Loading ...Thunder gets its own mockumentary
Tropic Thunder writer Justin Theroux, along with performer Steve Coogan, have put together a mockmentary on the making of Tropic Thunder called “Rain of Madness”. It’s a take on “Hearts of Darkness,” the behind-the-scener of the Francis Ford Coppola classic Apocalypse Now– which itself was an inspiration for Stiller’s film.
The 30 minute short is available for free download through iTunes, and features most of the cast, along with Theroux playing a faux-German documentarian named Jan Jurgen. He introduces the mockumentary thus:
Hallö.
I am German born filmmaker Jan Jürgen. I am writing to you from Vietnam, after documenting the making of a Hollywood classic called, Tropic Thunder.” While the actors and filmmakers try to tell their
story of heroism set in the chaos of the Vietnam War, I too will be telling a story. One that has never, until now, been told. A story that I have wanted to tell since I was a child.Like all of you, I have for many year been fascinated by that most magicalest of all places; “Hollywood.” As a boy, I would go to the cinema, and marvel at the people on the silver screen. But even as a boy I remember thinking; “Is there a more forbidding, more sinister side than the glittering facade held up by the powerful arms of the Studio System?”
Of course, this is the question of a child, but that question still follows me today. Imagine my surprise when Damien Cockburn, my former classmate from University, called me on the telephone and asked me to travel to Vietnam and aim my camera at him as he directed his first Hollywood movie. He claimed it will be “the greatest war movie ever” in which many movie stars, including Tugg Speedman, would appear. Could he really be talking about the Tugg Speedman? Could Damien, the awkward theater student I once knew, now be the speak of the town?
This blog, and the documentary I am working on, will address not just these questions, but more. What will follow is a raw, unedited, look behind the fetid flesh curtain known to you and me as simply
“Hollywood.”Danke you for taking this journey with me.
Sincerely,
J. Jürgen
Ho Chi Minh 2008.
Look for a cameo by Stiller’s go-to-girl Janeane Garofalo.
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