Toons
Demand Pay Rise.
ENTERTAINMENT : In a world where actors demand millions per performance for blockbuster
movie parts we often forget the unpaid, smaller, and often more entertaining, characters
that fill the movie theatres with fans of all ages. In an outburst that looks set to rock
Hollywood budgeting the star of A Bugs Life , Flik, has announced "..no pay, no
part.."
Just as A Bugs Life clears the $300 million mark in worlwide gross profit, Flik and co-bug
Hopper (the nasty one!) have made a joint statement urging animated cartoon characters all
around the world, both drawn and computer generated, to join them in what they call the
Cartoon Cashback Corporation. "The whole idea of this", claims Flik," is
for us cartoons to finally start getting something back for all the hard work we put in. I
was almost killed during the filming of A Bugs Life when a great lump of computer
generated dirt come down on top of me. Now if that was Mel Gibson, it would've made the
papers and he probably would have got an extra million for the trauma...All I got was a
screen debut...without pay!"
Hopper continued the canning of payment arrangements for cartoons with an
additional attack on work conditions whilst on set. "We often end up just lying on
someones desk at the end of each day as an unfinished animation cell. No nice cosy
trailors for us. Things have to change!" Flik and Hopper are rumored to soon be
joined from the television front by Bart and Lisa Simpson, who as child actors for quite a
few years now, are under constant pressure to balance the hectic life of cartoon stars
with everyday growing up. Bart Simpson has apparently made a statement quite similar to
Flik's, simply saying "no bonus, no butt!".
The Cartoon Cashback Corporation is currently looking for sponsors and donations towards
its cause and hopes to start running a vigorous advertising campaign in an attempt to warn
budding young cartoon actors of the dangers and rip offs of Hollywood animation.
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