Re: Will Smith as Neo?!?
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I'll be the first to say that I don't think the movie would do as well with two black male lead actors. Not in that genre and with that storyline.
Not that it wouldn't be a good movie, because even though I think Will Smith sucks he's better than Keanu Reeves, but purely because of demographic appeal and the willingness of the film's audience to accept a black guy as a Christ figure.
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sad but true. however, i'm not sure a half asian is the prototypical christ figure either [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]
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I think just about any actor in Hollywood could have played Neo by dumbing down their acting. Keanu is naturally dumbed down. Keanu definitely didn't make the movie the success it was.
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this isn't true. will smith "dumbed down" doesn't sound very interesting at all. what i mean is he said he turned down the movie and he regrets it, but i feel like if he played the role like keanu did, it wouldn't fit his image, and if he played it like the will smith in other movies, it would have taken away from the grandness/mystique of the role.
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