[coldtea]

>Leonardo Di Caprio is a surgeon picking his roles, he has had spells of 5+ years without a role. Doesn't interact or post on social media and he is seen as cooler than sellouts such as Dwayne Johnson who dilutes his brand on a daily basis acception roles in B movies and franchises, commercials and basically an all around dilution of his brand.

Perhaps, but who really cares?

"Coolness" is a juvenile thing to aspire (or look up) to.

And Dwayne Johnson probably makes shitloads of money, has fun, and has tons of satisfied fans, whether dilluting his brand or not.

So there's that too.

[trissylegs]

> Dwayne Johnson probably makes shitloads of money

He is the highest paid actor in Hollywood right now at a 87.5 million/yr. And yeah he seems like a real cool guy doing real fun titles.

[maverick-iceman]

> 87.5 million/yr

If you are not an entrepreneur money has diminishing returns. After 10M net worth and no debt...it's all the same.

What money can't buy is the knowledge that you can do this:

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUa7ikBHpaI

2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hglyRJXCNCM

and that by now a cool billion people saw you doing it if you count: theatre releases + DVDs + cable + tv + legal streaming + illegal streaming

[coldtea]

>What money can't buy is the knowledge that you can do this:

Again: who cares? Audience-wise both movies were watched less than some The Rock vehicles. It would only matter if The Rock was insecure and wanted to prove his is a "real actor", which never seemed to be his thing.

[maverick-iceman]

Quality of audience vs quantity.

The audience of Di Caprio is emotionally deep, and loaded with money and relevancy , plus they are great storytellers themselves among their respective social groups. People of culture, people who have cumulatively billions of hours of interesting conversations to produce.

Johnson's audience is shallow, not loaded with anything except desire for the quickest dopamine hit they can get.

Di Caprio is sitting on a gold mine, it's the opposite for Johnson

There's a reason why Steve Jobs and Paul Allen loved The Beatles, Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix instead of Cardi B, Kanye West and One Direction.

Same goes for Di Caprio audience vs. Johnson's audience.

[srtjstjsj]

Steve Jobs died before Cardi B got famous.