History Film / Paparazzi

* HateSink: The film reads like some Hollywood actor's revenge fantasy, where the main character basically spends the latter half of the film committing numerous acts of vigilante murder against the paparazzi who crippled his wife and put his son in a coma in an accident. The only reason this is even remotely acceptable is because the film [[AcceptableProfessionalTargets depicts all paparazzo as cackling supervillains who take perverse joy in ruining people's lives]], to the point that even the police are secretly rooting for the killer.

Bo (Cole Hauser), a new movie star in Hollywood, is hounded by persistent paparazzi photographers who repeatedly intrude on his private life. After his family is hurt in a car accident caused by the paparazzi, who proceed to milk his misery for their own gain, he sets out to get revenge.

* DirtyCop: Detective Burton finds out about Bo's revenge plot on the paparazzo. Instead of busting Bo, {{spoiler:he helps him by giving him the photographers' addresses and criminal records.}}

* {{Paparazzi}}: The film is about an actor whose life is almost destroyed by evil paps who cause a car accident that land the actor's nine-year-old son in the hospital in intensive care, break into his home, harass and terrify the rest of his family, etc. He then spends the rest of the movie murdering all the paparazzi that wronged him.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Bo gets his revenge on the paparazzi by outright killing them(or getting them killed).

* StupidEvil: The titular paparazzi are pretty much all cackling, over-the-top supervillains, but one in particular stands out. After the quartet of paparazzi that serve as the film's villains cause a car wreck that cripples the celebrity protagonist's wife and puts his son in a coma, and then proceeds to hound the two for more photographs, the protagonist gets in a motorcycle accident with one of them that leaves him hanging off of a cliff overlooking a fatal drop onto a rocky shore. Despite all the crap they pulled, the protagonist is still willing to pull him up...[[TooDumbToLive until he starts bragging about how he's going to ruin his life even more with this accident.]] [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident Three guesses as to what happens next.]]
* SuicideByCop: Bo stages one of these for one of the paparazzi, planting a gun in his car and calling the police on him with a burner phone. When the victim pulls out the gun in confusion he's promptly shot.

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: A hollywood actor goes on a shutterbug killing spree after they cause an accident that nearly killed his family, an obvious reference to the circumstances surrounding the death of Princess Diana.

''Paparazzi'' is a 2004 film produced by Creator/MelGibson.

* HateSink: The film reads like some Hollywood actor's revenge fantasy, where the main character basically spends the latter half of the film committing numerous acts of vigilante murder against the paparazzi who crippled his wife and put his son in a coma in an accident. The only reason this is even remotely acceptable is because the film [[AcceptableTargets depicts all paparazzo as cackling supervillains who take perverse joy in ruining people's lives]], to the point that even the police are secretly rooting for the killer.