Tropic Thunder

Is character Jeff Portnoy addicted to heroin? What kind of impact do you think the extended discussion of intellectual disability between characters Kirk and Tugg might have on movie viewers? 

Announcer: "... America’s favorite obese family is back." (0:01)

Narrator and title: "The mission was considered to be near suicide." (0:04)

Fats injects Brooklyn. (0:07)

Actor Kirk Lazarus asks actor Tugg Speedman, referring to director Damien Cockburn,, "... You see how agitated he is now?" 
”... The scene is about emotionality...” (0:14)

Reporter, referring to actor Jeff Portnoy: "Fresh from his most recent arrest for heroin, glue and crack possession..." (0:16)

Kirk: "... my tools are the mechanisms that trigger human emotion." 
Reporter: ”... the story of a mentally impaired farmhand...”
Tugg as Simple Jack: ”I ain’t got a good good brain...” (0:17)

By telephone, his agent Rick “The Pecker” Peck tells actor Tugg Speedman, "... It is insane..." (0:18)

Damine asks studio executive Rob Slolum, "Crisis meeting?... Are we in a crisis?" 
”You said that he called it a crisis meeting...” 
Rob: ”... crisis...” (0:20)

A man punches Damien (0:22)

Actor Kevin Sandusky tells Damien, "... residuals from an anti-herpes medication commercial" (0:24)

Author Four Leaf Tayback tells Damien, "Beds give me nightmares..." 
”... you give me and that pyromaniac Cody all the smoke bombs...” 
Damien: ”... real emotion...” (0:26)

Damien smacks actor Jeff Portnoy repeatedly in the face. (0:30)

By radio, one gangster asks another, "D.E.A.?" (0:33)

Cody tells Four Leaf, "... Driving Miss Daisy..." (0:35)

Tugg tells Kevin, "Don’t you worry, Brooklyn." (0:37)

Tugg tells Kirk, "... Watched a lot of retarded people... Watched all the retarded stuff they did..." 
Kirk: ”... we gotta dig deeper to mine the true emotional pay dirt...” 
Tugg: ”... there were times... that I actually felt retarded, like really retarded... I brushed my teeth retarded. I rode the bus retarded.” 
Kirk: ”To be a moron.” 
”To be moronical.” 
Tugg: ”Exactly, to be a moron.” 
Kirk: ”An imbecile.” 
Tugg: ”... my mind... wasn’t retarded...” 
Kirk: ”But simple Jack thought he was smart, or rather didn’t think he was retarded, so you can’t afford to play retarded, being a smart actor, playin’ a guy who ain’t smart...” 
”... you never go full retard.” 
”... Dustin Hoffman, Rain Man, looked retarded, act retarded not retarded... Autistic, sure, not retarded... Tom Hanks, Forest Gump. Slow, yes, retarded, maybe... That ain’t retarded... You know any retarded war heroes? You went full retard, man. Never go full retard... Sean Penn, 2001, I Am Sam... Went full retard?...” (0:41)

Cody tells Four Leaf, "I almost blinded Jamie Lee Curtis on Freaky Friday, okay?..." (0:45)

Kirk asks Tugg, "Is your character dyslexic?" 
Tugg: ”... my character’s not dyslexic.” (0:46)

Kirk tells Kevin, "... making Planet of the Apes on YouTube..." (0:46)

Jeff tells a bat, "... You ODd..." (0:50)

Tugg: "Why is everybody all obsessed with the map?" 
Kirk: ”... in Rambo I, he was big... in Rambo II he got all shredded up?” 
”Not Rambo I, but II.” 
Tugg: ”This is insane...” (0:51)

Jeff, appearing to suffer from withdrawal, asks actor Alpa Chino, “What, are you insane?” Rick strikes Alpa in the face."" (1:02)

Tugg watches people carrying opium poppies. (1:04)

A gangster offers tea to Tugg, "... in order to calm your nerves." (1:05)

Jeff: "... I don’t wanna die like Hendrix." 
Kirk: ”Man, now I’m trippin’...” 
Kevin: ”Looks like a heroin processing plant...” 
”It’s the world’s hard drug superhighway.” (1:06)

Gang leader Tran tells Tugg, "... You are a trespasser in my poppy fields. You are D.E.A. scum." 
Tran burns Tugg with his cigar then beats him. (1:08)

Tran strikes Tugg. (1:13)

Kirk: "... What would’ve happened in The Great Escape...?" 
”I’m just like a little boy... when he’s nervous.” 
Jeff: ”... This might be a little crazy.” 
Kirk: ”Crazy’s better than nothing.” (1:14)

Rob tells producer Les Grossman, "Flaming Dragon’s a heroin manufacturer. They’re responsible for an eighth of the drug trade in Asia..." 
Tugg’s agent Rick “The Pecker” Peck asks Les, ”Are you insane?...” (1:16)

Kirk tells Alpa, referring to Tugg, "... he’s actually eased up on the retard throttle..." 
Alpa: ”You confused.” 
Kirk: ”I am a little confused.” (1:21)

Jeff tells Kevin, "... They were drugs... I’m Jonesing bad, man. I’m gonna... do all the heroin in the... world." (1:23)

Alpa tells Kirk, "... I just never had the courage to ask..." 
”... Let’s get focused.” (1:27)

Kirk: "No worries." 
Kirk whips Jeff. (1:29)

Four Leaf tells Alpa, referring to Cody, "He blinded Jamie Lee Curtis." (1:32)

Kirk: "... most radical transvestite seduced me..." 
”... I will return happily to my poppy field.” 
Tran: ”... Now you say poppy farm.” 
Jeff: ”Show me where the drugs are.” (1:33)

Tran strikes Jeff in the head. (1:37)

Gangster, answering Alpa, "Like him in Carlito’s Way?" 
”Devil’s Advocate, Dog Day Afternoon.” 
Tugg: ”Cruisin’, Sea of Love.” (1:37)

Jeff rubs heroin in two gangsters' faces, rendering them unconscious. (1:40)

Four Leaf tells Cody, "Don’t worry..." (1:41)

Kirk tells Tugg, "You gonna focus up now..." 
Kevin tells Kirk, ”... I memorized every single monologue...” 
Alpa: ”... I got high to that shit...” 
Tugg: ”I’m a rooster illusion.” (1:41)

Cody: "Just say no to this, you drug-making midget." (1:44)

Alpa asks Tugg, "... Are you still crazy?..." (1:45)

Tugg tells Kirk, "... I’m not being crazy..." (1:46)

Kirk tells Tugg, "... No worries..." (1:49)

Les tells Rob, "... Now go get drunk..." (1:52)