Tie a yellow ribbon 'round your Groot cosplay?
I just saw a statement from SAG about this, and they actually want people to keep going to movies and watching shows. They feel it improves their bargaining position if the stuff they worked on is highly successful - if Oppenheimer makes a truckload of money, that’s a strong argument that the people who made Oppenheimer deserve better pay. If it fails, then that’s evidence that the studios are wasting their time on these writers and actors, and are better off without them.
That would make Neil Gaiman sad. You don’t want to make Neil Gaiman sad, do you?
They also presumably would still get paid from residuals for this work.
Also, this strike will end, eventually, and the actors and writers want their jobs to still be there when they go back.
I personally am a bit surprised that they’re not encouraging some kind of pro-union mashup cosplay/bounding/etc. Even an unimaginative lunkhead like myself could understand, say, accessorizing a costume with an oversized Tshirt that says “SOLIDARI”. Real creatives could come up with something far more fun and witty.
Carson used the phrase in conversation on the Tonight Show
That idea is assuming a significant overlap between the group “people that are really into costuming/cosplay” and “people who really give a crap about union actions” that may not exist.
While it’s nice to have original actors at an event there are certainly people who can lecture about movies who have as much or more information than any actor.
I go to an aviation event every year and one of the greatest memories I have was a seeing a large percentage of Apollo Astronauts on stage trading stories. I mean, how many times does that happen? Never. But I would have still enjoyed a week of lectures by people who wrote books on the lecture subject and had a serious background knowledge of what they studied.
Anecdote to the Astronaut event, the Narrator saw the Concord approaching the runway behind the venue and stopped it and asked the audience full of pilots to turn around and watch. He knew he couldn’t complete with noise or the grandeur of the plane.
Well, he certainly couldn’t compete with the noise, even if he wanted to.
So it turns out that the problem was so small, there wasn’t a problem at all.
It turns out, there was no monster.