Posted on 03/12/2018 7:49:42 AM PDT by EdnaMode
The A-list actress' recent stumbles with 'Red Sparrow,' 'mother!' and 'Passengers' are no reason to gloat. The death of the movie star is bad news for everyone in Hollywood.
In 1993, John Travolta’s career was teetering on the brink. The actor, who’d become a superstar with Saturday Night Fever and then added to his luster with Grease, had all but ceased to matter as a cultural force. True, he could still deliver the occasional hit, such as Look Who’s Talking, but at the domestic and foreign box office he was a has-been, someone largely remembered for a white sharkskin suit and a few fabulous dance moves.
Hollywood had effectively written him off, perhaps unconvinced he was all that big a star to begin with. But one director, who was just beginning to make his name, had faith, and when he came to make his second feature, he chose Travolta for the most important role. That director, of course, was Quentin Tarantino; the feature was 1994’s Pulp Fiction; and with it, Travolta was back on top, raking in $20 million per movie and sealing his place in the pantheon.
It isn’t easy being a star, as Jennifer Lawrence must have thought when Red Sparrow opened to a humble $16.9 million first weekend earlier this month. You’re on a perpetual roller-coaster ride, knowing each time you’re up, the law of gravity says you’re going to crash back down. Stars live in constant fear that everything they have, they’ll soon lose — the perks, the privileges, the private planes. Directors secretly resent their clout, executives question their monetary value and pundits (like me) wonder whether many deserve to be called stars at all.
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In today’s movie marketing it is all global so it may not be totally necessary to have big stars open pictures, you now have to have a diverse cast to play world wide.
Jennifer Lawrence is a so so actress and lucked out getting a Oscar she probably did not deserve, she had the good fortune of being in the The Hunger Games Trilogy which out her on the map. Frankly she probably has not made very good career choices.
So she may be be, at even her young age, headed down.
“Show me a hero, and I’ll show you a bum.” —
attributed to Major Gregory “Pappy” Boyington, USMC, Congressional Medal of Honor.
At his age he has been doing a lot of crap pictures and he isn’t making $20 Million a picture anymore either.
Nobody. Stars are actually pretty low on the list of reasons people watch a movie. The primary reason people go is the story, if you do a crappy job of advertising the story, nobody goes to your movie.
You are correct. I’m 42 years old and doubtful I reflect any type of trend within my demographic.
I hear that a follow-up article is being planned: "The death of journalism is nothing to gloat about."
I suspect that that is how her career started in the first place, but only Harvey Weinstein knows for sure.
True.
I actually really liked the moral conflict in “Passengers”.
(Actually not a real moral conflict...but given human weakness, could you understand someone ignoring the moral component?)
She is easy on the eyes, that’s all. Like you said, they could have plugged anyone else in there. I did like Chris Pratt.
The Woman sitting behind Jennifer looking at her Husband says it all. LOL
>>>Jennifer Lawrence sucks<<<
Not that there’s anything wrong with that...
Oh, please. Cry me a river. All you have to do is be responsible with the first $10-$15 million you make, and you never have to worry about losing your fame and ridiculous paychecks...
Exactly. How can anyone feel sorry for these multi millionaires?
Agreed. She lost her likability with many people who no longer want to see her movies.
No tears shall be shed here in the Big C, 56 miles south of Big D.
There were many heroes who were not 'bums'.
In the old days, there were actually stars who could make a movie.
Like most actors, she over-estimates her importance in the World.
If Hollywood went on strike, no one gives a zhit...if garbage-men go on strike, we’re all screwed.
I think the gimp could have gotten a little more face time.
You mean Robert?
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