Interview about Will Smith

For my interview I, chose to interview my roommate/teammate Adrian. Adrian and I have known each other since senior year of high school were we competed against each other. Although being teammates and roommates has gave me a lot of information about him, we never really get into much about the entertainment side except for Lil Wayne and things like that. So I plan on finding out some things that I never knew before, and knowing Adrian im in for a few surprises.
So in walks Adrian, and it was time to get down to the fun stuff. All he knew coming into this interview was that I had to interview him for class. He did not know anything outside of that. So it was kinda funny looking at the expression on face. So I asked him, off the top what is his favorite type of movie. He takes a minute to think, and says “Romantic Comedy” . As soon as he gave me that reply I was just thinking about Will Smith’s Hitch. I did not say it out loud, but it was on my mind. That is what made it funny when I asked him what his favorite Will Smith movie was, he said Hitch. So I just knew what kind of person he was, the lovey dubby type. So I asked him who his favorite actor was, he said it was a tie between Morris Chestnut and Denzel Washington. I asked him why not Will Smith, since he enjoys Hitch. He told me that Will Smith is very talented, but he just prefers Washington and Chestnut.
So after finding out about what actors he liked and what type of movies he is into, I decided to take it back a few years and find out a little about his childhood. So I just asked him about it. I asked him if he had any, role models on TV while he was growing up. He took the time to think, which was about 3 or 4 minutes, I was really surprised at how long it took. He then said not really a role model as much as it was favorite character on Keenan and Kel. For some reason Kel was his favorite character. He claims he doesn’t know why, but I was still in shock. I asked him what shows he was into growing up besides Keenan and Kel , he said he watched a lot of Martin and Fresh Prince. As soon as he said fresh prince, I said who was your favorite character ,on fresh prince. He said it was the same as everybody else in the world Will. I asked why do you think Will was so popular on the fresh prince. He told me it was because it was because of his troubled background, and his sense of humor. I could almost tell that if he were a young kid answering this question it would not have been the same. My guess is that because we are older we can see a lot of why Will was so popular.
My next question for Adrian was if he was writing an autobiography what would each chapter would be called. The first chapter according to him, was “the beginning” this chapter would contain information on him up until he was 5 years old. The second chapter, “Wake Up time for school”. This chapter would contain information on grades kinder garden- eighth grade and things of importance that happened along the way. The next chapter would be titled “Lost and Found” chronicling Adrian’s journey to find himself through high school. His next chapter is “Grown Man” it is the chapter which he talks about college and life as it is now. I asked him about chapters after that, he said he did not want to title parts of his life that have not happened yet.
Since we were rapping the interview up, I asked him what movie he felt Will Smith should not have made. He told me Wild, Wild West was pretty bad. I could not do much but agree. I asked him if Will Smith was a legit actor or still living off of fresh prince hype. Adrian said “are you serious?” “Will is as legit as they get he and Jamie Foxx made a transition that is not easy, and making that transition alone makes Will a great actor.” I told Adrian thanks for his time, but I had run out of questions, and he went on about his business.

Ethnography Questions

I will either be interviewing one of my teammates or a member of my family. But my questions will look like this.

1. What is you ideal type of movie?

2. Growing up, what kind of television shows did you watch?

3. Did you ever have any role models from any television show or movie?

4. Do TV show stars, make good movie actors?

5. Do you think Will Smith's name sells more movies than his actual acting ability?

6. IF you were writing an autobiography, what would each chapter be titled?

7. Who is your favorite hollywood actor?

8. What is your favorite movie?

Geppi's Entertainment Museum

So im kind of lucky and happy, that we had to re-write this assignment. I was traveling for track most of last week so I was unable to go to the museum until Friday. But I finally got to visit. Being a former orioles fan it was not hard to find Camden yards but the museum was a entirely different story. Soon I found the entrance and my journey was set to begin. Not later than it started did I want it to end. I remember the pioneer Sprit room, and I just thought about how afraid of dolls I am. I don’t know why I just don’t do dolls. There were good things I remembered from my childhood, things like batman and superman, the fantastic four. All of this stuff was amazing, and a lot of it still looked like it could be sold today. I also saw things which I did not really have much information about, things like the old house wife magazines. I am not 100% but im pretty sure that was before my time.
It was so crazy to actually visit this museum. I saw so many things that I just assumed did not exist anymore. Well I knew they existed but I didn’t know that I would see them again. Growing up my brother and I used to watch I love Lucy on Fox. When I saw it playing on the television my mind took me right back there. This entire museum was like a walk down memory lane. I even saw G.I. Joe that took me, right back to playing in the yard with my friends. I also classic examples of things like the Rice Krispies trio back in the day. That is amazing to me that they were around back then and are still around now. That just shows me how some companies will continue to use what works. The museum also showed me how old I am getting, that things I can remember using are no longer used, but are no looked at as artifacts.
The great part of this museum is that all of these things are located right down the street in Baltimore. All of these things are wourth millions of dollars and Geppi actually shares them with the public. I think that is a great thing, and I am completely honored to have gotten a chance to seem them.