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re: Tropic Thunder End/Credit Role Scene

Posted on 6/28/21 at 10:41 am to
Posted by Fewer Kilometers
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2007
38425 posts
Posted on 6/28/21 at 10:41 am to
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What I love is this movie was released only three months after Iron Man
And in the theaters at the same time as Kung Fu Panda. The MTV Movie Awards came out the same month. Some great videos of Stiller trying to boost Tropic Thunder's promotion by piggybacking off of Iron Man and Kung Fu Panda's successes.

Tropic Thunder promo pitch meeting with RDJ and Jack Black.
Posted by Sgt_Lincoln_Osiris
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2014
1175 posts
Posted on 6/28/21 at 11:20 am to
Tropic Thunder Behind the Scenes with Sgt. Lincoln Osiris

8 min of Robert Downey being in character "off" camera
Posted by A Menace to Sobriety
Member since Jun 2018
32519 posts
Posted on 6/28/21 at 11:51 am to
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Be honest, how many of you weren't sure that Les Grossman was Tom Cruise until the credits?


This was 100% me.

When I saw the movie in theaters and when I saw Tom Cruise's name at the end of the credits, I said what the frick? Where in the world was he in this movie? But then a couple minutes later, I put it together and realized it was him as Les Grossman. By far the best part of the movie, him or Downey.
Posted by Damone
FoCo
Member since Aug 2016
32966 posts
Posted on 6/28/21 at 12:15 pm to
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GOAT 00s Comedy. Name one that was better. You can't.

Anchorman
Walk Hard
Step Brothers
Old School
Grandma's Boy
Saving Silverman
Dodgeball
Zoolander
Posted by 9Fiddy
19th Hole
Member since Jan 2007
66974 posts
Posted on 6/28/21 at 12:34 pm to
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Tropic Thunder Behind the Scenes with Sgt. Lincoln Osiris


Holy shite I’ve never seen that. The entire 8 minutes is fricking amazing.

7x7x7x7x7=0.0001

Your mother’s a hoe. The kind that pulls the stars through the galaxy

Putting the gun to the kid’s head and saying “be cool. We cool.”

Posted by JDPndahizzy
JDP
Member since Nov 2013
6963 posts
Posted on 6/28/21 at 12:39 pm to
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8 min of Robert Downey being in character "off" camera


that was good!!
Posted by Sgt_Lincoln_Osiris
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2014
1175 posts
Posted on 6/28/21 at 12:39 pm to
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7x7x7x7x7=0.0001

Your mother’s a hoe. The kind that pulls the stars through the galaxy

Putting the gun to the kid’s head and saying “be cool. We cool.”



Downey can improv with the best of them. I guarantee not a word of this is scripted.
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
Member since Jan 2019
30207 posts
Posted on 6/28/21 at 12:54 pm to
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Anchorman
Walk Hard
Step Brothers
Old School
Grandma's Boy
Saving Silverman
Dodgeball
Zoolander


None of those are better comedies than Tropic Thunder.
Posted by CGSC Lobotomy
Member since Sep 2011
81611 posts
Posted on 6/28/21 at 2:26 pm to
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Cruise told him it was missing something and Cruise came up with the character Grossman and talk Stiller into letting him play the part.


He also demanded two things. He wanted fat hands and he wanted to dance.
Posted by LSUFreek
Greater New Orleans
Member since Jan 2007
16305 posts
Posted on 6/28/21 at 4:04 pm to
Side note: I love lagniappe scenes in the rolling credits, but if the extra scenes are put in to get you stay during credits, and nobody is reading who is credited for doing what, what's really the point?

I'd be pissed if my name in the credits was scrolling while Cruise was dancing.
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