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Who Gets Your Butt in the Seat?

July 24th, 2008 · 16 Comments

http://jimkeller.livejournal.com/208553.html asks Hoosgot,

The primary job of the leading man (and, to a lesser extent, the leading lady) in mass-market entertainment is to put butts in the seats. Not to give a good performance. Not to be right for the role. To put butts in the seats. That’s why Jim Carrey is worth $25 million. The studio will sell $25 million worth of tickets just to people who will see the movie because he’s in it. Jackie Chan has this effect on me. I don’t need to know anything more than “It’s a Jackie Chan film” to be talked into going to see it. But, as I intimated in the first sentence, this is widely regarded as the role of the leading man. The

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