A drug-addicted comedian known for playing multiple characters in low-brow comedies.
On its surface, Tropic Thunder (2008) is a raucous satire of Hollywood war films. But beneath the explosions and crude humor lies a complex "index"—a detailed, categorical catalogue of modern cinema’s neuroses, the fragile male ego, and the blurred line between performance and psychosis. To examine the "index of Tropic Thunder " is to open a filing cabinet of Hollywood pathology, where each drawer contains a different species of disaster: the overrated actor, the traumatized auteur, the corporate hack, and the method performer who can no longer find the exit door. index of tropic thunder
: Les Grossman represents the predatory and ego-driven nature of film executives. categorical catalogue of modern cinema’s neuroses