…acting.

The ridiculous money they get aside, I’d have to imagine that acting on a green screen is tough enough. To be convincing at least

No… Graphic images do all that for them.. And do you really think that the actors and actresses deserve that kind of money that they make today when all that technology’s aids them? I don’t think so.

Considering the money studios make, the average actors wage is a small slice of a very large pie. Acting on a green stage is still acting, technology is just moving ahead as it always has. Cameras that could capture sound ended the life of silent movies

Actors sure do make a lot, but whether or not they deserve it is for the employers, ie the studios and producers to decide.

Debi – why don’t they deserve it. Actors get paid in relation to how much money their past films have generated at the box office. If appearing in a film makes that film alot more money then they deserve their cut.

agreed, Debi.
The time when movies were about acting and story are mostly history.. wixh makes it all the more special when a decent one actually does come out.
i recently started watching all the hitchcock and errol flynn movies.. very slow moving compared to todays “quick-fix” flicks but so worth it imho.

Debi, they are still acting!

I disagree Henry, while spectacle is now a major money maker in the American industry great films are still being made. The audience just needs to broaden their gaze beyond Hollywood, and to realise that the majority of great cinema is not, and never has been, produced in America.

They are getting paid to entertain us. Have you got a tv, DVD player, have you been to the cinema recently? If you answer yes to even one of the questions it means that they are getting paid big money to keep you and us entertained which rules out any argument you have on why actors get paid so much. Also remember not everyone can act, it’s supply and demand.

So technology makes the actors speak? The fact that all they have is a green screen and they have to imagine it shows that they do deserve the money they get. Also keep in mind what a lot of actors have done with their money, John Travolta flew his own plane and fed and watered those in Haiti and gave millions of his own dollars worth of supplies, as did many actors. If you we’re offered mega bucks to be in a film would you decline and say no thanks I don’t want the millions ill just take the good old minimum wage? I know I wouldn’t?

Watch Downfall on netflix . Then tell me there are no good stories anymore