This is the last I have to say on this beaten-dead-horse subject:
Of course I’m being black and white. Otherwise, given the state of affairs in Hollywood, we would have to take every picture’s convaluted deal into account.
If a director tells an actor to, “play this scene like a psychotic”, then he is not trusting his “fellow artist”, he is directing! And, yes, sometimes they do say, “Curl your lip.”
The point of all this was to point out (refute) the statement that actors control the artistic content of a movie.
Contribute - yes, control -no.
If an actor is directing or producing as well as acting, then they are no longer ‘actors’ in the context of this discussion.
That’s not true. The theater pays the studio, distributor, or whoever they got the right to play the movie from, as much, if not more, than the price of the ticket. Many times they lose money on ticket sales because the studio slice is so big. The theaters get charged a fee, usually 7 or 8 bucks for each person who watches the movie.
That’s why popcorn and candy costs an arm and a leg. If you go to the movie and don’t buy anything, then the theater gets nothing from you.
So those figures quoted are what the studios, or distributors, get. The cost of goods sold is in production, advertising, and salary.
Thanks for not getting all hot and bothered by it like others would.
Moral is, when you complain about the high ticket prices, yell at the studios, not the person taking your ticket. They get none of it.
If you think they make too much, then don’t go. I only go to the movies now if I’m 99% certain that I will like the movie. I don’t go because of an actor.
Which might be why I said “Of course actors contribute and perhaps even control artistic quality.” There weren’t even any missing words that had to be “understood.” Yes, directors make artistic choices. So do actors, and set designers, and cinematographers, and sound designers, and costumers, etc. But the prettiest sets or costumes or most realistic sound effects in the world aren’t going to help you a bit if the actor delivers his or her lines in a lifeless monotone or declaiming like a loon.
Anyhow, to drag this kicking and screaming back to the topic, yes, Cruise’s quote was arrogant.
I’ve never understood the appeal of tom cruise. He was okay in that early movie where he was a pimp butt ever since then he’s just played tom cruise. Always the same. Predictable and boring. Pretty boring wife too, if you ask me.
He does make money and for the life of me I can’t understand it. Top Gun sucked! Why do people continue to go see his movies? Boycott the arrogant bastard. And boycott rosie too for gushing over an already too vain crappy actor. Yeah, I think the quote was arrogant but it’s exactly what I’d expect from the spoiled little twit.
