Will Smith as Deadshot
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KthulhuX — 9 years ago(November 16, 2016 01:51 PM)
He was OK, but he was just playing Will Smith in a Deadshot costume (much like almost every role he's ever played). The worst part is that they sacrificed so much focus on the other character just to feed Smith's ego.
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WhoopsieThree-D — 9 years ago(December 01, 2016 03:53 PM)
That wasn't the issue. The characterization of Deadshot was wrong. It was that the character was retooled from a cold-blooded assassin to a guy with a heart of gold who happened to kill people for money, coupled with an actor who was just playing a variation of himself. The skin color wasn't the problem here.
Logan, buddy. It's me, Deadpool! I shot youuuuuu. -
Burklayton — 9 years ago(December 06, 2016 12:11 PM)
Precisely. A good example of an ethnicity swap that actually works (in a similarly muddled mess of a project I may add) is Hugo Strange in Gotham. To my amazement, I never notice Wong's race at all, I merely see Professor Strange. If they were to say that they'd opened the auditions to men of all races and B.D. Wong was simply the best for the role, I would completely believe it.
Will Smith was brought into this to play Will Smith and prop the B.O. Nothing more was expected, and nothing more was delivered. -
Burklayton — 9 years ago(December 06, 2016 12:05 PM)
No. He acted almost nothing like Floyd Lawton, presumably because of his ridiculous narcissistic contractual stipulations about protecting his image. The differences between his Deadshot and any other typical Will Smith character require a microscope to be seen.
