no hate to this guy i respect his position. it is pragmatic advice. but can we not envision a world that is better for our workers than one where you take a job and the studio makes $250m in profit and you see none of that for your work? can nobody work towards that?
The Obsession art director post. Man, what a choice.
One year total experience. Only credit pre-Obsession is a single short film. Sign on to a low budget indie. Agree to rate. Movie explodes. You're suddenly the Art Director fo the most talked about film of the year.
If this ever happens to you, let me give one piece of advice. Embrace it. Use the credit to fight off offers, get a BTL agent, turn those difficult three weeks into an incredible career.
Do NOT cut every connection you have to the filmmakers, put out tweets about how you wish you'd shut down their production, and complain about the rate you agreed to (which isn't even like $100 or some student film sketchiness).
Do you know how many indies I have done as an actor for $240/day? A fucking lot. Every single time I know what I'm getting into and I hope to god it turns out well and leads to another opportunity. I cannot even imagine getting cast in Obsession and then putting out a career ruining post about it instead of trying to leverage it into more work.
@TroyMP94 maybe they should also have an obligation to share the profits of immensely successful ventures with the people who made it? we lived under monarchies for millennia until we decided democracy was better. the world can be a better place than it is now
@batsight1 this is specifically NOT what i am saying. she got paid what seems like an equitable wage up front considering the budget, but i think she should be able to benefit from the runaway success of the movie on the back end
maybe we should encourage a more profit sharing based model for everything. idc if you think she is paid enough, she should have a right to the hundreds of millions of dollars of profit the film made because she played a significant role in that
@TroyMP94 im not saying they need to pay her a higher flat wage, they paid her what they could with their budget. but i think they could set up a compensation system where if they make huge profits, she would see some of that
the criticism cuts both ways. the bottom guy has built his own hell in his awful apartment. that’s part of the joke. the guy on the bottom looks like a psycho cuz he is
i think there's both a legitimate criticism being made here which I agree with, and that the criticism is being made in at least a latently misogynist way
@Tony_Soplano@thinkiamsad i think it’s as much mocking this skeleton ghost man who lives a miserable life in a cave of an apartment as much as it is mocking the corporate drones (men and women) talking about their coffee
I always think it's so funny when horror nerds act this dismissive of the concept of getting chased by a big monster as if there's just nothing scary about it at all.
if this is your theory of maine politics, then this reflects poorly on the dems who failed to find a decent candidate to oppose the obviously unpopular collins
This is what really gets me. Maine Dems have been itching to take down Collins for decades and they finally get an ideal year and instead of running any of the nearly 100 state legislators we get some total rando that clearly was never properly vetted like… what are we doing.
like i dont have a strong dog in this race cuz i dont work in film but i think it’s obvious that a more profit sharing based model would be more equitable for all the workers involved
genuinely curious what the message is because so many people keep saying the theme is obvious, but wont say what it is. i would see it myself but i hate horror movies so i know i would not enjoy the experience of watching it
still stuck on this thought. i mean i dont think she could have been clearer at showing the mistreatment of iranians by religious conservatives in iran and by western islamophobes in europe
i think this is maybe the most infuriating thing ive seen on this site. satrapi’s work stuck with me because i think its the most humanizing piece of media on iran i have ever seen and these idiots come on here trying to paint her in one corner or the other
the book and movie were released 20 years ago and people still cant comprehend the idea that there are both good and bad people in iran. i cant imagine being so small minded
i think this is maybe the most infuriating thing ive seen on this site. satrapi’s work stuck with me because i think its the most humanizing piece of media on iran i have ever seen and these idiots come on here trying to paint her in one corner or the other