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Old 03-28-2022, 02:45 PM
 
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Oscars will police how diverse you are, but violence? That’s fine

https://nypost.com/2022/03/28/oscars...ce-thats-fine/

 
Old 03-28-2022, 02:48 PM
 
Location: Midwest
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Whether staged or real

Sticks and stones...
The joke wasn't bad, and Will and Jada know it wasn't. Jada's behavior and Will's sanctioning of it have done more damage to their image, marriage and family than anyone can/will ever do. The Smiths are bad actors (and not in the theater sense).
 
Old 03-28-2022, 03:03 PM
 
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Whether staged or real

Sticks and stones...
The joke wasn't bad, and Will and Jada know it wasn't. Jada's behavior and Will's sanctioning of it have done more damage to their image, marriage and family than anyone can/will ever do. The Smiths are bad actors (and not in the theater sense).
I have no idea who the hell Jada is, and why she's bald. It seems to me a perfect joke for Rock encouraging her to make the next movie as a patient getting rid of disease. The couple were completely insane and rude, having no awareness of this global stage.
 
Old 03-28-2022, 03:04 PM
 
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When Will was 9 years old, Will watched his father punch his mother in the head. He considers that a defining moment in his life.

“For decades, Smith has seen himself as a coward. His desire to please people, to entertain the crowd, and to make us all laugh, he explains, is rooted, at least in part, in the belief that if he kept everyone—his father, his classmates, his fans—smiling, they wouldn’t lash out with violence at him or the people he loved. If he could keep making his mother proud through his accomplishments, he reasoned, perhaps she would forgive his childhood inaction. “What you have come to understand as ‘Will Smith,’ the alien annihilating M.C., the bigger-than-life movie star, is largely a construction—a carefully crafted and honed character—designed to protect myself,” he writes. Later he says, “Comedy defuses all negativity. It is impossible to be angry, hateful, or violent when you’re doubled over laughing.””

https://www.gq.com/story/will-smith-...er-profile/amp

Worth reading.
 
Old 03-28-2022, 03:15 PM
 
Location: Manhattan
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Chris Rock should NOT have gone there.
Oh, please. And that justifies a slap. When he was laughing and clapping seconds before until the fear of Jada got to him. Then he went all he-man to impress her. Please. So high school.
 
Old 03-28-2022, 03:18 PM
 
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Oh, please. And that justifies a slap. When he was laughing and clapping seconds before until the fear of Jada got to him. Then he went all he-man to impress her. Please. So high school.
I give Chris Rock full credit because it's super hard to be a comedian to make audience laugh, especially your audience are all great entertainers and this is at the highest level of academic artiest show in the world. Every joke is tough.

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Old 03-28-2022, 03:18 PM
 
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I just recently read his acceptance speech: “love will make you do crazy things.”

This is exactly what an abuser says…justifying violence because of “love.”
Yeah. And him blattering on about the devil is not too far behind or words to that effect. Oh, so now he's saying the devil in the form of Chris Rock made him do it? Okay.... keep telling yourself that, Will. You big baby.
 
Old 03-28-2022, 03:19 PM
 
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Later he says, “Comedy defuses all negativity. It is impossible to be angry, hateful, or violent when you’re doubled over laughing.””

Well, someone is a hypocrite, aren't they?
 
Old 03-28-2022, 03:23 PM
 
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Not only that but Smith laughed and thought the joke was funny. Seconds later his anger goes from 0 to 120 and he's on the stage slapping Rock.

Then later we see him crying as he accepts his award. Whatever was going on with Smith... it wasn't the joke.

Watch his wife's expression. She's perturbed but nothing suggests Will couldn't have waited until after the show to speak with Rock.

Smith's behavior was completely out of line and ruined the night.
Really. All Jada did was roll her eyes.
 
Old 03-28-2022, 03:33 PM
 
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Yeah. And him blattering on about the devil is not too far behind or words to that effect. Oh, so now he's saying the devil in the form of Chris Rock made him do it? Okay.... keep telling yourself that, Will. You big baby.

"At your highest moment, be careful, that's when the devil comes for you." So sayeth the Prophet Denzel.


Chris Rock also prefaced his joke with "Jada, I love ya..."
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