It doesnt have to be fucking SRL's twin. It's a fucking movie. Will Smith doesnt look like Ali and James Toney doesnt look like Joe.
Leonard is lighter with age. He was pretty dark in th eOlympic and Duran 1&2 days. Look at the pic I just posted. You act as though leonard is light like Ali or something. :Lok:
Exactly. This is about movie characters so as long as it is not Jack Nicholson playing SRL it won't make a difference as long as the actor does good job
Has to be a pretty boy actor though, in Leonard's case. An ugly good actor just wont cut it as the Sugar Man. Forrest Whitaker as Sugar Ray Leonard? No thanks.
Btw...Usher doesn't fucking look anything remotely like Leonard...complexion, face nothing. REED you need glasses homie.
Will Smith was great casting to play Ali. Of Course he looked nothing like Ali, but which actor does? Pity his performance (which was excellent) was let down by the AWFUL script!
That's true. If the character in the movie is the same kind of media darling as prime SRL was and if he is to be the opposite of Duran, then his looks are somewhat important I give you that. Even then though he doesn't need to look much like actual SRL. The same with the Ali movie: Will Smith was tall and handsome enough for the role, it didn't matter that he doesn't really look like Ali
The guy who played Nixon in "FROST/nIXON" looked as much like Nixon as SRL does. I agree with Godfather, it is a movie and they are acting. I was disappointed in Ali because I was hoping Foreman would kill Ali in the ring in the movie. I guess that was a wee bit of an unfair expectation.
They better get a few guys to play Duran since it's a given that they'll quit when the filming gets tough.
He might quit if the camera men & director run away from him for 8 fucking months while he tries to make a movie
Was Sugar Ray's life even interesting ? I have no idea. If they make it all pg and stupid then it's going to be crap. If they make it R it could be fun with all the gayness the drugs the wife beating etc..
Really, I like them. I watch the Aviator regularly. Then again, I have probably read 5 full length bios on Howard Hughes. I like "Man on the Moon" although I never thought Andy Kauffman was funny at all. Not much drama to them and they are always very fictional.
That's why I don't like them Most people can barely read and then they see a film with a bunch of lies in it and the lies become accepted truths and eventually you have a quagmire and misinformation, William Wallace wearing a kilt and mooning people, Michael Collins doing and saying things he never did, Ali throwing body punches with authority, Braddock/Baer being an epic struggle, Salieri being some great musical rival of and eventually responsible for the murder of Mozart, etc. I have never understood why history needs to be twisted in order to be more "entertaining" and that combined with the damage done to the general understanding of various historical figures makes me loathe them as a general rule.
