt. "I don't know what it's called. Except that Tugg's able to cry and can't feel his legs because he's sitting on a cold puddle. If your character faces a threatening situation, don’t let the weather do all the work. His tale is a comic story of a devious student who contrives to have an affair with the wife of a dimwitted carpenter. This plan drives production even further off the rails when the cast runs afoul of a Laotian drug ring known as Flaming Dragon, and the actors end up having to become the soldiers they're playing, despite not knowing how to use their weapons or navigate through the jungle. Or, The Seven Stars Of The Dipper, The Great Spirit Overpowers The Cold And Frost Of Winter, Stone Coats, The Mischief Maker. leave Tugg to be killed by the Flaming Dragons because he isn't profitable any more. I don't read the script, the script reads me! A bit of a, Incidentally, of all the crazy things in the movie, the key controversy about this film was its supposed treatment of the mentally challenged — which may be considered a case of, Even before the fake trailers, you have a... suggestive ad for the products Alpa Chino, Acting. Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today? Lazarus revealing his guns on the drug compound guards after his cover his blown attempting to sneak in. The computer used to identify "Flaming Dragon" is the same one Tony Stark used in, Tugg dropping to his knees with his arms out in a, In the intro scene where Tugg is trying to cry with Kirk holding his.. hands, you can hear a theme imitating, The party early in the film bears a resemblance to the out-of-control Playboy party in, The production problems of the in-universe Tropic Thunder are based on the infamous production cycle of, When Kirk is trying to snap Speedman out of his trance and go home, the lighting and shadow on Speedman's face when he says, "I, A really subtle one: The shot of Tugg removing his Simple Jack makeup in the camp is very similar to the shot of Chaplin removing his tramp makeup in the opening of 1992's biopic, When Kirk enters the gang's camp in a wide straw hat and poncho, then opens fire, it is very similar to a, The shot of Jeff poised next to the pile of heroin (itself piled into a similar shape to the mountain out of, Les Grossman's look appears to be based on Tom Cruise's fellow Brat Packers Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen's facial hair and prosthetic balding heads from the 2000 film, The pre-movie faux Trailers. 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During the aftermath of the disastrous botched scene that gets Cockburn punched in the face, His obsession on putting the actors through. what his own service pistol is, brushing it off by saying he doesn't know what it's called - just the sound it makes when it takes a man's life. Tugg convinces him that he's having an identity crisis while Kirk is trying to get Tugg to snap out of the role he's immersed in. The … Parodied for "real" when Tugg claims to not be able to feel his legs while they're trying to escape from the drug compound. He's later seen, during the closing credits, flying safely away aboard his brand-new jet. Kirk Lazarus tries to explain why he doesn't read scripts: Subverted with Speedman telling Kirk, "Or are you a dude who has no idea what dude he is, and claims to know what dude he is, by playing other dudes?" fake trailer at the beginning of the film, To the point that when Tugg Speedman happens to fall into their laps. Tropic Thunder is a satirical American action comedy film (with more focus on the comedy) from 2008, based (very loosely) on the train wreck that was the production of the classic Apocalypse Now. We're in the process of rewriting some sections of the site with a new look. Tropic Thunder is a satirical American action comedy film (with more focus on the comedy) from 2008, based (very loosely) on the train wreck that was the production of the classic Apocalypse Now.. Movie producer Les Grossman is in need of an award-winning movie and decides to make the best and most expensive Vietnam … The actors in the movie are all extremely passionate about their art, and Kirk and Tugg in particular take acting very seriously, as the former is an Academy Award winner famous for going to extreme lengths of. Tugg mocking Cockburn, still under the impression. Osiris. who is overly heterosexual in his music and videos, but is secretly gay. 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Jeff Portnoy's personality is the same as most of the characters Jack Black plays, but stars in movies of the style popularized by Adam Sandler and, Jay Baruchel plays that guy in the movie who no one remembers because he wasn't played by an A-lister — not even mentioned on the, The main exception (and something often commented upon) is that Ben Stiller mostly plays comedic roles, not, Jeff Portnoy is a fairly transparent parody of, Kirk Lazarus is a similarly transparent parody of, Alpa Chino is another not-so-subtle parody of the trend of rappers who are increasingly showing up in films as actors, and his Booty Sweat was a direct parody of the various brands of soft drinks pimped out by various mainstream rappers, mostly, Les Grossman is based on Stuart Cornfeld, the producer of, Damien Cockburn was based on Richard Stanley and his experience of directing. Ben Stiller (Tugg Speedman)'s wife Christine Taylor co-starred with Tugg Speedman on, Kirk Lazarus and Tobey Maguire both co-starred in. Of Turtles' Eggs, and how Glooskap vanquished a Sorcerer by smoking Tobacco. In the same vein, the bridge demolition took a lot more work than one guy with dynamite sticks and det-cord stringing stuff to a single clacker.