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WILL SMITH OSCAR FISH MOVIE

This is the Horatio Alger-type true story of American businessman Chris Gardner who experienced hardship and homelessness on his way to the top.

WILL SMITH OSCAR FISH MOVIE

Just for once, Smith stars in a heartwarmer that isn’t absolutely sickening, making this unfashionable movie genre actually seem pretty decent. With Jaden Smith in The Pursuit of Happyness. The movie plays to Smith’s strengths as the good-natured everyman hero under unimaginable pressure.

This dystopian sci-fi, based on the Richard Matheson novel (and already filmed as The Omega Man in 1971 with Charlton Heston) got a new version in 2007, starring Smith playing the last man left alive in an eerily empty, ruined Manhattan, an urban jungle with zoo-bred animals roaming around. Then the maverick intelligence officer played by Hackman steps in, a man who loathes government corruption and in an “odd couple” way helps the decent Smith. Smith is the ambitious young lawyer who accidentally comes into possession of a video showing an outspoken congressman being murdered – and then he is framed by shadowy forces, losing his job and his marriage. Smith made a very likable lead in this decent and watchable conspiracy thriller, a little like The Firm directed by Tony Scott and pairing Smith with Gene Hackman. But the original Bad Boys (1995) is the best, with the outrageous action standbys of guns, car-chases and smart-alec tag lines.

In the micro-ranking, the overlong and boorish sequel Bad Boys II (2003) comes in last, while the threequel, Bad Boys for Life (2020) acknowledges the passing years. In 1995, producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer gave us what is arguably the last of the big guilty-pleasure dumb action comedy-thriller franchises, teaming Smith with that lost superstar of bad-taste comedy Martin Lawrence as two squabbling Miami cops, Smith being the cool single ladies’ man and Lawrence the harassed husband and father. There are also wicked elves, nice elves and centaur traffic cops. In this alternative universe, these Tolkienian creatures walk among us, subject to racism (there is an “Orc Lives Matter” theme), and Smith and the orc have a lot of “odd couple buddy cop“ energy. It’s just so ridiculous you can’t help smiling: a wacky fantasy action thriller in which Smith plays a tough LAPD officer whose partner is … an orc, played by Joel Edgerton in heavy makeup. Photograph: Scott Garfield/Netflix/Allstar 10. His nickname adorably fuses the concept of “getting married” with “problem”, geddit?

WILL SMITH OSCAR FISH HOW TO

He is dating coach Alex “Hitch” Hitchens who teaches lonely guys how to be a success with women then he falls for gossip columnist Eva Mendes, who disdains him. Hitch (2005)Īs well as troubled emotional-journey-takers, Smith has played his share of romcom heroes-with-a-twist. In the post Civil War US, he is sexy government agent James “Wild Wild” West taking on Kenneth Branagh’s evil genius Dr Loveless, who has access to 23rd-century technology. It is supremely annoying, but sometimes amusingly daft and Smith performs the catchy theme tune (sampling Stevie Wonder) over the closing credits. Smith took a critical and commercial bath at the end of the 90s with this steampunky western comedy-thriller. But the beamingly wise Bagger Vance, played by Smith, turns up as his caddy and guardian angel, the black character whose function is to facilitate the white hero’s redemption.

Matt Damon is a wealthy young golfer whose traumatised experiences in the first world war cause him to – gasp! – lose his love for golf. Robert Redford directed Smith in this sentimental slice of naively picturesque Americana set in the Jazz Age south. With Matt Damon in The Legend of Bagger Vance.

Will smith oscar fish