Update - Daniel Craig Offered Insane Money to Return as James Bond
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While I consider integrity one of the best qualities a person can posses I would let the entirety of Hollywood do whatever they wanted to my body for the amount Craig is, supposedly, being offered. I have only seen his performance in Casino Royale, and half of Quantum of skyfall, but he seems an ok Bond, though I'd rather have an oldschool one.
Well Craig, you have my hatred, but you had my respect as well. Even though I thought you were being a complete dickhead, you stuck to your guns and put your foot down, and I admired that...until the price tag was high enough, apparently. Congrats Daniel Craig, now you're an asshole AND a sellout. Good luck, and I sincerely hope that the principal photography for the next movie is the most depressing and soul-crushing time of your career.
*golf clap*
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Ok, as Sir Micheal cain once said "it payed off the mortgage". if they want to throw the money at you, then all power to your elbow. A jobs a job. An actors job is always uncertain. Someone offers you a job for insane amounts of money, he'd be fool not to take it. Ask any actor.
Ugh. I guess from that insincere statement we know the next bond movies are gonna be straight out of the sausage factory. If the guy is only there because he was offered an obscene amount of money (and i don't blame him for taking it), he's hardly gonna be bringing his A game...
Funny.
I thought he hated Bond as a character and he would quit playing as him.
Bit dissapointed, but whatever floats his boat I guess.
I thought he hated Bond as a character and he would quit playing as him.
Bit dissapointed, but whatever floats his boat I guess.
So you're saying that the fact that we, as a society, are not only wealthy enough to pay artists insane amounts of money to perform their art, but are also willing to do so (if under in very specific cases), indicates that we're fucked? Did you think that it was better when the best that artists could hope for was "not starving"? I'd argue that this is a sign that we're... whatever the opposite of fucked is. Chastised, I suppose, but that has another meaning now.Addendum_Forthcoming said:
I agree our priorities about art are pretty skewed, but we take it seriously- financially, if nothing else.
I'd be happy with just one more movie, for some reason only every other movie was good, the others were only ok or not great. So it would be nice to see him leave on a high note instead of a comeback then ruin it with another mediocre run.
Hell no. I was talking about the gradient. All those 'artists' which require 99% of the rest of yhe industry to make them look good used to earn something relatively in line which all the labourers who made them wealthy. British broadcasting, for instance, had not much beyond parity for the 'artists' behind the camera (you know, the people who make Broody McBroodface look edgy and not merely look bland and disinteresting as any other tosser on the street like you or I) as they did for veteran effect technicians and costumiers. You know... the people that literally make the movie.Recusant said:
Yeah, yeah, I know. You can draw parallels to big business CEOs and even the skilled labourers beneath them.
But lets take a comparative look. MSF. Save many hundreds of thousands each year directly or indirectly through their various campaigns. 322 million in FE2014. 90% effectiveness of all contributions. By the rate we're going, a big time actor will earn more than large staples of international aid for shooting a pair of movies by 2030. This is why we're going to be truly fucked as a species.
I think he's been a good Bond. SPECTRE was dreck, but that wasn't his fault; he just suddenly got a villain (allegedly the uber-villain, no less) who wanted sharks with some frickin' lasers.
And for all the sneering, $150 million is a ton of money. Barring international financial catastrophe, it's easily enough to live out the rest of one's life in luxury. Or make a significant impact on the charitable cause of one's choice. Or buy a huge yacht, fill it with rich food and a crew devoted to your comfort, sail away while thumbing your nose at the people calling you a sellout, and never have to see, hear, or deal with any of them again.
And he's not having to kill a sad orphan to do it, or stomp on a puppy, or kill, skin, and eat an endangered species; he's just playing James Bond. Ooh, the nerve. Tell me you wouldn't do far less dignified things for a tenth of that price. For a hundredth. Much less if you were a forty-eight year old actor wondering about your professional shelf life.
And you know what else $150 million buys you? A hundred future opportunities to say, "No, I'm going to turn down that part, thanks, and I can do that, because I have $150 million dollars."
People grin and bear it in jobs they hate for minimum wage. I'm not going to think a jot less of Craig if he takes this opportunity. I hope he doesn't "phone it in"- that I will look askance at- but I'm not going to lambaste him for changing his mind.
And for all the sneering, $150 million is a ton of money. Barring international financial catastrophe, it's easily enough to live out the rest of one's life in luxury. Or make a significant impact on the charitable cause of one's choice. Or buy a huge yacht, fill it with rich food and a crew devoted to your comfort, sail away while thumbing your nose at the people calling you a sellout, and never have to see, hear, or deal with any of them again.
And he's not having to kill a sad orphan to do it, or stomp on a puppy, or kill, skin, and eat an endangered species; he's just playing James Bond. Ooh, the nerve. Tell me you wouldn't do far less dignified things for a tenth of that price. For a hundredth. Much less if you were a forty-eight year old actor wondering about your professional shelf life.
And you know what else $150 million buys you? A hundred future opportunities to say, "No, I'm going to turn down that part, thanks, and I can do that, because I have $150 million dollars."
People grin and bear it in jobs they hate for minimum wage. I'm not going to think a jot less of Craig if he takes this opportunity. I hope he doesn't "phone it in"- that I will look askance at- but I'm not going to lambaste him for changing his mind.