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Hollywood rails against the rich and say tax the rich yet the very same hypocrites take advantage of tax loopholes to avoid paying its "fair share" and pulls strings in cities and states across America to be granted tax breaks, credits and outright "gifts" of money as inducements to film in certain locations.
Hollywood rails against the rich and say tax the rich yet the very same hypocrites take advantage of tax loopholes to avoid paying its "fair share" and pulls strings in cities and states across America to be granted tax breaks, credits and outright "gifts" of money as inducements to film in certain locations.
Republicans rail against the poor, say they're for free-market capitalism, then whine when somebody earns a lot of money and spends it.
Hollywood rails against the rich and say tax the rich yet the very same hypocrites take advantage of tax loopholes to avoid paying its "fair share" and pulls strings in cities and states across America to be granted tax breaks, credits and outright "gifts" of money as inducements to film in certain locations.
Who is Hollywood??
My understanding is that Hollywood is an capitalist industry whose main goal is to make money. Anyone that thinks otherwise is either naive or paranoid.
But you miss the point of Hollywood hypocrisy. Why? Because Hollywood is now a source of (liberal) propaganda and you buy every bit of it.
Why is it that people swoon over hollywood actors who do nothing for you.
They drive huge luxury SUV's or exotic sports cars that get nine miles-per-gallon (downhill, with a tail wind), live in 20,000 square foot, 12-bedroom mansions with theaters, bowling alleys, indoor pools, multiple kitchens, etc., which require heating, air conditioning, lawn maintenance, and generally suck up massive amounts of power -- mostly from coal-fired power plants (which the politicians they're supporting are trying to eliminate.) They travel on privately-chartered jets and get around city streets in limousines large enough for 10 occupants but carrying just one.
This makes absoutly no sense,...The guy was a nobody driving a cab and got a handsome paycheck for what he did, and agreed to. The movie's success has nothing to do with what he gets paid further unless it was in his contract.
I don't see what you are complaining about if someone gets what they agreed to in a contract with someone else,...
But you miss the point of Hollywood hypocrisy. Why? Because Hollywood is now a source of (liberal) propaganda and you buy every bit of it.
Why is it that people swoon over hollywood actors who do nothing for you.
They drive huge luxury SUV's or exotic sports cars that get nine miles-per-gallon (downhill, with a tail wind), live in 20,000 square foot, 12-bedroom mansions with theaters, bowling alleys, indoor pools, multiple kitchens, etc., which require heating, air conditioning, lawn maintenance, and generally suck up massive amounts of power -- mostly from coal-fired power plants (which the politicians they're supporting are trying to eliminate.) They travel on privately-chartered jets and get around city streets in limousines large enough for 10 occupants but carrying just one.
Beginner or not, Abdi had a starring role in this movie, and the story was both well known and gripping. And it starred Tom Hanks, a guy who is a steady moneymaker for any picture he's in.
Abdi made the movie. Without him, the intensity of the story would not have been as intense, and that was what was going to make the difference between a fair profit and a smash hit. Abdi scared Hanks in the first scene. Tom has been around the block many times, and if Abdi scared him enough to actually make him pale in the scene, that alone should have added at least another zero to his paycheck.
Will he be a star? I don't know, but I think he has a good career ahead of him as a character actor at least.
Any actor never knows when the next paycheck will happen, or even if there will be another paycheck at all. Even the best established actors are in flops once in a while that fail for reasons other than the acting, and one big flop can ruin any actor's career. Actors like Hanks, the guy who is the common everyman like Jimmy Stewart was, and can do comedy, drama and action equally well (again, like Stewart) are always as rare as a perfectly white diamond.
Where is Steve Guttenburg these days? He started out around the same time as Tom, and had very similar qualities.
For sure, Abdi was lucky, but the casting tryouts were heavy; really a lot of good, authentic, African immigrants tried out, and only a small handful made it into the flick. And of them, even fewer got an important part, and of them, only one got the critical starring role.
I hope this attention gets him a late bonus he truly deserved. If not, I hope he can land some steady work if he wants to become a full-time actor. he ain't pretty, for sure, but there's plenty of room for him in the industry.
Got some examples? You know, of those republicans who rail against the poor, love capitalism and whine when their peers earn money and spend it ?
You're kidding, right? You must be new here. We have thread after thread of the right having aneurisms over "welfare leeches" and here they are, pizzing and moaning about Hollywood actors with their 12-bedroom mansions and private jets.
And we all have the option to listen or ignore it. Some like to listen just to raise their bile. What a miserable existence.
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Hollywood has nerve to preach
