After waking up from a tipsy night and then looking in the mirror finding out you have a tattoo on your face, while screaming “how did this happen?”. It means you dislike the tattoo and would never have done it if you were not drunk. This scene happens in a movie called “The Hangover II”, which is the highest grossing movie of the sequel earning more than a total of $586 million.
The tattoo used in the movie is an exact replica of the Mike Tyson face tattoo, which created a problem for the producers of the movie. Since, the retired boxer gave the copyrights of the piece of art to his tattoo artist Victor Whitmill, so it was his decision if they were allowed to use the tattoo in the movie. By believing that a tattoo is not valuable enough to be copyright, the producers decided to put it in the movie without asking the artist. This ended up on Whitmill, suing the company.
While many people think he shouldn’t have sued because his art was displayed on the big screen and watched by millions of people around the world. Whitmill, was not recognized in the movie and feels like they are not appreciating his art because they are just making fun of it. For a tattoo artist this is a no no because they feel pride in their work. According to Kyle Pryce, a counselor who later became tattoo artist, she has pride even on her first tattoo she did on herself.
I agree with Withmill, for suing because according to celebritybirthdays.com, Mike Tyson is the third boxer most popular in the world. Everytime people google Tyson’s name the first thing that comes out is his tattoo. This helped attract more people to go watch the movie and for the producers to get more money. So, this is why I think he deserves to get some money because he didn’t get recognized, they didn’t appreciate his work, and he helped them win more money.
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