Will Smith to revive 'Annie' for daughter
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I predict parents of ginger kids aren't gonna like this.
How many role models they got?
Scut Farkus and that kid from Children of the Corn!
How many role models they got?
Scut Farkus and that kid from Children of the Corn!
No way!!! Dude the Wiz had MJ as the scarecrow- win! And Richard Pryor as the Wizard - win again!!! Will Smith could put a conveyor belt between Jada's legs with babies fowin out 24/6 ( sunday belongs to *****) and he'd never produce talent like that.
vistaVision
Sr Member
Yes, $359,125,613 dollars worldwide box office is a huge failure for a movie with a $40M production budget...
CTF
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OldKen
Master Member
Here's my problem.
I HAVE been avioiding this thread cause I don't want the innevitable "YOU'RE RACIST!" reply.
I will try to explain what I am thinking on this while avoiding THAT. First my best friend (Since I was 4 years old) IS a black guy. We have had plenty of conversations about this type of thing. (his response to possible black spiderman was "why?")
OK, back to this new Annie...
WHY?
Why do we have to have an african american Annie?
And before you even start to get heated let me ask you this...
What if Stephen Spielburg, or some other famous white rich guy wanted to re-make Roots with HIS Daughter... told from a white perspective...
Wouldn't that be just about dumb as hell?
Here is my point.
Annie: "In the depths of the 1930's, Annie is a fiery young orphan girl who must live in a miserable orphanage run by the tyrannical Miss Hannigan. Her seemingly hopeless situation changes dramatically when she is selected to spend a short time at the residence of the wealthy munitions industrialist, Oliver Warbucks."
Notice the time period... 1930's? America?
Think about it.
The 19... THIRTIES.
Is this going to be set in a NEW modern time? Or a pretend 1930's where there was no racism? :rolleyes
If so couldn't they just write an Annie-ish story and call it ANYTHING ELSE?
CAN ANYONE GRASP WHAT I AM GETTING AT??? It's not a RACE issue... it just doesn't make sense. It is a reason to cash in on a title.
And for the record, Jaden Smith in Karate kid didn't bother me... JACKIE CHAN DID.
But WHY Ken? Do you like Japanese people and not Chinese?
NO. But... JACKIE CHAN is a KUNG FU master. HE DOES NOT KNOW KARATE! THAT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE!!!!!!!!!!!
A reboot of Blade with Tom Cruise would make more sense than this!!! :unsure
I HAVE been avioiding this thread cause I don't want the innevitable "YOU'RE RACIST!" reply.
I will try to explain what I am thinking on this while avoiding THAT. First my best friend (Since I was 4 years old) IS a black guy. We have had plenty of conversations about this type of thing. (his response to possible black spiderman was "why?")
OK, back to this new Annie...
WHY?
Why do we have to have an african american Annie?
And before you even start to get heated let me ask you this...
What if Stephen Spielburg, or some other famous white rich guy wanted to re-make Roots with HIS Daughter... told from a white perspective...
Wouldn't that be just about dumb as hell?
Here is my point.
Annie: "In the depths of the 1930's, Annie is a fiery young orphan girl who must live in a miserable orphanage run by the tyrannical Miss Hannigan. Her seemingly hopeless situation changes dramatically when she is selected to spend a short time at the residence of the wealthy munitions industrialist, Oliver Warbucks."
Notice the time period... 1930's? America?
Think about it.
The 19... THIRTIES.
Is this going to be set in a NEW modern time? Or a pretend 1930's where there was no racism? :rolleyes
If so couldn't they just write an Annie-ish story and call it ANYTHING ELSE?
CAN ANYONE GRASP WHAT I AM GETTING AT??? It's not a RACE issue... it just doesn't make sense. It is a reason to cash in on a title.
And for the record, Jaden Smith in Karate kid didn't bother me... JACKIE CHAN DID.
But WHY Ken? Do you like Japanese people and not Chinese?
NO. But... JACKIE CHAN is a KUNG FU master. HE DOES NOT KNOW KARATE! THAT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE!!!!!!!!!!!
A reboot of Blade with Tom Cruise would make more sense than this!!! :unsure
CTF
Sr Member
You mean, she's a slave owner? Or someone trying to free the slaves? Because that's the "white perspective," you know.
And who's Stephen Spielburg?
OldKen
Master Member
C'mon CTF you know what I meant. Roots was told from the slaves perspective. I KNOW you know what I meant.
And I KNOW you know I meant Steven Spielberg.
I'm just saying I think this is a cash in and completely pointless. I'm not saying I'm against Will Smith getting his daughter a big role in a movie. I'm not saying she wouldn't make a better movie than Annie. I'm just saying with the timeline and the character... it doesn't make sense.
I'm guessing you want to sit back and watch the drama this thread will innevitably bring more than have a serious discussion about it though... right?
And I KNOW you know I meant Steven Spielberg.
I'm just saying I think this is a cash in and completely pointless. I'm not saying I'm against Will Smith getting his daughter a big role in a movie. I'm not saying she wouldn't make a better movie than Annie. I'm just saying with the timeline and the character... it doesn't make sense.
I'm guessing you want to sit back and watch the drama this thread will innevitably bring more than have a serious discussion about it though... right?
MooMooEgg
Sr Member
I thought Jaden Smith was pretty good in the Karate Kid remake. What pissed me off was seeing Will Smith in the end credits/behind the scenes photo montage. Did he need to be there? Absolutely not. He wasn't part of the film at all, and I don't need to see him hanging out with his son.
A little off topic, but don't get me started on the Jaden/Justin Bieber song that played through the credits either. I can picture Bieber doing a remake of It's A Hard Knocked Life for the Annie end credits.
thumbsdown
Back on topic, Will Smith is crazy. I don't see how an Annie Remake is gonna work with his girl.
A little off topic, but don't get me started on the Jaden/Justin Bieber song that played through the credits either. I can picture Bieber doing a remake of It's A Hard Knocked Life for the Annie end credits.
thumbsdownBack on topic, Will Smith is crazy. I don't see how an Annie Remake is gonna work with his girl.
OldKen
Master Member
It isn't my preference in skin color.
It is the time period this character is based in. The 1930's werent really a good time for an african american orphan to be adopted by a white wealthy Tycoon. That is reality. I'm not saying it was RIGHT. I'm saying that IS the way it was.
If they are going to make it in a modern time... why not call it ANYTHING else?
Because the name "Annie" is one that will sell.
THAT is what bothers me.
I just think it is dumb.
My opinion. Please don't try and label me racist here. :unsure
CTF
Sr Member
No, I didn't. You said a "white perspective," so that's what I thought you meant.
OldKen
Master Member
RIIIGHT...
MEANING, tell the same story from the same point of view, but instead of Oprah, you have Rosanne. Instead of LeVar Burton, cast Hayden Christiansen.
See what I am saying?
If THAT was what was being proposed in this thread wouldn't it be DUMB?
And I am not meaning to make light of the subject matter of Roots.
I am in no way racist.
I just think... little orphan Annie... red haired freckeled orphan set in the 1930's.
Will Smiths daughter just doesn't POP as being able to fit that character.
Call me crazy. Fine. But not racist.
I am going to report my own post and if the mods want to erase or give me an infraction that is fine. But that is STILL how I feel.
THIS IS A DUMB IDEA. MADE SOLEY FOR A CASH IN ON A BIG NAME. PERIOD.
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CTF
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Put 'em makeup, like Robert Downey, Jr., then they could. I'm not saying they'd make it any better, but acting's acting. It reminds me of people ragging on Spielberg for making The Colour Purple 'cause he wasn't black. Well, he wasn't a woman. And he wasn't alive during the thirties, either. Still, he knocked that one out of the park.
I forgot that Annie was High Art.
I don't think it's racist to think that characters should stay as originally described.
If Diff'rent Strokes was made into a film with white kids cast people would be freaking out about it.
If the next Blade film was cast with a non-black actor people would freak out.
I damn well would! Is that racist?
I was totally against James West changing race for Wild Wild West. Course the movie sucked so bad it hardly mattered if the character was accurate or not.
If Diff'rent Strokes was made into a film with white kids cast people would be freaking out about it.
If the next Blade film was cast with a non-black actor people would freak out.
I damn well would! Is that racist?
I was totally against James West changing race for Wild Wild West. Course the movie sucked so bad it hardly mattered if the character was accurate or not.
