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(I HAVE NOT SEEN THE MOVIE SO NO SPOILERS pretty please!!)
About RDJ playing a black actor. I always wonder (thinking back to "Soul Man") when does it cross the line from being acceptable to not acceptable to change one's skin color to black. I remember reading about prohibition on Blackface from long ago - granted that was often done in mockery of the black race, was distasteful in the presentation (it looked like motor oil), etc. I had seen enough old movies with bad vaudeville in them.
I also remember Eddie Murphy's sketch on SNL where he played a "White man" - thanks to makeup.
What is the line between being offensive and doing it as comedy with the audience being in on the joke? I am probably not asking this correctly, but does anyone have any thoughts?
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