The difference between reality and fiction...
...is that fiction has to make sense.
If you went to Hollywood and pitched a blabbering, drug-addled, gun-toting, mullet-wearing, gay polygamist, tiger whispering redneck who plots murder and runs for governor as a character, the studio execs would say that's nonsensical and far fetched. How can one person have so many outrageous qualities??? Wow. Just, wow.