“In a time when to be different was to be condemned… and to be condemned was to die. One man chose to question his god.”
Perhaps the funniest parts of “Tropic Thunder” are the fake trailers in the film that act as great non-expository set-up to each of the character’s in the movie. You kinda wish the whole film was as funny as these trailers.
They start off with Tugg Speedman’s “”Scorcher VI: Global Meltdown” (Ben Stiller), Jeff Portnoy’s “The Fatties: Fart 2” (Jack Black) and Kirk Lazarus’ unholy “Satan’s Alley” (Robert Downey Jr.).
“Forgive me Father, for I have sinned.”
As you knew they would, the trailers, or at least “Satan’s Alley” has leaked. For those that haven’t seen the film or read our review, the meta-movie is a blasphemously homoerotic and unrequited love story between two priests (RDJ/ five-time Oscar winner Kirk Lazarus) and MTV Movie Award Best Kiss award winner Tobey Mcguire set to the strains of Enigma. Fox Searchlight, what do you think you’re doing releasing this controversial film! The Pope is going to be up in arms.
The “official” synopsis: Award winner Kirk Lazarus paints another stark and moving portrait in his depiction of pastor Father O’Malley, the shamed priest who has committed the ultimate sin. Set against the backdrop of Eighteenth century Ireland, young O’Malley is banished from Belfast, after it is discovered that he has “Sinned the sin that dare not speak its name”. Fearing certain death, O’Malley travels in the dark of night to the cliffs of Mohr under strict orders from the church; “You must nary speak a word for 50 years.” He must also copy “Verse upon verse” of scripture “With nary a printing press, but with thine hand and quill”. At first O’Malley sees the retreat to the stony bluffs as a tonic, but as the years in seclusion wear on, he finds the craggy ocean walls act as a prison, entombing his desires. But temptation has a way of finding the weak…even in Mohr. Having nowhere left to run, O’Malley must now face his demons, and for first time in his life, he must face his God.