Characters mean a real life rappers?

[Kalvin']

I know, bump, but big smoke is based off Run, from Run DMC, his name: Joseph Simmons, you can totally tell: http://en.academic.ru/pictures/enwiki/74/J...d_Shankbone.jpg

 

IMAGE TURNED INTO LINK - HUGE.

[lil weasel]

What a horrible posting, Size Wise.

Please Reduce that HUGE, GIGANTIC to the proper Forum size.

POSTING PICTURES try to select 640x480 for message boards and forums.

3264 x 2448 (9377169 bytes) is Rude.

 

 

Anybody interested in photos of the Voice Actors? Found This site:

Click Here.

Edited November 14, 2010 by lil weasel

[Finn 7 five 11]

The guy who said that tenpenny looks like samuel l jackson you are wrong, tenpenny is based on the real life corrupt cop who was part of "crash" an anti gang unit.

Rafel Perez is his name.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rafael_Perez.jpg

[Prasdana]

CJ - Tupac Shakur

Sweet- Ice Cube

 

Big Smoke - D.M.C.

 

Ryder - Eazy-E

 

OG Loc - Ja Rule himself

 

Madd Dogg - Ice- T himself

 

Others:

 

Tommy -Michael Madsen or Ray Liotta himself

 

Vic Vance - Ving Rhames

 

Toni Cipriani - Robert De Niro's character in Goodfellas

 

Avery Carrington - Burt Reynolds himself

Edited December 4, 2010 by Prasdana

[MosquitoSmasher]

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Oh my what an idiot....he looks nothing like him. Ok here we go.

 

I bet he must've thought...oh sh*t, i'm not in Cypress Hill anymore, oh wow..CJ looks alittle like me, let me get some Rockstar money!

 

 

 

 

 

A former backing singer for hip hop group Cypress Hill has lost a $250 million lawsuit against Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar and parent company Take-Two.

 

Michael "Shagg" Washington claimed that his likeness and life story had been used to inspire the character of Carl "CJ" Johnson in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

 

That was two years ago. This week, Washington's case was finally settled by a California appeals court - which decided in Rockstar's favour.

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CJ and Washington.

 

Washington was not able to prove that the character of CJ was based on his own likeness, Hollywood Reporter has said.

 

That's despite Washington revealing he had been interviewed by Rockstar prior to San Andreas' release and discussed details of his former life as a gang member. His name appears in the game's credits as a model.

 

"[The] plaintiff is relying entirely on CJ's physical appearance in the game, but that appearance is so generic that it necessarily includes hundreds of other black males," Washington was told by a Superior County judge.

 

Evidence such as directly-copied tattoos, birthmarks or other physical features would have been necessary to prove his case, he was told.

 

US law supports the "transformative" use of images - when protected material has been sufficiently changed it no longer belongs to the original owner.

 

It follows a similar court decision last month, when Activision was found to have been in breach of contract for using the likeness of No Doubt signer Gwen Stefani in music game Band Hero. The case was raised during the Washington-Rockstar trial.

 

"The court in [the case brought by] No Doubt concluded that the defendant's literal depictions of the plaintiffs were not transformative because 'the No Doubt avatars... perform rock songs, the same activity by which the band achieved and maintains its fame'.

 

"Here, however, Washington has presented no evidence demonstrating that the plot or characters of GTA: San Andreas have any relevance to his life or his purported fame."

 

 

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-11-...ft-auto-lawsuit

Edited November 2, 2012 by lil weasel