![]() ![]() ![]() I’m sure that it was a great experience, but it wasn’t like actually going to real boot camp. What about people who actually go to war?” The actors were like owning this experience as if it was like this real and incredible experience. You’re going off and getting all of that. Maybe it was because I wasn’t getting parts in those movies, but I was like, “Oh, wow. It seemed like there was a time when all actors were going away to fake boot camp and talking about these incredible experiences that they had and how it really changed their lives and there was something there that seemed funny to me. ![]() I had the idea for the movie like twenty years ago when I was doing “Empire of the Sun” in 1987 because at that time, that’s when all these Vietnam movies were being made and my friends and I were going on auditions for these Vietnam movies and my friends were getting them and going away to fake boot camps. Why was now the time go back and what was it about this idea that made you want to direct again?īen Stiller: Well, this movie I’ve been working on for a while. showed up in Las Vegas during ShoWest last week to debut the trailer and a couple clips of the comedy and the following day, Stiller was nice enough to take some more time out of his busy schedule–his appearance at ShoWest took place n the middle of a series of California test screenings–to sit down with a select group of journalists from online websites to talk about the movie and other upcoming projects including the sequel Night at the Museum: Escape From the Smithsonian.Ĭ: It’s been seven years since you directed a movie. It’s a fluid mix of war film and comedy that pays homage to serious war films like Apocalypse Now and Platoon while taking digs at the “Rambo” movies along the way. as a group of actors making a Vietnam War movie who are dropped off in the middle of the jungle by the film’s crazed director (Steve Coogan) as part of their training, but wind up in the middle of an actual warzone without them realizing that they’re not still shooting the movie. It co-stars Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. This summer, Stiller’s fourth film as a director, Tropic Thunder, will be released by DreamWorks/Paramount. In the past decade, Ben Stiller has gone from being a cult comic sensation to an MTV staple to a global box office superstar known worldwide, a very busy one at that, which is why it’s very rare to see him doing interviews outside of the normal movie junkets once or twice a year. ![]()
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