This is unexpected

[trinityvixen]

And yet, not?

Guess who's boycotting Tropic Thunder?

I guess it's all a matter of which actor you trust to satirize which material. Robert Downey Jr. can, apparently, do a literal blackface to poke fun at people who...do blackface. But ask Ben Stiller to skewer actors who play characters with disabilities by pretending to be an actor who does, and there'll be trouble. It's a question of talent, certainly--RDJ is the better actor by orders of magnitude between the two of them--but I wonder if the writing of the one set up isn't more sensitive than the other? Both are meant only to harsh on the people who would exploit minorities or the disabled for fame and glory. You'd think they'd be able to do as well for one group as another.

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[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

For the role that he himself is playing? Interesting. I think there would be a nice laugh in that, but they're already talking layers within layers already with the premise. Any more meta and the thing might explode.