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Old 08-18-2008, 10:46 AM
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As I understand - RDJ's character is a satire of actors that go over the top w/ getting into a role, like Robert DeNiro gaining tons of weight for Raging Bull and Jim Carrey talking like Andy Kaufman even when they weren't filming. This is just taking that to the next absurd level. His character is a white actor who had treatments to make his skin black.

Soul Man was a terribly done movie w/ a terrible story and terrible acting - it wasn't winking saying "how ridiculous this is", it didn't have that level of intelligence.
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