10 Movie Scenes That Live Rent Free In Your Head
4. He's Just A Dude... - Tropic Thunder
Lightening the mood somewhat, it's hard to believe that one half of legendary Iron Man superstar Robert Downey Jr.'s Academy Awards nomination haul was actually all down to a performance that saw him playing an Australian... who also just so happened to be playing a Black man throughout the making of a film within a film.
Acting as the moment that perhaps best encapsulated the all-round barminess of this situation and Kirk Lazarus' method acting role within it was the sequence that saw RDJ unleash arguably his most iconic utterance to date. Behind, you know, the fact that he's that Iron guy in the MCU...
As Lazarus' Lincoln Osiris attempts to drag Ben Stiller's Tugg Speedman out of a bizarre trance, the actor is asked "who are you?", to which he brilliantly responds, "I know who I am. I'm a dude, playing a dude, disguised as another dude!" Simple as that, really.
Jar Baruchel's bemused reaction acted as the icing on this beat of sheer comedic brilliance and would go on to become a staple of just about any conversation regarding the admittedly shocking but routinely side-splitting dig at the moviemaking world in general.