Technically he was a dude, playing a dude, who was a dude, playing another dude, disguised as another dude

Great line yo........classic

Word, Leigh. ....word. It's an insult to call his character blackface.

The dude abides.

"You're the dude that dont know which dude he is"

I think this is the best and simplest interpretation I have seen. Like we can't have racist or sexist characters in movies anymore? People like this actually exist. There's nothing wrong with depicting people in movies. It's called acting. It's not there to convince people to be racist. It's there to depict a thing that actually happens.

word

Solomon Parker it’s just insane to me that that actually needs to be explained to people lol. It’s kind of the same situation with our statues and history here in the US 🇺🇸, I’m 19 and it really seems like everyone my age doesn’t understand that there was no such thing as “political correctness” before the 21st century. Literally EVERYONE was racist, so we as a society would basically have to throw away our whole country to make some of these people “happy” even though they wouldn’t be happy, they’d still find something to complain about. There’s nothing wrong with a little racism in movies or history, it’s actually very beneficial to us especially for the people that believe that racism isn’t a thing anymore.

Wow, what an apt comparison...

Not even that. The character he was playing wasn't a racist slave owner. He was playing a dude disguised as a dude playing another dude. There is literally nothing to get offended about.

Im a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude

Europeans were enslaved by africans for 700-1500 years but everyone seems to forget that

Maaaaaan that’s the theme song to the Jefferson’s

Now we up in the big leagues...

@@cierrakovarik4152 just cause its a theme song don't make it not true

I'm black and the reason I didn't found his role to be offensive is because I didn't know that was RDJ till about halfway through the movie. He did it so flawlessly as a black dude, you seriously can't be mad 😂

Right.. His character was very funny... I really enjoyed that movie...

Right, Downey was playing an actor who was playing a role (a movie inside a movie). He was making fun of that fictional character who was acting out a role. So he wasn't making fun of black people in any way. He was making fun of a fictional actor attempting to play a black person with makeup.

​@@BryanCostnerjust like white chick's was very funny, like Dave Chappell said "I don't wanna live in a world where we can't have jokes"

No black person I know of was offended by it. He was in brown face, not black face 😂😂😂.

I didn’t even know he was in the movie till I looked it up to see what character he played

Unathi Mankosi same!! When it said it was RDJ I was like “wtf!”

Me too. 3/4 of the movie and I'm suspecting something...

Unathi Mankosi I’m assuming you showed up 15min late to the movie. Cuz it shows him getting the makeup in the beginning lol

Me 2 bra.

Ralph Muskinyaar It’s true

Charlize Theron is the greatest African American actress...

😂

The only thing missing was Dingo eating his baby

😂😭

Na it was cheese unlike rdjr’s

@@OleHickory69 No. Just no. Go and sit over there.

First of all take a step back and literally...fuck your own face 🤣 best line everrrrr

R u for real loll or is this a joke I don’t get ..

Totally agree . TC nailed his part . Funniest role he has ever had. And the weird thing is , i never guessed it was him until the credits rolled

Just like Blazing Saddles used over-the-top absurd racism to show just how stupid racism is, he used over-the-top absurd blackface to show just how stupid BlackFace is.

@@RobwLPOC I'm so glad I came to these comments to see this insight being noticed by other human beings. Watching Rogan attempt to take it down the whole "ah everyone is such a snowflake" path and RDJ subtly and smoothly cutting it off with his very unoffensive rebuttal was the highlight of this video for me. Rogan is seeminly obsessed with making everything about snowflakes, or whatever. Very sad.

@@daxpwnsyouall well that is because there are nothing but snowflakes walking around, acting outraged when they get offended by everything. kids these days think racism is the absolute worst sin in the history of mankind. it is so pathetic how this world is now. we murder our babies by the millions, but dont you dare use a racial slur.

@@RobwLPOC as being half black I totally agree but the problem is the ones who want to do it to be racist use that defense to do things with negative intentions. But this movie is probably my top 5 favorite comedies.

Thats bs. You dont need to make all of these justifications and defend him. He was just making a funny film and doing a great comedic performance

I forgot RDJ wasn't Hugh Jackman for about 90% of this clip.

@@1075twist - he don't anything like wolverine, stfu

@@violent_bebop9687 great use of vocabulary friend. Your thoughts really connect with me

@@violent_bebop9687 what was the need for stfu?

It took me a while to realise that it was RDJ too

I agree 💯

Not for the money. The "groundbraking" performances of a Kirk Lazarus and Sean Penn are for the Academy award.

It's not offensive because it wasn't portrayed offensively.

Thanks for dumbing down the exact point RDJ made in his clip. Thanks ,cause I'm sure there are people who watched this clip who didn't understand. Like Rogan himself.

It's similar to "Jo Jo Rabbit". It treads a fine line and succeeds. It actually takes a lot of sensitivity to do that.

Great comment.

I can only imagine Ben Stiller figuring out how to make that happen lol

no, he was a dude playing a dude, disguised as another dude.

Yeah, wont make sense for a black guy playing a white guy, playing a black guy and then re appears to be as a white guy towards the end of a movie.. lol

@@felinegoodstudios2755 I agree Blackface is wrong 100% and i bet all people commenting here will agree. The fact is, blackface was not portrayed by RDJ in Tropic Thunder whatsoever. The character he played was to take the piss out of method actors.

Yeah, he was playing an Australian actor playing a black soldier.

"Cuz we tired of being ya trail donkeys! Actin like you some one man GPS!"

@@redbarbarian we lost man we super fuckin lost

👏👏😂😂

the quote is "suck my unit". thats ok i just watched this movie 20 times more than you.

I literally laughed out loud remembering that scene 😂

I think u don’t remember it quit because rdj played a character who did blackface he didn’t play a black character that’s why it is funny

@Muhammed Aksoy RDJ is playing Kirk Lazarus, whois the white guy. Kirk Lazarus plays the black soldier in the war movie. It's brilliant

@@DN..11 I know that’s what I said

@@muhammedaksoy9604 meant to tag other guy my b

@@DN..11 no problem

Do you agree that Tropic Thunder is even better than Scary Movie? 😍

Don't know why you had to put the world male in there but alright. Just seems odd.

​@@UlyssesM because the movie was a well directed comedy that happened to have an entertaining all male cast. stop looking for enemies where there isn't

​@@UlyssesM because the movie was a well directed comedy that happened to have an entertaining all male cast. stop looking for enemies where there isn't

Ulysses is clearly a nervous lil boy playin with his di*k

RIGHT lmaoooo the irony they had a rapper who was larger than life who was hiding his true sexuality too.. i mean technically the movie was too forward thinking LOL

He was dude playing a dude playing a dude by another dude.

I agree. The PC garbage is killing comedy.

I had a friend who legit thought he was a real black guy and couldn’t comprehend the scene where he’s removing his makeup.

Shut up & stop looking for acceptance 🤣

Agreed RDJ’s character was the best thing about the movie... along with Tom Cruise. Can’t forget Les Grossman

Comedy sequels rarely works, so that’s not really a bad thing

Tyler Mickens wait wait wait... what do you mean you people😂😂

As a black man, no one gives a fuck your black, and no one gives a fuck if I'm black, why cuz it really don't matter..

Tyler Mickens It’s ok man. There’s millions of people of all colours who’ll get offended on your behalf if you can’t find it within yourself.

It’s a sad day when we lose our humour. ❤️ to you,

yes!

Your problem isn't black people, your problem is the white liberal types who feel that they've got to get outraged over these matters and white Knight for the black population.

Well said

Fuckin Genius. That dudes a fuckin Actor. He plays everyone and none are the same I'm sorry to black folks but Denzel is not an actor. Plays the same roll in everyfuckin movie

@@elyaqui5324 Same role, yes, but Denzel always nails that one role.

Lou Berg so all actors that are type cast aren’t actors?

Merry go back I’ll

Listen to the commentary, he didn't!

Until the very end lol

Binch9T6 🤣😂

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@tittiecheese until the credits came on. Then he switched to Kirk Lazarus. When the credits end, he's RDJ again. I'm glad he got clean so he can be in more than one movie every 5 years. He's seriously talented.

This comment has me in tears 😂😂

LMAOO 🤣

Do you agree that Tropic Thunder is even better than Scary Movie? 😍

I have the dvd, and I watched the movie until the end with the commentary on. He really didn't😏

The extras on the DVD are LIFE. RDJ in character through the whole thing, and a whole bit about him getting into character.

Go to my page, i have a clip of that commentary.

IJN Yamato 🤣🤣🤣

The best part is when he switches to the Vietnamese farmer and screams “ElectrolytAH!!!” I laughed for several minutes.

Ethiopian Dancing Goat Herder some shit ain't funny

BeatBox You.Lunch funny is very subjective to the listener. So some things for YOU aren’t funny you meant.

Ethiopian Dancing Goat Herder the world? Or “them”?

BeatBox You.Lunch Give me a “for instance.” Watch Gervais’ Golden Globes monologue, then apply it to yourself. You’re in no position to tell people what they should or shouldn’t do. Shut the fuck up, climb down off your high horse, and we’ll all get on with our day.

@@boxout90 just because you dont find something funny doesnt mean it's not a joke

Yes 👍 when I saw the fake trailers I said to myself: this is too funny, please don’t stop. It took some time till the audience got it but after that it was a laugh fest. Starship Troopers is also a great parody movie. I also saw that in the theater, but it’s harder to get that if you don’t know some history.

The guy hates that this has to be brought up everytime he is praised.

@@lexismith3670 I'll remember to bring that up next time I see him.

@@eriklarson9137 Its a good thing he wont be talking to ur ass then 😁

😂​@@eriklarson9137

I made a tongue-in-cheek joke about this, but like simple jack, imma catch mad flak about it.

I freaking love that line. That whole scene is amazing. “We’re lost WE’RE FUCKIN SUPER LOST MAN”

Best line ever

The whole movie is stellar

Classic

At that point he was acting as an Australian playing a black dude dressed as an Asian.... just to be clear - the inception layers to his character in that movie

@@Cobreezyy06 are you saying he was dude, playing a dude...disguised as another dude?

BurgerDan couldn’t have said it better myself

*A DUDE PLAYING A DUDE DISGUSED AS ANOTHER DUDE*

*Cough cough* Jared Leto

Very black, as opposed to kinda black? Haha

rjd did such a good job people are leading with how black they are in the comments.

Do you agree that Tropic Thunder is even better than Scary Movie? 😍

@@Julia25120 That's a great comedy, no doubt.

DillonJ because he did nothing wrong and its a movie

@DillonJ the entire point of it is that it is EXTREMELY offensive, and it was meant to be offensive to the producers who do shit like cast a white person in like an asain role and try to highlight that there is a major issue with the way the industry was treating people, how about this, go find a bunch of black people and ask them if they thought it was offensive that someone was calling to light the blatant racism going on

@DillonJ It's the context. Not that it was in a movie, but that the whole joke is that actors are so out of touch with reality that they can't see why it's wrong for him to do "method acting" which is just a racist black face. It's literally a point in the movie that the people get offended by it. IT'S MAKING FUN OF PEOPLE WHO DO BLACK FACE. Watch the damn movie before throwing accusations. It's like saying any white actor who says the N word in a movie in any context including historical, is racist.

DillonJ check context

DillonJ watch the movie before you keep embarrassing yourself dude. The whole point of the movie is against people who do that

HUH?!

When RDJ replies "huh?!" And turns around quickly I just start dying lmfaoooo

Still cant forget "i know what dude i am. Im a dude playing a dude, disguised as another dude"

i was at work today... thought about that, laughed my pooty off...... was like, they r going to think i am crazy on the cameras lol

Yeah

Same

same, RDJ made that movie

Because black folks didnt care.

That was a great role and I'm Latino and we don't care either when whites play Latinos or Italian play Latinos or half Arabian play Latinos xD

For me he could be even a freaking Eskimo if he is good at it, let him be Eskimo. Fucking political correctness

Take a seat...

Mace Windu This deal keeps getting worse all the time!

So glad i found the black section of the comments

I mean Mace windu survived!

A Sith Lord?

If this is real, why you still in character? Man, I never drop character til I done the DVD commentary.

@@rhydean693😂😂😂😂

Do you agree that Tropic Thunder is even better than Scary Movie? 😍

@@Julia25120 No contest, 100%!

I legit just spit out my fucking cereal lmfao. Thank you.

@Rob Melrose as both Lincoln and Kurt

"I don't drop character 'til I've done the DVD commentary" 😊

hmm.. so how could you explain that round thing on his chest?

Weren't no cellphones in 69 I'm head to toe legitimate

@Vitruvius Antarchius lmao gotta love the way the boomers aged

Cyan Scar umm I believe they're too afraid to offend millennials, get canceled, and drive down their profits.

Becuase even if you dont like ridiculous films like tropic thunder those typa movies made my childhood they made me know how to let go of giving a shit about meaningless stuff in life and know how when to take a joke people cant seem to do that today except for yall in this comment section I love yall

TUME 1 yeah they're afraid to lose profits. That's literally what I just said stupid fuck

RDJ wasn’t wearing blackface in tropic thunder. His character was.

He also climaxes under the desk

Same giggle you would make if you ever met Joe

hes just high

A little girl that can kick your ass and make you cry lol.

I think you could make Tropic Thunder now but RDJs character would have to be a black guy - playing a white guy-pretending to be a black guy. LMAO 😆

Theo G 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Do you also sexually identify as not funny?

@@Szeptun That's gotta be me

Lol

great.

Don't you mean until after he does the dvd commentary? I'm pretty sure he was in character during the commentary as well.

Faris Akhtar - he was paraphrasing a line from the movie

@@farisakhtar4824 Yup can confirm

@@steveflow1332 ok thanks. I haven't seen the full movie yet, only bits of it.

@@farisakhtar4824 you missing out on a classic g.

Exactly. Nobody black got offended by this

@@B3Smooth yeah it’s like, white SJW and BLM protesters only get triggered by this. Showed the movie to my black best friend and he just laughed his ass off.

This was one of those situations where years later someone had to tell me I'm supposed to be offended. I saw the movie, it didn't bother me. I'm not going to get worked up because YOU don't like it.

For 400 years...

@@lgchamp1999 I’m a hardcore fight the power black this was made for me lol

Exactly why it's not offensive

Or are you a dude who has no idea what dude he is, and claims to know what dude he is

There's a song. Search I'm a dude song.

@@triple6758 that song is awesome

@@MoejiiOsmanTV Like for real...a good track!

if you've nvr actually heard the dvd commentary for tropic thunder. Do it immediately!

"I don't read the script, script reads me" lol

if there were 2 movie commentaries that i would recommend to people, it would be tropic thunder and conan the barbarian.

Best Line Ever🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@bikingchupei2447 the newer conan?

Don´t forget Tom Cruise playing a total sleezeball!

And that was the first scene of the film lol

nigga the theme song from the Jeffersons part was fucking hilarious

@@TheEandIShow I lost it at "You people"

Same

You just can't see the racism. Maybe you need some diversity training./s

@@JTtheMid yeah that bit was hilarious, "what do you mean you people" 🤣

Lol

agreed

Still wish they made that spin off movie.

Fwaming Dwagon

That is top 5 funniest movies of all time imo. That scene is classic. Cruise needs to bring that character back.

This is a top notch comment...very low key...I LOL‘ed hard!

@@BigTrixxx deadasss i never met a nigga who was mad at this fr he is a genuis

@@DUKESHOCKA Its mostly dudes assuming people are offended. I don't even know how Joe compared rdj to the Canadian prime Minister. That was a stretch.

That's not wrong though. I'm black and I'm not offended. Every person offended by rdj in tropic thunder is white. Robert is the man. He can do whatever.

LMAO. I FUCKING HATE THE INTERNET

Les Grossman

Nope.Tom Cruise

Tom was amazing but every time Robert talk I was thinking how the fuck he did that scene with a straight face?

Jack Black's coked out character was pretty great too

@@gator9339 he was amazing, everyone was because none of the characters tried to be funnier than the other

You man me both! I couldn't figure out where he was because it said on the cover he's in the movie 😅😂

Word

Yourthedudedontknowwhatdudeheis!!!

Right next to, “Listen here, Lance....Lance?” 😂 that whole campfire scene had me and my brothers rolling

"You're a dude who don't know what dude he is!!" "The dudes are emerging..." Too many glorious lines in that movie.

You know theres a song on youtube to this

So true, the hypocrisy of the left. The same reason they only ask middle aged white people their thoughts on illegal immigration from Central America because they are too “woke” and their inner self hatred of being white will only allow them to side with the “poor innocent”souls searching for a better life. They will never ask an immigrant from Central America or Mexico, because they will tell the truth, and say “Hell no we don’t want them here, we know who’s coming over, why do you think we left? And busted our ass to do it the right way and they can just come across and get asylum?!” Got to adhere to those talking points

@@PwrthrupN you sound like you have some issues to get worked out

P D i promise you immigrants don’t think like this and no they didn’t come over the “right” way it’s almost impossible to come here that way especially if you’re escaping regimes and corruption

When people call you out for a statement and don't understand what it was :)

P D you always had a nice place to live so there is that. Woke or not facts are facts. If you lived in a shit hole maybe you would scurry as fast as you could huh?

He was nominated.

Jack Black was awesome in this movie

Before endgame? Still is his best quote

@Fake Name Or are you a dude who has no idea what dude he is, and claims to know what dude he is?

It was qoute by a dude, disguise as another dude disguise as another dude and NOT by RDJ.

@@RasPutintheGreat lmao best one.

Go on milk it

😂😂😂😂😂😂

And he didnt!

Thet fact that he actually did it in the commentary is pretty fucking hilarious

@@trackboy17 Commentary Tracks are highly underrated. I still have a pile of DVDs (Like TT) for that very reason.

Ohhh shit foreal

I remeber seeing him in us marshals, damn good actor.

WHERE ARE YOU GETTING AT WITH THE BOOKS AND SCRIPTS?!? SPIT THAT SHIT OUT MAN!

Lmao

you about to cross some fucking lines

No lies. Love RDJ

MrBlankscole that’s genius 🤔 lol

insert genius meme here

He was the dude playin a dude disguised as another dude. I love that movie and RDJ played it perfectly. There’s a difference in art and mockery.

he did, but he was serious, not mocking.

This isn't any different than white chicks. People need to get over it.

So underrated

Dude, totally! It got me over being annoyed with him being a Scientologist. He was just that good.

Les Grossman may be the best character Cruise has ever done. The movie was great, but the cruise stuff was genius.

I love how 98% of people couldn’t recognize him till the end and it blew everyone’s minds lol

I know right!? I feel like he gets passed over when people talk about this movie for RDJ and jack blacks character

I'd say it's because he does everything that you could see your average black dad doing in that situation. No exaggeration because he is genuinely appreciative about the culture he's portraying, not just trying to make it look excessive and dumb.

@@LlibertarianGalt I wouldn't say that's it at all for me, but if that's your read then that's your truth.

The secret ingredient to all of this is the "not taking yourself seriously" angle that everything Mel Brooks (and Tropic Thunder) did. It's a parody. It's a spoof. It's intended to be satire. It didn't try to be something it wasn't. It didn't try to take itself seriously and actually play blackface in a "serious" way. I think society has always had openings for satire and parody. We haven't lost that. Tropic Thunder could easily be made in today's hypersensitive culture, as long as the director/actor/actresses do it with, like RDJ says, "with your heart in the right place." Which means if you approach it like satire and execute it like satire, then it'll nail the message/meaning. You'll never satisfy 100% of people. Offense-taking is unavoidable. But the overwhelming majority of Americans (and the world) still has plenty of heart and stomach for satire. It ain't going anywhere. Mel Brooks is a legend specifically because his life's work was pointing at and poking fun at people who take themselves too seriously. If anything, more satire is needed now. So not only do I think Sgt Lincoln Osiris could be done again in today's culture, it would actually be widely successful directly because of how sensitive culture appears to be atm. Counter-culture will never not be a thing.

@@John-vm2sq Hey, that's pretty good

Genius

Kevin Hart would’ve done a great job

What the hell does that even mean?

@@javieramirez1 it means that he's just a little boy, playing with this d*ck when he's nervous

@@javieramirez1 Whatchu gettin at with the book script, spit that shit out man

@matthew safarz lol did you even see the movie? xd

More shredded than a julienne salad man

Lol facts

Big facts

Facts don't work on leftists

@@Sshooter444 You mean facts dont work on Bible reading Hillbillys like you Schoolshooter444

Sshooter444 youre the one that brought up politics DICKNOSE

@Kyle Reid Nice.

Right lol😂

Kyle Reid top 10 people that really got the life they wanted

I'm offended that ur offended about people being offended about this movie

@@rileywhittington6742 👉🏻 BY this movie.

Agreed.

Very true...

"I don't do drugs, drugs do me" I don't really remember where I heard that

"...What the hell does that even mean?"

Book , script , spit that shit out

I love that fucking movie 😂😂😂😂

Only people that get offended are rich white women who see us as weak defenseless people

@@KZfaqr-lv6eh lol yup usually the case!

@@KZfaqr-lv6eh I don't think so. You don't think some black people got offended??? Of course some did. I think a more accurate statement would be that, only "leftists" got offended.

@@PhillColl1ns I'm gonna have to respectfully disagree, and say that it absolutely IS political affiliation. Completely and totally. I guarantee you no conservatives got offended, black or white. I promise you, black white and brown people got offended and they were without a doubt all leftists.

@@PhillColl1ns I don't think we can have a serious conversation about this. You're gonna tell me that you think ANY conservatives got offended by this? No, my friend. The only people that got offended by something this trivial, are leftists. I'll stake my life on it. Have a good one.

Do you agree that Tropic Thunder is even better than Scary Movie? 😍

Why

cardude1992 yea thats debatable

That was not a line 😂

Sheesh guys, lay off of him. It was pretty funny , dont get butt hurt over a joke

Who dragged all these pussies in? It was a funny statement you sensitive twats

So true fam.

Disguised as another dude

Facts lol

I'm a dude commenting to a dude that watched a dude interview a dude that played a dude playing another dude.

It was inception in his mind!

Well said my friend

Yo! So did i! Lol!!

Yeah my dad, who's black. thought it was an actual black guy before he saw the movie lol

i found out it was robert after iron man 3

@Super Saiyin Kakashi That's because his portrayal is what's expressed in (social) media. #stereotyped Boom! Facts! Lol

sha # butthurt

Thomas Brown lmao 😂

Lol, So sorry for your loss

He's an amazing actor either way though. I always forget it's him...Lincoln Osiris, Iron Man & Sherlock Holmes are all the same dude 🤯🤯🤯

with a name T. Brown i can understand to difficulties ;) J/K

LMFAO! That's too good hahah

Yeah people are way too sensitive about stuff like this but that's why I always like seeing opinions like yours. Respect

As an Asian man living in Asia I also can honestly say I loved this movie.

@@frankmarano1118 facts bro it’s jus white liberal mfs that wan act like they care by telling y’all what to be mad about and what should bother yu

I’m only half black, but I didn’t find his portrayal derogatory. We need to be able to laugh at ourselves.

I'm white and I found the movie to be funny. If you laugh at racism, that's like the definition of anti-racism. If you see a trope and think, "yep that's how THEY are", you're racist. And if you get offended just because it has anything to do with race at all, you are a sheep.