Lindsay Lohan Is Reportedly Asking Her Lawyers About Going After GTA5 For Non-Portrayal
from the buckets-of-crazy dept
Lindsay Lohan, everyone's favorite train-wreck, sure seems to come up in the world of intellectual property an awful lot. I'm not sure if this is because she has some over-inflated sense of entitlement, or if she's just the devil-incarnate here to entertain me personally, but she's gotten angry about being mocked in music, angry about a talking baby being named Lindsay (and being a "milkaholic"), and angry at the invention of the video camera for showing her stealing stuff that didn't belong to her.But now reports are that she's looking to step up her game by going after Grand Theft Auto 5 over their portrayal of her, except that (as with the E-Trade babies) it wasn't a portrayal of her at all. Let's take her reported claims to her lawyers in order:
-- The video game cover shows a woman holding a cellphone who looks Lindsay-ish. There's been debate over whether it looks more like Kate Upton or Shelby Welinder.No, there's no debate. Shelby Welinder was hired by Rockstar Games to serve as the game cover's woman. Next.
-- Part of the game features a mission where a Lindsay Lohan look-alike asks the player to take her home and escape the paparazzi.If you've played the game, and I have, and you played the paparazzi missions and thought, "holy balls, they're making fun of Lindsay Lohan!", then you need severe psychiatric care. The character in question, Lacey Jonas, is an obvious composite character. The closest thing to referencing Lohan is that Lacey Jonas is famous and once starred in a "cheerleader competition" movie. Sounds like Lohan, except that all the other facts about the character don't and the character doesn't look like Lohan, which sort of kills the whole "they stole my likeness" claim. As does claiming you were also used for a completely different character.
Another part of the game shows another Lindsay-like character at a hotel resembling the Chateau Marmont hotel in West Hollywood -- a place Lindsay not only frequents but once lived at -- and the mission is to photograph her having sex on camera.We've got more problems, in that this completely different character, Poppy Mitchell, is a recurring character in the series. While that wiki states that this character might be a parody of Lohan, it certainly isn't much of a likeness beyond the character having been convicted of drunken driving.
And all of this is a bit beside the point. Even if each and every one of these characters were somehow a lifting or reference to Lindsay Lohan, it ought to be covered under the same blanket of parody that covers pretty much everything else in GTA5, given that the entire setting is a mocking look at Los Angeles. And I'm not sure what Lohan's legal team is planning on doing with her request to look into all of this, but continuing with the claim that video game characters with the personality traits of fornicating in public, drinking and driving, and being washed up movie stars probably isn't something she should be loudly pointing to as representing her.
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Let it go...
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Sounds like she's asking for it....
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GTA5
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Putting the Streisand Effect to use?
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LINSAY LOHAAAN
When was the last time you heard about Lindsay Lohan? A month or two ago when she guest hosted Chelsie Lately? What has she done since? I'm guessing she sat down and played some GTAV and had an epiphany.
Apparently, she is convinced that bad publicity is good publicity, because now she's back in the news, and we all "care" again.
Also, I finished the story mode and am elbows deep in GTAV: Online. I think those characters were more of a parody of celebrity in general, and not just one person. They drew the best material from the best (worst) celebrities, and made those characters. Rockstar has a knack for social commentary.
Also, I fully expect a character named Linda Logan, who happens to be a washed up, drugged out former actress bouncing from D-list reality shows to make an appearance in the next GTA installment. Rockstar, you have your target. Get to it!
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Hollywood: where ambition and responsibility go to atrophy into a movie prop/plot device.
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The duck that quacks loudest...
There's an old adage: "The duck that quacks the loudest is the one that got shot." In this instance, Rockstar Games fired their parodic shot ... and guess who quacked the loudest?
Lindsay not only has no legal case, she is more or less admitting to being the sort of person the game makers are mocking. And if she pursues this to the point of filing anything with a court, she'll have the fun of being personally introduced to the Streisand Effect.
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Isn't that on all fictional works these days?
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Even Trevor wouldn't stick it in Lindsay, though maybe Wade would though ;)
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it's gonna spread.
the game producer might try to alter the game a bit...
but those fans of GTA... expect THEM to hit the photoshop app, mod a pic from GTA into inserting Lindsay then spreading the photoshopped image thou out the net.!!!
poor Girl...
She'll be swamped with those fan-made image that actually shows there "wild" side of things... hahaha
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Everyone needs to make a living...
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