“Tropic Thunder” Movie Protests By Mentally Disabled Groups (Photos)
Posted on August 12, 2008
Tropic Thunder protests began recently by mentally disabled groups such as The Special Olympics and AAPD due to the movie’s character played by Ben Stiller, playing a mentally challenged person, which they find offensive. Come on!
Tropic Thunder stars Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., and other stars.
The premise of the movie is it’s a “movie within a movie”, where a bunch of bratty actors are making a hugh war movie and are way behind schedule. They go into the jungle in Asia to get a bit of motivation for their movie, but accidentally get into real-life trouble with bad ass drug lords.
With the comedy powerhouses of Ben Stiller and Jack Black, how can this movie go wrong?
Robert Downey Jr. plays an egotistic Australian actor that has his skin darkened in order to play an African American war hero in the “movie within the movie” film. You don’t see African American’s protesting the movie!
Tom Cruise also makes a cameo appearance in Tropic Thunder playing a “big wig” studio guy.
Only problem is the film has come under fire by mentally disabled groups due to Ben Stiller’s “mentally challenged” character, which they found very offensive.
Andrew J. Imparato, president of the American Association of People With Disabilities group, said the movie was “tasteless” and “offensive from start to finish”.
“I have a sense of humor,” said Imparato. “There were parts of the movie where I laughed, but it seems to me that the movie tried really hard to go too far and then pull back on everything that was offensive except the issue of people with intellectual disabilities. I just think Ben Stiller and the people involved in this movie just didn’t think it was going to be offensive.”
Tropic Thunder sounds really funny, don’t you guys think?
Images: TT/WENN
Source: news
2 comments
Haha! Ben Stiller pretending to be mentally challenged? That’s all these movie writers can do to make a movie interesting? Make a white man black and another mentally challenged!?
They simply need any sort of camera’s folks.
THAT’S WHY!!