It has been 17 years since its release, and it has almost arrived Tropical thunder. Starring Tom Cruise's Robert Downey Jr., Tom Cruise, Jack Black, Danny McBride and Ben Stiller, the film covers a group of actors who must become real-life soldiers, and the film covers what will happen.
This is a movie that may Didn't do it today The most important of these is the role of Downey Jr. for a variety of reasons. With scripts from Justin Theroux, Stiller and Etan Cohen, the film’s Rotten Tomatoes earned 82% of the scripts, making nearly $200 million worldwide.
War movies were a dime in Hollywood when the Tropical Thunder were released. The United States is in war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and after 9/11, there was a bloodthirsty American audience eager to fight seriously. Tropical Thunder was made during that period, but Stiller was actually inspired by the war movies of the past. The origins of tropical thunder are a response to film eras such as the Sun Empire after the Vietnam War.
In a recent interview with Josh Horowitz's “The Sorrowful Happy Confused Podcast,” Stiller said he got the idea of tropical thunder because when he was writing it, many actors took themselves very seriously because they wanted to play war heroes on screen.
“It was a time like platoon and Hamburg Hill, when every actor of my age was auditioning for all these movies and then going to boot camp for the actors you know movies, they were acting like soldiers for two weeks,” Stiller explained. “This guy named Dale Dye would train them and they went to the movies.”
Stiller’s initial thoughts on the Tropic Thunder were that it was about actors returning from these camps, not being the struggles they were taken seriously by real veterans. “I thought it would be fun to make a movie about really taking your own actors seriously,” Stiller explained. “At first, what I wanted to do was about the actors going to be actors in boot camps and then coming back and then feeling like no one cared – like the actual Vietnam veterans.”
This may sound like a very interesting premise for the movie, but perhaps not the winning premise for comedy. “It was an interesting idea, but actually, I was like, 'Oh, it's not that funny,'” Stiller admitted. “But I do want to make fun of how actors take themselves seriously in those situations. So that's how the idea of the movie develops.”
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