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TIL Will Smith turned down Django because “Violence begets violence”
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this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2024
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Ah yes, Will Smith wouldn't want to be responsible for portraying violence on the big screen. Which is why 7 years later he made Gemini Man, where there are two violent Will Smiths.
*it's pronounced, "Earf".
I don't understand that meme. He doesn't say "Earf" at all.
It's a holdover from the at-the-time socially acceptable racist tropes of the 90s.
I have never ever heard of this being anything to do with racism lol. Wtf. It just sounds like he says "Earf". Jeez..
He very clearly says "Earth" in that scene, btw.
Good he's a shit actor and would ruin it
He wasn't always though. He was really good in Six Degrees of Separation. I have no idea what happened. Money, I guess.
Will Smith is too much of a bitch to have played that role.
Bet he was slapping himself for that decision.
That's the guy from suicide squad, right?
*some kind of suicide squad
Lack of a sense of humor begets violence.
Will is an example of that.
I imagine he was referring to a very specific kind of violence
Yeah, poor people vs the rich.
The type that results is sudden and very abrupt deceleration of the palm of the hand at someone else's face
People are focusing on the “violence begets violence” in the title but not this:
“I wanted to make that movie so badly, but I felt the only way was, it had to be a love story, not a vengeance story,” Smith said.
And… I get that? I liked Django and all, but I can see how Will might not like the bloody climax where the focus is more on the revenge than rescuing his wife. I think it’s fine he passed on the role and let it go to someone who was more invested with the revenge story.
I think it’s fine he passed on the role and let it go to someone who was more invested with the revenge story.
I don't think, I know. Django Unchain is incredible.
Will has ruined so many good ideas because he's still living in the 90s where actors had the power to change scripts. And every time Will interfered with a story, it watered it down/made it shit.
Its like he never saw a Tarantino movie in his life
Oh, the iron E ...
I'll not watch Slappy anymore. Glad that movie has a better actor in it.
Reminds me of how Jim Carey refuses to do movies with guns in them, and because of that, all the cops in the Sonic movies, including the main cop character, have these ludicrous "almost gun" things.
I kind of don't mind that!
It's like 80s-90s cartoons and the Sonic movie has that energy.
I suppose, but it was supposed to take place in the "real world" and that was not real.
Eggman's type of goofy machinery is in no way grounded in reality.
And that's why Jamie Foxx is cooler than Will Smith
Check out the original Django movie from 1966 https://youtu.be/AFrfxUWLPQM
It is very much a vengeance movie. And attributed as creating the Italian western, aka spaghetti western genre.
It’s left to the viewer but Quentin Tarantino said he interpreted Django as going to avenge the death of the wife of a black Union solder he served with in the civil war Quentin Tarantino on Django (1966)
i thought it was because he wanted it to be a straight love story
Barely relevant, but this thread had me looking it up: Knowledge Fight's cover of Wild Wild West with DJ Danarchy