Don't negotiate from a position of weakness.

The main actor of "The Gods Must Be Crazy", San Nixau Toma, was only paid $300, even though the film produced in 1980 made over $200 million. The Namibian 🇳🇦 actor was a bush farmer before he starred in the movie. He was paid $300 for his role in Part 1 despite the movie grossing $200 million.

He was paid $5,000 for Part 2 after he negotiated.

The movie was shot in Eastern Cape, South Africa with Namibian 🇳🇦 and South African 🇿🇦 actors but was about Botswana 🇧🇼.

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My opinion: "You will always be wrong if you negotiate from a position of weakness." - The Animal 

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San Nixau Toma lacked skill to manage well the little money he was paid for his appearances in various movies because he did not know the value of change. He had no formal education and came from a culture that didn't value material things money could buy and therefore didn't learn money management skills.

He died a poor wretched bushman despite making millions of dollars for other people. He was hugely exploited at the negoting table. In fact, he was merely told what was negotiated, and he accepted with happiness. Africans have always been exploited.

The film is basically about the conflict between the new order and the old epoch: The Namibian 🇳🇦 tribal people in a remote African desert live a happy life, but it is all torn to pieces when a Coca-Cola bottle falls from a plane. The confusion and myth surrounding the strange object disorganized the bushmen as they made efforts to unravel the mystery object.

After the end of his film career in 2000, San Nixau Toma returned home to his village (Tshumkwe) to build one modern brick with running water. He died on 5th July 2003 at the age of 59 in Tshumkwe, Namibia 🇳🇦. He died a poor man because he was not only exploited, but he lacked the necessary skills to even realise that he was exploited. Yes, he died poorly after playing the lead role in a film that earned more than $200 million in revenue.

Where else does it happen if not in Africa?

San Nixau Toma was born in Tshumkwe, Namibia 🇳🇦 on the 16th of December 1944. San Nixau is a family of San tribes commonly called Bushmen. He is fluent in Ju sertahoan, Otjiherero, Sesarwa and Tswana as well as some Afrikaans.