Define Full Retard Meaning

act stupid, moronical or like an imbecile

to get so drunk that you are no longer a fully functioning human being.

Phrase used by Robert Downey Jr.'s character in the movie Tropic Thunder. Referring to when an actor playing the mentally retarded goes all out leaving the viewer unable to connect.

1) Somewhere you never should go.
2) Playing a mentally handicapped person in a film or show with no exceptional or redeeming skills.

A level of retard you should never, ever go to.

A full retard is a person that is retarded to a greater extent, or an individual that spazzes out uncontrollably from excitement that would mimic a person with Down Syndrome. A person that goes full retard that is retarded can be incredibly dangerous, as they can generally black out from emotions such as rage if under emotional distress or if they feel threatened they will have a loss of physical arm movements and can feel no pain. If they start winding up a windmill punch and it happens to connect, it can be incredibly devastating, if not lethal, to the individual receiving the blow. A person without the physical retard strength that can go full retard will have a loss of neck control and will make a lot of noise.

Basically this means a person went too far out of character, in a negative way, and now we don't know this person anymore. However, if this person still has one redeeming quality that we can connect with then it saves that person from this title.

Before the term "Full Retard" became popular it was called acting completely out of character.

This person could be in a movie or a friend or an acquaintance. It would have to be someone you would know or someone that is expected to act a certain way like a police officer, firefighter, judge, etc..

Going ~: not detecting a troll, doing something really stupid or asking a really dumb question.

The usual feeling one gets despite having been in numerous relationships and ignoring that sooner or later it'll end.

Predominately occurs with older teens and 20-somethings.

when an actor portrays a mentally disabled character as *totally* mentally disabled, with few if no redeeming values. Oftentimes in Hollywood, actors are known to sink to the lowest common denominator, and try to play mentally disabled characters in what are really shameless attempts to win audience and critic sympathy, in what is usually a desperate bid for an Oscar. Sometimes, playing a mentally disabled character actually *does* result in winning an Academy Award, so long as you *don't* "go full retard":

That is, the mentally disabled character *should* face some obstacles, but also have some redeeming values (an "idiot savant"). For example, Dustin Hoffman in "Rain Man" was "mentally disabled" but he was really an autistic mathematical genius. Tom Hanks in "Forrest Gump" was mentally handicapped, but it still a very functional individual and in his own way, charming in his honest if simple morality to people me meets, and further, he has some real above-average talents, such as being an Olympic-level ping pong player and an excellent long-distance runner.

However, this doesn't work if the actor's performance as the mentally disabled character has *absolutely* no redeeming values and is indeed "full retard" mode: a character that is utterly handicapped mentally and really has no "hidden surprise talents"; this ends up just being a film following an average mentally disabled person around for the whole run time.

Such was infamously the case with Tugg Speedman's flop movie "Simple Jack". That is not to say that Speedman gave a lazy performance: on the contrary, he spent untold hours studying mentally disabled people until he could perfectly imitate what such a person would act and sound like.

The problem is...that's not what Oscar-voters want to see. They don't want to see the struggles of a mentally disabled person in everyday life. What gets the Oscar votes in such performances are unrealistic "idiot-savants" who while mentally handicapped, might be really good at mathematics, or a good painter, etc. etc.

In and of itself, this means that ironically, Hollywood isn't actually interested in films about what real mentally handicapped people are like; they're interested in movies about characters who have a few mental handicaps, but are also capable of unrealistically extraordinary things.

What Speedman did, actually trying to portray a character as *fully* mentally handicapped without any "hidden talents", is a death sentence for a film.

This is why actors in films that actually portray what real-life mentally handicapped people are like, such as Cuba Gooding Jr in "Radio", or Sean Penn in "I Am Sam", have failed to win Oscars for their performances.

In short, an actor should never "go full retard" if they expect to make a successful Oscar vehicle.