>his body of work is actually mildly diverse - pursuit of >happyness, bagger vance, 7 lbs., Ali, and Hancock are all very >different roles in very different kinds of movies. > >It's just that cats got some kinda weird, arbitrary standard >of "stretching" when it comes will smith. And I ain't even >really a fan of dudes work like that.
All of the films you listed are uplifting, and he plays the hero...not protagonist, but HERO in all of them, even in Hancock, the film in which he supposedly plays against type.