Thing is with Oscars it’s common for them to rip the piss out of the audience in the name of humour. It seems unfortunately in this case it was too near the knuckle.
Funny story Birdwell club. I was trying to part 2 lads in a fight. I'll not go into the ins and outs of why. As one stood up he drew his fist about to land one on me. My Mrs. Swung her arm across him and uttered the brilliant line. "Hit my husband and tha dead" It stopped at that lol. She hates to see fighting and will invariably step in.
I have viewd the incident numerous times and still cant decide if its genuine or fake (wwe style). However Smith's verbal tirade did appear real and then the awkward silence that followed. If it is some bizarre publicity stunt then its a very weird one at that. Chris Rock's joke wasnt funny nor was his subject matter and Smith's reaction to it was poorly dealt with.
There an epidemic of male on male violence especially among black kids, always about “respect” or getting “dissed” and here we have a black icon slapping someone for dissing his wife. What a great example eh? Will smith is a bit of a tw@t isn’t he?
Wil Smith has just given every knob head that walks the green idea light. to walk up to the stage and slap punch any comedian who they claim has offended them....in my opinion....how anybody can defend his action of violence is unbelievable....it was a throw away gag that was in bad taste given the illness that wil smiths wife is experiencing....we have all no doubt over the years seen comedians .. said stuff or had stuff directed at us...that was either cutting near the knuckle or upsetting.did we resort to violence..most shrug it off and move on ....Will Smith was for me acting the big time Charlie who's fame appears to think he's above the law and believes he's Hollywood royalty who no one dare speak out against ...suddenly he's acting the high almighty defending his wife the same wife who whilst live on air informed him she was having an affair.... Sorry he was bang out of order in my opinion......
https://thecritic.co.uk/blacks-to-slaughter/ You are four times more likely to be a victim of homicide if you are black and eight times more likely to be a perpetrator. The overlap with my key metric, which is knife injuries for under 25s… shows enormous disproportionality in the way it affects our young black men as victims and, I am sorry to say, as perpetrators. That is horrible. For knife robbery, gangs, country lines, line holders: hugely disproportionate,” she said
For those of you who are still thinking it might be fake. Congratulations you’re in the same club as Right said Fred and Dr Gillian McKeith.
What an excellent opportunity for journalists and virtue signallers to display their fake outrage. If these weren't celebrities the months of constant repeated inappropriate questions about their personal life would be considered work place bullying. Maybe then the very same journalists wouldn't be so quick to pass judgement on the victim's ultimate inappropriate actions. Nobody came out of this well but it started and ended with the press.
I would defend Will Smith here. He didn’t handle this well, was completely inappropriate, and set a bad example to those watching on at home or in the audience. I think it’s a heat of the moment reaction that was mistimed amongst a backdrop of really difficult personal problems - especially with his marriage. He initially took the joke the ‘Hollywood way’ with the fake smile and sniggering, but his wife’s reaction obviously turned his approach. I’m sure he regrets it, but I genuinely don’t think it came from a place of self importance.
I'd find it easier to agree with you if his subsequent speech hadn't been dripping in narcissism. And I'm not sure about heat of the moment, there was a while between him hearing the joke and deciding to react, and then the time walking up on stage. It's not as if it was said to his face and he instinctively lashed out immediately.
Tbf though journalists wouldn’t be ar$ed about us cos no one gives a fk. Celebrity status gives Will Smith a $30m a film price tag. It also buys him a $hit load of privilege. If you or I had managed to get on stage and smacked one of the presenters, we’d have been in the nick within the hour. If I smacked someone at work for telling a bad joke, i’d be walked out the building and would probably find myself on the end of an assault charge. I really can’t understand why people are defending him. I get $hit happens. But when it does, there are also consequences.
Exactly this. If Joe Bloggs got up and cracked a comedian at a stand up show because he made a joke about his missus he'd be arrested and everyone on here would condemn it. But because it's Will Smith it's fine apparently. Bonkers.
I'm not defending his actions, merely pointing out the ultimate culprits. The very same people who are now 'shocked'. I do agree Smith should have been escorted out of there but that's beside the point. Celebrity does come with ridiculous privileges but often at a terrible cost. We saw both sides in action today. We cannot begin to imagine what it must be like to have our family and personal life repeatedly and very publicly speculated, discussed and ridiculed by people we've never met. None of us can claim we'd be rational enough to contemplate an imaginary balance sheet of bounty and privileges versus costs and sacrifices as we were feeling close to breaking.
Yeah get all that. And I’m not suggesting he’s tarred and feathered. Just that his actions have consequences and that what he did is treated as an assault…although I guess that would need Chris rock to press charges, which I doubt he’ll do. The Oscars though, for me have a duty to take action.
His wife’s reaction caused the response in my opinion. Hence the delay. As an actor who just won an Oscar the speech part was probably the easiest, and how he handled that vs. earlier can be separated.
Tbf what security would stop him getting up and going on stage? He was part of the event, not some random outsider.