Will Smith's altercation at the Oscars

[Yupo]

Nonsense humor on the subject:

 

[Thebull]

Definitely staged. If you think that slap was real you've never been hit. Joe was right on the money with his take on what happened.

 

[Don Cesar]

If you think that slap was real you've never been hit.

Exactly... For my part, I have the impression from the first sight that the slap is fake, a movie stunt, I think it's a bit "overplayed", the cool approach of WS, going towards CR, the speed of the slap and the exaggerated movement of CR which receives it and which returns to its place like a spring? Not for me... After, what is the reason for this scenario?

 

[Sybil]

Smith's wife is obviously the "male" in that relationship.

Oh my.
I remember years ago, I've read something Jada supposedly said: women's role in the family is to teach the children, while the men's role is to protect the family.
The unmanned, cheated-on Will is manned up for a big staged manly slap.

 

[unkl brws]

I think this incident was staged and what convinced me was the reaction, or non-reaction, of Chris Rock. If anyone gets slapped with that amount of real force, your eyes are going to squint and start to water. Chris Rock's eyes don't even blink! It doesn't matter how tough you are or how quickly you recover from it. Have someone slap you in the face with the force exhibited from Smith and see what happens. It will sting like hell! The face is a sensitive place with a lot of nerve endings. Also Will Smith's left hand comes up just before and it looks like his right hand smacks his left before "hitting" Rock's face. That is the slap that was heard (imo).
It's also convenient that he recently published his memoir and had a documentary about himself that he produced come out about the same time called "The Best Shape of My Life".
Here's the trailer:

 

[Asa]

Rollo Tomassi (author of the Rational Male) has an interesting video blog piece on Will Smith, 'The Red Pill Lessons of Will Smith'. Publicly defending his unfaithful wife as a result of her disapproving gaze suggests Wil has not learned said 'red pill' lessons lol.

 

[Serendipity]

This is from Will Smith's memoir:

"When I was nine years old, I watched my father punch my mother in the side of the head so hard that she collapsed. I saw her spit blood. That moment in that bedroom, probably more than any other moment in my life, has defined who I am."

"Within everything that I have done since then — the awards and accolades, the spotlights and attention, the characters and the laughs — there has been a subtle string of apologies to my mother for my inaction that day. For failing her in the moment. For failing to stand up to my father. For being a coward." -Steve Kioko


Just in time when I have thought about it too. This is a post I stumbled in FB from that book. It might be that what caused his action was his trauma and this was his way of "trying to defend/help" someone he loves. Triggers can cause diff emotions or overreaction. Traumas can be addressed in diff ways yet he just chose this manner.

Even if it was real, I see nothing reedeming in what he did. If it was real it was an act of violence and weakness. And what's even worse it's publicly displayed for people to find reasons to defend his supposed standing up for his wife, when it was just a violent, unconscious and selfish act of weakness

 

[Asa]

Absolutely. Rock leans in just before Smith swings, expecting it. Smith CLEARLY misses rock, and Rock moves his head in the appropriate direction. Classic movie slap. The aftershow was just more acting. Smith's wife is obviously the "male" in that relationship. Smith is in the roll of the "emotional woman". That's why she cheated on him more than once, and he took her back.

If this is fake, then I think Smith's role is one of a supplicating and publicly humiliated cuckold.

 

[Wandering Star]

I'm going to assume it was real and I put myself in his place.

The comedian is disrespectful and hurtful to my wife. He follows and digs into the wound. He doesn't do it to me, but I know quite well that my wife is suffering and she is undergoing torture.

To do?

To act or not to act?

Until a situation unfolds before you, it's never certain how you're going to react, but I would react the same way, I'd just take the slap out of the equation.

Give the lie what it needs, the truth.

With words and an energetic attitude the humiliation of his wife would have ended.

In any case, they have put on a nice show.

 

[Adobe]

IMO: Prewritten then acted out. Take home messages:
1) tune in in next time you never know what’s going to happen!
2) look everyone…back on black violence. See how they are!
3) To the weary, depressed and angry masses…if someone says something that offends you, punch them, its ok.

 

[A Jay]

If this is fake, then I think Smith's role is one of a supplicating and publicly humiliated cuckold.

Which is why it being all an act doesn't make sense. Either he's playing the role of a cuckold, or he is a cuckold. Seems more likely to me, given the nature of his relationship, that he actually is a cuckold.

 

[loreta]

If this were true, the security guards would have been on the stage right away. And if it were true, it would not have been a slap in the face (not successful at all), but a punch that Smith would have given.

This was a show for the masses who will soon have nothing to eat, who will soon be forced to have ration cards, etc. After two years of confinement, the film industry needs to get back on its feet and fast. The actors need to be seen, to be talked about, they need contacts to play in propaganda films.

I don't put myself in Smith's shoes. I don't ask myself if this had happened to me, how would I have acted? That's what they want people to debate, instead of debating whether it's okay to have a president like Biden in office. Or if the war in Ukraine is right or not.

The show is of bad taste for people who have no concept of what is the good cinema, which is the seventh art after all. The altercation between Smith and the presenter looks like a movie of Category B. Ugly, vulgar, a scene from a tavern.

 

[Menna]

Assault someone in a public venue go sit back down and then moments later receive the highest award....only on 3D earth...

IF you research the history of Will Smith and his wife Jada....Jada about a year or so ago went on public forum to talk about her adultery/cheating on her husband with another hip hop artist. Jada also had a relationship with 2 Pac (a famous rapper that died in 1996) and to this day she still says no one can compare to him and carries on about it calling him her soulmate...She alot of times does and says things that undermine Will and im sure 9 out of 10 people would view as disrespectful regarding husband and wife marriage dynamic...

Demi Moore buzzed her head with clippers in GI Jane because she was in the army. Jada had a buzzed hair cut (You could still see the stubble outline of hair) so Chris made the buzzed hair joke (It was not a bald or balding joke) if we look at what Demi Moore in GI Jane did.

Right after the joke Will laughed then within 10 seconds Jada motioned/said something to Will and he felt compelled to assault the comedian...

Speaking about the dynamic of their relationship to give more insight...Nothing is just surface level.

It was also Will's big night and it was known he was most likely going to win the best actor award and be one of only 3 African Americans to win this award. God forbit Jada laugh off the joke for her husband...External consideration? Anyone ever take slight disrespect for the betterment of the situation or their partner...I think I did it 3x this morning...much less moments before they win the academy award.

My 2 cents

 

[Sybil]

The altercation between Smith and the presenter looks like a movie of Category B. Ugly, vulgar, a scene from a tavern.

Agree. If Rock would be half as good as Cyrano, we could have a good laugh...

 

[Evan]

So many thoughts! Primary among them how absolutely frustrating the fact that I’m having any at all. Clearly Will Smith didn’t fully unload, the guy trained to play Mohammed Ali after all. I’m sure he can hit. But Rock showed absolute restraint! The guy insults hecklers for a living. I could almost see him thinking, “Man, I could say some stuff…” But my wife made the best observation. In one of Rock’s specials his catchphrase was “..but I understand.” E.g.: “Do I think O.J. should’ve killed her? No…but I understand.”

“Should Will have smacked me? No, but I understand.”

Art imitates life, Chris.