'Tropic Thunr' Star Brandon T. Jackson Says God Has Fiven Him for Playg Gay Character

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• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• CAST    TUGG SPEEDMAN TUGG SPEEDMANPLAYED BY: BEN STILLERVOICED BY: ENZO FORTUNY (LAT-AMERIN SPANISH DUB), KENYUU HORIUCHI (JAPANE DUB)COMPARED TO A YOUNG SYLVTER STALLONE, TUGG WAS THE HIGHT-PAID AND HIGHT-GROSSG ACTN FILM STAR EVER DUE TO HIS SRCHER ANCHISE. HIS REER HAS STALLED SCE, AND HE NOW HAS A REPUTATN FOR APPEARG NOTHG BUT BOX OFFICE BOMBS. AFTER A FAILED ATTEMPT AT PORTRAYG A SER ROLE SIMPLE JACK, HE TAK THE ROLE OF FOUR LEAF TAYBACK AN ATTEMPT TO SAVE HIS REER. THE AHNOLD: HE'S A PARODY OF ACTN STARS, SPECIFILLY ON STGGLG TO BREAK OUT OF TYPESTG. ARMOR-PIERCG QUTN: "OR ARE YOU A DU WHO HAS NO IA WHAT DU HE IS, AND CLAIMS TO KNOW WHAT DU HE IS, BY PLAYG OTHER DUS?" BASILLY, SPEEDMAN IS POTG OUT THAT KIRK METHOD ACTS SO HARD THAT HE LOS HIS TE SELF. BADASS AND BABY: A KEY PART OF HIS SRCHER ANCHISE. BIG "NO!": WHEN HE KILLS A PANDA. BRIEF ACCENT IMATN: TUGG MOCKS COCKBURN, STILL UNR THE IMPRSN THAT COCKBURN ISN'T PATED. BUDDY COP SHOW: DURG THE ET SEGMENT, YOU N SEE A POSTER FOR SUCH A FILM STARRG SPEEDMAN AND MART LAWRENCE. CAREER RURRECTN: IN-UNIVERSE. THE FILM'S SUCCS REVALIZ HIS REER. CHASED BY ANGRY NATIV: AS HE P THE LAOTIAN VILLAGE AND NS TO THE HELIPTER. COMILLY MISSG THE POT:TYRA BANKS: SOMEONE CLOSE TO YOU SAID "ONE MORE FLOP AND 'S OVER." [BEAT] SPEEDMAN: SOMEONE SAID THEY WERE CLOSE TO ME? CCIFIED HERO SHOT: HE DO THE MOVIE-WH-A-MOVIE, AND THEN LOOKS RIDICULO AS HE OVERREACTS GETTG SHOT. DEFIANT TO THE END: WHEN PTURED BY THE FLAMG DRAGONS, HE STILL KEEPS A BRAVE MEANOR. PROBABLY JTIFIED, BEE HE THOUGHT HE WAS STILL ACTG ACRDG TO THE SCRIPT. GOG NATIVE: AFTER BEG TAKEN BY FLAMG DRAGON, DON'T TAKE MUCH FOR TUGG TO START ENJOYG HIS TIME THERE BEE HE'S SO APPRECIATED FOR SIMPLE JACK. GREEN-EYED MONSTER: FEELS A LOT OF ANIMOSY TOWARD KIRK LAZAS FOR HAVG THE PRTIG ACTG REER THAT HE WANTS, THOUGH HE ALSO CLEARLY WANTS HIS REGNN AS AN ACTOR. BY THE END OF THE MOVIE, HE GETS BOTH. HE REALLY CAN ACT: IN-UNIVERSE, HE WS AN OSR FOR HIS PERFORMANCE AT THE END AS PART OF HIS REER RURRECTN. HEROIC BSOD: HE LOS AFTER HE KILLS A PANDA, AN ANIMAL HE LOV MORE THAN ANYTHG ELSE THE WORLD. ICE-CREAM KOAN: SUBVERTED. SPEEDMAN TELLS KIRK, "OR ARE YOU A DU WHO HAS NO IA WHAT DU HE IS, AND CLAIMS TO KNOW WHAT DU HE IS, BY PLAYG OTHER DUS?" WHICH TO THE OTHER ACTORS SOUNDS LIKE GIBBERISH, BUT SCRIB KIRK SO WELL THAT HE BREAKS DOWN TO TEARS. I'M COLD... SO COLD...: SOMEHOW PARODIED FOR "REAL". TUGG CLAIMS TO NOT BE ABLE TO FEEL HIS LEGS WHILE THEY'RE TRYG TO PE OM THE DG POUND. TURNS OUT 'S JT THAT HE'S STG A POOL OF LD, MUDDY WATER. INSPIRATNALLY DISADVANTAGED: HIS ROLE SIMPLE JACK WAS MEANT TO BE THIS, BUT HE OVERPLAYED . LAZAS TELLS HIM THE TTH OF AN UNFETTABLE MONOLOGUE.LAZAS: CHECK OUT. DT HOFFMAN, RA MAN, LOOK RETARD, ACT RETARD, NOT RETARD. COUNT TOOTHPICKS, CHEAT AT RDS. AUTISTIC, SURE. NOT RETARD. YOU KNOW TOM HANKS, FORRT GUMP, SLOW, Y. RETARD, MAYBE. BRAC ON HIS LEGS. BUT HE CHARMED THE PANTS OFF NIXON AND WON A PG-PONG PETN. THAT A'T RETARD. PETER SELLERS, BEG THERE. INFANTILE, Y. RETARD, NO. YOU WENT FULL RETARD, MAN. NEVER GO FULL RETARD. YOU DON'T BUY THAT? ASK SEAN PENN, 2001, I AM SAM. REMEMBER? WENT FULL RETARD, WENT HOME EMPTY-HAND... IN-UNIVERSE FACTOID FAILURE: TUGG NF THE TEEN CHOICE AWARDS WH THE KIDS CHOICE AWARDS BY SAYG THAT KEV WOULD BE SLIMED. I CHOOSE TO STAY: HE EVENTUALLY BELIEV HE IS ALREADY AT HOME WH THE FLAMG DRAGONS AND REF TO GO BACK HOME. IT DON'T LAST LONG. IRONIC ECHO: "I N'T FEEL MY LEGS." FIRST AS PART OF THE FILM WH A FILM, AND THEN SAID DURG THE FAL PE SEQUENCE. EXCEPT THAT TUGG'S ABLE TO CRY AND N'T FEEL HIS LEGS BEE HE'S STG ON A LD PUDDLE. IRONIC HELL: ENDS UP ONE WHEN NABBED BY FLAMG DRAGON, WHO FORCE HIM TO PERFORM SIMPLE JACK OVER AND OVER. KDHEARTED SIMPLETON: AS SIMPLE JACK. THE LEAR: THE FIVE ACTORS EVENTUALLY FORM A FIVE-MAN BAND, AND THEY HAVE TUGG AS THEIR LEAR UNTIL HE GETS PTURED. LEANG ON THE FOURTH WALL: "I THK I KNOW A PROP HEAD WHEN I SEE ONE!" SAYS TUGG AS HE HEFTS WHAT IS AN OBV PROP HEAD, SEEG AS COCKBURN'S ACTOR IS STILL ALIVE... LOST CHARACTER: NOT TO THE EXTENT OF KIRK, BUT TUGG ATTEMPTED TO REACH SIAR EXTREM HIS ROL; OFFHAND HE PROSTETHETIC HANDS WHEN OFF-SET TO GET TO CHARACTER AS FOUR-LEAF. IN AN EARLIER FILM HE MENTNED ATTEMPTG TO BE MENTALLY DISABLED SO CLOSELY HE WAS AAID HE'D GONE TOO FAR AND "FLHED TOO MUCH OUT." META CASTG: AVERTED. BEN STILLER PLAYS MOSTLY EDIC ROL, NOT ACTN HERO. THOUGH HE GETS A HANDFUL OF FUNNY MOMENTS THE MOVIE, HIS ROLE IS ONE OF THE MOST SER. MEAN CHARACTER, NICE ACTOR: DOWNPLAYED. DPE PLAYG A GRAVELLY-VOICED ACTN HERO, TUGG HIMSELF IS A GOOD-NATURED, SLIGHTLY TIMID MAN WHO LOV PANDAS (FUNDG CHARI FOR THEIR PRERVATN) AND ONCE -THORED A CHILDREN'S BOOK. MD SCREW: KIRK TRYG TO GET SPEEDMAN OUT OF HIS HEROIC BSOD PROMPTLY BACKFIR.TUGG: OR ARE YOU A DU WHO HAS NO IA WHAT DU HE IS, AND CLAIMS TO KNOW WHAT DU HE IS, BY PLAYG OTHER DUS? NEMEAN SKNG: DO THIS TO A PANDA. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: HE'S A PARODY OF A YOUNG SYLVTER STALLONE: A GUY BT-KNOWN FOR ACTN SCHLOCK WH A DOZEN SEQUELS WHO'S SPERATELY TRYG TO BREAK TO SOMETHG MORE WEIGHTY, AND WHO DO HAVE SOME CENT CHOPS BUT TENDS TO SHOOT ABOVE HIS LIMS. OSR BA: TRIED AND FAILED WH SIMPLE JACK, A MOVIE ABOUT A MENTALLY DISABLED FARMHAND WHO TALKS TO ANIMALS. OUTN THE FIREBALL: SUBVERTED. TUGG DO THIS NEAR THE END, WHEN THE BRIDGE TO HIS HELIPTER'S LANDG SPOT IS RIGGED WH EXPLOSIV. HE ISN'T QUICK ENOUGH, BUT HE'S ALRIGHT AFTERWARDS. PLAYG AGAST TYPE: IN-UNIVERSE, HE TRIED TO PULL THIS OFF BY GOG OM A POPULAR ACTN STAR TO A DRAMATIC ACTOR. IT BACKFIRED HORRENDOLY. THE MOVIE HE'S FILMG NOW IS A MORE LATERAL SHIFT; WHILE STILL A SER DRAMA RATHER THAN A DUMB POPRN FLICK, 'S A WAR FILM WH A LOT OF SPECIAL EFFECTS, WHICH IS MUCH CLOSER TO TUG'S WHEELHOE THAN SIMPLE JACK. PLURALS:TUGG: CHILL! ALL RIGHT? JT CHILL . NOW, LET'S GO GET THOSE VIETNGS. ALPA: "VIETNG"! TUGG: WHAT? ALPA: IT'S "VIETNG." THERE'S NO "S." IT'S ALREADY PLURAL. YOU WOULDN'T SAY "CH." READG THE STAGE DIRECTNS OUT LOUD: IN THE RIVER SCENE, HE SAYS HE IS GOG TO "EXTERR, RA FORT, DK. SMASH CUT TO FOUR LEAF, WHO TREKS ALONE THROUGH A IGHTENG JUNGLE." SANY SLIPPAGE: AFTER HE ACCINTALLY KILLS A PANDA HE STARTS LOSG HIS MD. BY THE TIME KIRK FDS HIM HE'S NVCED HE'S FOUND HIS TE PEOPLE AMONG THE FLYG DRAGONS SCE THEY APPRECIATE HIS ACTG. SEQUELIS: PARODIED IN-UNIVERSE. TUGG SPEEDMAN'S SRCHER SERI RECEIVED NO LS THAN FIVE SEQUELS. THE 6TH ONE, SRCHER VI: GLOBAL MELTDOWN, TURNED THE NCEPT OF THE EARTH, BEG A GIANT FIREBALL THE PREV MOVI, TO A OZEN WASTELAND BEE THE PREV FILMS HAD EXHSTED THE PREVLY MENTNED NCEPT."HERE WE GO AGA. AGA..." SO BAD, IT'S HORRIBLE: IN-UNIVERSE, HIS ATTEMPT AT A "SER" ROLE WH ''SIMPLE JACK'', IS REGARD AS BEG THE WORST FILM EVER MA, AND TYRA BANKS, ON HER TALK SHOW, TOLD HIM THAT IF TROPIC THUNR FAILS, WILL BE THE END OF HIS REER. LATER, THE STORY PROPER, WHEN THEY ARE FORMULATG A RCUE PLAN, ALPA AND KIRK SEE SPEEDMAN PLAYG OUT SIMPLE JACK FOR THE GOLN TRIANGLE GANG, AND ALPA TELLS KIRK HE "THOUGHT THE MOVIE WAS BAD." TOM HANKS SYNDROME: HE ATTEMPTED TO VOKE THIS -UNIVERSE WH SIMPLE JACK AND FAILED MISERABLY. UNABLE TO CRY: HE N'T CRY ON SET, LEADG TO A RIFT BETWEEN HIM AND THE "AWARD WNER" KIRK LAZAS. WHE-DWARF STARLET: TUGG IS ON THE VERGE OF BEG THIS ACRDG TO L, WHO ACTUALLY THE TERM "WHE DWARF".    KIRK LAZAS KIRK LAZASCLICK HERE TO SEE HIM OUT OF CHARACTER :PLAYED BY: ROBERT DOWNEY JR.VOICED BY: BERNARD GABAY (EUROPEAN FRENCH), DAFNIS FERNáNZ (LAT-AMERIN SPANISH DUB), TAKUYA KIRIMOTO (JAPANE DUB)"I KNOW WHO I AM! I'M A DU PLAY' A DU, DISGUISED AS ANOTHER DU!"AN IMMENSELY TALENTED ATRALIAN METHOD ACTOR, LAZAS HAD A NTROVERSIAL "PIGMENTATN ALTERATN" SURGERY TO DARKEN HIS SK FOR HIS PORTRAYAL OF THE BLACK CHARACTER SERGEANT LLN OSIRIS. LAZAS REF TO BREAK CHARACTER WHILE FILMG AND ONLY SPEAKS HIS CHARACTER'S BLACK ENGLISH. THE ACE: BY THE START OF THE MOVIE, HE'S ONE OF THE MOST ACCLAIMED ACTORS THE WORLD AND HAS BUILT UP A WI RANGE OF SKILLS OM ALL THE YEARS HE'S SPENT IMMERSIVELY PREPARG FOR ROL. ALL ASIANS WEAR CONIL STRAW HATS: HE ENDS UP WEARG ONE WHEN HE DISGUIS HIMSELF AS AN ASIAN FARMER. ALWAYS SOMEONE BETTER: TUGG'S ATTEMPTS AT CHURNG OUT A REER-FG PERFORMANCE TROPIC THUNR ARE REPEATEDLY UNRMED BY LAZAS UPSTAGG HIM. AWOME ASIE: IT'S SUGGTED THAT HE KEEPS THIS ATTU OUTSI OF THE FILMS. BADASS BOAST: I'M A LEAD FARMER, MOTHERFUCKA! BEG THE MASK: KIRK LAZAS WILL GET SO VOLVED HIS CHARACTERS THAT HE PROMIS HE WON'T BREAK CHARACTER 'TIL HE'S DONE THE DVD COMMENTARY. TE TO HIS WORD, ROBERT DOWNEY JR. DO THE FILM'S DVD MENTARY CHARACTER AS KIRK LAZAS. HE GETS SO TO HIS CHARACTER HE HAS TO BE REMD AT ONE POT THAT HE IS KIRK LAZAS. BERSERK BUTTON: THE CLOST HE TO BREAKG CHARACTER WAS WHEN ALPA CHO STARTS MOCKG HIS ATRALIAN HERAGE. BLACKFACE: WHEN ACTG AS LLN OSIRIS. PLAYED FOR HORRIBLY OFFENSIVE HILARY BUT ALSO DENSTCTED AS LEADS TO AN ACTUAL BLACK MAN GETTG OFFEND AND LLG HIM OUT FOR TAKG THE ONLY MAJOR AIN-AMERIN ROLE THE FILM. BOND ONE-LER: I'M A LEAD FARMER, MOTHERFUCKA! BROKEN ACE: HE IS A TALENTED ACTOR WHO PLAYED MANY OSR BA FILMS AND IS A MASTER AT METHOD ACTG. YET, HE BELIEV HIS TE SELF IS A PATHETIC LOSER. BUNNY-EARS LAWYER: DPE GOG TO EXTREME LENGTHS TO PERFORM A ROLE WHILE ACTG, KIRK LAZAS IS RPECTED AMONGST HIS PEERS AS AN ACTOR AND IS VIEWED AS A GREAT ACTOR BY MANY THE FILM DTRY AND HAS WON MULTIPLE AMY AWARDS FOR ACTG. CLOUDCUCKOOLANR: WH HIM GOG TO EXTREME LENGTHS TO PERFORM HIS METHOD ACTG SHOW THAT HE IS NOT PLETELY SANE. CROUCHG MORON, HIDN BADASS: CONSIRG HE SPENDS ALMOST ALL OF THE MOVIE LOST CHARACTER AS A SRY BLACK MAN, 'S RATHER SURPRISG THAT HE IS ALSO ONE OF THE MOST NSISTENTLY PETENT AND LEVELHEAD MEMBERS OF THE GROUP. DU, NOT FUNNY!: HIS REACTN TO ALPA CHO TAKG MOCKERY OF HIS ATRALIAN HERAGE TO THE POT OF MAKG FUN OF THE CHAMBERLA SE.KIRK: Y'KNOW, THAT'S A TE STORY? LADY LOST HER KID. YOU 'BOUT TO CROSS SOME FUCK' L! GAYNGST: IN SATAN'S ALLEY, HE IS A GAY MONK WHO STGGL WH HIS LOVE FOR ANOTHER MONK A MONASTERY. GUNS AKIMBO: LAZAS REVEALG HIS GUNS ON THE DG POUND GUARDS AFTER HIS VER HIS BLOWN ATTEMPTG TO SNEAK . HEROIC BSOD: KIRK HAS A BREAKDOWN AFTER TUGG NVC HIM THAT HE'S HAVG AN INTY CRISIS WHILE KIRK IS TRYG TO GET TUGG TO SNAP OUT OF THE ROLE HE'S IMMERSED . ICE-CREAM KOAN: WHEN ASKED BY SANDKY IF HE READ THE SCRIPT, HE RPONDS WH THIS: KIRK: I DON'T READ THE SCRIPT, SCRIPT READS ME. INNOCENTLY INSENSIVE: HE’S SO MTED TO THE IA OF BEG LOST CHARACTER THAT HE GENUELY DON’T REALISE HOW APPALLGLY RACIST HIS TERPRETATN OF AN AIN AMERIN MAN IS. INOPPORTUNE IMPERSONATN FAILURE: KIRK DISGUIS HIMSELF AS A FARMER ORR TO GET ONTO THE BIG BAD'S POUND. THE SE ALMOST WORKS, UNTIL HE MISTAKENLY SAYS HE HAS A POPPY FARM WHEN EARLIER THAT SAME NVERSATN HE CLAIMED TO HAVE A RICE PADDY. THE LANCER/NUMBER TWO: HE SEEMS TO ACT AS THIS WHEN TUGG GETS PTURED. PL, THEY HAVE MEANGFUL STANC ON HOW TO ACT FOR THE MOVIE, WHICH LEADS TO SOME DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN THEM. INELEGANT BLUBBERG: HIS ATTEMPT TO CRY AT THE BEGNG FOOTAGE OF THE FILM IS VERY OVERBLOWN. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: HE'S FAMO THE MEDIA FOR HIS RECKLS OFF-MERA ANTICS AND SE NO PROBLEM WH DOG BLACKFACE FOR A ROLE, BUT HE OFFERS TUGG NSTCTIVE CRICISM FOR HIS CRILLY REVILED PERFORMANCE AS SIMPLE JACK (RATHER THAN PUNCH HIM DOWN FOR AS OTHERS DO) AND GIV A SCERE (THOUGH RIGHTFULLY UNACCEPTED) APOLOGY TO ALPA WHEN FALLY SKS TO HIM THAT WHAT HE'S DOG IS OFFENSIVE. HE'S ALSO CLEARLY VERY HAPPY TO GIVE TUGG AN AMY AWARD AT THE END OF THE MOVIE. LARGE HAM: KIRK GO TO... EXTREM. LEANG ON THE FOURTH WALL: IS KIRK LAZAS PLAYG THE DU DISGUISED AS ANOTHER DU (KIRK LAZAS AS LLN OSIRIS AS LEAD-FARMG INDOCHE FILTRATOR) OR ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. (AS ALL OF THE ABOVE)? IN REAL LIFE, ROBERT HAS BROWN EY. IN THE MOVIE, KIRK LAZUS HAS BLUE EY. KIRK HAD TO PUT BROWN LORED NTACTS TO PLAY OSIRIS WHILE ROBERT HAD TO PUT BLUE LORED ON TO PLAY KIRK. IN REALY, ROBERT DIDN'T NEED TO PUT LORED NTACTS TO PLAY OSIRIS. LOST CHARACTER: THIS IS A EQUENT PROBLEM FOR HIM. THE RULT OF PLAYG NEIL ARMSTRONG FOUND HIM " AN ALLEY BURBANK TRYG TO RE-ENTER THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE AN OLD REIGERATOR BOX." MAGIC PLASTIC SURGERY: KIRK'S TRANSFORMATN OM WHE TO BLACK SELF IS NOT THAT IMPRSIVE. WHAT'S REALLY IMPRSIVE IS THAT "WEARS OFF" OVER TIME. MALLM XEROX: HE TRI TO PLAY TO THIS TYPE OF CHARACTERISATN WH OSIRIS PECIALLY WHEN TALKG TO ALPA CHO. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: REPORTEDLY, HIS ATTU IS BASED ON RSELL CROWE, HIS SOMEWHAT CRAZY BEHAVR, ATRALIAN ORIG, AND GREAT LEVEL OF TALENT. MEANWHILE, HIS LOST CHARACTER HABS AND NIGH-PSYCHOTIC METHOD ACTG IS BASED ON DANIEL DAY-LEWIS. N-WORD PRIVILEG: AVERTED. WHEN ALPA LLS HIM A NIGGA, HE SLAPS HIM THE FACE, AND LECTUR HIM ON THE DANGERS OF THE E OF THE WORD. ONLY SANE MAN: ZIGZAGGED. ON THE ONE HAND KIRK, ALONG WH SANDKY, IS THE ONLY ACTOR WH A MEASURE OF TELLIGENCE AND MON SENSE, AND HE TAK MAND OF THE GROUP AFTER TUGG LEAV. ON THE OTHER HAND HIS ABSOLUTE REFAL TO BREAK CHARACTER MAK CLEAR HE HAS HIS OWN PROBLEMS. OSR BA: HE SEEMS TO EXCLIVELY ACT FILMS THAT ARE PURE OSR BA; MOONSHOT (A BGRAPHY OF NEIL ARMSTRONG), SATAN'S ALLEY (A HEAVY-HAND BROKEBACK MOUNTA-QUE FILM ABOUT GAY MONKS) AND OTHERS. PRAGMATIC PANSEXUALY: BEG THE HARDRE METHOD ACTOR HE IS, HE IS WILLG TO GO GAY FOR A ROLE, AS HE DID WHEN HE WAS PLAYG A GAY MONK. PRE ASS KICKG ONE LER: HERE'S MY MOTHERFUCKIN' FARM! PRECISN F-STRIKE: HE DON'T GO OVERBOARD WH CSG, BUT HE ALWAYS STRIK SOME F WORDS HERE AND THERE. RACIAL TRANSFORMATN: HE UNRGO SURGERY THAT ALLOWS HIM TO NVCGLY PLAY A BLACK CHARACTER. RSIAN REVERSAL: HIS BADASS BOAST. KIRK: I DON'T READ THE SCRIPT, SCRIPT READS ME. SRY BLACK MAN: HE TRI TO MAKE OSIRIS E ACROSS AS THIS. SER BS: ATRALIA ALL THE WAY, PECIALLY CRODILE DUNE AND THE WOMAN WHOSE BABY GOT EATEN BY DGO (WHICH IS NOT AN URBAN MYTH, BY THE WAY).ALPA CHO: .. HAD ONE GOOD ROLE FOR A BLACK MAN, AND THEY GAVE TO CRODILE DUNE!KIRK LAZAS: [STOPS SG] PUMP YOUR BRAK, KID, THAT MAN'S A NATNAL TREASURE. SHAPHIFTER SWAN SONG: NEAR THE END OF THE MOVIE, LAZAS BRIEFLY CYCL THROUGH SOME OF HIS PREV ROL BEFORE FALLY BREAKG CHARACTER AND ASSUMG HIS OWN INTY. SOUL BROTHA:KIRK VOK THIS TROPE WHILE PLAYG OSIRIS BEG LAID BACK AT TIME AND ALWAYS READY TO FEND HIMSELF ACTN AND HE SURPRISGLY N DO PRETTY WELL. SUDNLY ALWAYS KNEW THAT: PORTNOY: HOW THE HELL DO YOU KNOW CHE? LAZAS: LAND OF SILK AND MONEY WH GONG LI. SEND GLOBE, THIRD OSR. PREPPED FOR THAT ONE BY WORKG A BEIJG TEXTILE FACTORY FOR 8 MONTHS. .. TURNS TO GIBBERISH, MUCH TO THE NSTERNATN OF THE GUARDS. TOMATO THE MIRROR: WHEN TUGG REMDS HIM OF WHO HE IS, HE LOOKS AT HIMSELF THE MIRROR, BREAKS AND FALLS TO THE GROUND SOBBG, SHOCKED TO REALIZE HE ISN'T THE CHARACTERS HE PLAYED. WTH, CASTG AGENCY?: THIS IS MORE -UNIVERSE FOR THE MOVIE WH THE MOVIE. HAVG A BLOND HAIRED BLUE EYED ATRALIAN PLAYG A BLACK MAN? THE JOKE WAS EVEN RRIED TO HIS OSR NOMATN, AS CUBA GOODG JR. CUT OFF HALFWAY THROUGH HIS PRAISE OF DOWNEY'S RISK TAKG THE ROLE WH "WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THKG, MAN?"    JEFF PORTNOY JEFF PORTNOYPLAYED BY: JACK BLACKVOICED BY: CHRISTIAN STREMPLER (LAT-AMERIN SPANISH DUB), TAKHI MAYAMA (JAPANE DUB)"LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHG. A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE DISRPECTG ME. THEY SAY THAT THE MOVIE'S JT ABOUT FARTS. IT'S ABOUT FAY, AND FUCK YOU. YOU N'T DO WHAT I DO."A DG-ADDICTED EDIAN/ACTOR WELL-KNOWN FOR PORTRAYG MULTIPLE PARTS FILMS THAT RELY ON TOILET HUMOR, PARTICULARLY JOK ABOUT FLATULENCE. IN THE FILM-WH-A-FILM, HE PLAYS A RASPY-VOICED SOLDIER NAMED "FATS." ACTG FOR TWO: IN-UNIVERSE. THE FATTI: FART 2, A PARODY OF THE NUTTY PROFSOR, STARRG JEFF PORTNOY, JEFF PORTNOY, JEFF PORTNOY, AND JEFF PORTNOY AS AMERI'S FAVORE OBE FAY. ASS SHOVE: PORTNOY HIS A HANDGUN UP HIS REAR DURG THE CLIMACTIC RAID. HE SPENDS SO LONG TRYG TO PULL OUT THAT THE ACTN'S ALREADY OVER BY THE TIME HE FALLY MANAG. BERSERK BUTTON: WOULD REALLY LIKE FOR EVERYONE TO STOP LGHG AT HIM AND HIS FARTS. THE BIG GUY: AS THE FATTT OF THE TEAM AND BEG THE PLUCKY COMIC RELIEF. BIG "SHUT UP!": AFTER GETTG TIRED OF SANDKY'S PRAISE OF RENNY HARL. JEFF: SHUT THE FUCK UP! BUTT-MONKEY: SUFFERS MORE PHYSIL ABE THAN ANYONE ELSE THE MOVIE AND TENDS TO BE IGNORED BY THE OTHER CHARACTERS. COLD TURKEYS ARE EVERYWHERE: JEFF PORTNOY IS NOT GOOD SHAPE WHEN HE FDS OUT THEY'RE STUMBLG UPON AN OPIUM FARM. DU, WHERE'S MY RPECT?: IMPLIED WHY PORTNOY JOED THE MOVIE. "THEY ONLY LGH AT MY FARTS!" DUMB BLON: HE HAS BLOND HAIR AND SAYS/DO SOME FOOLISH THGS THROUGHOUT THE MOVIE. FRDIAN EXCE: IT'S IMPLIED THAT HIS CHEMIL PENNCI AND NONTATNAL BEHAVR ARE PARTIALLY BORN OUT OF SECURY HIS REER, ASHAMED AT THE TOILET HUMOR THAT MA HIM A HOEHOLD NAME PARED TO MORE RPECTED ACTORS LIKE SPEEDMAN AND LAZAS. FUNCTNAL ADDICT: BARELY, AND 'S PRETTY OBV. GASSHOLE: THE TYPE OF CHARACTER HE PLAYS HIS MOVI. HIDN DEPTHS: HE'S FULLY AWARE HIS EDY FILMS ARE SUBPAR TOILET HUMOR AND HAT THAT HE'S A LGHG STOCK FOR THEM AND HIS DG PROBLEMS. THE MILLSTONE: HIS WHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS KICK AT THE WORST TIME. FUNNILY ENOUGH, HE'S ACTUALLY AWARE THAT HE'S THIS AND PREEMPTIVELY MANDS TO BE TIED TO A TREE BEFORE HE MAK THGS WORSE (WHICH, OF URSE, HE DO ANYWAY). NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: A BLON, BELOVED, HEAVYSET EDIAN WH DG ISSU IS REMISCENT OF CHRIS FARLEY, WHILE HIS FILMS (A WHOLE LOT OF VULGAR HUMOR AND ACTG FOR TWO) SEEM TO REFERENCE THE LATER REER OF EDDIE MURPHY. NO MATTER HOW MUCH I BEG: ONE SCENE HAS PORTNOY GOG THROUGH WHDRAWAL, AND HE ASKS TO BE TIED TO A TREE UNTIL HE "GETS OUT OF HIS SYSTEM." HE TELLS THE OTHERS NOT TO UNTIE HIM, NO MATTER HOW MUCH HE BEGS. PREDICTABLY, HE DO, EVEN GOG AS FAR AS TO PROMISE RECENTLY OUTED ALPA CHO A BLOWJOB. PLAYG AGAST TYPE: IN-UNIVERSE. HE'S A EDY ACTOR WHO IS ST AN ACTN FILM. PLUCKY COMIC RELIEF: HIS ROLE IS ONE OF THE LEAST SER. COMEDY IS HIS BIGGT PURPOSE THE MOVIE. SAD CLOWN: HE'S MOSTLY BILLED AS AN ACTOR FOR LIGHT-HEARTED EDI, YET HE SEEMS TO BE THE MOST MISERABLE MEMBER OF THE ST. ESPECIALLY WHEN HIS "JELLYBEANS" WEAR OFF. SHIRTLS SCENE: AT ONE POT THE MOVIE. FAN DISSERVICE, HOWEVER. STOUT STRENGTH: FIR AN M60 WHILE NNG, AMONG OTHER THGS. TALKATIVE LOON: AS HIS "VAMS" AND "JELLY BEANS" WEAR OFF. TOILET HUMOR: MOST OF HIS MOVI N ON THIS. VULGAR HUMOR: JEFF'S UAL FARE. AT A PREMIERE, HE TRI TO LIVER A TAKE THAT, CRICS! WH REGARDS TO THIS, BUT DG-ADDLED AS HE IS, ISN'T EFFECTIVE. TROER SPACE: WH JACK BLACK'S PISTOL, IMPLIED TO HAVE BEEN UP HIS BUM. PLAYED WH, AS TAK HIM UNTIL THE END OF THE GUNFIGHT HE'S STANDG THE MIDST OF TO ACTUALLY RETRIEVE . WOULD HURT A CHILD: ALBE THE CHILD LEAR OF A CRIMAL GANG WHO SPENDS SEVERAL SENDS ATTACKG HIM FIRST, BUT STILL. ZANY SCHEME: HAVG SEEN DONE A ZANY SEX COMEDY HE STARRED , SUGGTS A PLAN TO FILTRATE THE MP G A GIANT TAPULT MA OM UNRWEAR. HE GETS STARED AT FOR FIVE SENDS BEFORE KEV REAFFIRMS A MUCH SANER PLAN, BASED ON THE BOOK'S OWN ASSLT ON A SIAR POUND.    ALPA CHO ALPA CHOPLAYED BY: BRANDON T. JACKSONVOICED BY: JAVIER OLGUíN (LAT-AMERIN SPANISH DUB), FUMORI KOMATSU (JAPANE DUB)A RAPPER WHO IS ATTEMPTG TO CROSS OVER TO ACTG, PORTRAYG A SOLDIER NAMED "MOTOWN," WHILE PROMOTG HIS "BT-A-NUT" NDY BAR AND ENERGY DRK "BOOTY SWEAT." ARMORED CLOSET GAY: HE RELEASED A SONG LLED I LOVE THA PSY WHILE THE CLOSET. HE'S OVER-PENSATG A GREAT AL, AND IF HIS REACTN TO SANDKY'S REFERENCE TO HIS GIRLS IS ANY DITN, HE SEEMS TO BE GETTG TIRED OF . IT'S LIKELY THAT HE'S E OUT BY THE END OF THE MOVIE. ASCEND FANBOY: HE SAID HE WATCHED THE FIRST SRCHER 20 TIM 8TH GRA. NOW HE GETS TO ACT ALONGSI THE LEAD ACTOR. BRIEF ACCENT IMATN: CHO THROWS THIS ON FOR KIRK LAZAS, WHO PISS HIM OFF WH HIS IGNORANCE, UNCLE TOMFOOLERY AND OFFENSIVE PORTRAYAL OF A BLACK CHARACTER AS A STEREOTYPIL SRY BLACK MAN.LAZAS: ALL RIGHT, FELLAS, WE'RE GONNA MAKE MP, RT UP. Y'ALL MIGHT BE FOR A TREAT. YOU KNOW, BACK BEFORE THE WAR BROKE OUT, I WAS A SCIER SAN ANTONE. I BET I ULD LLAR UP SOME OF THEM GREENS, YEAH, SOME CRAWFISH OUT THE PADDY, YO'! HA! I'M MAK' SOME CRABAPPL FOR SSERT NOW, YAH! HELL YEAH, HA!ALPA: [MOCKG KIRK] HELL YEAH! HA! THAT'S HOW WE ALL TALK? WE ALL TALK LIKE DIS, "SUH"? Y SUH, HA! YEAH MMM-HMM GET SOME CRAWFISH, AND SOME RIBS, HA! YE-AAH. [NORMAL VOICE] YOU'RE ATRALIAN! BE ATRALIAN! EXCE ME, KANGAROO JACK! HAVE I MENTNED I AM HETEROSEXUAL TODAY?: THE LYRICS TO HIS SONG I LOVE THA PSY REEK OF THIS. HE OUTS HIMSELF LATER THE MOVIE. HIDN DEPTHS: HE ACTUALLY DONAT LNS OM HIS "BOOTY SWEAT" AL TO HIS MUNY AND IS A VERY PROFFICIENT TAILOR, WHICH MONSTRAT HE ISN'T ALL GLTER. HE ALSO HAS A THG FOR LANCE. HYPOCRIL HUMOR: HE GETS FED UP WH LAZAS' RACIST PORTRAYAL OF A BLACK MAN... AND REELS OFF EVERY ASIE JOKE HE N THK OF TO HIM. ALSO, LAZAS' PARTICULAR E OF "HELL YEAH!" IS WHAT MA ALPA LL BULLSH ON HIM. THIS IS THE SAME EXPRSN HE THE LYRICS TO HIS SONG. KAYFABE MIC: SEEMS TO BE MORE DOWN-TO-EARTH THAN HIS PERSONA WOULD DITE. NAMED AFTER SOMEBODY FAMO: IN-UNIVERSE. GUS WHO HE IS REFERENCG WH HIS NAME. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: SEEMS TO CHANNEL ELEMENTS OF AT THE TIME-RELEVANT RAPPER SOULJA BOY. ONLY SANE MAN: A B MORE SUBTLE THAN SANDKY; AS SHOWN ABOVE, HIS MA PURPOSE THE PLOT IS TO LL BULLSH ON LAZAS' BLACKFACE, BUT ONCE HE'S ACTUALLY ON "SET" AND NOT ACTG HIS PACY AS A RAP MOGUL, BE CLEAR THAT HE'S FAIRLY WELL-ADJTED. PRODUCT PLACEMENT: ONE OF THE BIGGT REASONS HE'S THE MOVIE IS TO "DISCREETLY" SELL HIS ENERGY DRK "BOOTY SWEAT," WHICH HE WOULD OFTEN PULL OUT AND START DRKG DURG TAK EVEN THOUGH THE FILM TAK PLACE S BEFORE S RELEASE. SAW "STAR WARS" TWENTY-SEVEN TIM: ALPA CHO SAYS HE'S SEEN TUGG SPEEDMAN'S FIRST SRCHER MOVIE TWENTY-FOUR TIM WHEN HE WAS 8TH GRA. SCREAMS LIKE A LTLE GIRL: HE DO THIS WHEN TUGG KICKS DAMIEN'S PATED HEAD LIKE A SOCCER BALL. START X TO STOP X: HIS IA OF LLG OUT LAZAS ON A RACIST PERFORMANCE IS TO RAPIDLY FIRE OFF RACIST REMARKS ABOUT ATRALIANS, CLUDG THE OLD "DGO ATE YOUR BABY" CRACK. STOP BEG STEREOTYPIL: ONE OF HIS MA QUALMS WH LAZAS' PORTRAYAL OF A BLACK MAN. STRAIGHT GAY: YOU WOULDN'T KNOW HE'S GAY IF HE HADN'T E OUT. YOU KNOW I'M BLACK, RIGHT?: NOT ONLY HE PLAYS STRAIGHT, HE ALSO VERTS FOR LAZAS.KIRK [TO TUGG]: HUH? WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU PEOPLE? ALPA [TO KIRK]: WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU PEOPLE?    KEV SANDKY KEV SANDKYPLAYED BY: JAY BACHELVOICED BY: VíCTOR UGARTE (LAT-AMERIN SPANISH DUB), NOBO YAMAGUCHI (JAPANE DUB)A RPECTFUL NOVICE ACTOR, HE IS THE ONLY ST MEMBER TO HAVE READ THE SCRIPT AND BOOK, AND ATTEND THE ASSIGNED BOOT MP BEFORE THE FILM. SANDKY PLAYS A YOUNG SOLDIER NAMED "BROOKLYN" THE FILM-WH-A-FILM. ACCINTAL MISNAMG: HE IS VICTIM OM THIS A UPLE OF TIM. LAZAS GETS HIS LAST NAME WRONG TWICE, AND TUGG LLS HIM "KYLE", STEAD OF KEV. ALPA LLS HIM "CANDISKY" ONCE AS WELL. TUGG GETS HIS NAME RIGHT AT THE END OF THE MOVIE, HOWEVER. ASCEND FANBOY: HE REVEALS THAT HE IS A BIG FAN OF KIRK LAZAS, AND THAT HE WAS THE REASON KEV GOT TO ACTG ON THE FIRST PLACE. THE TWO HAVE LEAD ROL ON THE MOVIE. BROOKLYN RAGE: AVERTED. SCE HE PLAYS THE YOUNG SOLDIER "BROOKLYN", IS SUGGTED HE OM THERE, YET HE IS VERY TIMID AND NICE. FETTABLE CHARACTER: BY VIRTUE OF BEG A ROOKIE ACTOR, NO ONE ON SET N EVER REMEMBER HIS NAME. HYPERPETENT SIKICK: AS THE ONLY UNKNOWN AMONG THE FIVE ACTORS, HE IS NATURALLY SEEN AS A FOLLOWER BY THE GROUP, HIMSELF CLUD. DPE THIS, HE IS ALSO THE ONLY ONE WH THE KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE NEED TO ACTUALLY SURVIVE THEIR SUATN AND IS MORE OFTEN THAN NOT THE ONE PULLG THEM OUT OF TROUBLE. TO HIS CRED, LAZAS SEEMS TO REGNIZE THIS EARLY ON AND TRI TO GET HIM TO BE CHARGE OF READG THE MAP, ONLY FOR TUGG TO REFE TO HAND OVER. INFO DUMP: TWICE. HE EXPLAS THE SPL OF THE STUDS REGARDG DVD AND BLU-RAY AND LATER HE PRAIS RENNY HARL. BOTH TIM HE IS SHUT DOWN. LEANG ON THE FOURTH WALL: EVERYONE ELSE THE ST HAS TRAC OF NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED BUT WH NEWER AND UP AND G ACTOR SANDKY, S NOT HARD TO SEE THAT CHARACTER AS A STAND FOR JAY BACHEL HIMSELF. NAïVE NEWER: SUBVERTED. THOUGH HE HAS NO PRR ACTG EXPERIENCE, HE KNOWS MORE ABOUT THE FILM AND THE SUATN THAN THE OTHER ACTORS, SCE HE'S THE ONLY ONE WHO ACTUALLY PREPARED FOR HIS ROLE BY READG THE SCRIPT AND ORIGAL BOOK AND GOG THROUGH THE ACTORS' BOOT MP. NICE GUY: GENERALLY TRI HIS BT TO MEDIATE BETWEEN THE GROUP AND SHOWS ADMIRATN FOR WHAT EACH OF THE OTHER FOUR HAVE ACPLISHED ACROSS THEIR REERS AT VAR POTS. HE ISN'T WHOUT HIS LIMS, HOWEVER. ONLY SANE MAN: THE ONLY CHARACTER THE MOVIE WHO DON'T HAVE ANY BAGGAGE AS A PERSON OR AN ACTOR; HE'S BASILLY A NORMAL GEEK WHO GOT A PART HE DNED FOR, NOTHG MORE. THE SMART GUY: HE'S ARGUABLY A GEEK, AND HE IS THE ONE WHO CREAT THE WET OFFENSIVE FILTRATN ON THE ENEMY BASE. TOOK A LEVEL BADASS: HE STARTS THE MOVIE AS AN -OVER-HIS-HEAD DIRT-POOR NOVICE ACTOR, AND ENDS WH A SUCCSFUL ENEMY BASE FILTRATN AND PE. THOSE TWO WEEKS OF BOOT MP PAID OFF, SEEMS. TOOK THE BAD FILM SERLY:VOKED HE SEEMS TO BE THE ONLY ST MEMBER WHO ACTUALLY R ABOUT HIS PERFORMANCE — FOR STANCE HE'S THE ONLY ONE WHO ATTEND THE ACTORS BOOT MP AND READ THE BOOK 'S BASED ON. YOU ARE BETTER THAN YOU THK YOU ARE: THIS IS HOW HE BREAKS LAZAS OUT OF HIS SELF-LOATHG: BY REMDG HIM OF HOW GREAT HE IS, AND THAT HE IS THE REASON KEV CID TO BEE AN ACTOR.CREW
• 'TROPIC THUNR': SAY WHAT? BY KURT LORROBERT DOWNEY JR. 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BUT THEN HOW OFTEN N THAT BE HELPED?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IT'S A MOVIE ABOUT THE MAKG OF A MOVIE -- A BLOCKBTER WAR EPIC SET VIETNAM 1969. THIS FILM WH THE FILM, WHICH IS ALSO LLED "TROPIC THUNR," IS A TRADNAL TALE OF BLOODY HEROISM AND GREAT BIG EXPLOSNS, WH A MOTLEY ST OF HEAD-SE ACTORS. TUGG SPEEDMAN (BEN STILLER) IS A FADG ACTN STAR SPERATE FOR A EBACK AFTER AN ILL-ADVISED BID FOR OSR CREDIBILY -- A MOVIE LLED "SIMPLE JACK," ABOUT A, UH, VELOPMENTALLY CHALLENGED GUY WHO N TALK TO ANIMALS -- LEFT HIM A LGHGSTOCK. KIRK LAZAS (ROBERT DOWNEY JR.) IS A BLOND, BLUE-EYED ASIE WHOSE POMPO MMENT TO HIS CRAFT ("I DON'T READ THE SCRIPT; THE SCRIPT READS ME") HAS DRIVEN HIM TO UNRGO SK-PIGMENT ALTERATN ORR TO PLAY A BLACK ARMY SERGEANT THE FILM. JEFF PORTNOY (JACK BLACK) IS THE DG-GOBBLG STAR OF A LUCRATIVE SERI OF DIMW PICTUR VOTED TO A FAY OF FAT, FLATULENT BUFFOONS. AND ALPA CHO (BRANDON T. JACKSON) IS A RAPPER-TURNED-ACTOR WHO ALSO RAK LNS WH HIS HIP-HOP ENERGY DRK, BOOTY SWEAT. THE FIFTH MEMBER OF THIS ODD SQUAD, A KID NAMED SANDKY (JAY BACHEL), BI HIMSELF TRYG TO MAKE SENSE OF WHAT THE OTHER FOUR NUTK ARE DOG, WH ONLY TERMTENT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE MOVIE'S MOVIE IS BEG SHOT ON LOTN SOUTHEAST ASIA, AND 'S A DISASTER OM THE OUTSET -- THE PRODUCTN IS ALREADY A MONTH BEHD SCHLE AFTER JT FIVE DAYS OF SHOOTG. COMBAT NSULTANT FOUR LEAF TAYBACK (NICK NOLTE), THE CSTY VET UPON WHOSE BATTLE MEMOIR THE PICTURE IS BASED, NVC THE -OVER-HIS-HEAD DIRECTOR, DAMIEN COCKBURN (STEVE COOGAN), THAT THE ONLY WAY TO SALVAGE THE PICTURE IS TO CHOPPER THE PAMPERED ACTORS OUT TO THE MIDDLE OF THE JUNGLE, DROP THEM THERE AND SHOOT THE ACTN GUERILLA-STYLE, TO "GET SOME REAL FEAR THEIR EY." WHEN A GANG OF ACTUAL GUERRILLAS -- NOT THE VIET CONG OF THE MOVIE'S LONG-AGO WAR, BUT HOPPED-UP THUGS GUARDG A JUNGLE HERO FACTORY -- START SHOOTG AT THE TERLOPERS, THE ACTORS, ARMED ONLY WH SAG RDS AND BLANKS, FD THEMSELV LLED UPON TO FIGHT BACK FOR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"TROPIC THUNR" IS SO SAVAGELY AND UNREMTGLY HILAR THAT ONE HAT TO GIVE ANY OF AWAY. HOWEVER, HAS TO BE SAID THAT DOWNEY LIVERS THE MOST FEARLS AND ASTONISHG PERFORMANCE OF HIS CURRENT REER RENAISSANCE. IT'S BEEN AMG TO WATCH VAR MEDIA OUTLETS ATTEMPT TO WHIP UP SOME KD OF "BLACKFACE" NTROVERSY OVER DOWNEY'S PERFORMANCE, WHEN 'S NOTHG OF THE SORT. HE'S PLAYG AN ACTOR WH THE LUD NVICTN THAT HE N NOT ONLY PORTRAY A BLACK MAN, BUT ALSO BARE A BLACK MAN'S SOUL. THERE'S NOT A HT OF MSTRELSY DOWNEY'S PERFORMANCE; 'S A MARVEL OF SATIRIL PRECISN DIRECTED AT A SPECIFIC VARIETY OF HOLLYWOOD CULTURAL ARROGANCE. AND 'S MORE THAN THAT, TOO. THE SCENE WHICH THE RISIVE ALPA CHO NAILS LAZAS' RECATN OF BLACK-UPLIFT HOI AS NOTHG MORE THAN THE LYRICS TO THE "JEFFERSONS" THEME IS FUNNY; BUT THE ONE WHICH LAZAS QUIETLY EXPLAS TO SPEEDMAN THAT HIS "SIMPLE JACK" CHARACTER FAILED BEE HE MA THE MISTAKE OF GOG "FULL RETARD" -- RATHER THAN SOFTENG HIS CHARACTER WH CUTENS THE MANNER OF "FORRT GUMP" -- IS SO ON-THE-NOSE ACCURATE, TAK YOUR BREATH AWAY. (FILM SCHOLAR AND CRIC DAVE KEHR HAS POTED OUT THAT DOWNEY'S BLACK GI SEEMS TO BE MOLED ON THE ONE PLAYED BY BLAXPLOATN IN FRED WILLIAMSON "THE INGLOR BASTARDS," THE 1978 ITALIAN MOVIE THAT'S CURRENTLY ON THE VERGE OF BEG REMA BY QUENT TARANTO.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"TROPIC THUNR" BRGS OUT THE IC BT A NUMBER OF OTHER ACTORS, TOO, AMONG THEM MATTHEW MCCONGHEY AS SPEEDMAN'S OILY AGENT, AND THE WONRFULLY CRACKED DANNY MCBRI AS CODY, THE MOVIE'S EXPLOSIV EXPERT. (THE EXTENT OF HIS EXPERTISE IS A LTLE WORRISOME: "I ALMOST BLD JAMIE LEE CURTIS ON 'FREAKY FRIDAY,' " HE ADMS.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT THE MOVIE'S MOST UPROAR PERFORMANCE -- AS ALL BUT THE MOST OBLIV FANTS MT KNOW BY NOW -- IS PROVID BY TOM CISE, PLAYG A FANTASTILLY VILE AND ABIVE PRODUCER NAMED L GROSSMAN. BURIED UNR LAYERS OF LATEX AND PADDG, CISE IS ALMOST UNREGNIZABLE, AND THIS ANONYMY SEEMS TO HAVE LIBERATED HIM -- HE DIV TO THE CHARACTER'S BELLOWG, OBSCENE TIRAS WH FEROC ABANDON. IT'S A PERFORMANCE UNLIKE ANY HE'S GIVEN BEFORE, AND YOU N ALMOST SEE THE SCREEN SMOKG AFTER EACH OF HIS FOUL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"TROPIC THUNR" IS BOTH A PARODY OF A BIG-BUDGET ACTN MOVIE (WILLEM DAFOE'S CHRIST-ON-THE-CROSS ATH SPASM "PLATOON" IS REFERENCED NOT ONCE, BUT TWICE) AND A REAL ONE, TOO. SO S SOMETIM GRTY VISUAL TEXTURE BEARS NO RELATN TO THE TIDY SLICKNS OF MOST NTEMPORARY EDI. (JOHN TOLL, THE CEMATOGRAPHER, ALSO SHOT "WANTED" AND "THE LAST SAMURAI.") BUT THE PICTURE'S SATIRIL BRILLIANCE IS ON ANOTHER LEVEL OF ACPLISHMENT. BEN STILLER, WHO DIRECTED THE FILM, OKED UP THE STORY WH JT THEROUX, AND THEN BROUGHT ETAN COHEN TO HELP THEM WRE THE SCRIPT. THAT THEY HAVE PULLED NO PUNCH LAMPOONG HOLLYWOOD'S SELF-NGRATULATORY TREATMENT OF RACE AND DISABILY -- NOT TO MENTN GAY MONKS, WISPY MYSTICISM AND CELEBRY ADOPTNS OF EXOTILLY TGED FOREIGN BABI -- IS A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE MOVIE IS ALSO A WELE AFONT TO THE SORT OF HUMORLS PC SLDS WHO MOBILIZED FOR THE MOVIE'S L.A. PREMIERE ON MONDAY -- NUMBERS TIMATED BY ENTERTAMENT WEEKLY TO BE "A FEW DOZEN." MAYBE THE TI OF WHY PLAT IS TURNG. HAVE ANY OF THE PEOPLE NOTICED YET THAT THE ONLY CHILD THE MOVIE IS A CHA-SMOKG, GUN-WIELDG HERO KGP? OR IS A PROTT POSTER ALREADY AT THE PRTER'S? CONSIRG THE BS THIS PICTURE'S GOG TO DO, GOOD {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}("TROPIC THUNR" IS A DREAMWORKS/PARAMOUNT PICTUR PRENTATN. DREAMWORKS, PARAMOUNT AND MTV ARE ALL SUBSIDIARI OF VIA.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DON'T MISS KURT LOR'S REVIEW OF [ARTICLE ID="1592873"]"VICKY CRISTA BARCELONA,"[/ARTICLE] ALSO NEW THEATERS THIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CHECK OUT EVERYTHG WE'VE GOT ON "TROPIC THUNR."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FOR BREAKG NEWS, CELEBRY LUMNS, HUMOR AND MORE -- UPDATED AROUND THE CLOCK -- VIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
• 5 TIM SPIR-MAN ACTORS HAVE PLAYED GAY
• 'TROPIC THUNR' STAR BRANDON T. JACKSON SAYS GOD HAS FIVEN HIM FOR PLAYG GAY CHARACTER

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

The third trailer is for a eply ser, fely sensive drama starrg the Atralian method actor Kirk Lazas (Robert Downey Jr) as a gay monk guiltily attracted to a fellow cleric. Fadg actn star Tugg Speedman is part of the st, too, as is the well-rpected method actor Kirk Lazas—whose recent film about gay monks had the crics buzzg.

CAST    TUGG SPEEDMAN TUGG SPEEDMANPLAYED BY: BEN STILLERVOICED BY: ENZO FORTUNY (LAT-AMERIN SPANISH DUB), KENYUU HORIUCHI (JAPANE DUB)COMPARED TO A YOUNG SYLVTER STALLONE, TUGG WAS THE HIGHT-PAID AND HIGHT-GROSSG ACTN FILM STAR EVER DUE TO HIS SRCHER ANCHISE. HIS REER HAS STALLED SCE, AND HE NOW HAS A REPUTATN FOR APPEARG NOTHG BUT BOX OFFICE BOMBS. AFTER A FAILED ATTEMPT AT PORTRAYG A SER ROLE SIMPLE JACK, HE TAK THE ROLE OF FOUR LEAF TAYBACK AN ATTEMPT TO SAVE HIS REER. THE AHNOLD: HE'S A PARODY OF ACTN STARS, SPECIFILLY ON STGGLG TO BREAK OUT OF TYPESTG. ARMOR-PIERCG QUTN: "OR ARE YOU A DU WHO HAS NO IA WHAT DU HE IS, AND CLAIMS TO KNOW WHAT DU HE IS, BY PLAYG OTHER DUS?" BASILLY, SPEEDMAN IS POTG OUT THAT KIRK METHOD ACTS SO HARD THAT HE LOS HIS TE SELF. BADASS AND BABY: A KEY PART OF HIS SRCHER ANCHISE. BIG "NO!": WHEN HE KILLS A PANDA. BRIEF ACCENT IMATN: TUGG MOCKS COCKBURN, STILL UNR THE IMPRSN THAT COCKBURN ISN'T PATED. BUDDY COP SHOW: DURG THE ET SEGMENT, YOU N SEE A POSTER FOR SUCH A FILM STARRG SPEEDMAN AND MART LAWRENCE. CAREER RURRECTN: IN-UNIVERSE. THE FILM'S SUCCS REVALIZ HIS REER. CHASED BY ANGRY NATIV: AS HE P THE LAOTIAN VILLAGE AND NS TO THE HELIPTER. COMILLY MISSG THE POT:TYRA BANKS: SOMEONE CLOSE TO YOU SAID "ONE MORE FLOP AND 'S OVER." [BEAT] SPEEDMAN: SOMEONE SAID THEY WERE CLOSE TO ME? CCIFIED HERO SHOT: HE DO THE MOVIE-WH-A-MOVIE, AND THEN LOOKS RIDICULO AS HE OVERREACTS GETTG SHOT. DEFIANT TO THE END: WHEN PTURED BY THE FLAMG DRAGONS, HE STILL KEEPS A BRAVE MEANOR. PROBABLY JTIFIED, BEE HE THOUGHT HE WAS STILL ACTG ACRDG TO THE SCRIPT. GOG NATIVE: AFTER BEG TAKEN BY FLAMG DRAGON, DON'T TAKE MUCH FOR TUGG TO START ENJOYG HIS TIME THERE BEE HE'S SO APPRECIATED FOR SIMPLE JACK. GREEN-EYED MONSTER: FEELS A LOT OF ANIMOSY TOWARD KIRK LAZAS FOR HAVG THE PRTIG ACTG REER THAT HE WANTS, THOUGH HE ALSO CLEARLY WANTS HIS REGNN AS AN ACTOR. BY THE END OF THE MOVIE, HE GETS BOTH. HE REALLY CAN ACT: IN-UNIVERSE, HE WS AN OSR FOR HIS PERFORMANCE AT THE END AS PART OF HIS REER RURRECTN. HEROIC BSOD: HE LOS AFTER HE KILLS A PANDA, AN ANIMAL HE LOV MORE THAN ANYTHG ELSE THE WORLD. ICE-CREAM KOAN: SUBVERTED. SPEEDMAN TELLS KIRK, "OR ARE YOU A DU WHO HAS NO IA WHAT DU HE IS, AND CLAIMS TO KNOW WHAT DU HE IS, BY PLAYG OTHER DUS?" WHICH TO THE OTHER ACTORS SOUNDS LIKE GIBBERISH, BUT SCRIB KIRK SO WELL THAT HE BREAKS DOWN TO TEARS. I'M COLD... SO COLD...: SOMEHOW PARODIED FOR "REAL". TUGG CLAIMS TO NOT BE ABLE TO FEEL HIS LEGS WHILE THEY'RE TRYG TO PE OM THE DG POUND. TURNS OUT 'S JT THAT HE'S STG A POOL OF LD, MUDDY WATER. INSPIRATNALLY DISADVANTAGED: HIS ROLE SIMPLE JACK WAS MEANT TO BE THIS, BUT HE OVERPLAYED . LAZAS TELLS HIM THE TTH OF AN UNFETTABLE MONOLOGUE.LAZAS: CHECK OUT. DT HOFFMAN, RA MAN, LOOK RETARD, ACT RETARD, NOT RETARD. COUNT TOOTHPICKS, CHEAT AT RDS. AUTISTIC, SURE. NOT RETARD. YOU KNOW TOM HANKS, FORRT GUMP, SLOW, Y. RETARD, MAYBE. BRAC ON HIS LEGS. BUT HE CHARMED THE PANTS OFF NIXON AND WON A PG-PONG PETN. THAT A'T RETARD. PETER SELLERS, BEG THERE. INFANTILE, Y. RETARD, NO. YOU WENT FULL RETARD, MAN. NEVER GO FULL RETARD. YOU DON'T BUY THAT? ASK SEAN PENN, 2001, I AM SAM. REMEMBER? WENT FULL RETARD, WENT HOME EMPTY-HAND... IN-UNIVERSE FACTOID FAILURE: TUGG NF THE TEEN CHOICE AWARDS WH THE KIDS CHOICE AWARDS BY SAYG THAT KEV WOULD BE SLIMED. I CHOOSE TO STAY: HE EVENTUALLY BELIEV HE IS ALREADY AT HOME WH THE FLAMG DRAGONS AND REF TO GO BACK HOME. IT DON'T LAST LONG. IRONIC ECHO: "I N'T FEEL MY LEGS." FIRST AS PART OF THE FILM WH A FILM, AND THEN SAID DURG THE FAL PE SEQUENCE. EXCEPT THAT TUGG'S ABLE TO CRY AND N'T FEEL HIS LEGS BEE HE'S STG ON A LD PUDDLE. IRONIC HELL: ENDS UP ONE WHEN NABBED BY FLAMG DRAGON, WHO FORCE HIM TO PERFORM SIMPLE JACK OVER AND OVER. KDHEARTED SIMPLETON: AS SIMPLE JACK. THE LEAR: THE FIVE ACTORS EVENTUALLY FORM A FIVE-MAN BAND, AND THEY HAVE TUGG AS THEIR LEAR UNTIL HE GETS PTURED. LEANG ON THE FOURTH WALL: "I THK I KNOW A PROP HEAD WHEN I SEE ONE!" SAYS TUGG AS HE HEFTS WHAT IS AN OBV PROP HEAD, SEEG AS COCKBURN'S ACTOR IS STILL ALIVE... LOST CHARACTER: NOT TO THE EXTENT OF KIRK, BUT TUGG ATTEMPTED TO REACH SIAR EXTREM HIS ROL; OFFHAND HE PROSTETHETIC HANDS WHEN OFF-SET TO GET TO CHARACTER AS FOUR-LEAF. IN AN EARLIER FILM HE MENTNED ATTEMPTG TO BE MENTALLY DISABLED SO CLOSELY HE WAS AAID HE'D GONE TOO FAR AND "FLHED TOO MUCH OUT." META CASTG: AVERTED. BEN STILLER PLAYS MOSTLY EDIC ROL, NOT ACTN HERO. THOUGH HE GETS A HANDFUL OF FUNNY MOMENTS THE MOVIE, HIS ROLE IS ONE OF THE MOST SER. MEAN CHARACTER, NICE ACTOR: DOWNPLAYED. DPE PLAYG A GRAVELLY-VOICED ACTN HERO, TUGG HIMSELF IS A GOOD-NATURED, SLIGHTLY TIMID MAN WHO LOV PANDAS (FUNDG CHARI FOR THEIR PRERVATN) AND ONCE -THORED A CHILDREN'S BOOK. MD SCREW: KIRK TRYG TO GET SPEEDMAN OUT OF HIS HEROIC BSOD PROMPTLY BACKFIR.TUGG: OR ARE YOU A DU WHO HAS NO IA WHAT DU HE IS, AND CLAIMS TO KNOW WHAT DU HE IS, BY PLAYG OTHER DUS? NEMEAN SKNG: DO THIS TO A PANDA. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: HE'S A PARODY OF A YOUNG SYLVTER STALLONE: A GUY BT-KNOWN FOR ACTN SCHLOCK WH A DOZEN SEQUELS WHO'S SPERATELY TRYG TO BREAK TO SOMETHG MORE WEIGHTY, AND WHO DO HAVE SOME CENT CHOPS BUT TENDS TO SHOOT ABOVE HIS LIMS. OSR BA: TRIED AND FAILED WH SIMPLE JACK, A MOVIE ABOUT A MENTALLY DISABLED FARMHAND WHO TALKS TO ANIMALS. OUTN THE FIREBALL: SUBVERTED. TUGG DO THIS NEAR THE END, WHEN THE BRIDGE TO HIS HELIPTER'S LANDG SPOT IS RIGGED WH EXPLOSIV. HE ISN'T QUICK ENOUGH, BUT HE'S ALRIGHT AFTERWARDS. PLAYG AGAST TYPE: IN-UNIVERSE, HE TRIED TO PULL THIS OFF BY GOG OM A POPULAR ACTN STAR TO A DRAMATIC ACTOR. IT BACKFIRED HORRENDOLY. THE MOVIE HE'S FILMG NOW IS A MORE LATERAL SHIFT; WHILE STILL A SER DRAMA RATHER THAN A DUMB POPRN FLICK, 'S A WAR FILM WH A LOT OF SPECIAL EFFECTS, WHICH IS MUCH CLOSER TO TUG'S WHEELHOE THAN SIMPLE JACK. PLURALS:TUGG: CHILL! ALL RIGHT? JT CHILL . NOW, LET'S GO GET THOSE VIETNGS. ALPA: "VIETNG"! TUGG: WHAT? ALPA: IT'S "VIETNG." THERE'S NO "S." IT'S ALREADY PLURAL. YOU WOULDN'T SAY "CH." READG THE STAGE DIRECTNS OUT LOUD: IN THE RIVER SCENE, HE SAYS HE IS GOG TO "EXTERR, RA FORT, DK. SMASH CUT TO FOUR LEAF, WHO TREKS ALONE THROUGH A IGHTENG JUNGLE." SANY SLIPPAGE: AFTER HE ACCINTALLY KILLS A PANDA HE STARTS LOSG HIS MD. BY THE TIME KIRK FDS HIM HE'S NVCED HE'S FOUND HIS TE PEOPLE AMONG THE FLYG DRAGONS SCE THEY APPRECIATE HIS ACTG. SEQUELIS: PARODIED IN-UNIVERSE. TUGG SPEEDMAN'S SRCHER SERI RECEIVED NO LS THAN FIVE SEQUELS. THE 6TH ONE, SRCHER VI: GLOBAL MELTDOWN, TURNED THE NCEPT OF THE EARTH, BEG A GIANT FIREBALL THE PREV MOVI, TO A OZEN WASTELAND BEE THE PREV FILMS HAD EXHSTED THE PREVLY MENTNED NCEPT."HERE WE GO AGA. AGA..." SO BAD, IT'S HORRIBLE: IN-UNIVERSE, HIS ATTEMPT AT A "SER" ROLE WH ''SIMPLE JACK'', IS REGARD AS BEG THE WORST FILM EVER MA, AND TYRA BANKS, ON HER TALK SHOW, TOLD HIM THAT IF TROPIC THUNR FAILS, WILL BE THE END OF HIS REER. LATER, THE STORY PROPER, WHEN THEY ARE FORMULATG A RCUE PLAN, ALPA AND KIRK SEE SPEEDMAN PLAYG OUT SIMPLE JACK FOR THE GOLN TRIANGLE GANG, AND ALPA TELLS KIRK HE "THOUGHT THE MOVIE WAS BAD." TOM HANKS SYNDROME: HE ATTEMPTED TO VOKE THIS -UNIVERSE WH SIMPLE JACK AND FAILED MISERABLY. UNABLE TO CRY: HE N'T CRY ON SET, LEADG TO A RIFT BETWEEN HIM AND THE "AWARD WNER" KIRK LAZAS. WHE-DWARF STARLET: TUGG IS ON THE VERGE OF BEG THIS ACRDG TO L, WHO ACTUALLY THE TERM "WHE DWARF".    KIRK LAZAS KIRK LAZASCLICK HERE TO SEE HIM OUT OF CHARACTER :PLAYED BY: ROBERT DOWNEY JR.VOICED BY: BERNARD GABAY (EUROPEAN FRENCH), DAFNIS FERNáNZ (LAT-AMERIN SPANISH DUB), TAKUYA KIRIMOTO (JAPANE DUB)"I KNOW WHO I AM! I'M A DU PLAY' A DU, DISGUISED AS ANOTHER DU!"AN IMMENSELY TALENTED ATRALIAN METHOD ACTOR, LAZAS HAD A NTROVERSIAL "PIGMENTATN ALTERATN" SURGERY TO DARKEN HIS SK FOR HIS PORTRAYAL OF THE BLACK CHARACTER SERGEANT LLN OSIRIS. LAZAS REF TO BREAK CHARACTER WHILE FILMG AND ONLY SPEAKS HIS CHARACTER'S BLACK ENGLISH. THE ACE: BY THE START OF THE MOVIE, HE'S ONE OF THE MOST ACCLAIMED ACTORS THE WORLD AND HAS BUILT UP A WI RANGE OF SKILLS OM ALL THE YEARS HE'S SPENT IMMERSIVELY PREPARG FOR ROL. ALL ASIANS WEAR CONIL STRAW HATS: HE ENDS UP WEARG ONE WHEN HE DISGUIS HIMSELF AS AN ASIAN FARMER. ALWAYS SOMEONE BETTER: TUGG'S ATTEMPTS AT CHURNG OUT A REER-FG PERFORMANCE TROPIC THUNR ARE REPEATEDLY UNRMED BY LAZAS UPSTAGG HIM. AWOME ASIE: IT'S SUGGTED THAT HE KEEPS THIS ATTU OUTSI OF THE FILMS. BADASS BOAST: I'M A LEAD FARMER, MOTHERFUCKA! BEG THE MASK: KIRK LAZAS WILL GET SO VOLVED HIS CHARACTERS THAT HE PROMIS HE WON'T BREAK CHARACTER 'TIL HE'S DONE THE DVD COMMENTARY. TE TO HIS WORD, ROBERT DOWNEY JR. DO THE FILM'S DVD MENTARY CHARACTER AS KIRK LAZAS. HE GETS SO TO HIS CHARACTER HE HAS TO BE REMD AT ONE POT THAT HE IS KIRK LAZAS. BERSERK BUTTON: THE CLOST HE TO BREAKG CHARACTER WAS WHEN ALPA CHO STARTS MOCKG HIS ATRALIAN HERAGE. BLACKFACE: WHEN ACTG AS LLN OSIRIS. PLAYED FOR HORRIBLY OFFENSIVE HILARY BUT ALSO DENSTCTED AS LEADS TO AN ACTUAL BLACK MAN GETTG OFFEND AND LLG HIM OUT FOR TAKG THE ONLY MAJOR AIN-AMERIN ROLE THE FILM. BOND ONE-LER: I'M A LEAD FARMER, MOTHERFUCKA! BROKEN ACE: HE IS A TALENTED ACTOR WHO PLAYED MANY OSR BA FILMS AND IS A MASTER AT METHOD ACTG. YET, HE BELIEV HIS TE SELF IS A PATHETIC LOSER. BUNNY-EARS LAWYER: DPE GOG TO EXTREME LENGTHS TO PERFORM A ROLE WHILE ACTG, KIRK LAZAS IS RPECTED AMONGST HIS PEERS AS AN ACTOR AND IS VIEWED AS A GREAT ACTOR BY MANY THE FILM DTRY AND HAS WON MULTIPLE AMY AWARDS FOR ACTG. CLOUDCUCKOOLANR: WH HIM GOG TO EXTREME LENGTHS TO PERFORM HIS METHOD ACTG SHOW THAT HE IS NOT PLETELY SANE. CROUCHG MORON, HIDN BADASS: CONSIRG HE SPENDS ALMOST ALL OF THE MOVIE LOST CHARACTER AS A SRY BLACK MAN, 'S RATHER SURPRISG THAT HE IS ALSO ONE OF THE MOST NSISTENTLY PETENT AND LEVELHEAD MEMBERS OF THE GROUP. DU, NOT FUNNY!: HIS REACTN TO ALPA CHO TAKG MOCKERY OF HIS ATRALIAN HERAGE TO THE POT OF MAKG FUN OF THE CHAMBERLA SE.KIRK: Y'KNOW, THAT'S A TE STORY? LADY LOST HER KID. YOU 'BOUT TO CROSS SOME FUCK' L! GAYNGST: IN SATAN'S ALLEY, HE IS A GAY MONK WHO STGGL WH HIS LOVE FOR ANOTHER MONK A MONASTERY. GUNS AKIMBO: LAZAS REVEALG HIS GUNS ON THE DG POUND GUARDS AFTER HIS VER HIS BLOWN ATTEMPTG TO SNEAK . HEROIC BSOD: KIRK HAS A BREAKDOWN AFTER TUGG NVC HIM THAT HE'S HAVG AN INTY CRISIS WHILE KIRK IS TRYG TO GET TUGG TO SNAP OUT OF THE ROLE HE'S IMMERSED . ICE-CREAM KOAN: WHEN ASKED BY SANDKY IF HE READ THE SCRIPT, HE RPONDS WH THIS: KIRK: I DON'T READ THE SCRIPT, SCRIPT READS ME. INNOCENTLY INSENSIVE: HE’S SO MTED TO THE IA OF BEG LOST CHARACTER THAT HE GENUELY DON’T REALISE HOW APPALLGLY RACIST HIS TERPRETATN OF AN AIN AMERIN MAN IS. INOPPORTUNE IMPERSONATN FAILURE: KIRK DISGUIS HIMSELF AS A FARMER ORR TO GET ONTO THE BIG BAD'S POUND. THE SE ALMOST WORKS, UNTIL HE MISTAKENLY SAYS HE HAS A POPPY FARM WHEN EARLIER THAT SAME NVERSATN HE CLAIMED TO HAVE A RICE PADDY. THE LANCER/NUMBER TWO: HE SEEMS TO ACT AS THIS WHEN TUGG GETS PTURED. PL, THEY HAVE MEANGFUL STANC ON HOW TO ACT FOR THE MOVIE, WHICH LEADS TO SOME DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN THEM. INELEGANT BLUBBERG: HIS ATTEMPT TO CRY AT THE BEGNG FOOTAGE OF THE FILM IS VERY OVERBLOWN. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: HE'S FAMO THE MEDIA FOR HIS RECKLS OFF-MERA ANTICS AND SE NO PROBLEM WH DOG BLACKFACE FOR A ROLE, BUT HE OFFERS TUGG NSTCTIVE CRICISM FOR HIS CRILLY REVILED PERFORMANCE AS SIMPLE JACK (RATHER THAN PUNCH HIM DOWN FOR AS OTHERS DO) AND GIV A SCERE (THOUGH RIGHTFULLY UNACCEPTED) APOLOGY TO ALPA WHEN FALLY SKS TO HIM THAT WHAT HE'S DOG IS OFFENSIVE. HE'S ALSO CLEARLY VERY HAPPY TO GIVE TUGG AN AMY AWARD AT THE END OF THE MOVIE. LARGE HAM: KIRK GO TO... EXTREM. LEANG ON THE FOURTH WALL: IS KIRK LAZAS PLAYG THE DU DISGUISED AS ANOTHER DU (KIRK LAZAS AS LLN OSIRIS AS LEAD-FARMG INDOCHE FILTRATOR) OR ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. (AS ALL OF THE ABOVE)? IN REAL LIFE, ROBERT HAS BROWN EY. IN THE MOVIE, KIRK LAZUS HAS BLUE EY. KIRK HAD TO PUT BROWN LORED NTACTS TO PLAY OSIRIS WHILE ROBERT HAD TO PUT BLUE LORED ON TO PLAY KIRK. IN REALY, ROBERT DIDN'T NEED TO PUT LORED NTACTS TO PLAY OSIRIS. LOST CHARACTER: THIS IS A EQUENT PROBLEM FOR HIM. THE RULT OF PLAYG NEIL ARMSTRONG FOUND HIM " AN ALLEY BURBANK TRYG TO RE-ENTER THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE AN OLD REIGERATOR BOX." MAGIC PLASTIC SURGERY: KIRK'S TRANSFORMATN OM WHE TO BLACK SELF IS NOT THAT IMPRSIVE. WHAT'S REALLY IMPRSIVE IS THAT "WEARS OFF" OVER TIME. MALLM XEROX: HE TRI TO PLAY TO THIS TYPE OF CHARACTERISATN WH OSIRIS PECIALLY WHEN TALKG TO ALPA CHO. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: REPORTEDLY, HIS ATTU IS BASED ON RSELL CROWE, HIS SOMEWHAT CRAZY BEHAVR, ATRALIAN ORIG, AND GREAT LEVEL OF TALENT. MEANWHILE, HIS LOST CHARACTER HABS AND NIGH-PSYCHOTIC METHOD ACTG IS BASED ON DANIEL DAY-LEWIS. N-WORD PRIVILEG: AVERTED. WHEN ALPA LLS HIM A NIGGA, HE SLAPS HIM THE FACE, AND LECTUR HIM ON THE DANGERS OF THE E OF THE WORD. ONLY SANE MAN: ZIGZAGGED. ON THE ONE HAND KIRK, ALONG WH SANDKY, IS THE ONLY ACTOR WH A MEASURE OF TELLIGENCE AND MON SENSE, AND HE TAK MAND OF THE GROUP AFTER TUGG LEAV. ON THE OTHER HAND HIS ABSOLUTE REFAL TO BREAK CHARACTER MAK CLEAR HE HAS HIS OWN PROBLEMS. OSR BA: HE SEEMS TO EXCLIVELY ACT FILMS THAT ARE PURE OSR BA; MOONSHOT (A BGRAPHY OF NEIL ARMSTRONG), SATAN'S ALLEY (A HEAVY-HAND BROKEBACK MOUNTA-QUE FILM ABOUT GAY MONKS) AND OTHERS. PRAGMATIC PANSEXUALY: BEG THE HARDRE METHOD ACTOR HE IS, HE IS WILLG TO GO GAY FOR A ROLE, AS HE DID WHEN HE WAS PLAYG A GAY MONK. PRE ASS KICKG ONE LER: HERE'S MY MOTHERFUCKIN' FARM! PRECISN F-STRIKE: HE DON'T GO OVERBOARD WH CSG, BUT HE ALWAYS STRIK SOME F WORDS HERE AND THERE. RACIAL TRANSFORMATN: HE UNRGO SURGERY THAT ALLOWS HIM TO NVCGLY PLAY A BLACK CHARACTER. RSIAN REVERSAL: HIS BADASS BOAST. KIRK: I DON'T READ THE SCRIPT, SCRIPT READS ME. SRY BLACK MAN: HE TRI TO MAKE OSIRIS E ACROSS AS THIS. SER BS: ATRALIA ALL THE WAY, PECIALLY CRODILE DUNE AND THE WOMAN WHOSE BABY GOT EATEN BY DGO (WHICH IS NOT AN URBAN MYTH, BY THE WAY).ALPA CHO: .. HAD ONE GOOD ROLE FOR A BLACK MAN, AND THEY GAVE TO CRODILE DUNE!KIRK LAZAS: [STOPS SG] PUMP YOUR BRAK, KID, THAT MAN'S A NATNAL TREASURE. SHAPHIFTER SWAN SONG: NEAR THE END OF THE MOVIE, LAZAS BRIEFLY CYCL THROUGH SOME OF HIS PREV ROL BEFORE FALLY BREAKG CHARACTER AND ASSUMG HIS OWN INTY. SOUL BROTHA:KIRK VOK THIS TROPE WHILE PLAYG OSIRIS BEG LAID BACK AT TIME AND ALWAYS READY TO FEND HIMSELF ACTN AND HE SURPRISGLY N DO PRETTY WELL. SUDNLY ALWAYS KNEW THAT: PORTNOY: HOW THE HELL DO YOU KNOW CHE? LAZAS: LAND OF SILK AND MONEY WH GONG LI. SEND GLOBE, THIRD OSR. PREPPED FOR THAT ONE BY WORKG A BEIJG TEXTILE FACTORY FOR 8 MONTHS. .. TURNS TO GIBBERISH, MUCH TO THE NSTERNATN OF THE GUARDS. TOMATO THE MIRROR: WHEN TUGG REMDS HIM OF WHO HE IS, HE LOOKS AT HIMSELF THE MIRROR, BREAKS AND FALLS TO THE GROUND SOBBG, SHOCKED TO REALIZE HE ISN'T THE CHARACTERS HE PLAYED. WTH, CASTG AGENCY?: THIS IS MORE -UNIVERSE FOR THE MOVIE WH THE MOVIE. HAVG A BLOND HAIRED BLUE EYED ATRALIAN PLAYG A BLACK MAN? THE JOKE WAS EVEN RRIED TO HIS OSR NOMATN, AS CUBA GOODG JR. CUT OFF HALFWAY THROUGH HIS PRAISE OF DOWNEY'S RISK TAKG THE ROLE WH "WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THKG, MAN?"    JEFF PORTNOY JEFF PORTNOYPLAYED BY: JACK BLACKVOICED BY: CHRISTIAN STREMPLER (LAT-AMERIN SPANISH DUB), TAKHI MAYAMA (JAPANE DUB)"LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHG. A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE DISRPECTG ME. THEY SAY THAT THE MOVIE'S JT ABOUT FARTS. IT'S ABOUT FAY, AND FUCK YOU. YOU N'T DO WHAT I DO."A DG-ADDICTED EDIAN/ACTOR WELL-KNOWN FOR PORTRAYG MULTIPLE PARTS FILMS THAT RELY ON TOILET HUMOR, PARTICULARLY JOK ABOUT FLATULENCE. IN THE FILM-WH-A-FILM, HE PLAYS A RASPY-VOICED SOLDIER NAMED "FATS." ACTG FOR TWO: IN-UNIVERSE. THE FATTI: FART 2, A PARODY OF THE NUTTY PROFSOR, STARRG JEFF PORTNOY, JEFF PORTNOY, JEFF PORTNOY, AND JEFF PORTNOY AS AMERI'S FAVORE OBE FAY. ASS SHOVE: PORTNOY HIS A HANDGUN UP HIS REAR DURG THE CLIMACTIC RAID. HE SPENDS SO LONG TRYG TO PULL OUT THAT THE ACTN'S ALREADY OVER BY THE TIME HE FALLY MANAG. BERSERK BUTTON: WOULD REALLY LIKE FOR EVERYONE TO STOP LGHG AT HIM AND HIS FARTS. THE BIG GUY: AS THE FATTT OF THE TEAM AND BEG THE PLUCKY COMIC RELIEF. BIG "SHUT UP!": AFTER GETTG TIRED OF SANDKY'S PRAISE OF RENNY HARL. JEFF: SHUT THE FUCK UP! BUTT-MONKEY: SUFFERS MORE PHYSIL ABE THAN ANYONE ELSE THE MOVIE AND TENDS TO BE IGNORED BY THE OTHER CHARACTERS. COLD TURKEYS ARE EVERYWHERE: JEFF PORTNOY IS NOT GOOD SHAPE WHEN HE FDS OUT THEY'RE STUMBLG UPON AN OPIUM FARM. DU, WHERE'S MY RPECT?: IMPLIED WHY PORTNOY JOED THE MOVIE. "THEY ONLY LGH AT MY FARTS!" DUMB BLON: HE HAS BLOND HAIR AND SAYS/DO SOME FOOLISH THGS THROUGHOUT THE MOVIE. FRDIAN EXCE: IT'S IMPLIED THAT HIS CHEMIL PENNCI AND NONTATNAL BEHAVR ARE PARTIALLY BORN OUT OF SECURY HIS REER, ASHAMED AT THE TOILET HUMOR THAT MA HIM A HOEHOLD NAME PARED TO MORE RPECTED ACTORS LIKE SPEEDMAN AND LAZAS. FUNCTNAL ADDICT: BARELY, AND 'S PRETTY OBV. GASSHOLE: THE TYPE OF CHARACTER HE PLAYS HIS MOVI. HIDN DEPTHS: HE'S FULLY AWARE HIS EDY FILMS ARE SUBPAR TOILET HUMOR AND HAT THAT HE'S A LGHG STOCK FOR THEM AND HIS DG PROBLEMS. THE MILLSTONE: HIS WHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS KICK AT THE WORST TIME. FUNNILY ENOUGH, HE'S ACTUALLY AWARE THAT HE'S THIS AND PREEMPTIVELY MANDS TO BE TIED TO A TREE BEFORE HE MAK THGS WORSE (WHICH, OF URSE, HE DO ANYWAY). NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: A BLON, BELOVED, HEAVYSET EDIAN WH DG ISSU IS REMISCENT OF CHRIS FARLEY, WHILE HIS FILMS (A WHOLE LOT OF VULGAR HUMOR AND ACTG FOR TWO) SEEM TO REFERENCE THE LATER REER OF EDDIE MURPHY. NO MATTER HOW MUCH I BEG: ONE SCENE HAS PORTNOY GOG THROUGH WHDRAWAL, AND HE ASKS TO BE TIED TO A TREE UNTIL HE "GETS OUT OF HIS SYSTEM." HE TELLS THE OTHERS NOT TO UNTIE HIM, NO MATTER HOW MUCH HE BEGS. PREDICTABLY, HE DO, EVEN GOG AS FAR AS TO PROMISE RECENTLY OUTED ALPA CHO A BLOWJOB. PLAYG AGAST TYPE: IN-UNIVERSE. HE'S A EDY ACTOR WHO IS ST AN ACTN FILM. PLUCKY COMIC RELIEF: HIS ROLE IS ONE OF THE LEAST SER. COMEDY IS HIS BIGGT PURPOSE THE MOVIE. SAD CLOWN: HE'S MOSTLY BILLED AS AN ACTOR FOR LIGHT-HEARTED EDI, YET HE SEEMS TO BE THE MOST MISERABLE MEMBER OF THE ST. ESPECIALLY WHEN HIS "JELLYBEANS" WEAR OFF. SHIRTLS SCENE: AT ONE POT THE MOVIE. FAN DISSERVICE, HOWEVER. STOUT STRENGTH: FIR AN M60 WHILE NNG, AMONG OTHER THGS. TALKATIVE LOON: AS HIS "VAMS" AND "JELLY BEANS" WEAR OFF. TOILET HUMOR: MOST OF HIS MOVI N ON THIS. VULGAR HUMOR: JEFF'S UAL FARE. AT A PREMIERE, HE TRI TO LIVER A TAKE THAT, CRICS! WH REGARDS TO THIS, BUT DG-ADDLED AS HE IS, ISN'T EFFECTIVE. TROER SPACE: WH JACK BLACK'S PISTOL, IMPLIED TO HAVE BEEN UP HIS BUM. PLAYED WH, AS TAK HIM UNTIL THE END OF THE GUNFIGHT HE'S STANDG THE MIDST OF TO ACTUALLY RETRIEVE . WOULD HURT A CHILD: ALBE THE CHILD LEAR OF A CRIMAL GANG WHO SPENDS SEVERAL SENDS ATTACKG HIM FIRST, BUT STILL. ZANY SCHEME: HAVG SEEN DONE A ZANY SEX COMEDY HE STARRED , SUGGTS A PLAN TO FILTRATE THE MP G A GIANT TAPULT MA OM UNRWEAR. HE GETS STARED AT FOR FIVE SENDS BEFORE KEV REAFFIRMS A MUCH SANER PLAN, BASED ON THE BOOK'S OWN ASSLT ON A SIAR POUND.    ALPA CHO ALPA CHOPLAYED BY: BRANDON T. JACKSONVOICED BY: JAVIER OLGUíN (LAT-AMERIN SPANISH DUB), FUMORI KOMATSU (JAPANE DUB)A RAPPER WHO IS ATTEMPTG TO CROSS OVER TO ACTG, PORTRAYG A SOLDIER NAMED "MOTOWN," WHILE PROMOTG HIS "BT-A-NUT" NDY BAR AND ENERGY DRK "BOOTY SWEAT." ARMORED CLOSET GAY: HE RELEASED A SONG LLED I LOVE THA PSY WHILE THE CLOSET. HE'S OVER-PENSATG A GREAT AL, AND IF HIS REACTN TO SANDKY'S REFERENCE TO HIS GIRLS IS ANY DITN, HE SEEMS TO BE GETTG TIRED OF . IT'S LIKELY THAT HE'S E OUT BY THE END OF THE MOVIE. ASCEND FANBOY: HE SAID HE WATCHED THE FIRST SRCHER 20 TIM 8TH GRA. NOW HE GETS TO ACT ALONGSI THE LEAD ACTOR. BRIEF ACCENT IMATN: CHO THROWS THIS ON FOR KIRK LAZAS, WHO PISS HIM OFF WH HIS IGNORANCE, UNCLE TOMFOOLERY AND OFFENSIVE PORTRAYAL OF A BLACK CHARACTER AS A STEREOTYPIL SRY BLACK MAN.LAZAS: ALL RIGHT, FELLAS, WE'RE GONNA MAKE MP, RT UP. Y'ALL MIGHT BE FOR A TREAT. YOU KNOW, BACK BEFORE THE WAR BROKE OUT, I WAS A SCIER SAN ANTONE. I BET I ULD LLAR UP SOME OF THEM GREENS, YEAH, SOME CRAWFISH OUT THE PADDY, YO'! HA! I'M MAK' SOME CRABAPPL FOR SSERT NOW, YAH! HELL YEAH, HA!ALPA: [MOCKG KIRK] HELL YEAH! HA! THAT'S HOW WE ALL TALK? WE ALL TALK LIKE DIS, "SUH"? Y SUH, HA! YEAH MMM-HMM GET SOME CRAWFISH, AND SOME RIBS, HA! YE-AAH. [NORMAL VOICE] YOU'RE ATRALIAN! BE ATRALIAN! EXCE ME, KANGAROO JACK! HAVE I MENTNED I AM HETEROSEXUAL TODAY?: THE LYRICS TO HIS SONG I LOVE THA PSY REEK OF THIS. HE OUTS HIMSELF LATER THE MOVIE. HIDN DEPTHS: HE ACTUALLY DONAT LNS OM HIS "BOOTY SWEAT" AL TO HIS MUNY AND IS A VERY PROFFICIENT TAILOR, WHICH MONSTRAT HE ISN'T ALL GLTER. HE ALSO HAS A THG FOR LANCE. HYPOCRIL HUMOR: HE GETS FED UP WH LAZAS' RACIST PORTRAYAL OF A BLACK MAN... AND REELS OFF EVERY ASIE JOKE HE N THK OF TO HIM. ALSO, LAZAS' PARTICULAR E OF "HELL YEAH!" IS WHAT MA ALPA LL BULLSH ON HIM. THIS IS THE SAME EXPRSN HE THE LYRICS TO HIS SONG. KAYFABE MIC: SEEMS TO BE MORE DOWN-TO-EARTH THAN HIS PERSONA WOULD DITE. NAMED AFTER SOMEBODY FAMO: IN-UNIVERSE. GUS WHO HE IS REFERENCG WH HIS NAME. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: SEEMS TO CHANNEL ELEMENTS OF AT THE TIME-RELEVANT RAPPER SOULJA BOY. ONLY SANE MAN: A B MORE SUBTLE THAN SANDKY; AS SHOWN ABOVE, HIS MA PURPOSE THE PLOT IS TO LL BULLSH ON LAZAS' BLACKFACE, BUT ONCE HE'S ACTUALLY ON "SET" AND NOT ACTG HIS PACY AS A RAP MOGUL, BE CLEAR THAT HE'S FAIRLY WELL-ADJTED. PRODUCT PLACEMENT: ONE OF THE BIGGT REASONS HE'S THE MOVIE IS TO "DISCREETLY" SELL HIS ENERGY DRK "BOOTY SWEAT," WHICH HE WOULD OFTEN PULL OUT AND START DRKG DURG TAK EVEN THOUGH THE FILM TAK PLACE S BEFORE S RELEASE. SAW "STAR WARS" TWENTY-SEVEN TIM: ALPA CHO SAYS HE'S SEEN TUGG SPEEDMAN'S FIRST SRCHER MOVIE TWENTY-FOUR TIM WHEN HE WAS 8TH GRA. SCREAMS LIKE A LTLE GIRL: HE DO THIS WHEN TUGG KICKS DAMIEN'S PATED HEAD LIKE A SOCCER BALL. START X TO STOP X: HIS IA OF LLG OUT LAZAS ON A RACIST PERFORMANCE IS TO RAPIDLY FIRE OFF RACIST REMARKS ABOUT ATRALIANS, CLUDG THE OLD "DGO ATE YOUR BABY" CRACK. STOP BEG STEREOTYPIL: ONE OF HIS MA QUALMS WH LAZAS' PORTRAYAL OF A BLACK MAN. STRAIGHT GAY: YOU WOULDN'T KNOW HE'S GAY IF HE HADN'T E OUT. YOU KNOW I'M BLACK, RIGHT?: NOT ONLY HE PLAYS STRAIGHT, HE ALSO VERTS FOR LAZAS.KIRK [TO TUGG]: HUH? WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU PEOPLE? ALPA [TO KIRK]: WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU PEOPLE?    KEV SANDKY KEV SANDKYPLAYED BY: JAY BACHELVOICED BY: VíCTOR UGARTE (LAT-AMERIN SPANISH DUB), NOBO YAMAGUCHI (JAPANE DUB)A RPECTFUL NOVICE ACTOR, HE IS THE ONLY ST MEMBER TO HAVE READ THE SCRIPT AND BOOK, AND ATTEND THE ASSIGNED BOOT MP BEFORE THE FILM. SANDKY PLAYS A YOUNG SOLDIER NAMED "BROOKLYN" THE FILM-WH-A-FILM. ACCINTAL MISNAMG: HE IS VICTIM OM THIS A UPLE OF TIM. LAZAS GETS HIS LAST NAME WRONG TWICE, AND TUGG LLS HIM "KYLE", STEAD OF KEV. ALPA LLS HIM "CANDISKY" ONCE AS WELL. TUGG GETS HIS NAME RIGHT AT THE END OF THE MOVIE, HOWEVER. ASCEND FANBOY: HE REVEALS THAT HE IS A BIG FAN OF KIRK LAZAS, AND THAT HE WAS THE REASON KEV GOT TO ACTG ON THE FIRST PLACE. THE TWO HAVE LEAD ROL ON THE MOVIE. BROOKLYN RAGE: AVERTED. SCE HE PLAYS THE YOUNG SOLDIER "BROOKLYN", IS SUGGTED HE OM THERE, YET HE IS VERY TIMID AND NICE. FETTABLE CHARACTER: BY VIRTUE OF BEG A ROOKIE ACTOR, NO ONE ON SET N EVER REMEMBER HIS NAME. HYPERPETENT SIKICK: AS THE ONLY UNKNOWN AMONG THE FIVE ACTORS, HE IS NATURALLY SEEN AS A FOLLOWER BY THE GROUP, HIMSELF CLUD. DPE THIS, HE IS ALSO THE ONLY ONE WH THE KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE NEED TO ACTUALLY SURVIVE THEIR SUATN AND IS MORE OFTEN THAN NOT THE ONE PULLG THEM OUT OF TROUBLE. TO HIS CRED, LAZAS SEEMS TO REGNIZE THIS EARLY ON AND TRI TO GET HIM TO BE CHARGE OF READG THE MAP, ONLY FOR TUGG TO REFE TO HAND OVER. INFO DUMP: TWICE. HE EXPLAS THE SPL OF THE STUDS REGARDG DVD AND BLU-RAY AND LATER HE PRAIS RENNY HARL. BOTH TIM HE IS SHUT DOWN. LEANG ON THE FOURTH WALL: EVERYONE ELSE THE ST HAS TRAC OF NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED BUT WH NEWER AND UP AND G ACTOR SANDKY, S NOT HARD TO SEE THAT CHARACTER AS A STAND FOR JAY BACHEL HIMSELF. NAïVE NEWER: SUBVERTED. THOUGH HE HAS NO PRR ACTG EXPERIENCE, HE KNOWS MORE ABOUT THE FILM AND THE SUATN THAN THE OTHER ACTORS, SCE HE'S THE ONLY ONE WHO ACTUALLY PREPARED FOR HIS ROLE BY READG THE SCRIPT AND ORIGAL BOOK AND GOG THROUGH THE ACTORS' BOOT MP. NICE GUY: GENERALLY TRI HIS BT TO MEDIATE BETWEEN THE GROUP AND SHOWS ADMIRATN FOR WHAT EACH OF THE OTHER FOUR HAVE ACPLISHED ACROSS THEIR REERS AT VAR POTS. HE ISN'T WHOUT HIS LIMS, HOWEVER. ONLY SANE MAN: THE ONLY CHARACTER THE MOVIE WHO DON'T HAVE ANY BAGGAGE AS A PERSON OR AN ACTOR; HE'S BASILLY A NORMAL GEEK WHO GOT A PART HE DNED FOR, NOTHG MORE. THE SMART GUY: HE'S ARGUABLY A GEEK, AND HE IS THE ONE WHO CREAT THE WET OFFENSIVE FILTRATN ON THE ENEMY BASE. TOOK A LEVEL BADASS: HE STARTS THE MOVIE AS AN -OVER-HIS-HEAD DIRT-POOR NOVICE ACTOR, AND ENDS WH A SUCCSFUL ENEMY BASE FILTRATN AND PE. THOSE TWO WEEKS OF BOOT MP PAID OFF, SEEMS. TOOK THE BAD FILM SERLY:VOKED HE SEEMS TO BE THE ONLY ST MEMBER WHO ACTUALLY R ABOUT HIS PERFORMANCE — FOR STANCE HE'S THE ONLY ONE WHO ATTEND THE ACTORS BOOT MP AND READ THE BOOK 'S BASED ON. YOU ARE BETTER THAN YOU THK YOU ARE: THIS IS HOW HE BREAKS LAZAS OUT OF HIS SELF-LOATHG: BY REMDG HIM OF HOW GREAT HE IS, AND THAT HE IS THE REASON KEV CID TO BEE AN ACTOR.CREW

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BUT THEN HOW OFTEN N THAT BE HELPED?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IT'S A MOVIE ABOUT THE MAKG OF A MOVIE -- A BLOCKBTER WAR EPIC SET VIETNAM 1969. THIS FILM WH THE FILM, WHICH IS ALSO LLED "TROPIC THUNR," IS A TRADNAL TALE OF BLOODY HEROISM AND GREAT BIG EXPLOSNS, WH A MOTLEY ST OF HEAD-SE ACTORS. TUGG SPEEDMAN (BEN STILLER) IS A FADG ACTN STAR SPERATE FOR A EBACK AFTER AN ILL-ADVISED BID FOR OSR CREDIBILY -- A MOVIE LLED "SIMPLE JACK," ABOUT A, UH, VELOPMENTALLY CHALLENGED GUY WHO N TALK TO ANIMALS -- LEFT HIM A LGHGSTOCK. KIRK LAZAS (ROBERT DOWNEY JR.) IS A BLOND, BLUE-EYED ASIE WHOSE POMPO MMENT TO HIS CRAFT ("I DON'T READ THE SCRIPT; THE SCRIPT READS ME") HAS DRIVEN HIM TO UNRGO SK-PIGMENT ALTERATN ORR TO PLAY A BLACK ARMY SERGEANT THE FILM. JEFF PORTNOY (JACK BLACK) IS THE DG-GOBBLG STAR OF A LUCRATIVE SERI OF DIMW PICTUR VOTED TO A FAY OF FAT, FLATULENT BUFFOONS. AND ALPA CHO (BRANDON T. JACKSON) IS A RAPPER-TURNED-ACTOR WHO ALSO RAK LNS WH HIS HIP-HOP ENERGY DRK, BOOTY SWEAT. THE FIFTH MEMBER OF THIS ODD SQUAD, A KID NAMED SANDKY (JAY BACHEL), BI HIMSELF TRYG TO MAKE SENSE OF WHAT THE OTHER FOUR NUTK ARE DOG, WH ONLY TERMTENT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE MOVIE'S MOVIE IS BEG SHOT ON LOTN SOUTHEAST ASIA, AND 'S A DISASTER OM THE OUTSET -- THE PRODUCTN IS ALREADY A MONTH BEHD SCHLE AFTER JT FIVE DAYS OF SHOOTG. COMBAT NSULTANT FOUR LEAF TAYBACK (NICK NOLTE), THE CSTY VET UPON WHOSE BATTLE MEMOIR THE PICTURE IS BASED, NVC THE -OVER-HIS-HEAD DIRECTOR, DAMIEN COCKBURN (STEVE COOGAN), THAT THE ONLY WAY TO SALVAGE THE PICTURE IS TO CHOPPER THE PAMPERED ACTORS OUT TO THE MIDDLE OF THE JUNGLE, DROP THEM THERE AND SHOOT THE ACTN GUERILLA-STYLE, TO "GET SOME REAL FEAR THEIR EY." WHEN A GANG OF ACTUAL GUERRILLAS -- NOT THE VIET CONG OF THE MOVIE'S LONG-AGO WAR, BUT HOPPED-UP THUGS GUARDG A JUNGLE HERO FACTORY -- START SHOOTG AT THE TERLOPERS, THE ACTORS, ARMED ONLY WH SAG RDS AND BLANKS, FD THEMSELV LLED UPON TO FIGHT BACK FOR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"TROPIC THUNR" IS SO SAVAGELY AND UNREMTGLY HILAR THAT ONE HAT TO GIVE ANY OF AWAY. HOWEVER, HAS TO BE SAID THAT DOWNEY LIVERS THE MOST FEARLS AND ASTONISHG PERFORMANCE OF HIS CURRENT REER RENAISSANCE. IT'S BEEN AMG TO WATCH VAR MEDIA OUTLETS ATTEMPT TO WHIP UP SOME KD OF "BLACKFACE" NTROVERSY OVER DOWNEY'S PERFORMANCE, WHEN 'S NOTHG OF THE SORT. HE'S PLAYG AN ACTOR WH THE LUD NVICTN THAT HE N NOT ONLY PORTRAY A BLACK MAN, BUT ALSO BARE A BLACK MAN'S SOUL. THERE'S NOT A HT OF MSTRELSY DOWNEY'S PERFORMANCE; 'S A MARVEL OF SATIRIL PRECISN DIRECTED AT A SPECIFIC VARIETY OF HOLLYWOOD CULTURAL ARROGANCE. AND 'S MORE THAN THAT, TOO. THE SCENE WHICH THE RISIVE ALPA CHO NAILS LAZAS' RECATN OF BLACK-UPLIFT HOI AS NOTHG MORE THAN THE LYRICS TO THE "JEFFERSONS" THEME IS FUNNY; BUT THE ONE WHICH LAZAS QUIETLY EXPLAS TO SPEEDMAN THAT HIS "SIMPLE JACK" CHARACTER FAILED BEE HE MA THE MISTAKE OF GOG "FULL RETARD" -- RATHER THAN SOFTENG HIS CHARACTER WH CUTENS THE MANNER OF "FORRT GUMP" -- IS SO ON-THE-NOSE ACCURATE, TAK YOUR BREATH AWAY. 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IT'S A PERFORMANCE UNLIKE ANY HE'S GIVEN BEFORE, AND YOU N ALMOST SEE THE SCREEN SMOKG AFTER EACH OF HIS FOUL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"TROPIC THUNR" IS BOTH A PARODY OF A BIG-BUDGET ACTN MOVIE (WILLEM DAFOE'S CHRIST-ON-THE-CROSS ATH SPASM "PLATOON" IS REFERENCED NOT ONCE, BUT TWICE) AND A REAL ONE, TOO. SO S SOMETIM GRTY VISUAL TEXTURE BEARS NO RELATN TO THE TIDY SLICKNS OF MOST NTEMPORARY EDI. (JOHN TOLL, THE CEMATOGRAPHER, ALSO SHOT "WANTED" AND "THE LAST SAMURAI.") BUT THE PICTURE'S SATIRIL BRILLIANCE IS ON ANOTHER LEVEL OF ACPLISHMENT. BEN STILLER, WHO DIRECTED THE FILM, OKED UP THE STORY WH JT THEROUX, AND THEN BROUGHT ETAN COHEN TO HELP THEM WRE THE SCRIPT. THAT THEY HAVE PULLED NO PUNCH LAMPOONG HOLLYWOOD'S SELF-NGRATULATORY TREATMENT OF RACE AND DISABILY -- NOT TO MENTN GAY MONKS, WISPY MYSTICISM AND CELEBRY ADOPTNS OF EXOTILLY TGED FOREIGN BABI -- IS A {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE MOVIE IS ALSO A WELE AFONT TO THE SORT OF HUMORLS PC SLDS WHO MOBILIZED FOR THE MOVIE'S L.A. PREMIERE ON MONDAY -- NUMBERS TIMATED BY ENTERTAMENT WEEKLY TO BE "A FEW DOZEN." MAYBE THE TI OF WHY PLAT IS TURNG. HAVE ANY OF THE PEOPLE NOTICED YET THAT THE ONLY CHILD THE MOVIE IS A CHA-SMOKG, GUN-WIELDG HERO KGP? OR IS A PROTT POSTER ALREADY AT THE PRTER'S? CONSIRG THE BS THIS PICTURE'S GOG TO DO, GOOD {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}("TROPIC THUNR" IS A DREAMWORKS/PARAMOUNT PICTUR PRENTATN. 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'TROPIC THUNR' STAR BRANDON T. JACKSON SAYS GOD HAS FIVEN HIM FOR PLAYG GAY CHARACTER

Gayngst: In Satan's Alley, he is a gay monk who stggl wh his love for another monk a monastery. Osr Ba: He seems to exclively act films that are pure Osr Ba; Moonshot (a bgraphy of Neil Armstrong), Satan's Alley (a heavy-hand Brokeback Mounta-que film about gay monks) and others. Pragmatic Pansexualy: Beg the hardre method actor he is, he is willg to go gay for a role, as he did when he was playg a gay monk.