Should Robert Downey Jr. Have Gotten A Pass for Doing Tropic Thunder?

[godofwine]

Very rarely have I seen even Black people pissed off at RDJ portrayal. It was method acting and well done. Most who thought about it conceded it was well done

 

[lazarus]

Good satire always offends some. It's the nature of the Genre. Many people hated bamboozled for the black face and it's one of my favorite movies of all time. There is a difference between mimicry and mockery. Nothing about RDJ character was meant to mock black people or black culture if anything the booty juice guy was more offensive to rappers than RDJ was to black people. And I am super quick to cancel white actors for blackface. Literally it's probably the only portrayal I have ever seen that worked satirically and comedically.

here is another example of well done. Dude should have been on SNL

 

[jerrynuevo]

here is another example of well done. Dude should have been on SNL

I agree...without buffonery and blackface.

 

[phanatic]

Very rarely have I seen even Black people pissed off at RDJ portrayal. It was method acting and well done. Most who thought about it conceded it was well done

The character was a dig at Hollywood race swapping white people for characters that are supposed to be minorities. West Side Story, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Genghis Khan, all blackface acts...all put white people in roles instead of the real ethnicity.

 

[OutlawR.O.C.]

The character was a dig at Hollywood race swapping white people for characters that are supposed to be minorities. West Side Story, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Genghis Khan, all blackface acts...all put white people in roles instead of the real ethnicity.

Exactly.