Tropic Thunder/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions
/* Why, in a movie that brilliantly parodies Hollywood's handling of racial stereotypes and turns crude tropes like blackface, Uncle Tomfoolery and Stop Being Stereotypical into complex, incisive comedy, did they decide that "aging white Jew dances to...
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* And... when did that become a stereotype? I have absolutely never heard of the stereotype that middle-aged Jewish men love to dance to hip-hop...?
** The stereotype is that someone outside an ethnic group cannot or should not do the things associated with the ethnic group, and that therefore their attempt to do so is funny.
*** Or, y'know... it's just not something you'd usually expect someone like him to do?
== In Rain of Madness, the Mockumentary, it showed that the Tropic Thunder gang had never returned from Vietnam and yet we know for a fact that they did. I am confused. ==
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