he is the Rock and when you research about him, as we did for this paper, we found out his birth name being Dwayne Johnson, and then of course, what he likes to refer to himself as, the “People’s Champion. These are just a few examples. He takes upon the role of an “actor” in so many different aspects that he himself becomes comfortable with what he is playing, and eventually this in turn takes over parts of him as a person. It starts to become normal for him whether he realizes it or not. Although the Rock still had to go through many more “jobs” before actually becoming a superstar, there were years of “agenting” that had earned him his title. However, the essence of the pseudo-life was not the fact it was manufactured. The media’s lust-the audience’s lust was for entertainment, and the pseudo-life was manufactured in the name of entertainment, which made that its real essence (Gabler pg.98).Gabler states that, “it wasn’t long before the ongoing cultural enterprise yielded to the real zeitgeist: celebrity (Gabler pg.149). Gabler states that celebrities are the people’s spirits, and everything that is valued in society is an offset of the value’s given to us from entertainment and entertainers. Take the Rock and the case with the boy in Florida. A kid actually believed that by imitating the Rock, he was being great. Instead, he ended up murdering a classmate. Entertainment has such consequences that can become harmful to oneself or others.The public also saw the Rock as a versatile actor, Dwayne Johnson where he could grab the audience’s attention because of his celebrity/star profile. As Daniel Boorstin wrote in The Image, although he used “movie goers” as the term, lifles can also be included. He states that, “they wanted a strong character, but a definable, publicizable personality, a figure with some physical id...
