residuals aren't infinite money, if you help create good work, and that work keeps making money, why shouldn't you get part of that money? that money also isn't "infinite", 20 bucks for some show from 10 years ago isn't much to live on, but it adds up and if you do persistent good (or even ok) work that makes good (or ok) money, which you get a part of. you make money, studio makes money, it's in everyone's interest to keep making money, so a certain level of quality is required and assured.
Sort of. We have the shit we have today because the 2007 writers strike cemented a lesson that had been brewing - "It doesn't matter if your movie is garbage, if you put fags in it, fags & fag hanger-ons will watch it". You can do 40% of the work and get 80% of the money. The fact you could use this political ideology to get retards to sign away their rights as long as they can make some character gay or a nigger was also helpful.
I guess let me be a little more exact in the messaging, they are setting up a false binary:
I remember how in their re:View of the first season of either Star Trek: Discovery or Star Trek: Picard, Mike and Rich pointed out how the show seemed to have nearly 20 different producers. Granted, officially a "producer" is not a writer, but given how things seem to work in Hollywood these days and the sheer number of people involved, you know that many of those "producers" were essentially writing.
Rate me autistic, but I didn't think Picard was too bad. The show's writing went all over the place over the first two seasons. Then season 3 came up and they reactively decided to just give fans everything they figured TNG fans would want. They weren't wrong in this case, it was pretty good in my opinion, even if it was chock full of fanservice.
Maybe this is unheard of crazy talk, but I don't think actors should be making living wage off of jobs they did 15+ years ago.
I agree, why should work done that you were PAID FOR decades ago equal the same amount of cash in current day?
No. If you are a showrunner and everyone knows you can give out 3 to 12 "free" paychecks but are choosing not too. Word will get around, especially in dick sucking / favor trading world like Hollywood. They will just give out the spots to nepo babies for favors to help their next show or help them with fuckery on their current show.
Isn't that how all passive income works? Create something of value--a rental property, a stock portfolio, an audiovisual work--and get paid for it as long as it makes money. That's an oversimplification, but that is how compensation works in their industry, it's the result of the negotiation between actors and people who want to buy acting. And if you think the actors are making off like bandits, the IP owners are getting paid as long as the thing is in copyright, which could be decades after all the actors are dead.
I don't think this is helping your point as much as you think it does.
You really don't need all these fucking writers, man. A lot of the properties we grew up relied on one guy with one vision, and was often the main writer: Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, Dune, A Song of Ice and Fire, blah, blah, blah. 20 writers writing stuff was not needed for these projects. Editors and advisors, sure, but not writers. Otherwise, you're just creating a mess of a story, like with the Transformers live-action franchise. J. Michael Straczynski wrote 92 of the 110 episodes of Babylon 5.
This seems part for the course most of the time there is a minimum staffing requirement - especially with union jobs. My experience is that the demanded minimum staffing amount is inflated, more than what's needed, and higher than the status quo - requiring management to spend money it may not necessarily have now or in the future since we know these minimum staffing numbers, once enshrined in a union contract, will likely never decrease.
Almost sounds akin to the UAW's demand that workers get paid for 40 hours and only work 32.
Good. It doesn't matter how many gormless fuckheads the system is forced to hire, it won't make their products suck any less. It will just mean more hands clutching at scraps on an ever-shrinking plate.
I think I have the perfect solution:
Studios are making money, the little guy should too.
This is already happening.
Were your dropped on the head as a child, or is this the lead paint at work?
