Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Forum administrators, Interface administrators, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
116,603
edits
Money, Dear Boy: Difference between revisions
link fixes
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) m (Looney Toons moved page Money Dear Boy to Money, Dear Boy: Adding proper punctuation to page name, in the proper place) |
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (link fixes) |
||
Line 1:
{{trope}}
[[File:Olivier1.jpg|link=Clash of the Titans|
{{quote|''"People ask me why I'm playing in this picture. The answer is simple: [[Trope Namer|Money, dear boy.]]"''|'''[[Laurence Olivier]]''', on his role in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inchon_(film) Inchon] (full quote [[Money Dear Boy/Quotes|here]])}}
{{quote|''"I was a medium-level juvenile delinquent from Newark who always dreamed about doing a movie. Someone said 'Hey, here's $7 million, come in and do this genie movie.' What am I going to say, no?"''|Shaquille O'Neal, explaining why he did ''[[Kazaam]]''}}
Sometimes, undeniably famous, classical actors and actresses take roles in movies that are very against their type. Unlike the [[Classically Trained Extra
▲Sometimes, undeniably famous, classical actors and actresses take roles in movies that are very against their type. Unlike the [[Classically Trained Extra|Classically Trained Extras]], who lament that their talent is being wasted, or the small but legitimate roles of the [[One Scene Wonder]]... or the [[Old Shame]] of roles taken when it was the only work available, this trope covers actors who are completely fine with the situation. Why? Simply put: the long green.
Obviously, movies are big business, and the right name at the top of the poster can be the difference between a hit and a flop. And it's hard to argue with the fact that, when offered buckets and buckets of cash for three weeks of shooting, anyone would be a fool not to take it. After all, acting is a volatile profession, as many starving artists can attest, and financial security for you and your family is nothing to turn from: It's not so much selling out, as selling ''well''. And furthermore, most creative professions are overcrowded; for every wealthy and successful artist who can afford to sniff at jobs that are 'beneath' him or her, there's ten or more underworked ones who would kill for a chance at the income. On a cynical note, in today's economy, you shouldn't be surprised to see this more often.
Still, if you do too many of these, you run the risk of having a rather strange [[
To be clear, however, there is no shame at all for doing a movie for the money, and if the movie happens to be a great one, artistically or popularly, all the better. People in creative jobs need an income the same as anyone else, and in fact, many of the greatest popcorn flicks of all time are great primarily because the studio shelled out the money to get actors and directors who would rather be doing something else, but who were still prepared to give the audience a good performance. However, doing a
Similar to getting a healthy paycheck, some actors will just want to do something "[[So My Kids Can Watch|their kids can watch]]", the kind of roles most actors seek usually being dark and not appropriate for minors.
Line 20 ⟶ 18:
A common theme -- especially among older actors and actresses -- stems from growing up during hard economic conditions, either from a poor economy as a whole or from family hardships. The fear that "The Next Job" may not come, as it often failed to do for their family, drives them to take roles they might not otherwise be interested in.
Compare and contrast [[Doing It for The Art]] (when artistic value and/or achievement is the primary motivator), and [[Awesome, Dear Boy]] (when the actor takes the role for the coolness of it, regardless of how crappy the work is).
See also [[Paying Their Dues]], [[I Was Young and Needed The Money]] (when this trope is given as the excuse for [[Old Shame]]), [[WTH Casting Agency]], [[Took the Bad Film Seriously]], and [[Humans Are White]] (for non-white actors who have little choice but to take what they can get).
| |||