On the 20th anniversary of the film starring Tom Cruise,the director publishes the exhaustive 5000-word mission statement he wrote for his crisis-hit sports agentJerry Maguire’s mission statement? For those who have not seen the film in a while, the memory of that could be a limited sketchy. Surely Jerry’s mission statement is the movie’s own legendary mission statement. And in fact Hollywood’s mission statement, and summarised by the four brash words that sports agent Tom Cruise is forced to shout by his mercurial,recalcitrant client, the football star played by Cuba Gooding Jr. Show me the money!Don’t bullshit me with the earnings I could possibly earn in the future, and obtain it happen right now,or I slide to another agent … perhaps Cameron Crowe, the writer-director of Jerry Maguire once said it to his own agent. Or perhaps his agent said it to him, and felt like saying it I need my client to be valuable,lucrative and worthwhile, if I’m going to assign in all this work in return for 15% down the line: I need him to show me how well his final movie is doing right at this very moment. And Hollywood needs everyone to show the money, and show the profits,and assign the dollars up on screen.
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Source: theguardian.com