Home / Rising Sun / Wesley Snipes
- Actor
- Wesley Snipes
- Character
- Lt. Webster Smith
- Watch
- Unidentified watch
- Status
- Unidentified
In a warm, wood-paneled hotel interior, a bellhop blurred behind him, Wesley Snipes presses a telephone receiver to his ear as Lieutenant Web Smith, the LAPD liaison at the center of Rising Sun. Smith has been pulled onto a killing inside the Los Angeles tower of a Japanese corporation, and he works the case alongside Sean Connery's John Connor, a retired captain steeped in Japan. Philip Kaufman directed the 1993 film from Michael Crichton's novel, and it drew criticism on release for what some called Japan-bashing.
That phone scene is where you would look for Smith's watch, and it is exactly where the film withholds it. His hand grips the receiver while the cuff below sits in shadow under his jacket sleeve, so no case or dial or bracelet ever comes into view, and the watch on Smith's wrist stays unidentified.
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