As a result, actors who would have likely made the list – Matt Damon for the title role in 2016’s “Jason Bourne," Henry Cavill for the role of Superman in 2016’s “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice," and Scarlett Johansson for the role of the Female in 2013’s “Under the Skin" – were excluded.Ģ4/7 Wall Street is a USA TODAY content partner offering financial news and commentary. Only roles in which actors speak fewer than 2,000 words were considered.Īctors for whom reliable salary and word count data could not be located were not considered. He also won a 'Best Adapted Screenplay' award from the Austin Film Critics Association for his screenplay adaptation of Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive (2011), based on the novel by James Sallis. View Gallery: Valentine's Day: Celeb couples we forgot, including Tom Cruise, Cherĭata on word count came from “The Largest Ever Analysis of Film Dialogue by Gender," a project by Hannah Anderson and Matt Daniels hosted on the website The Pudding, as well as analysis by 24/7 Wall Street. Word counts reflect dialogue in a film’s screenplay and may not be representative of the actual word count in a film’s theatrical version. He was nominated for numerous awards for the 1997 film The Wings of the Dove, including an Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay. Actors were ranked by the ratio of their total earnings to the number of words of dialogue written for their character in a given screenplay. To determine the actors getting paid the most per word, 24/7 Wall Street reviewed salary data and word counts for about 2,000 movies. In some cases, Hollywood has doled out as much as $10,000 per word to its favored actors. Cars on Lake Shore Drive during the Blizzard of 2011.
Saying little, however, does not prevent many of today’s most high-profile acting talent from collecting massive amounts of money. The Blizzard of 2011 snarled traffic on Lake Shore Drive and other major roads, stalling commuters. With very few lines of speech, he managed to carry the two-and-a-half-hour film, and win an Oscar in the process. Leonardo DiCaprio’s role as Hugh Glass in 2015’s “The Revenant” is one such example. Yet other movies require actors to rely less on dialogue and more on subtle, physical tools to portray their characters. The early films of Woody Allen or just about any episode of TV's “Gilmore Girls” feature characters rattling off lines at a mile a minute, hardly stopping to take a breath. If you want to relive the early days of computing, take a look at the notes at the bottom of the hard drive price tracking website to see the old sales ads for hard drives which boast of a “18Mb Hard Disk Drive!” and harken back o the days where the best way to buy a hard drive was with a mail in rebate.Some screenplays require actors to go above and beyond when it comes to delivering dialogue. Daytona 500 2011 Tickets Stub NEW Drive 4 COPD & Gatorade Dual Die Cast Program. Still, it is expected that SSD prices come down closer to the hard drive prices of today in the next 3-4 years.
Now, in 2011 we are already looking to a future of 4TB hard drives from Samsung, which will likely carry a price premium when first introduced, but nowhere near the $300,000 per GB of storage from back in 1981.Ĭurrently the costliest storage is for SSD based storage which has a price of $1.50 per GB compared to the 10 cents or lower per GB pricing of traditional hard drives available on the market today. The per GB price has also come down for the portable storage we carry in our phones and cameras, which at 1981 prices would be out of reach for pretty much everyone except Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Hard drives keep getting bigger and prices keep falling, but when you look at the per unit prices it’s amazing how much prices have fallen since the early days of computing.ĭavid Isenberg took the data from a website that has researched and tracked down the price of a 5MB hard drive from 1956 all the way up to the 2TB hard drives on the market today and was able to determine the cost per GB for storage going back to 1981.Ĭompared to the price of many other items, like gas or clothing, the decrease in price is astounding, but incredibly welcome as we store more and more of our lives in the digital world.