While he has just won the Oscar for best actor thanks to his role in The Williams Method , Will Smith remains one of the biggest names in Hollywood cinema. Small focus on 5 nuggets with the native of Philadelphia.
World famous thanks to his role in the Prince of Bel Air , Will Smith established himself during the 1990s and 2000s as one of the major actors of his generation. He just won the Oscar Best Actor for his role as the father of the Williams sisters. Even if the ceremony was marked by the slap addressed to Chris Rock , it is the image of Will Smith lifting his Oscar that will endure. A look back at five films that marked his career.
Classic American cinema of the 1990s. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, the Men in Black will mark a generation passionate about extraterrestrials. If his fans had found him very serious in Independence Day the previous year alongside the brilliant Jeff Goldblum, it was a wacky and humorous Will Smith who took care of the cases of intergalactic migrants. His duet formed with Tommy Lee Jones and the sequels of these films, will make the work Men In Black cult.
Two years, we find Barry Sonnenfeld directing and Will Smith as main character in Wild Wild West . If the reviews at the release of this futuristic western are very negative, it is still good to see it again more than twenty years later. Action, romance, charismatic villain… It all comes together for a little popcorn time on a Sunday night.
The little prince of Los Angeles has grown well and his roles too. Less humorous, darker and more thoughtful, Will Smith impresses when he wears the outfit of Spooner , a police officer in I, Robot . Suspicious, grumpy, charismatic and clever, the agent no longer finds himself in the Chicago of the 2030s where Humanity now lives with robots , in charge of making their lives easier.
It is this fear that will make him discover a great conspiracy in the robotic universe through the investigation of a murder. Mix between children's tales and futuristic thriller, I, Robot is to be consumed without moderation.
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Solo roles seem to be a success for Will Smith who three years after I, Robot will tag their fans with I Am Legend . This post-apocalyptic film chronicles the life of army officer Dr. Robert Neville, who appears to be the only survivor in an abandoned New York.
Zombie film that will find its success among the public and not among specialists. Regardless, the duo formed with his dog (yes, you cried at a specific time), remains etched in the memory of many today. And when you know that a sequel with Michael B Jordan would be planned.
We could have talked about Hitch , In search of happiness or Suicide Squad (no, there still not), but it is in his role, stolen, of Ben Thomas that Will Smith will mark the spirits and will make cry, a lot of tears, the spectators.
In Seven Lives , he will seek redemption at all costs and to correct the damage of an accident he will have caused, causing the death of seven people. He will fall under the spell of Emily, brilliantly interpreted by Rosario Dawson and this idyll will mishandle his plan. Beautiful, very beautiful, touching and painful, Seven Lives is probably not the best known of Will Smith's films. but it is certainly one of the hardest.
