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$12,000,000 for 104 words?

posted 11 years ago by mizhou-99-68324
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$115384.62 per word

gotta be some kind of a record, eh?

[–] mslade69 11 years ago

You mean $20,000,000.....says in the trivia lol

[–] Bobby9976 11 years ago

Beaten by Holly Hunter for The Piano, surely?

[–] Littlebitsofgaming 10 years ago

Arnie in T3 has that beat.

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[–] execproducer22 10 years ago

Yup, Arnie got 30 million for about the same amount of dialog and was at the time the highest paid actor in hollywood when that film came out.....

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[–] CrimsonRage 9 years ago

Actors aren't paid by the word. Even when they're not speaking, they're still delivering a performance.

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[–] Dustbowler 9 years ago

Exactly. Blows my mind that so many people fail to understand this.

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[–] judah-usmc 8 years ago

Silent films divide by 0...

[–] almighty_cinder 8 years ago

And he broke his ankle and had to film half the movie with it like that, so I'm sure he still regrets it.

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