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How to be cheap, counterproductive and reprehensible in one easy lesson Saturday, 11-Jul-98 02:02:14
Award Winning Cinemetography Conrad L. Hall shot the blockbuster spot. It's even shot in wide screen format. In order to take me out of one of the final shots, they imposed a CGI image of a stop sign right in the middle of the frame on top of me and a couple other actors. It totally ruins the beatiful shot that Connie set up: Like taking a black magic marker and scribbling right in the middle of a nice landscape That's unbelievably reprehensible to actors. I don't know who else was under that "sign" They pay about $15 grand for computer graphic images, to totally ruin a shot, so they can ATTEMPT to take actors out of the spot, and thereby avoid paying actors probably less money than they spent for computer graphic images to destroy the spot. It's sickening how far extremely high profile productions will go to screw actors out of less money than they spend for donuts on any particular day. SAG needs stiffer penalties for trying to screw actors, because they were so predictable that I told my agent *TWO MONTHS* ago that they we're going to pull this stunt and try not to pay me what they agreed to per the agreement that *THEY* *CHOSE* to sign with SAG. (As for any of the other actors that might have been burned, I leave it to them to remedy their situation, but since the "stop sign" CGI completely eliminated them from the spot, I don't see that there's much that they can do. If you don't want to agree to SAG rules, THEN DON'T. Just don't use SAG actors, agree to pay us by those rules, and then go to all sorts of self-defeating lengths to try to screw them. Sad. Very Sad. sterling the luckily CGI escaping dancing prisoner Wolfesden -- home of the dancing prisoner with the large biceps that are half the size of Rosey's Sterling Wolfe -- CGI Escapee! |
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