In today’s society throughout the world and especially in the United States social media – specifically the news has given us an outlet to get a look into any and everyone’s personal lives. It makes us feel like we know someone personally and gives us a sense of closeness with them. Because of this, a lot of times we really think we know a person and what their lives consist of day in and day out but in reality we really don’t, and because of this we tend to judge them and formulate our own opinion about them - whether it’s a good one or a bad one. In the stand-up comedy movie titled “Martin Lawrence Live: Run Tel Dat” starring Martin Lawrence, he argues this very point on how social media outlets (which includes the news) strongly influences
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They depicted him being a person who had went “mad crazy,” running in and out of traffic yelling obscenities to passerby’s, all while waving a gun and then eventually being subdued by the police before collapsing and being led away to the hospital by the ambulance. However, Martin Lawrence tells a funny version of what actually happened to him. He agrees that he did go running in and out of busy traffic because he was high off of some bad drugs that was sold to him, and yes, he did have a gun on him but clarifies that it was in his waist and that he never aimed it anyone nor was he trying to cause anyone any kind of harm. He states that he indeed did faint but only because he was scared to death when the police pulled out all of their weapons on him after realizing he had a gun on his waist. Some social media outlets even tried to cover up that he was in fact high off of some type of drugs and instead said that he was suffering from exhaustion and dehydration. Even though this sounded better for his namesake it still was not the truth. They also tried to tie in another incident that happened 3 years later when he actually did collapse from a heat stroke after jogging trying to get prepared for an upcoming movie role he had landed.
Martin Lawrence gave examples of how this has affected his life. Because of the way social media depicted him,
They depicted him being a person who had went “mad crazy,” running in and out of traffic yelling obscenities to passerby’s, all while waving a gun and then eventually being subdued by the police before collapsing and being led away to the hospital by the ambulance. However, Martin Lawrence tells a funny version of what actually happened to him. He agrees that he did go running in and out of busy traffic because he was high off of some bad drugs that was sold to him, and yes, he did have a gun on him but clarifies that it was in his waist and that he never aimed it anyone nor was he trying to cause anyone any kind of harm. He states that he indeed did faint but only because he was scared to death when the police pulled out all of their weapons on him after realizing he had a gun on his waist. Some social media outlets even tried to cover up that he was in fact high off of some type of drugs and instead said that he was suffering from exhaustion and dehydration. Even though this sounded better for his namesake it still was not the truth. They also tried to tie in another incident that happened 3 years later when he actually did collapse from a heat stroke after jogging trying to get prepared for an upcoming movie role he had landed.
Martin Lawrence gave examples of how this has affected his life. Because of the way social media depicted him,