Fun little true story: Robert Rodriguez became a lab rat to help fund his first full-length movie El Mariachi. Costing just $7,000, Rodriguez used every single cost-cutting technique humanely possible in order for his vision to become a reality. In spite of all the issues involving shooting an action movie with quite literally no money, he managed to attract Columbia Pictures, whom bought the rights, cleaned it up, made good money, and jump-started the career of one of the more creative directorial minds in North America. Our lab rat director eventually became a Hollywood icon and became involved with gems like Desperado, Sin City, Spy Kids (underrated, shut up), and Planet Terror.
Now here’s Zach Braff.
This man has a net worth of over $20 million and with Scrubs reruns the money does continue to fly into his bank account. If you think reruns don’t do much for our stars, I would like to introduce you to Jerry Seinfeld and the $200 million plus he has earned from his sitcom. Either way, Braff is an established Hollywood figure with one indie movie under his belt and plenty of acting credits.
But….he wanted YOU to finance HIS next film. He apparently wanted at least $4 million to make his next movie. He creates a Kickstarter campaign to have his fans donate money to help the cause of making his film a reality. In spite of having over $20 million, he feels like it’s the right thing to do to make random people donate money to help the cause of a millionaire.
Are you kidding me? Seriously Braff? Seriously?
Whatever happened to suffering for your art?
Whatever happened to art is pain?
Whatever happened to taking a risk to make something you love?
Braff knows nothing of this as he decides to run his greasy greedy hands into a website that is designed to help people with little or no money to make their ideas a reality. You have money Braff, and lots of it. You have plenty of money left over long after the project is done. Why do you want OUR money Braff? Are we watching your movie for free? Are we getting a free DVD for donating money? Are we allowed to provide any input to the film now that we have financially helped make into a reality? No, we get t-shirts---but with 10,000 we can speak in the movie----granted we provide our own transportation.
Whatever Zach Braff, you are ridiculous. The unemployment rate is still nice and high, thousands of people are struggling for attention in the movie industry, and many more are struggling to make ends meet altogether. Yet you can’t provide a cool couple million that you most definitely can afford to spend to make your movie? Screw you. An action movie mentioned earlier in this article has been made for $7,000. Blair Witch Project cost $50,000 and became a historic phenomenon. Saw cost just north of $1,000,000. Napoleon Dynamite cost $400,000. And what is the synopsis of this film that Braff needed millions of dollars for?
“Braff will portray a struggling actor, husband and father trying to find his identity and purpose at age 35. He winds up trying to home school his two children when his father can no longer afford to pay for private education and the only available public school is on its last legs.”
Are you kidding me??? Seriously? That is going to cost more than a bloody horror film full of traps and surprises? You need money for this? This can easily be a movie that can cost less than $2 million, especially if you plan on giving it just an Indie run around film festivals nationwide. Zach Braff, you are taking the easy way out of all this. You are a ridiculous millionaire that believes that your money is too good and far too important to not have to use on your own movie.
And before any of you jump at me, if I had dozens of millions at my arsenal and needed a couple million to finance a small indie movie, you bet your ass I will sign that check and hang a copy on my wall. Because this is what artists are supposed to do: take risks, make sacrifices, go the distance for the art, for the craft, to deliver the message, to get a point across. I refuse to support this, and I refuse to support you Zach Braff, for your inability to make the full leap to get this done on your own makes you less of an artist than a Jerry Springer cinematographer. You have the money and then some.
Finance your own $&$*$(%^#^(#^%(*#@ movie.
P.S. You people that donated are all fools.
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