| crissindahouse said: well, but this is about some happening in history, the movie of Penn ist fiction or not? Just compare it with Game of Thrones then, are the actors hypocrites when they fuck in a brothel and say they wouldn't do it in real life? |
Actors aren't forced to do anything. If they are against brothels but then glorify it in a movie, they are hypocrites. Glorifying is the key term here. If a vegetarian takes on a role where he has to eat steak, that doesn't make him or her a hypocrite. But if s/he takes on a role in which s/he is a butcher and is the hero and states killing animals is a good goal, then s/he is a hypocrite.
Liam Neeson in Taken clearly thinks guns are the best way to solve problems, and that it makes you look cool. Now if he was a villain hell bent on killing innocent people, that'd be different.
