Hollywood bashing the rich...they aren't included...

[ballen0351]

I believe a majority of actors are more left leaning only because that's the type of person drawn to that profession. Just like police work tends to draw more right leaning mentality. With that they have a platform to be more vocal about their beliefs. I have no issue with that other then when a media outlet tends to favor the right like talk radio they are the first ones to yell for fairness.

But I agree with Steve here much ado about nothing. I go see movies that I think will be good I don't really care about the actors beliefs.

 

[Steve]

I would say the reality is that at least 90% of actors/actresses in Motion Pictures, Television and Theatre don't make a living from their craft. They will be serving you coffee at Starbucks or your grand slam breakfast at Denny's or washing your car at the local car wash on Sunset Blvd to pay the rent on their one room apartment. And when they are not working these jobs they are rushing to one auditon afer another hoping to land a role that will set them up for life. There are very few that are in a position to pick scripts that interest them and far from making their fortunes in this industry.Trust me on this one. There is a big difference between what the average movie goer thinks how actors live and the reality of the business. It's actually very sad.

The point is that they aren't trying to score political points or further an agenda. As you say, they're trying to make a living.


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[ballen0351]

I can't remember who said this but it reminded me of this topic. I think it was in a Chris rock show. The difference between rich and wealthy. Shaq is rich but the guy who signs Shaqs pay check is wealthy. He laughs at Shaq.

These wealthy people could care less about some actor. The truly wealthy can buy and sell 10 A list actors and not dent their fortune. They don't care

 

[crushing]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093278/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
If you're gonna pick a bomb, pick a BOMB

Before clicking I wasn't sure if your link would lead to the movie it did, or this one - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102070/

 

[granfire]

I actually like Hudson Hawk.

Maybe because I watched it when my English was still a little shaky

it was corky, for sure!

 

[Steve]

I actually like Hudson Hawk.

Maybe because I watched it when my English was still a little shaky

it was corky, for sure!

I liked it, too. Kind of a cult classic for me, up there with Repoman (Emilio Estevez). Quirky but fun.

"Bunny! Ball, ball!!!"

 

[arnisador]

I liked him in "The Last Boy Scout" that not everyone appreciates! Esp. this scene:

 

[elder999]

You mean that Andy Griffith really was a mean, manipulative hick, like in A Face in the Crowd/?

and that Mary Tyler Moore really is a cold, mean ***** of a mother, like in Ordinary People (actually, she is, but what the hell...:lfao: )

And that Henry Fonda really was a cold blooded, homicidal, amoral child-killer, like he was in Once Upon A Time in the West?

Good gosh! I never thought for a minute that Tom Hanks was actually gay! Yet here he is in all his gay splendor, in Phialdelphia. I mean, he won an Oscar, so this must be the truth of things, right??? :lfao:

Or maybe they're all just people who get paid HUGE amounts of money for playing "make believe." You know.....actors?

I mean, famous Hollywood liberal Carrol O'Connor played conservative, silent-majority bigot Archie Bunker on television for 13 years, dontcha know? And Errol Flynn-right wing Nazi sympathizer-played Robin Hood.

And the whole "evil rich" paradigm? Well, it's called "privilege" for a reason. When we've finished turning the earth into a complete ********, it will be the people with money who get to populate "somewhere else." This is a science fiction theme that goes back before Ben Bova's Colony, which was about a colony in earth orbit, inhabited by the rich and privileged, after earth has become a complete $h@thole, and was written, like...36 years ago.

 

[Steve]

And the whole "evil rich" paradigm? Well, it's called "privilege" for a reason. When we've finished turning the earth into a complete ********, it will be the people with money who get to populate "somewhere else." This is a science fiction theme that goes back before Ben Bova's Colony, which was about a colony in earth orbit, inhabited by the rich and privileged, after earth has become a complete $h@thole, and was written, like...36 years ago.

Hey, the alternative to privilege is socialism, man. And we don't want that!


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[Big Don]

Before clicking I wasn't sure if your link would lead to the movie it did, or this one - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102070/

I liked that movie! Except for Sandra Bernhard, what an overacting...

 

[crushing]

I liked that movie! Except for Sandra Bernhard, what an overacting...

I like both Hudson Hawk and Ishtar. Probably because they fun escapes. Whenever I see a tollbooth, I say "TOLLBOOF?!?!?"