Who saw Tropic Thunder? A question about the the boycotts...?

Question

Disabled groups are protesting the use of the word "retarded" and the whole Simple Jack thing. I didn't mind that so much personally even though I can understand their point. I understand it was tasteless humor meant for adults, but I was really offended and uncomfortable by the agents apparent shame for his disabled son. It was not humourous, nor did it add anything to the plot, so I am curious as to why it was even there. It could have been cut out and not affected the movie or it's intentions of skewering actors and the roles they choose. I was just wondering what everyone else thought of that.

Answer 1

Question is, what other kind of movie could he have done that the drug lords would have wanted to watch?

It's all a spoof with a little zing underneath, just as they had him wearing false teeth, "buck teeth" - which was the traditional thing that "yellow face" actors during the 30s wore when they were trying to appear Chinese or Japanese.

(Having said that, I love Peter Lorre's Mr. Moto and Warner Oland's Charlie Chan.)