The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
WARNING : Spoilers ahead forBel - Airepisode 4 !
Peacock’sBel - Airis bringing back lot of plot line fromFresh Prince ’s original serial publication , including a repetition of Will Smith ’s improvised talent from the 1990 pilot . Bel - Air ’s dramatized reimagining ofFresh Princehas featured several changes to the character of vernal Will Smith , while still maintaining his intragroup struggle as a Pisces the Fishes out of water in the mansions of Bel - Air . In the original serial publication , Will Smith brought much more than just his name to the character , andBel - Airhas made it a power point to pay testimonial to the doer ’s impact on the story .
While the characters may deal conflict in emotional complexity , Bel - Airseason 1 has given Will Smith a very like experience to the beginning ofFresh Prince . WhileFresh Prince ’s subject songis no longer used inBel - Air , the reimagining played out the narrative from the Sung dynasty throughout the first installment — complete with Will tope orange tree juice out of a champagne glass on his first - grade flight . While it ’s unclear ifBel - Air ’s Will Smith , played by Jabari Banks , can rap as well as the original figure , the novel Will is replicate theFresh Princecharacter ’s hidden melodic talents .
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InBel - Airepisode 4 , Will is seen sit down at the Banks ’ fantastic forte-piano , where he get down cleanly run a objet d’art of music . Hilary Banks walks in and is happily surprised , not expecting a kid of Will ’s disposition to be trained with classical music . This scene directly recur the final here and now inFresh Prince ’s original pilot light , which saw Will Smith sit around down at the grand piano to play Beethoven ’s “ Für Elise ” after work immaturely at Uncle Phil ’s dinner party party . opine he ’s alone , Fresh Princereveals thatJames Avery ’s Uncle Philcaught him playing the song , which puts a smile on his face from such a sweet surprisal ; though this is flipped with Hilary get wind his talent inBel - melodic phrase . While thisFresh Princemoment was exceedingly important in exhibit the preconception and expectations of the Banks family and Will , the piano playing was completely ameliorate by Will Smith .
Fresh Prince ’s airplane pilot tantrum was supposed to see Will sit down at the piano and simply reflect on his action to Uncle Phil , but the real Will Smith resolve to play one of Beethoven ’s greatest classical pieces . Smith ’s improvisation made the scene much more powerful , specially since it was Uncle Phil walking in on him after the two spend the episode at odds with one another . In bothBel - AirandFresh Prince , Will ’s “ refined ” talent is a way to expose the preconception that the Banks folk may have over a kid like Will by not expect him to have the field to expend years of practice learning classical forte-piano . Even Hilary admits that she spend class in lessons and it never stick , whileBel - Air ’s Will mentions that he never had formal lessons and had to find out on a composition board box that mimed the placement of piano keys .
It ’s exculpated that the piano scene fromFresh Princehad a profound wallop on the series ’ progression , as this is one of the only conniption thatBel - Airhas directly taken from the original show . reinvigorated Prince’sWill Smithrecalled that the integral plaster bandage go silent after he improvised playing his grandmother ’s favorite classical piano piece , as he was originally instructed to face off from the forte-piano to ponder Phil ’s closing word ( viaClassic FM ) . The line of descent said by Uncle Phil inFresh Prince ’s pilot was “ before you criticize somebody , observe out what he ’s all about , ” so Will ’s pianissimo playing would show Phil his own hypocrisy . Smith come back that the scene was about not judging a book by its screening , and expose his own classical pianissimo gift would patronage such a theme not only within the series , but also on set . This scene was foundational for the rest ofFresh Prince ’s story , so it get to sense why Will Smith , as an executive producer , choose to wreak it back forBel - Air ’s Will character .
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