We all know that when the news first came out that Robert Downey Jr. was to play a black man in Ben Stiller’s new movie Tropic Thunder, many people did not know how to take it. The thing is people were worried how Downey Jr. who is white will portray playing a black man. However, that is not all that people were worried about the movie, the thing is people first thought that Tropic Thunder was mocking people in the army as stupid and incompetent, but after watching the first trailer, we really do not have anything to worry about.
Tropic Thunder is a movie that pokes fun at Hollywood actors, and how they act as a pre-Madonna prima donna, it is great that someone like Stiller actually pokes fun out of himself and his fellow actors, such as Robert as well as Jack Black. You may still be wondering why Robert Downey Jr. is playing a black man, well he plays actor Kirk Lazarus in the movie, who was given a role in a new movie which was wrote for a black guy. Lazarus is an Oscar winning actor so accepts the part and dies his skin and really immerses himself in the role, he really starts to think that he is a black man during the movie.
