January 30, 2009
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1.30/2009
Robert Downey Jr. is being nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actor for his role in Tropic Thunder. Does anyone else get the complete irony of that situation? He's in a movie, spoofing Hollywood and its conception of race, playing a white man who acts as an African American man, and now, the real actor Downey Jr. is up for a nomination? Now that's comedy.
Lastly... you can't be serious. An Oscar nomination? I mean, it was definitely entertaining... and sometimes very realistic (i.e. The Jefferson's theme scene), but I mean, seriously, outside the satiric nature of the film, how is this any different from blackface? How is this any different from a white man donning cork on his face, and mocking black masculinity?
Strange...
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