If you were asleep or weren’t on social media last night, you are probably waking up to clips of a violent incident that occurred at the Oscars. As RedState reported, Will Smith decided to storm the stage and slap Chris Rock after the latter made a mundane joke about Smith’s wife.
While some initial reactions were that it must have been staged, there’s an extended video that clearly shows it wasn’t. This is also not the kind of thing you stage without immediately admitting it was and laughing it off.
What we saw in Smith’s actions was a man who was broken and emasculated, not by anything that happened last night, but by a spouse that has thoroughly abused him via the ridiculous, paradoxical arrangement of an “open marriage.” In fact, a few years ago (per The Daily Wire), Jada Pinkett Smith decided it was a good idea to drag her husband onto her podcast show so she could rub salt in the wound, showing no contrition at all for her actions.ona fide movie stars saved the Oscars—and they weren’t working off a script either. When he slapped Chris Rock live on stage, Will Smith produced a genuine, Kanye-at-the-VMAs water cooler moment. But, of course, our water coolers are now Slack chats and most people saw the moment on social media.
Think about this: The infamous 2009 Video Music Awards drew about 9 million viewers. That’s roughly the same as last year’s Oscars, meaning the country was almost certainly pretty tuned out when Smith’s hand came down on Rock’s cheek. From the live broadcast, bleeps made the moment hard to discern anyway, leaving people to wonder if it had been scripted. Immediately, however, uncensored footage and reports from backstage trickled onto social media, clearly showing otherwise.
Just as the country began debating whether Smith acted virtuously or petulantly in defense of his wife, the star of “King Richard” was crowned Best Actor. It was surreal television, watching an icon process an iconic mistake on an iconic platform. Smith should have taken the joke like Rock took the slap—it was nothing worse than your average Joan Rivers quip—but his acceptance speech framed the masculine outburst poignantly as the unfortunate consequence of a husband’s unrestrained protective impulse.
Read more:Will Smith Only Stalled The Oscars’ Descent Into Obscurity (thefederalist.com)
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Actor Will Smith was filmed partying and dancing to his own songs at an Oscar Party after comedian Chris Rock opted not to file a police report.
Clutching his Oscar and smiling from ear to ear, Smith sang along to his own songs including “Summertime,” “Miami,” and “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit it.”
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