Slumdog Millionaire

Feb 27, 2009 19:01

No, I haven't seen it but I'll probably pick up the book tomorrow. I have issues though with the children actors in the film. The film has grossed $175,115,223 so far according to Wikipedia (take that for what it's worth). This also according to Wiki,

"According to the UK newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, Azharuddin Ismail (who played Salim as a child) was paid £1,700 and Rubina Ali (who played Latika as a child) £500 for a month’s work on the film. The child actors continue to live in makeshift shacks in the slums of Bandra, a suburb of Mumbai, according to the Telegraph[113] and ABC News.[114] A Fox Searchlight spokesman has responded that for their one-month work on the film, the child actors were paid three times the amount of an average annual salary for an adult living in their neighborhood."

There's also some talk about an unknown trust fund setup for the children.

Dude, you just made a fat wad of cash and two of the supporting actors in your film live in shacks. I don't care what the original agreement of compensation was. Those kids don't need trust funds that won't help them right now. Just take the money you were going to pay your transvestite prostitute this week and send it the kids. Place the kids in an arts school and arrange a better means of life with the parent.
Fox and Warner Bros. are two of my favorite entertainment companies but this is low.

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