Random Movie Characters Way Too Poor To Realistically Afford Their Lifestyles (15 items)

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  (#4) Ben Stone

  • The Family Stone

  Seth Rogan’s character in Knocked Up is Ben Stone, a weed-smoking low baller with low self-esteem. He doesn’t work and spends most of his time hanging out with his friends smoking pot. Though he works no job and boasts few skills, he lives in relative comfort, in a large home where he consumes plenty of drugs

  This is apparently all possible due to a lawsuit settlement he won years before the film takes place. With that knowledge in hand, you'd think it must be a massive settlement. But that too fails to make sense considering Stone cannot even afford a wedding ring later in the movie, suggesting his finances are not in good shape.
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  (#11) Annie Walker

  • Bridesmaids

  The opening scenes of Bridesmaids reveal that Annie Walker is broke. Her bakery has failed, all of her savings are gone, and she must work a low-paying job as a sales clerk in a jewelry store. In spite of this financial hardship, she still finds the time and money to shop with impunity. Throughout the film, Walker goes through a constantly changing wardrobe of outfits, always dressed to impress. Like the colonial woman on the wing of the plane, there is something they're not telling us about Walker's finances.
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  (#7) Theodore Twombly

  • Her

  The premise of Her sees protagonist Theodore Twombly working a rather menial job writing lover letters for those who aren’t creative or romantic enough to do it themselves. While touching, this is unlikely to be a high paying gig. It isn’t exactly the most arduous job for a writer, and work of this nature is increasingly being outsourced to places like India, where companies pay people a few cents for hundreds of words.

  Yet Twombly lives in a swanky downtown apartment filled to the brim with the latest gadgets and technology. He’s even able to take vacations whenever he wants in addition to keeping up payments of his spacious home. When you think about it, Twombly falling for a machine hardly feels like the most outrageous aspect of the film.
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  (#10) Indiana Jones

  • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Disaster Movie, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

  How Indiana Jones is able to afford to travel around the world constantly is never explained in the series. While he does hold a reliable job as a professor, this would only pay the equivalent of $82,000 today – not enough to cover the expense of his traveling.

  It’s clear he uses none of the treasures he finds to fund himself, as the honest archeologist donates everything to museums and the university where he works. His employers would also be unlikely to pay for the expeditions because of all the violence and controversy surrounding Jones’s adventures. Realistically, would probably have to peddle a ware-or-two to jetset like he does.
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  (#12) James Bond

  • GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day, Casino Royale, The Spy Who Loved Me, The Living Daylights, Diamonds Are Forever, Quantum of Solace, Live and Let Die, Goldfinger, Bonds Are Forever, The Man with the Golden Gun, Casino Royale, Moonraker, A View to a Kill, Casino Royale, From Russia with Love, For Your Eyes Only, Never Say Never Again, Thunderball, Skyfall, James Bond Supports International Women's Day, Licence to Kill, Dr. No, Octopussy, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond

  James Bond is certainly used to the finer things in life. He lives in an exclusive Chelsea apartment in an expensive part of West London, wears designers suits that would cost thousands of dollars, drives limited edition cars, and his signature drink is that of a rich man. If you appraised his home alone, it would likely go for at least a million. Yet, the spy's wage falls in the region of $100,000, a figure nowhere near enough to cover all those shaken martinis. And given Bond's proclivity for ruining expensive equipment, it's doubtful MI6 would be in the mind to constantly reimburse him.
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  (#1) Mia – La La Land

  One of the main talking points viewers came away with from La La Land was how Emma Stone’s character, Mia, could afford to drive around in a Toyota Prius. The cars retail at between $25,000 and $30,000 at a minimum and the aspiring actress works as a barista at the start of the movie. The average salary for café workers is just $19,450, meaning Mia would face financial difficulties to pay for the car. That’s not to mention the huge LA apartment she lives in with her friends that definitely runs on the more expensive side. 

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