Interestingly, the theme of this "Tropical Thunder" happens to be about the actor's self-breakthrough. Past action star Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller), Oscar winner Kirk Lazarus ("Iron Man" Robert Downey Jr.), rapper Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson) and spoof comedian Jeff Portnoy ("Iron Man") Jack Black co-starred in the live-action war blockbuster "Tropic Thunder" based on the memoirs of a Vietnam veteran nicknamed "Four Leaves". These four guys are either playing big names or fooling around. As a result, the film has been delayed for a month, and the progress has been delayed by a month. The investor media tycoon Les Grossman is so angry that he threatens the director to shut down. The inexperienced young director was cornered and decided to take a slant and trick the four untouchable grandfathers into the wild in Vietnam to shoot different styles of "realistic war blockbusters" through cameras hidden in the woods. It's a pity that people's calculations are not as good as heaven's calculations. The four heroes with fake guns and fake ammunition met with a drug-trafficking and arms group in the Golden Triangle on the Sino-Vietnamese border, and the show officially started.
Stiller, a stand-up comedian who turned out to be a comedian, is very skilled at conveying jokes to the audience, which is one of the highlights of the film. For example, there are a bunch of ironic and hilarious fake trailers at the beginning of the movie, as well as the shooting clips that parody the scenes of classic war movies. Sausage viscera, Tugg Speedman's hands were blown up into mop strips - the word "evil" for "spoof" has no upper limit.
Another highlight of the film is the two unexpected appearances. Robert Downey Jr., who was originally handsome and handsome in "Iron Man", this time he dyed his skin black and put on a wig and a wig to learn to be cool as a black man. Another even more shocking and unbelievable is the big guy in the film, Les Grossman. If you keep your eyes open, you can see who this short and ugly bald glasses man with short and ugly glasses was originally?
Although funny, it is a pity that this "Tropical Thunder" is intermittent and lacks internal connection and character development. Almost every joke can be made into an independent chapter, and it is not closely related to the background of the big plot; the four main characters have to overcome their inner prisons to seek breakthroughs, but these breakthroughs are too sudden, and their subtexts do not let the audience follow They are serious. The only exception is the comedian Jeff Portnoy played by Jack Black. This guy is really open. The whole movie is almost half-naked, showing off his fat, and he is not afraid to say any disgusting lines. His clips, despite their toilet humor, are the most creative, and much smoother than Ben Stiller's foolish part.
Ben Stiller is a frequent guest on NBC's late-night spoof show "Saturday Night Live" (SNL). This "Tropic Thunder" almost adopts the consistent style of "Saturday Night Live" as a whole, and it satirizes the entire Hollywood entertainment industry. However, as a film, it lacks the continuity of the story and the breakthrough in the plot, which is doomed to be a mediocre work. Compared with the spoof comedy film "Ace Producer", which also starred Jack Black, "Tropic Thunder" has a significantly lower starting point, and there is nothing unique. This lack of talent, I am afraid it will be difficult to break through in another ten years.
"Film World" September 2008 draft
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