Tropic Thunder

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Description: Poster/DVD for Tropic Thunder.

What Is It?

The 2008 action-comedy movie Tropic Thunder.

Tropic Thunder (2008) Official Trailer – Ben Stiller Movie HD

Here is how The IMDb describes this movie:

Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.

Action movie star Tugg Speedman is on the downslide of his professional career. He wants to be considered a serious actor, but his latest serious role as the title character in “Simple Jack” resulted in negative reviews and ridicule. Comedian Jeff Portnoy is best known for his leading roles in sophomoric comedies, and may be less well known for his rampant drug use. Five time Oscar winner Kirk Lazarus is a serious method actor, who immerses himself in whatever the role. On location in southeast Vietnam, they are the stars of “Tropic Thunder”, based on Vietnam War veteran ‘Four Leaf’ Tayback’s memoirs of his rescue during the war, that rescue which was considered a near suicide mission for the assigned army force and resulted in him losing both hands. For his role, Caucasian Australian Lazarus even went through a controversial surgical skin dying procedure so that he could convincingly play a black man. Production is not going well, since rookie director Damien Cockburn is unable to control the prima-donna attitude of his three stars. Cockburn and Tayback decide that the five primary actors – Speedman, Portnoy, Lazarus, rapper Alpa Chino, and newcomer Kevin Sandusky – need to work together as a unit as did their real life characters. The five are placed in the middle of the jungle, and with only a map and their prop machine guns in hand, are asked to work together to battle through the stunt pyrotechnics in their way. What none of the seven of them know is that they have been dropped into a real life drug war led by the Flaming Dragons. It isn’t until Speedman is captured by the Flaming Dragons and tortured that they all realize that what they believed was make believe gunfire and land mines was actually real life. As the four actors try to figure out what to do concerning Speedman’s situation, all five go through their own journey of self-discovery. Meanwhile, the movie’s megalomaniacal profanity spewing producer Les Grossman and Speedman’s faithful agent Rick Peck argue about what to do about Speedman’s situation. And Tayback inadvertently shows a little of his true self. —Huggo

A Hair Selling Competition?

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I remember part of a confusing dream from last night that took place during the day in a slightly fictional version of D and on & off a slightly fictional version of the highway to LC.

One part of the dream involved me driving around D to shop at Dollar General and/or several stores or something like that, but I can not remember the rest of the beginning of the dream.

At some point I drove toward the city of LC and off of the highway was an event of some kind taking place, and I stopped to see what it was all about.

There were a lot of people but I can not remember most of what happened at first, I just remember at some point there was a competition where people were trying to sell hair or something crazy like that, and a few celebrities were competing as well.

Hulk Hogan was there & he had a younger supermodel-looking wife with blond colored hair and whitish colored skin, and she was in the hair selling competition or whatever it was.

She had some blue fabric / hair-like stuff over her face & head that made her look a bit like Mystique from the X-Men films, but she was not doing so good in the competition because the crowd did not like her personality or something like that; they felt that she acted like she was better than everyone or something like that.

I think that Hulk Hogan tried to cheer her up & give her some advice, and he might have tried to get the crowd on her side; but I am not sure, and I can not remember the details.

Another celebrity who was in the competition later in the dream was, Jack Black, and I met him on an airplane that was flying; but I do not remember how I got on the airplane. 😀

I just remember meeting Mr. Black, and he was goofing / joking around as usual; and he went to the competition when the airplane landed, and I went back to the competition to watch again.

There was one or more other celebrities competing at the event, among the other people in the competition, but I can not remember who; and I can not remember the rest of the details.

I remember driving back to D at some point and something happened that I can not remember exactly, that might have had something to do with an abandoned house connected to the building by DG; but I am not sure.

Later my dad and I went to visit a fictional great-aunt of my dad, who lived in a narrow two-story house connected to the building by DG, but she looked like my mom’s dead great-aunt E/QJ.

I can not remember most of the details but I do know that we went on both floors of her house, and I remember that she walked faster than I expected for an old woman & she had more energy than I expected; and she seemed independent like my mom’s dead great-aunt E/QJ.

In the dream I might have even thought about how she looked & reminded me of my great-aunt E/QJ, but I am not sure.

This fictional great-aunt of my dad talked to my dad & I about several things, but unfortunately I can not remember what she told us; but I know that some of it was advice & past wisdom/knowledge.

I call her my dad’s fictional great-aunt because as far as I know she is not one of my dad’s great aunts, but I am not sure.

At some point we said goodbye & left, but I woke up shortly after this.

The end,

-John Jr 🙂