Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: What a novel idea! [View all]Starboard Tack
(11,181 posts)When actors start trying to change the script, they'd better have some serious clout, or they'll be back to waiting tables or tending bar in short shrift.
It's about supply and demand. If it didn't sell, the producers would invest in it. You can sell candy to some folk and drugs to others, whatever the market will bear.
I watched a Woody Allen movie tonight. I like Woody Allen. Some of his movies are good, some not so good and a few are exceptionally good and a few quite mediocre, but they are all interesting on several levels. The one I saw tonight made 3.5 million dollars at the box office. He made several like that, with great actors who would work for free, or even pay, just to work with him. Those same actors would laugh at being offered less than 3.5 million dollars each to work in some Hollywood schlock.
I don't blame actors for taking jobs, unless they are promoting hatred or something truly despicable. Very often, actors don't even know what a movie is about until it gets released. Scenes can be very isolated and seem quite innocuous on their own.