>Nicholson had what was known as an "off-the-clock" agreement. His contract specified the number of hours he was entitled to have off each day, from the time he left the set to the time he reported back for filming, as well as being off for Los Angeles Lakers home games.
>Nicholson demanded that all of his scenes be shot in a three-week block, but the schedule lapsed into 106 days.
>He reduced his standard $10 million fee to $6 million in exchange for a cut of the film's earnings (including associated merchandise), which led to remuneration in excess of $50 million
>(including associated merchandise)
>(including associated merchandise)
>biographer Marc Eliot reports that Nicholson may have received as much as $90 million.
Is Jack the best to ever do it?
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He's the greatest american actor, too bad his last movie sucked so much it made James L. Brooks stop directing
is mr schmidt the last time he tried to perform an actual character?
he was on Jack auto-pilot for a long time, The Bucket List was such a piece of shit film taking into account the talent involved and the subject matter.
>The Bucket List
That was a movie made for boomers to take their (still living) parents to go see.
>is mr schmidt the last time he tried to perform an actual character?
>he was on Jack auto-pilot for a long time, The Bucket List was such a piece of shit film taking into account the talent involved and the subject matter.
>He's the greatest american actor,
Yes, he can play Jack Nicholson but also jack Nicolson, he can play him drunk, sober, insane. He can't play anyone who is not Jack Nicolson does not have jack Nicholson accent and does not look exactly like jack Nicolson. Best actor my ass. He did some good movies and then switched off and produced a long tedious sequence of crap featuring him as jack nicolson, wolf, the bucket list etc etc
i never watch this kind of movies were the main characters are just doing stupid faces with different color backgrounds, it´s like the same vibe with those fricking granpa comedies were all the fricking characters are old as frick but they try to have fun, i fricking hate that trope.
>nothing in the 2010s
how bad is this Alzheimer's case, it would've been nice to see him do something with Spielberg.
he just got tired of acting, he did it for like 50 years, no alzheimers as far as I know of
I've never watched these Batman films. I saw rubber lips as a kid and it made me think they were all terrible
never understood this take on the Joker, why did boomers cast someone from the 'builder' generation? it's like some oddball jazz-age take on the character
if only you had been there at the time to correct this mistake.
It wasn't a mistake at all, no one would've been more iconic and he lends the film an eerie dynamic, he's a ghost with a more modern irony. Nicholson was also considered for the role of Tom Hagen, which would've done interesting things for the Godfather.
Hagen was perfectly cast imo, Nickelson can't not be the MC
Duvall is such a stable presence in the film, it would really be thrown off-kilter with Nicholson and lend an additional kind of menace to things. It sounds strange but the Joker role makes me wonder how he'd perform as Beetlejuice
>Beetlejuice
that wouldv'e been kino
its almost like they cast the biggest name they can get for a role regardless of how will the actor fit the established lore.
>never understood this take on the Joker, why did boomers cast someone from the 'builder' generation?
Because le epic batman was a cheesy camp kids TV show that was not popular outside noth america as it was literally too gay and that is how the joker was in it
Capeshit getting big budget and being exported from teh USA had as much to do with coprighable material as anything else. After all who need to get rights to books, biographies, etc etc when you just have this cheap moronic shit no one outside america cared about with homosexuals wearing their underwear outside their pants? If you market it enough and throw enough money all the morons will flock to it anyway.
Pay to see me morons. I'm cheap and shitty as it gets
anfy
Adam West is still the best batman.
You sound like a zoomer talking about a time before you were born. Movies back then didn't cater that much to international audiences. Comic books were still seen as a joke to many adults in the 80's living in the US. Having Nicholson in the role gave it credibility.
Burton's Batman was never a comic book purist's take on the material. Michael Keaton's Bruce Wayne is also pretty odd. Geek culture simply didn't exist on a level that it does now, so people b***hing were often marginal and not taken seriously.
Very few actors have the power to get a cut of the earnings
He probably is the best.
Alec Guinness made $95 million for 20 minutes of screentime.
Jack has probably raped so many kids
Seems to me he'd be the type to have banged a few 12-14 year olds in his day.
thats incredibly based, and that aside i can safely say hes one of my favorite actors of all time. so many god tier performances.
There are countless stories of new actors who have a choice between a guaranteed flat fee and a percentage, and they take the flat fee not because they're stupid, but because they have to, in the moment, to pay the bills. Now consider the idea of a prominent actor workinng on a major project, successfully renegotiating his flat fee down in exchange for a percentage. On a major motion piece of capeshit on which has a resonable expectation of ROI and then some. If this renegotiation is true, good for him.
Admit it, a team-up would have been fricking kino
You guys ever watch one of his early films where he plays a dashing young hero? Feels so fricking weird every time
Man this is bizarre
To be honest the entire movie seems to be an exercise in under utilizing as many great actors as possible. I don't know how a film with Jack Nicholson, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, and Vincent Price can end up just kinda dull
>His contract specified the number of hours he was entitled to have off each day, from the time he left the set to the time he reported back for filming,
yes this is called "turnaround" and is quite common, even in crew contracts.
Why did he have so much power?
cocaine
He wiped out all the capos and rival families. I think he had a mixture of Italians, Irish and Japanese mobs.
I'm talking about the actor not the character he's playing
Jack Nicholson himself is kind of gangster. Polanski was banging the girl in his hot tub. He had a secret tunnel to the Playboy Mansion. likely has a few real life Mafia contacts and could likely make people he doesn't like disappear.
When you have the greatest screen presence in the history of cinema you tend to have some leverage
jack nicholson is probably the all time most lauded actor