Originally Posted by Rapunzal1977:
“Oh bore off!! Are you going to write to Robert Di Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci (too many to name) for playing parts of Mafia people????? Grow up!”
Originally Posted by Rapunzal1977:
“These folks on here are mad! How many box office movies are out there played by a list celebs glorifying Mafia life! No clue it's too sad”
The argument would be that they are fictional stories, or biopics, which does feed a lurid interest within people.
So I think it would be fair for the public to question their own tastes.
I'm serious. We seem to have something in us which draws us to some pretty unpleasant stuff. Just because we might like it doesn't mean that perhaps it's not a good thing that we do. And I say this as someone who enjoys a good gangster film.
But....now we're talking about the actual real life people involved and putting them on pedestals, not just actors in films.
We are now seeing somebody from that background as an actual celebrity. Think about how screwed up that actually is.
You can take Renee out of the picture as it's less about her, and more about TV companies and us as consumers of this sort of thing to satiate our appetite for it.