Chris Ryan

It's pushing the envelope in terms of how zany and daring a comedy is.

This is different, though.

Like, this is legitimately hitting at what some people would say are marginalized communities.

Special disabilities, special needs people, should I say, black people, gay people.

Viet Congs.

There's not a lot of... Viet Cong.

Viet Cong.

there's no ass you wouldn't say chinese there's not a lot of movies in this run that you guys are talking about that go for this something about mary is definitely one of them yeah definitely one of them but they're not that many movies that go directly where tropic thunder goes do you get credibility though when you have this many stars and proven people in it do they get to push the envelope more at that point

You know, I have this in What's the Most 2008 thing about the movie.

We were still in an era to where funny won.

I agree.

If it was funny, then there would be a certain group of people that would have an issue with it, problems, and we could have conversations.

But if it was funny, that was the most important thing.

Everybody kind of got the joke together.

And if it worked that way, then it was cool.

Now, obviously, we came out of that, right?

We came out of that partly because Hollywood pushed us out of it.

There were several egregious things that happened in the 2010s, like casting Scarlett Johansson in Ghost in the Shell, casting movies where everyone went, no, we need to have a conversation about the racial dynamics and politics that exist in Hollywood.

Right.

And that kind of overshadowed a lot of the other stuff.