The word “paparazzi” began in Federico Fellini’s famed 1960 film La Dolce Vita , which had a photographer character named “Paparazzo. ” This word came fr om the Italian word, pa pataceo, which means an oversize mosquito. Federico says, “Paparazzo suggests to me a buzzing insect, hovering, darting stinging
The first American use of the word appeared in the 1961 Time article , ‘ Paparazzi on the Prowl ‘ The article called them a “ravenous wolf pack of freelance photographers who stalk big names for a livi ng and fire with flash guns at point blank. ” The photo with the article is chilling image of the p aparazzi blocking a princess’ car. That basically meant that the paparazzi was a bad reputation. But there are not a lot of bad things about them. They do have some good qualities of the use of the photos they take.
Paparazzi are mostly found in L. A. taking pictures of celebrities, invading thei privacy. But sometimes good results can come out of it. One thing is that it provides c elebrity gossip which the public love. We want to know whats going on in their lives and wha t current news (or drama) that IS happening in their lives. Many times if they keep being mentio ned in the news or at least have their picture found in a magazine, their fame won’t decrease. Th e more the celebrities are mentioned in the news, the more their fame increases.
For exa mple, Lupita Nyongo’s fame increased after the movie, “1 2 years of Slave” and they mentio ned her a lot in Peoples’ Magazine f how her fashion is, how people think about her, and her gorgeous outfits at the red carpets. Some celebrities are known for tipping of the paparazzi of where they are located and what time especially if they want them to take pictures of their ch ildren. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes admires the pictures they take of their daughter so they do n’t mind the paparazzi. ” have to say some of those paparazzi shots of my daughter are incredible,” T said. As a parent you protect your children but Suri is a very open and warm child and she will just wave to people on the street. She is such [a] happy, fun girl. It is certainly different these days with the media, but people have been very good to us and do give us sp ace so am not going to be difficult. ” Some celebrities don’t mind, it just depends how much s pace the paparazzi gives them. Lights, cameras, people asking one person a question simultaneously is what the paparazzi are basically. That is probably the worst fear of being a celebrity.
Th ey have to find ways to hide themselves from being hovered over with more than 30 people flashing their cameras and not giving space. Some paparazzi get too rough and it can go ou of hand that can end up in violence. The problem with the paparazzi is that many of them are q uite aggressive and persistent. The reason they do that is because they know they will get huge a mounts of money by selling the pictures of the celebrities.. They have been known to follow celebri ties in their cars and that can endanger the lives of the driver and the celebrity when the cars are speeding or they block traffic..
One tragic example is Princess Diana’s death. When she was dri ving in the limousine, many paparazzi cars were following her. The driver drove so fast a way from them hat they got in a huge accident and hours later Princess Diana sadly passed a way. Being followed by paparazzi can endanger many lives and even be tragic. Sometime s paparazzi makes up stories based on the pictures which can misinform the society. They can ta ke a picture ofa celebrity and make up a story with the picture. In my opinion, paparazzi shouldnt be banned and let them have freedom be cause the paparazzi and the celebrities are playing fair game.
They should be able to tak e pictures of them because it’s entertaining judging their fashion and reading crazy or dramatic s ories about a celebrity. A celebrity would not have been really famous if they were not phot ographed or not mentioned that much in the magazines because then, no one would know mu ch of them. The paparazzi claim that celebs would want a picture taken so that their fame doe snt decrease. A celebrity also doesn’t mind when the pictures is showing a good side of their life. Any law that forbids the paparazzi, they are now claiming to violate their right to the first a mendment.
Their job is to take pictures and without them, there wouldn’t be that many exciting tories to read about celebrities and we wouldn’t be able to judge the celebrities’ outfits with out knowing the writer’s opinion first. Even though it can go extreme sometimes, there are ot her celebrities who enjoy being followed by paparazzi. I mean think about it, if they tip the papar azzi more they can get a good picture in the newspaper.
