people have become accustomed to non violence as a response to verbal abuse. It’s like a badge of honor to just sit back and take an insult without response to an emasculated society. Funny thing though is when Ted Cruz allowed his entire family to be insulted only to become Trump’s biggest supporter people couldn’t understand why he didn’t defend his family. Fact is, the internet has conditioned many that words are harmless.
As someone said it before, it was a built up, clearly those hosting ladies were joking at Jada's expense and I would think there were jokes at their family's expense throughout the years as Smith has been part of the Academy for decades. There was no clear sign that he would flip out. (There could be some secret beef between Chris and WIll that I do not know of) As for removing him, I think many talked to him during break time, and to them he seemed to have got it together........I think they knew him as a respectable colleague, so I am not worried about that.
What would have been great is if Rock dodged the slap and tackled Smith with them rolling around on stage. Then, several actors rush on stage to break it up. Then, Zelensky appears live on the screen telling everyone there is a war in Ukraine and to get over yourselves.
You've got it backwards, this was the response of a weak, emasculated man. All he did was make himself look pathetic and ensure that both him and his w**** wife will be the target of basically every comedian in the world..... and not all of them will be 5'6 and damn near 60. Confusing weakness for strength is the sign of an emasculated society.
The insult being you cut your hair for a role? I kinda agree but like 1. she clearly has hair, you can see the hairline. She chose to shave it. 2. The vast majority of women in movies are wearing a wig or at least some extensions whatever. 3. It was a GI Jane joke. He didn't really insult her looks, Demi Moore isn't some hog. Chris Rock could have done way worse, and probably will now. Jada is also an insane scientologist that has almost certainly brainwashed will.
I'm not bothered that much by whether this was a shocking outbreak of violence in civil society I just don't think it merits being considered a "tragedy" especially when there is a real war going on that could potentially drag the US into it.
I don't think it's a case of "built up anger over past transgressions" from the industry or comics or hosts or whatever. This was projection/misdirected anger. Will's marriage is (apparently?) in shambles and he probably has... uhh... unresolved issues about it. You can see him laugh at the joke, look over at his wife (clearly not amused), and then he puts on his White Knight costume and goes all Slappy McGee up there. This was just a case of a toxic relationship and a man struggling to cope with that erupting at a bystander over a meaningless trespass. That is why he should have 100% been removed immediately. A man who gets up at the Academy ****in' Awards and assaults (and cusses out) the host on live, world-wide television, over a passing joke, is not someone who should be allowed in the building or polite society in that moment. Smith needed to spend that evening with LAPD to A) calm down B) be shown actions have consequences and C) prevent the threat to himself and others. I cannot believe how that all transpired and then he gets up there, accepts the most prestigious award in his industry, and then gives a speech about love and peace, then gets to go home and sleep in his own bed. Holy ****. That is twilight zone level stuff.
It's an award show, folks been doing jokes since forever. You can't handle the heat stay out of the damn kitchen. He shouldn't even showed up at the show last night if he goin act like a punk. If he did that to Dave Chappelle, you best bet Chappelle is swinging back. Or better yet learn how to talk smack back. He's a comedian too right? Oh wait Will is the same rapper that Eminem roasted way back in the early 2000ish? LMAO.
Will Smith laughed at the joke. How can you do that and then pretend to be pissed off in an instant? That’s acting! Oh Jada was pissed so Will has to now be pissed just like that when it was funny a second ago. lol
At first I was intrigued when I saw my news feed get spammed with this. Watched the "real" videos, read reactions...and now I'm in the group that thinks it's staged. Will Smith got completely dragged years ago when his wife--the same women he seemingly defended last night--came out and said she had an "entanglement" and clearly didn't give 2 Fs about Will or his feelings. Will sat there, cried and took it. What better way to change the narrative than to use YOUR Oscar night--it was a foregone conclusion that he was going to win--to make yourself look like a manly man, defending your wife against a "meh" joke? Like Will and Chris Rock have known each other for decades....THIS joke is what sets Will off? People will say "He's been hurt for so long that now he couldn't take it anymore"...I'm sorry but his wife and (up until now) his poor career choices were hurting him, not Chris Rock. If this was staged then I'm sad that Will Smith thought he needed some drama on his big night.
Because she has his balls and heart in a jar apparently. He's clearly not in her favor for some reason (I don't keep up with that stuff but apparently that's an open secret) and so he basically turned on a dime once he saw she was upset.
Jada has alopecia so she proactively shaves her head. I can very easily imagine someone, especially a woman, not being at peace with that condition or being able to take a joke about it. Granted, none of that makes what Smith did OK in any way at all.
I mean it was not a salvo of punches, and he did remove himself from the scene, he went up threw his (smack) as a last warning sign and left. And to your answer, yeah, there should be security everywhere, maybe there are, but in a crowd of make believers, nobody is taking actors and actresses seriously. That is what they literally do for a living, entertainment and sort of fakish real interaction. Do they even have Covid guidelines and protocols? And there should be a protocol in place, in all earnesty, the slap actually shed a spotlight back on those award shows which are boring af. IMHO in the real world maybe you get a warning from an officer for a slap, unless it is aggravated violence, they might not even arrest you. Do I think he should get blacklisted or cancelled, that is too harsh for me to answer and a totally different topic.
This has to do with the 2016 Oscars and Chris Rock making fun of Jada. He then does it again, but makes fun of a sensitive topic. He went to the well too many times.
