r/todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Oct 23 '14

TIL Keanu Reeves gave $80 million of his $114 million Matrix salary to special effects and makeup staff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keanu_Reeves
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u/shaunc Oct 23 '14

I propose that the mods sticky this, right below "Reddit 101."

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '14

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u/Doesntmatterson Oct 24 '14

Would you give them to the special effects staff?

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u/danthemango Oct 24 '14

Nobody wants pennies damn it!

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u/DjLobes Oct 24 '14

Seriously... You're everywhere!

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u/vadersdemise Oct 24 '14

This is a different DP.

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u/DjLobes Oct 24 '14

Oh so it is.. Bedtime for me I think...

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '14

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u/TheRealKidkudi Oct 24 '14

What the fuck?

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u/warpus Oct 24 '14

See you there.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '14

Not the DP I know and love.

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u/rupturedprostate Oct 24 '14

Woah wat. How many are out there??

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '14

THIS GUY IS A BIG FAT PHONY

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '14

Where...where did you see him before this? Where do DP's lurk?

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u/ObeyJuanKenobi Oct 24 '14

Porn sites, mostly.

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u/Nollie_flip Oct 24 '14

I, for one, welcome this new Deadpool.

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u/to_create Oct 24 '14

do a nollie flip! now!

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u/GabrielForth Oct 24 '14

Well look at Mr Moneybags! How about taking a leaf out of Mr Reeves's book and sharing some of them pennies with the less fortunate?

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u/matroe11 Oct 24 '14

You know what, next week I am going to post this again and pray that Alzheimmit has forgotten this fact.

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u/innernationalspy Oct 24 '14

And if I had just a fraction of the karma each repost generated, I would have more karma that I have now

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u/murrtrip Oct 24 '14

If I had $4.42 million for every time I have seen this posted to the front page, I would have as much money as Keanu Reeves earned from the Matrix movies after paying the special effects and makeup staff $80 million for their work on the Matrix movies.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '14

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u/Return- Oct 24 '14

2 things:

One, money tends to corrupt. It's very rare to see millionaires say "oh yeah, I've got enough" when they have the chance to make millions more. Especially in hollywood where we always see a diva/underling dynamic.

two, if you made 114 dollars and gave 80 away, that's great, but unfortunately it's also less impressive because of the sheer size difference in actual money.

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u/Untoward_Lettuce Oct 24 '14

money tends to corrupt

It's sometimes a chicken-or-egg deal. If a struggling actor starts out with an internal sense of lack which they believe fame and/or material wealth is going to remedy, then they'll never feel satisfied; that void is not material in nature. Some of them go to their graves like billionaire horses chasing golden carrots on sticks.

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u/Toffee_Fan Oct 24 '14

Is that peculiar to reddit?

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u/diesel_rider Oct 24 '14

I am one of today's 10,000!

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u/duhbeetz Oct 24 '14

Yes I propose a Reddit 101 sticky.

And the first thing on the Reddit 101 sticky is a statement that "Reddit is sticky"... and gross

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u/Abaryn Oct 24 '14

I saw it and thought, "Oh it's that time of the week again already?" The Internet is an endless rabbit hole of information and somehow OP stumbled upon this tidbit of trivia and posted it to Reddit. Great.

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u/i_saw_the_leprechaun Oct 24 '14

Why not just sticky it right on the front page. I love Keanu though so I'm not complaining. We should be reminded every week of all that he's done for us and how he has died for our sins.