TIL Will Smith turned down Django because “Violence begets violence”
TIL Will Smith turned down Django because “Violence begets violence”
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Will Smith Explains Why He Turned Down ‘Django Unchained’
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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.
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Good he's a shit actor and would ruin it
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He wasn't always though. He was really good in Six Degrees of Separation. I have no idea what happened. Money, I guess.
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Will Smith is too much of a bitch to have played that role.
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Bet he was slapping himself for that decision.
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That's the guy from suicide squad, right?
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*some kind of suicide squad
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Lack of a sense of humor begets violence.
Will is an example of that.
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I imagine he was referring to a very specific kind of violence
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Yeah, poor people vs the rich.
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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.
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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.
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Its like he never saw a Tarantino movie in his life
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Oh, the iron E ...
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I'll not watch Slappy anymore. Glad that movie has a better actor in it.
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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.
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And that's why Jamie Foxx is cooler than Will Smith
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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)
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i thought it was because he wanted it to be a straight love story
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The fakest of all fake slaps.
Edit: Guys, it's Hollywood. He was sitting front row, nobody tried to stop him. Chris rock anticipated the slap. It was the most movie slap technique slap I've ever seen.
It was his good bye from Hollywood and he was forced to do it.
Not everything is a conspiracy, my guy.
Bad boys 4 came out this year and it made bank.
I’ll go down with you:
The Kendrick / Drake beef is fake too and Kendrick’s music is shit. Stupid idiot Kendrick sounds like this when he opens his mouth: