Tropic Thunder
Hollywood war parody
Tropic Thunder is a 2008 action comedy film about actors filming a Vietnam War movie who find themselves in real combat.
The title parodies bombastic war-movie names.
The film sparked controversy for its use of blackface and the word "retard," while satirizing Hollywood excess and method acting taken to absurd extremes.
- Jack BlackActor-musician known for bombast
- BoratSatirical Kazakh TV personality
- satireMockery exposing vice
- comedyWork meant to amuse
- lampoonHarsh public mockery
Tom Cruise · Ben Stiller · Zoolander · parody · film · spoof · Iron Man · Nick Nolte · Robert Downey Jr. · director · Hollywood · film industry · movie set · farce · method acting · cinema · screenplay · jungle
- ben stiller filmsZoolander, Dodgeball, Meet the Parents, Starsky and Hutch, Greenberg
- Parodiesspoof, Spaceballs, Naked Gun, Scary Movie, take-off
- Tom Cruise FilmsTop Gun, Mission Impossible, Jerry Maguire, Rain Man, A Few Good Men
- satirelampoon, parody, parody account, political satire, spoof
- Vietnam WarVietnam War, Vietnam, Tet Offensive, My Lai Massacre, Viet Cong
- War SatireCatch-22, Dr. Strangelove, MASH, The Great Dictator, Slaughterhouse-Five
Tropic ThunderPlatoon
Infantry unit, several squads
Apocalypse Now · Full Metal Jacket · The Deer Hunter · Saving Private Ryan · We Were Soldiers
Tropic ThunderPearl Harbor
Hawaiian military port attacked 1941
Transformers · La La Land · Top Gun · American Sniper · Hugo
tropic, thunder, tropical, tropics, thunders, thundered, thundering, thunderous, thunderously