And here's the link for high quality version (Quicktime and iTunes required):
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/tropicthunder
and why do I post this?
well what do you think is the one movie I anticipate most this summer?
What is that I hear you say? The Dark Knight? The Incredible Hulk? Bah, none of them. Excites me as much as Tropic Thunder.
Why is that? Well, for starters, the Real Ben Stiller is finally back. Forget about Meet The Parents movies, forget about the Night At The Museum, forget about Dodgeball , forget about Along Came Polly and heck, forget about the great There's Something About Mary (which is more like a Farrelly Brothers movie). The Real Ben Stiller is perhaps the best spoof artist working in hollywood right now, who spoof stuffs so funny, the makers of *whatever genre - Scary, Epic, Date whatever* Movie movies should be put on death row. I mean after all, this is the guy who made Zoolander in 2001, the comedy masterpiece that sends up male models. I can't think and recall fondly a funnier, smarter spoof movie, and one which I can watch repeatedly and still laugh at the same jokes, than that. I mean just look at the quotes from the title character, Derek Zoolander:
"Rufus, Brint, and Meekus were like brothers to me. And when I say brother, I don't mean, like, an actual brother, but I mean it like the way black people use it. Which is more meaningful, I think."
"Have you ever wondered if there was more to life, other than being really, really, ridiculously good looking?"
"At the Derek Zoolander Center For Children Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too, we teach you that there's more to life than being really, really good looking."
and those are just a few of my favourites. and also, don't forget the walk off scene between Zoolander and Hansel (played by Owen Wilson), refereed by David Bowie, set to the tune of Michael Jackson's "Beat It". That was brilliant. Whoever came up with the idea of putting those guys, David Bowie and "Beat It" should win a Nobel Prize.
Still don't believe me, here are some works Ben Stiller had done in the past:
Backstreet Boyz, a spoof of Backstreet Boys
Mission Improbable - Sending up Tom Cruise and Mission Impossible 2
Heat Vision and Jack. A 30 minute pilot about an austronaut and a talking motorcycle made in 1999 that didn't get picked up. Featuring Owen Wilson and Jack Black before they became super famous.
and look, the original Zoolander short skit:
What you don't find them funny? Dude, something is really wrong with your sense of humour. Just kidding, hahaha.
But seriously, I hope you can see that Ben Stiller doesn't just randomly spoof stuffs or randomly creates jokes; when he spoof something, he creates really well made characters and/or situations that closely mimic (but not too close) the real things he's trying to spoof. He's a great writer too (or helped by great writers). In some ways, his method is like the works of method actors who usually research on the characters they're playing. That's why the works of the real Ben Stiller is memorable, funny and not cheap.
and Tropic Thunder reflects that. Just so you know, it's about a bunch of famous actors making a troubled war movie who gets thrown into a real warzone and realize that they're not making a movie anymore. It's trying to spoof grim epic war movies like Apocalypse Now and Platoon. But don't just look at the story. Watch the trailer I put above and can you see what the characters spoof?
Ben Stiller's Character - The Action Guy - spoof Arnold Schwarzenneger
Jack Black's Character - The Comedian - spoof Eddie Murphy and his unfunny fake suit movies
and best of all, Robert Downey Jr's Character - The Award Winner - about an award winning method actor so serious about his craft that he undergoes a skin colour change operation to play the african american character. just read that!
I guess it spoofs Russell Crowe and serious method actors like Daniel Day Lewis
and if you notice, there's a black guy character in the trailer too. you know what's the character's name? Alpa Chino.
So, yeah, I hope you guys will watch this movie and make this movie do well in box office this august. If it does well, that means Ben Stiller can make more movies that's closer to his spoof sensibility than the usual Night At The Museum craps. It's been 7 years since Zoolander and that's really long. So yeah, I hope it does really well and I pray one day, Zoolander 2 will come out.
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