Tropic Thunder

Tropic Thunder

Tropic Thunder is a 2008 film starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black, and Robert Downey Jr. as a group of prima donna actors making a Vietnam War film when their fed-up writer and director decide to abandon them in the middle of the jungle, forcing them to fight their way out.

Genre: Action, Comedy
Production: DreamWorks/Paramount Studios
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 10 wins & 43 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
71
Rotten Tomatoes:
82%
R
Year:
2008
107
$110,416,702
Website
15,174 Views

Kirk Lazarus:
What about you, Master Blaster? You got a certain someone you trying to get with back in the States?

Kevin Sandusky:
What, Alpa Chino? He's like ten girls deep, 24/7.

Lazarus:
No, you missin' me, man. I'm talking about something special. Big difference. How about it?

Alpa Chino:
Yeah. Yeah, there is.

Lazarus:
Well? What's the skinny? Y'all been on a date or what?

Chino:
No. I mean...I always wanted to, but, I guess I just never had the courage to ask. It's...it's complicated.

Lazarus:
No! It's simple as pie, man. You plant your feet on the ground, you look her square in the eyes, you say, "Hey. Baby, you and me's going on a date." That's the end of the story. What's her name?

Chino:
...Lance.

Lazarus:
"Listen here, Lance..." Lance? What the f*** did I just hear? Lance?

Sandusky:
Did you say, "Lance"?

Chino:
No!

Sandusky:
That sounded like "Lance".

Chino:
No, I said "Nance".

Sandusky:
It sounded like "Lance".

Chino:
Look, I'm Alpa Chino, okay? I love the p*ssy, all right? Lay your ass back down and look at the stars.

Lazarus:
When you wrote "I Love Tha P*ssy", was you thinking of dangling your dice on Lance's forehead?

Chino:
Naw, hell no! What? Come on, look...

Lazarus:
Man, everyone's gay once in a while!

Chino:
I'm not gay!

Lazarus:
This is Hollywood!

Chino:
How about we all get back to work?

Lazarus:
Okay, cool.

Chino:
This is ridiculous! We got a big day tomorrow. Let's get focused.

Jeff Portnoy:
Alpa, if you untie me, I will literally suck your dick right now.

Chino:
I told you, for the last time, I love tha' p*ssy!

Portnoy:
I'll cradle the balls...stroke the shaft...work the pipe...swallow the gravy. Get it over here, buddy. Let's do this.

Speedman:
You know, there were times when I was doing Jack that I actually felt retarded, like really retarded. I mean, I brushed my teeth retarded, I rode the bus retarded.

Lazarus:
Damn.

Speedman:
In a weird way, I had to sort of just free myself up to believe that it was okay to be stupid or dumb.

Lazarus:
To be a moron.

Speedman:
Yeah.

Lazarus:
To be moronical.

Speedman:
Exactly, to be a moron.

Lazarus:
An imbecile.

Speedman:
Yeah.

Lazarus:
Like the dumbest motherf***er that ever lived.

Speedman:
When I was playing the character.

Lazarus:
When you was the character.

Speedman:
Yeah, as Jack, definitely.

Lazarus:
Jack, stupid ass Jack. Trying to come back from that.

Speedman:
In a weird way it was almost like I had to sort of fool my mind into believing that it wasn't retarded, and by the end of the whole thing, I was like, "Wait a minute, I flushed so much out, how am I gonna jumpstart it up again?" It's just like... Right?

Lazarus:
You was farting in bathtubs and laughing your ass off. Yeah. But Simple Jack thought he was smart, or rather, didn't think he was retarded, so you can't afford to play retarded, being a smart actor. Playing a guy who ain't smart but thinks he is, that's tricky.

Speedman:
Hm. Tricky.

Lazarus:
It's like working with mercury. It's high science, man. It's an art form.

Speedman:
Yeah.

Lazarus:
You an artist.

Speedman:
Hm. That's what we do, right? Yeah.

Lazarus:
Hats off for going there, especially knowing how the Academy is about that sh*t.

Speedman:
About what?

Lazarus:
You're serious? You don't know? Everybody knows you never go full retard.

Speedman:
What do you mean?

Lazarus:
Check it out. Dustin Hoffman, Rain Man, looked retarded, act retarded, not retarded. Count toothpicks, cheat at cards. Autistic, sure. Not retarded. Then you got Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump. Slow, yes, retarded, maybe, braces on his legs, But he charmed the pants off Nixon, and he won a Ping-Pong competition. That ain't retarded. And he was a goddamn war hero. You know any retarded war heroes? [silence] You went full retard, man. Never go full retard.


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