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Angelina Jolie: Master Manipulator?

posted 7 years ago by TMC-4 (20121)
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Cliffs:

Angelina manipulates the media.

Leaked all unsavory stories of Brad to make herself look good. (Questionable)

Is reinventing her image for the fourth time. First she was wild and edgy. Second she was a humanitarian. Third she was half of a power couple. And now she’s a divorced single mother weary and ready for a fresh start.

Her directing attempts are flopping.

She is out of touch with reality.

Hasn’t bought furniture and explains it as being so focused on other things.

Trying to create image of weary homebody now that picks up dog poop.

Bought $25 million home not for glamour but because she needed a place asap.

[–] TMC-4 (20121) 6 years ago

https://www.quora.com/Angelina-Jolie-fought-so-hard-to-take-Brad-Pitt-from-his-wife-So-why-is-she-fighting-him-so-hard-in-the-divorce/answer/Rhiannon-Pie

Angelina seems like an internally unhappy person.

Even looking past some of her stranger antics when she was younger (anyone remember the velcro walls comment during her time with Billy Bob? Or the vials of blood? Or that famous kiss with her brother?), Jolie seems to have some deep-seated dysfunctions.

She seems to lack empathy for others. She makes herself happy, briefly, by taking from others. She was married (to Johnny Lee Miller) in 1996 when she started a sexual relationship with Foxfire costar Jenny Shimizu (both Angelina and Jenny have been quite open about this affair). She took Billy Bob Thornton from Laura Dern (while very likely still being sexually active with Shimizu). When she tired of that because she finally had it, she took Brad from Jennifer Aniston while still married to Thornton. And yes, I understand that no one can cheat/leave unless they want to, but a moral and ethical woman doesn’t even flirt with a man in a relationship or when they themselves are in a relationship and Angelina has done more than a little of both.

[–] BourbonKing (5777) 6 years ago

Where and how did she accumulate so much wealth? She hasn't been in a blockbuster for decades and even back then her salary wasn't so huge that she could live the way she does today. I have no doubt she's probably invested a good portion of her earnings, but her whole schtick about being an international humanitarian, owning estates abroad and in the States just seems she lives lavishly while acting pious.

[–] bigbadwolf666 (4707) 6 years ago

I agree. I never bought the humantarian efforts and since when do you need to adopt a million babies to contribute?

[–] Otter (24464) 6 years ago

If she were actually a master manipulator, people like you and me wouldn't be scoffing at her humanitarian image.

[–] bigbadwolf666 (4707) 6 years ago

She cant manipulate everyone. Not everyone is full by dust. But most people are stupid and easily manipulated hence her image. Plus it isnt just her. Its an entire network setup highly professionals set to make seem something she's not. So most think the world of her. I find it interesting she hated her father for being absent and not being a good father or man but she fell on the same road or worst.

[–] Otter (24464) 6 years ago

I actually wonder if "most people" buy her bullshit, she doesn't seem to have many actual fans.

And yeah, you're right, she's spent the last thirty years bitching at her father for being absent, and now she's doing her best to make the father of her children go absent. She crazy, she BPD, and I don't think there was ever anything more to the "himanitarian" act than ego and publicity.

[–] bigbadwolf666 (4707) 6 years ago

From what I know. I know nobody who doesnt admire her. Everywhere and everyone I know she's a huge thing.
From a beauty stand point I can see it. She's gorgeous but thats all shes got. Everything else is a mess and she never took great care of her body anyway. Im huge fan of her early works like hacker, tomb raider, girl interrupted, original sin, beyond borders. Right up until Beyond Borders who works starts to decline and lost any interest I had as a fan. I can watch some of her popcorns such as Mrs. Smith, Salt, Wanted but arent highly regard. I could add that I liked her in Alexander, and Taking lives but she's hardly the main in those.

I hardly could call Pitt a father or a man. But she never seemed that really dedicated to a family with the lists of would be disgraceful suitors starting with the yuck billy bob, that will forever go down in the hall of shame of human kind. Then with her strings of drugs, partying, plastic surgery, and tatts. Hardly the same person. She probably doesnt even recognize herself. Doesnt make sense. If your father was an actor and a bad person why join the same exact industry and live a destructive lifestyle almost imitating him to an almost worst degree. Every action has upped the previous in disgrace. She kisses her brother which appears like incent, I doubt she cares about her mother, maybe not even her children who all look like to have sex identity issues, plays up a humantarian but picks terrible movies to be in. She's a perfect example that fame and richness aint worth it.