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Originally Posted by WendyCal
Halloween was fantasy, so there's nothing to be 'for...' Coppola had some sort of background with the mafia, i believe, but regardless, yes, i think he believes that that is how the mafia works, and that he made a movie that was a sort of documentary.
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Exactly my point about
Halloween being fantasy. You have no problem recognizing that John Carpenter was just going for scares and not actually advocating what Michael Meyers was doing in the movie. I'm just saying that violent songs should be looked at in the same way.
Also: Coppola? Mafia background? I don't think so.
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Originally Posted by WendyCal
But here's the bottom line ~ they aren't out there, trying to make themselves into what they're filming, and acting like the reason they made the movies was because it was just a snapshot of their lives, and Hey! Look how successful and COOL being this way is.
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Who are we talking about here specifically? Let's look at Ice Cube for example, one of the godfathers of gangsta rap and the main songwriter of the band that started this whole conversation, NWA: He wrote, produced, and starred in an anti-violence comedy during the height of the gangsta rap era. He acted in a bunch of other movies where he played characters outside of his NWA image. He studied architectural drafting while he was in NWA. This year he started working as a radio sport analyst. Surely he doesn't fit your example of a person who writes violent lyrics then tries to make himself into that image.