No one would have had a problem with a scene where Jaden said he wanted to play basketball and Will Smith said “OK, follow your dreams. He could have given his son that valuable life lesson without awkwardly setting it up through clunky dialogue. But the real problem with this scene is just that it doesn’t make any sense. Except that there’s a really big difference between letting someone tell you what you can or can’t do, and having your father just be really straight-forward in an intensely aggressive way about the harsh realities of life. After a moment of reflection and realization, Will Smith looks very meaningful and kind of tearfully at his son, and he tells him never to let anyone tell him what he can and can’t do, not even his father.
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You know, because of how IT’S AN INCREDIBLY TERRIBLE AND ENTIRELY UNNECESSARY THING TO SAY TO A CHILD WHO SIMPLY EXPRESSED HIS LOVE OF A GAME YOU WERE IN THE MIDST OF PLAYING TOGETHER. You might be a little bit better than average at basketball, but you should probably stop playing basketball because of how bad you’re almost certainly going to be at it.” This makes Jaden Smith sad. Incidentally, despite being entirely broke and practically homeless, Will Smith and his son (both fictional and real, because Chris Gardner’s son is played by Will Smith’s son) have an entire scenic rooftop basketball court to themselves? (I’m not saying that I fully understand the class distinctions of scenic rooftop basketball courts overlooking the entire city of San Francisco, or that this is unrealistic, it just seems like maybe there’d be at least a couple more people up there trying to play basketball on a weekend?) But anyway: Jaden Smith is talking about how much he likes playing basketball and how one day he’s going to be a basketball star, to which Will Smith replies “well, I was never very good at basketball, so you’ll probably not be very good at basketball either. His son asks if they can go play basketball, so they go to a scenic rooftop basketball court that overlooks the city of San Francisco. Will Smith’s character, Chris Gardner, is a single father now, after his wife left him, doing his best to raise his son while pursuing an ambitious and unlikely career change.
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There’s a really weird part in this week’s nominee for the Hunt for the Worst Movie of All Time, The Pursuit of Happyness.
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