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Tropic Thunder – Viral Marketing
What do you do when you have a huge multi-million dollar R-rated action comedy packed with some of Hollywood’s biggest stars that is opening in mid August a week after another R-rated comedy of high (pun intended) anticipation? Market the shit out of it via the internet and within media staples of pop culture.
After the appearances of Tropic Thunder’s three leading men (Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr, and Jack Black) on American Idol and the MTV Movie Awards, one could make the argument that Dreamworks covered their viral bases for this movie by hitting a few key demographics within some very large tv audiences. But that wasn’t enough.
Rain Of Madness – a Mockumentary on the making of the fake movie of which Tropic Thunder, the real movie, shares its name. Still with me?
Tugg Speedman – Ben Stiller’s character’s name in Tropic Thunder
Simple Jack – a movie referenced within Tropic Thunder starring Tugg Speedman
Scorcher VI – a movie referenced within Tropic Thunder starring Tugg Speedman
Panda Relocation Foundation – Tugg Speedman’s favorite charity
The Peck Agency – Tugg Speedman’s talent agency
Kirk Lazarus – Robert Downey Jr.’s character’s name in Tropic Thunder
Satan’s Alley – a movie referenced within Tropic Thunder starring Kirk Lazarus
Make Pretty Skin Clinic – the clinic where Kirk Lazarus underwent skin pigment surgery (aka black face)
Jeff Portnoy – Jack Black’s character’s name in Tropic Thunder
Fatties: Fart 2 – a movie referenced within Tropic Thunder
Cody Keith Underwood – Danny McBride’s Character’s name in Tropic Thunder
Booty Sweat – the official energy drink of Brandon T. Jackson’s character, Alpa Chino. It has been mentioned on several blogs that the actual drink is for sale if one were interested in buying it. I believe you can get them at Hot Topics. There is a reference to it on Tropic Thunder’s official site but it lists it as coming soon.
UPDATE:
Simple Jack Site down
Tags: Tropic Thunder, Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr.
Tropic Thunder Official Trailer
The official trailer for Tropic Thunder was released yesterday. This is the movie that Morgan worked on for half a year in Hawaii and LA. I guess I can’t really say much about the movie without getting in trouble, so you’ll just have to watch the trailer and wait for it to come out. The picture above is from one minute and ten seconds into the 1080p HD download version of the trailer. If you look closely at the cardboard movie display behind Jack Black’s character, you can see that a certain “Morgan Ahiborn” was a producer on the movie within the movie. Ahiborn? Or was it AHlBORN? Either way, Morgan, you better have a talk with your agent, cause that shit ain’t right.
The King Of Kong
My work has one of those stand-up arcade cabinets with mulitple games in our front lobby. Recently we have been getting more competitive with the high scores for the games. I’m not sure what started it, but after almost a year of very light activity, it now seems like a day doesn’t go by without one of the high scores being topped by someone else in the office.
In the spirit of friendly competition, I decided to make some sort of trophy or medal to award the person who holds the current high score for the various games we have in the office: Donkey Kong, Frogger, Ms. Pac Man, Galaga, and Full Court Frenzy II (mini basketball game). I ended up making some pixel art medallions out of Perler Beads and lanyard string that was inspired from this.
Today I set the new record for Donkey Kong at 45000, nothing compared to what Billy Mitchell or Steve Wiebe were able to do, but it’s enough to take the top prize at my office. We’ve also decided that if someone overtakes the high score for the game that you currently have the high score for, you have to place the “medal” around the neck of the new champion to add insult to injury.
Post Script: I also hold the basketball record with 132 points. Booyah.
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