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Latyon t1_iqw7ge3 wrote

I swear the last thing I read about Bruce before this is that his mental faculties were going and he was being taken advantage of by people surrounding him.

Is this no longer the case, or another instance?

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JohannesOliver t1_iqwpurr wrote

He has aphasia which would make things confusing as you lose the use of language. I think the claims he was being taken advantage of went toward producers and Hollywood execs who kept putting him into movies because his name is big, even if he wasn’t fit for it. Hadn’t heard of a Stan Lee situation but there could be.

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MF_Kitten t1_iqwuoeb wrote

I thought he was just trying to cash in as much as possible with his name and reputation before retiring, doing these cheap conveyor belt movies to secure him and his family financially for the future?

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hitsujiTMO t1_iqwyuqh wrote

Yup, same thing Cage does. He does little work, only has to show up for a few days of filming, and gets paid a significant portion of the budget.

It has meant he had far more time to spend with his family.

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victorsueiro t1_iqx56gu wrote

Not the case with Cage, dude was in huge debt with the IRS plus he over spent for years.

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hitsujiTMO t1_iqx5mvo wrote

Sorry, meant the types of films he does. Bruce doesn't do the same volume as Cage as he doesn't need to.

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papapoohbear13 t1_iqxjw8l wrote

Actually Cage does it now because he enjoys it. IRS got paid off.

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benito_fusilloni t1_iqxuab6 wrote

If you read an interview with him, he swears up and down that he cherry picks roles because he wholeheartedly thinks they’re amazing. Even during the IRS shenanigans. He’s crazy enough that I believe him though.

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APeacefulWarrior t1_iqzdcbh wrote

Well, amazing or just interesting in some way. Like I saw an interview where he said he took the job on that bad FNAF ripoff movie specifically because he thought it would be fun to play a mute badass.

Although the one I was really disappointed in was "Prisoners of the Ghostland" which seriously should have been a lot better than it was.

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WiredEarp t1_iqzx7p0 wrote

Yeah that was terrible. All style nothing more.

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anonymous_4_custody t1_iqyx3wp wrote

I thought he was doing a good-guy thing and doing movies with less famous actors he liked, to help propel their careers.

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MF_Kitten t1_ir16blt wrote

I don't think he knew who any of those people were haha! Those movies are not even trying to be real movies. They're just "assemble a barely functional movie for just about no money, so you can sell it for stupid profit straight to streaming services and smaller TV channels without paying for any significant marketing" junk. Nobody is getting their careers propelled with those I think, other than literally having SOMETHING on a resume. He was either alone or with like one other actor for most of the shoots, and he was given almost no actual dialogue (for obvious reasons). Hell, they use body doubles for 90% of the shots where he has to do literally anything, and splice in the shots of his face.

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coffeeistheway t1_iqxa3gi wrote

As someone who had aphasia as a result of a stroke at 30 last year, I can tell you it's not fun and if my family weren't caring I could have gone through some awful shit. Thankfully I have very little to my name so no one wanted anything from other than to recover.

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neutronstar343 t1_iqxfno0 wrote

Aphasia is with spoken words not thoughts. He's quite sane.

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Latyon t1_iqxkkml wrote

My bad, I thought he was showing signs of dementia

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voiderest t1_iqxx27q wrote

I don't think he was being taken advantage of but he did do a string of really shitty movies. The kind that spent 90% of the budget on him to show up and fuck around for an hour so they can trick people into buying it at the Redbox. Maybe also trick people into clicking on it because it was free on prime at the time and it was sci-fi so it's probably up my ally has face you know.

That sort of thing is probably more of a cash out thing than something he was tricked into. In like 20 years people won't remember him for that shit but there will probably be some video essay on the fuck happened.

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