{"id":488,"date":"2022-06-03T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/?p=488"},"modified":"2022-05-13T17:52:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T17:52:27","slug":"hawkeye-aka-jeremy-renner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/06\/03\/hawkeye-aka-jeremy-renner\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawkeye AKA Jeremy Renner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WARNING:<\/mark> <\/strong>This Article May Contain Spoilers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m going to start off by saying, and I\u2019m sure it won\u2019t be the last time in this article, but when Jeremy Renner was cast as Hawkeye \u2013 I genuinely had no idea who he was. Now, I\u2019m not saying this as negative because I quite liked having the unknown quantity in Avengers Assemble <\/em>against the known names but I\u2019ll be honest, I thought he was pretty weak to start off with. Having said that, I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s down to his acting or the improvement of the writing of Hawkeye\u2019s character, he is so much better the later films\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

S.W.A.T<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                So, Renner isn\u2019t in this film much, just a few scenes here and there, but for the time he is \u2013 my God is his character a dick! I get the feeling the whole point of him, in the beginning, is to give Colin Farrell\u2019s character of Streets a bit of a backstory and to give us the sense that it is him we aren\u2019t supposed to trust. However, he does later become intrinsic to the main storyline with the Frenchman but it doesn\u2019t make sense why being kicked off of S.W.A.T at the beginning drives him to such an extreme action. Some might question \u2018why get such a big actor to play a reasonably small role\u2019 but you have to remember that when S.W.A.T <\/em>was made, Renner wasn\u2019t the actor that everyone knows now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dahmer<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve heard me talk about slow burners before in previous articles \u2013 and in a weird way this is another one. I think this is maybe because they start the story towards the end of Dahmer\u2019s murder spree. Truthfully, Renner comes across a little bit wooden but that could be because of the attempt to pull off the idea of an unemotional person \u2013 which psychopaths are believed to be. I probably would have preferred someone with a better likeness to Dahmer but then Zac Efron doesn\u2019t exactly look like Bundy in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile. <\/em>However, once the glasses are on in the flashbacks \u2013 the likeness is a little closer. It\u2019s weird how just a change in the way someone\u2019s hair is styled and glasses can make them look younger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Town<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                I\u2019m going to start talking about this film by making a quick confession. When I watched this for the first time, I mistook Jeremy Renner for Devon Sawa (I think only Final Destination <\/em>fans will know who I\u2019m talking about). In my defence, I had no idea who Jeremy was at the time. As director and lead character, this film focuses mainly on Ben Affleck but that does not mean that Renner is hidden in the shadows and takes on a small role like that of S.W.A.T. <\/em>His \u2018loose cannon\u2019 character of Jim Coughlin is a great balance alongside the calm nature of Affleck\u2019s Doug MacRay. Truthfully, he\u2019s so off-the-rails at times that when he decides to open fire on the police, you do slightly hang your head and think \u2018not again!\u2019 Possibly one of my favourite moments is actually towards the end when MacRay and Coughlin get in a fight over MacRay leaving Charlestown. This is because it\u2019s done in a way that you see that are just boys at heart and that Charlestown is their Neverland and that they haven\u2019t grown up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honorary Mentions<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                When I look back now over the list of films that Renner had done before becoming Hawkeye, I feel pretty bad because he has been in a few films that I really enjoy. For example, he is actually a lead character in Kathryn Bigalow\u2019s The Hurt Locker <\/em>(which I will be talking about for someone else in a later article) and played an important role in 28 Weeks Later\u2026 <\/em>He had even had his first role in the Mission Impossible <\/em>franchise \u2013 which I genuinely thought had happened the other way around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers I\u2019m going to start off by saying, and I\u2019m sure it won\u2019t be the last time in this article, but when Jeremy Renner was cast as Hawkeye \u2013 I genuinely had no idea who he was. Now, I\u2019m not saying this as negative because I quite liked having the … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-before-they-were-marvel-ous-heroes","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}