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Originally Posted by MarineHawk
It's a nice argument, but one that defies reality. When people see these rap videos on MTV or BET or whatever (I've seen plenty), it seems like these guys are acting like what they really are Depp acted like he really was George Jung in Blow (in a perhaps exaggerated manner). That's the message they are trying to convey. It's obvious. They are trying to act like they really are violent, anti-establishment, warlord thugs. It increases their revenue and plays to their basest instincts. When Kurt Russell played Snake Plissken or when Peter O'Toole played the murderous Henry II, no one ever thought that O'Toole and Russell were murderers. The rap stars WANT their audience to think they're killers Actors WANT their audience to think they're what their characters are, too. It wouldn't be too real if Al Pacino acted like Viktor Taransky from Simone while playing Tony Montana in Scarface.- not so much Russell anbd O'Toole. And the rapper gangstas achive a fair degree of success in that endeavor. Bad actors don't make money either, incentive to be good. That's the difference. You can deny it all you want, but I bet that most people get this intuitively.
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The difference is, rappers' characters are based on themselves, they market themselves whereas Al Pacino will market Tony Montana, Michael Corleone and Sonny. For rappers, it is what they will always be, they didn't take Kurt Russell and think up an entire fictional movie based around him, it was the opposite. And it's not going to be his character for life, he can go from Escape from New York to Captain Ron freely. P. Diddy can't just switch genres and go be Christina Aguilera for a day.