JoeB131
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I think the success of movies like "9 to 5" that starred Jane Fonda, showed that it was illegal for studios to not cast her as much as they should have.
They would not have taken any financial hit.
I think that actually Fonda's politics would instead of increased the revenue of Fonda movies.
Would it have, though? Again, it's a matter of where on the time line you show up.
During the 1970s, the backlash hadn't quite hit yet. Most people were just glad Vietnam was over, the hippies all got jobs and haircuts, Jimmy Carter pardoned all the draft resistors. It seemed like we were putting the nightmare behind us.
Then the historical revisionism began. You had movies like First Blood and Missing in Action, which began the "Stabbed in the Back" myth of Vietnam. We weren't defeated, we were stabbed in the back by the hippies and Jane Fonda. Ronald Reagan called Vietnam a noble cause, and people thought he was nuts for saying it, during the 1980 campaign. But turned out to resonate with people who just didn't want to admit America could lose a war. (Even a completely pointless war we were lied into getting into).
So in the midst of this, you saw Jane Fonda's fortunes decline in the kinds of movies she was getting. Part of it was that she only wanted to do serious films with a message, which kind of limited her, but part of it was Hollywood realizing she was box office toxic.
Her first movie after Golden Pond was "Rollover" 1981. It lost money, only making 10 million on a 16 million budget.
Her next big movie after that was Agnes of God (1985) It made $25MM on a $10MM budget. Not a loss totally, but not stellar. People in Hollywood were realizing her name was toxic because people resented her activism. A common T-shirt I saw in the 1980's 'Feed Jane Fonda to the Whales".
Her next movie was "The Morning After" (1986). Again, made 25MM on a 10MM budget.
Her last movie before she "retired" was Old Gringo. Made 3 million on a 35MM budget.
Again, if you're going to constantly whine about me calling you a liar and want to report me for it you might start out with the obvious: DON'T LIE...
I didn't report you for your childish name-calling. I reported you on accusing me of crimes. That's against forum rules.
Ah, yes, drag those goal posts! Glad to see you finally admit that Fonda's most successful movie (nominated for an Oscar) was in 1981!
She didn't "stop acting" in 1990, you lackwit...she married Ted Turner and retired.
See the discussion above, Ditchweed. After Golden Pond, she made a series of bombs because in the Reagan Era of bullshit patriotism, her brand became toxic.