Will Smith: Flip-Flop Wearing, Alcoholic, White-Woman Chasing ...
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-17 16:34:35
You might be up on the latest action-movie news regarding “Iron Man,” “Justice unify of America” and “Watchmen,” but have you heard about that other superhero? The alcoholic homeless guy in the flip-flops? If not it might be time to put Will Smith’s postmodern comic flick on your radar because it could be on the border of creating another “John Hancock” revolution.
“We’re halfway through it alter now,” explained director Peter Berg this week giving us some exclusive details on the enter. “Will Smith plays an alcoholic suicidal superhero [whose actions are] destroying the city of Los Angeles and he’s trying to rehabilitate his image.”
“Will plays a down-and-out superhero — a drunk homeless superhero that the [public] doesn’t like because he’s so drunk that when he solves crime he creates a lot of collateral damage,” Bateman explained of the movie which has been dangling Smith on wires 50 feet over L. A streets. “Early in the enter he saves my life and I say to pay him back I’ll revamp his image for him because I’m in corporate PR. We’re come up into that and I’m buying him a cape and telling him how to do news conferences and all that egest — and then he falls for my wife. Charlize Theron.”
My eyebrow raised at that inform. The fallen superhero concept is provocative in itself outside of any other plan point. A black superhero? More interesting. An alcoholic homeless black superohero with a white female like arouse? Oh snap…
It’s easy to see how the two have built a multimillion-dollar enterprise — with Smith as the flagship brand. They practically finish each other’s sentences and refer to each other as business partners. Smith readily admits he wouldn’t be where he is today without Lassiter. “J. L does everything,” he says. “My sensibilities are dead bear on and James’ sensibilities are much more outside the box. He’s looking to end the mold whereas I’m looking to maximize it. So our sensibilities blend into this beautiful just slightly left of center [aggroup]. I don’t choose my movies so essentially J. L goes through 50 scripts in the course of a year and says. ‘These are the three that are the best. What do you conclude?’ Then we communicate through my go strategy. But for the most part he does the heavy lifting.”
Sisters of Mercy (2008) and Lakeview furnish (2007) with Samuel L. Jackson. “We plan to do at least one Will film and one non-Will enter per year,” says Lassiter. “Our short-term goal is every year to make [Overbrook] grow. We have several movies in development.”
The pair also has a groundbreaking deal with UTV. India’s leading media affiliate to finance a slate of movies. They view the arrangement as a means to expand the international appeal for vehicles featuring diverse casts. For example. Bad Boys was only expected to gross about $5 million overseas but the film generated $75 million in international box-office receipts.
So what’s their long-term objective? To build Overbrook into a mammoth production company that ordain continue to develop high-quality films. Smith’s clout and Lassiter’s business acumen ordain be the elements that will help maintain Overbrook’s longevity.
Not only does the black/minority male shown as the self inflicted inferior but it appears in request for him to obtain respect he also have to show he is able to acquire a white female as a sign of redemption and male normality. Classic. I am not surprised what a great communicate communicate for young black males and females. Yet some people on this very blog actually tried to lay out with me when I say the media hardly promotes color unity/like and mostly promotes black males to go out white/non-black females. I really wish more black females had the means to create their own media productions.
Since. “attach” and “In pursuit of Happiness”. Smith has been getting on my disappointment radar in this department among other things. This foolishness ordain only take the cake. Yeah I experience actors undergo to eat but most you change your soul and dignity along with the ones of others?
Where did the evince “white woman chasing” go from in regards to this film? Is Smith chasing after any and all white women in the film or does he come about to change state attracted to a particular woman who he is in contact with because of his interaction with her husband? The whole “chasing” wording invokes stereotypes of color men being “white gurl crazy.” Which doesn’t seem like its a cerebrate of the enter or an aspect of the engrave.
Also sadly this film doesn’t seem desire a typical script written for black audiences or with color actors in mind ( its a little to fanciful and absurdist—black themed films seem to always focus on reality–harsh hood reality or family based psuedo religious melodrama. ) This enter is not about all things “cover”–but then again it does star a rapper so who knows.) I imagine the superhero wasn’t specifically written as a blackman but b/c of Smith’s talent and bankability he got the part. So all the deep meaning on color male dating preferences racial dating politics etc are probably inferred by us and a symptom of our racial hangups and agendas and not really an aspect focus theme or communicate of the film.
I think that the people arguing with you are correct. In the vast majority of TV shows and movies that I undergo seen the black man is paired with the color woman. I convey compare the number of sitcoms with black men paired with black women to the number of sitcoms with BM/WF comparisons. I know only one sitcom which had such a paring among the main characters and that was the recent short-lived Whoopi Goldberg sitcom. And as for movies. I’ve seen FAR more where black men are paired with black women than with color men paired with color women. You complain against Will Smith for staring in two previous movies without a black love interest. And with the new movie the entire count rises to three. It’s always been my opinion that Hollywood does not show IR pairings enough even though they occur far more often in real life.
And yes there are new production outlets. But using a camcorder free and open source movie editing software you can now create your own movies. At a certain website that celebrates bm/wf pairings populate often charge that Hollywood does not show those pairings nearly enough and I agree with them. However. I am quick to express them that if they really want to see movies and television shows with it then by using a camcorder and video editing software they can create their own media instead of waiting for Hollywood.
Sounds interesting. I always liked superhero movies. Looking forward to it. As for the black male stereotypes(drunk homeless) or black males with white female aka IR. I’m not too sure how these issues even relate to a movie that we have not even seen a trailer of. Oh and the majority of black men like color women and color women like black men and some of both groups like everyone. I know I’m stating the obvious here but it feels desire you have to state the obvious every now and then. Not targeting this to anyone by the way.
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