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Originally Posted by kane
It is different. If you work at McDonald's and your job is to make the fries you make the fries, someone buys them and eats them. That is it. The fries are sold once to one person who eats them. With a movie the same product can be sold over and over again without any additional work going into it. If you are in a movie that movie can be released in theaters, then sold on DVD, rented on DVD, sold to premium cable like HBO, sold to pay per view, sold to basic cable, sold to tons of foreign markets, sold to regular free TV, sold to syndication type distributors who resell it to independent TV stations all over the globe, packaged and resold to other basic cable channels and now possibly put online. All of these are reselling the same product over and over again and generating revenue for the studio. What is wrong with those people who are in the movie getting a share of the profits?
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Because they were paid to ACT. They acted, they got paid. Nuff said.
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I don't totally disagree with this, but I don't think it is fully correct either. If there was no such thing as residuals how many professional actors would we have today? If you work hard and get small rolls in 10-12 or more movies that get played on TV/Cable regularly or sell well on DVD you might make enough money to live on for a few years without working. You aren't going to get rich, but you might be able to support yourself while you pursue more acting jobs. If that were not the case you would have to get another job and work that job while you tried to make it in the business, but then making it in the business would be next to impossible. If you had a regular job and you suddenly got offered a part that was going to pay you $800 a day and you would get 45 days of work, great. Chances are you would have to quit your regular job to take that part. After 45 days you earn 36K. But after taxes and agents fees you will see maybe half of that. Even so, 18K is a nice piece of change for 45 days of work. But that is it, nothing else will ever come of that so you will have to get another job and go back to work doing something else while you try to get another acting job. Becoming successful as an actor is basically already a nearly impossible task. If there were no residuals the odds of doing it would be like winning the lottery twice. We would have fewer and fewer decent actors and the quality of TV shows and movies would suffer greatly.
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Tough shit. It's call life. Harrison ford was a struggling actor that did carpentry between acting gigs. In fact he was offered more money as a carpenter than to do Star Wars. He took a chance and it paid off. Once again the failure to keep steady employment in your desired profession doesn't mean you deserve to keep getting paid.