The script is mysterious and important.

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Will Smith would have been disastrous in The Matrix and now I want to see it

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  • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world ⁨49⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    AI BROS, DO YOUR THING!

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    • setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨45⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      It’s just an infinite number of Will Smith’s eating an infinite amount of spaghetti.

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  • starik@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I was thinking, thank god he turned it down

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If memory serves me right the protagonist in Inception was confused a lot and Wil can pull off confused.

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    • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Most likely Leo DeCaprio’s role.

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  • setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Imagine the tie-in music video he would have done.

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      With the squid machines doing hip hop dances in the background

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    • ramble81@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Given that he turned it down for Wild Wild West, use that as a basis.

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• bus_factor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sean Connery turned down both Gandalf in Lord of the Rings and Morpheus in The Matrix because he didn’t understand the scripts. He turned down Dumbledore in Harry Potter because it was too fantastical. Then he tried a reverse approach where he accepted the next role he didn’t understand, because clearly that was where the money was at. So he accepted Allan Quartermain in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a movie which flopped hard. Then he ragequit the industry and retired.

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  • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I love that movie, I thought he did great in it too

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• JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Image

  Fixed

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  • lividweasel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This feels like a spot-the-difference thing, and I’m failing badly. I can’t tell what changed.

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    • subterfuge@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Statements vs question

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    • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      ?

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    • polycephalum@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      ?

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  From the interview I heard they pitched the matrix terribly.

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  • BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Back in the late 90s, I have no idea how you’d pitch that any other way. It’s a miracle that movie got made.

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    • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I believe even the Wachowski’s said they pitched it terribly. Apparently they focused on bullet time and did a terrible job explaining it. So nothing made sense. Then you realize it was a new age Film Noire, and that wasn’t exactly going to entice funding. Other than Keanu Reeves I don’t think any of the cast was well known, and I’m not even sure how big Keanu Reeves was. Other than Speed it was an odd assortment of movies for him.

      Here’s will smith youtu.be/hm2szuXKgL8&t=70

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• Sunforged@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Alot of Scientologists I see as using it as a way to grift and enrich themselves. Smith I can see being dumb enough to fall for it.

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• tomiant@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Challenging ideas

  really?

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• saigot@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  IDK he might be, he certainly is a dick. but also you don’t usually get to read the whole script (definitely not the final script) before choosing to accept a role, they may only get a scene, maybe just an elevator pitch etc.

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  But he took Wild Wild West, Hancock, and I Am Legend. Okay.

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  • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “It’s [current year] blazing saddles.”

    “It’s Martian manhunter but demon in a bottle”

    “It’s Dracula, but from Dracula’s perspective.”

    They’re interesting premises and easily understood. I can’t knock smith for choosing them. You never know what’ll end up on the editor’s floor. There might have been a better cut somewhere in there

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  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hancock was fantastic, fuck the ending being coherent it’s an action comedy

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well, hindsight is 20/20, but he also doesn’t have the best history of choosing hits. Maybe it’s his manager? Maybe he’s dumb.

  He’s definitely an asshole, though.

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• daannii@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not everyone likes convoluted scifi.

  I personally do.

  But there are a lot who don’t.

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